Homebrew Answer to running DS backups on 3DS without a flashcart?

[TariqSoftDev]

Jesus christ the tool is a pain to find.....

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Oh lol just found it

 

[Ricken]

That's what would be required, if that would work (and no one knows for sure.)

And now, we will see results

SOONtm

 

[Deleted User]

Jesus christ the tool is a pain to find.....

@Bobesh8 can send it to you
edit- you found it

 

[mysamdog]

Than we edit the patcher to replace Slot 2 with SD/NAND right?

You would have to put the entire rom in memory, and hope it doesn't hit anything the game uses. And iirc, switching to TWL_FIRM limits the ram we have available, as well as making it impossible to run any arm11 code to do any on the fly patching.

 

[linkinworm]

Can't we just use that tool to make a NDS rom made to run off a GBA flashcart and then convert it to a CIA(AGB_Firm GBA game injection)?

... that would be trying to run a DS game inside a GBA its just an emulator, it doesn't redirect anything anywhere, as far as that cia would be aware, its just loading garbage data.

 

[Deleted User]

That's what would be required, if that would work (and no one knows for sure.)

But theoretically, yes.
We need to redirect read/writes from Slot-1 to SD card, which would require insane amounts of work because you would have to do it individually for each and every single DS game.

tl;dr buy a $10 R4

Nah, just download rom, execute the patcher, put rom in SD card, run

 

[Ricken]

Nah, just download rom, execute the patcher, put rom in SD card, run

Why do I get the feeling you dont have an R4...
(Mine's broken lol)

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Why do I get the feeling you dont have an R4...
(Mine's broken lol)

My aunt took mine T_T

 

[Townsperson]

Can't we just use that tool to make a NDS rom made to run off a GBA flashcart and then convert it to a CIA(AGB_Firm GBA game injection)?

Not to be rude, but if you really think this is going to work, you really don't understand what you're doing.

AGB_FIRM isn't capable of reading a DS game. At all. Ever. For the sake of simplicity, AGB_FIRM is a GBA. It can do all of the things a GBA can do. That is it. This patcher is not doing what you seem to think it is doing.

A DS was made to read from both Slot-1 and Slot-2. It had access to both at all times. All this patcher did was redirect those Slot-1 reads, etc., to Slot-2. The DS didn't have to deal with the limitations that the 3DS puts on those things.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Not to be rude, but if you really think this is going to work, you really don't understand what you're doing.

AGB_FIRM isn't capable of reading a DS game. At all. Ever. For the sake of simplicity, AGB_FIRM is a GBA. It can do all of the things a GBA can do. That is it. This patcher is not doing what you seem to think it is doing.

A DS was made to read from both Slot-1 and Slot-2. It had access to both at all times. All this patcher did was redirect those Slot-1 reads, etc., to Slot-2. The DS didn't have to deal with the limitations that the 3DS puts on those things.

Oh okay so its just a redirection patch , wont bother wasting my time then. rather get a DSTWO Plus

 

[Ricken]

Oh okay so its just a redirection patch , wont bother wasting my time then. rather get a DSTWO Plus

O3DS SNES FTW

 

[RocketRobz]

Try a retail rom

The tool works on Sonic Rush. Patches the ARM9 there as well.

 

[Deleted User]

The tool works on Sonic Rush. Patches the ARM9 there as well.

So, does that mean you were able to get a retail rom running on 3ds?

 

[Ricken]

So, does that mean you were able to get a retail rom running on 3ds?

Clearly

but Don't get your hopes up so high...

 

[RocketRobz]

So, does that mean you were able to get a retail rom running on 3ds?

Nope. The ARM9 is patched to read from Slot-2, which is what the tool does.

 

[Deleted User]

Clearly

but Don't get your hopes up so high...

Already heightened!

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Nope. The ARM9 is patched to read from Slot-2, which is what the tool does.

Oh, ok

 

[Billy Acuña]

If this tool has something useful, we need to completly rewrite it because a NDS that has 2 slots is not the same to another completly diferent system that has 1 slot and 1 SD port.

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[Deleted-379826]

If this is actual progress then rip me for buying a flashcart yesterday from all the influence lmao

 

[CeeDee]

Nononono. What I think we need to do is not patch SLOT-2 or any GBA functions, but rather see what Slot1 reads/writes this patches and rework the patcher to patch to read from TWL_NAND instead of anything AGB based.

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Have you stopped to think that maybe the filesize is too big? also the memory locations are different AGB_Firm doesnt patch this for NDS games?