Homebrew DS(i) Mode hacking progress thread

[Shah Isah]

I see. I would go on LumaCFW but the installation is long and painful

 

[RocketRobz]

I see. I would go on LumaCFW but the installation is long and painful

It's easy! For A9LH, just put Luma's arm9loaderhax.bin on the SD root, and it'll work!

 

[Billy Acuña]

I see. I would go on LumaCFW but the installation is long and painful

Not really, is just copypasta if you use menuhax and for mset just run the nds rop.

 

[Shah Isah]

I tried long ago but I somehow wiped my emunand and my game saves went along with it, got fed up and reverted to Rxtools.

 

[Billy Acuña]

I tried long ago but I somehow wiped my emunand and my game saves went along with it, got fed up and reverted to Rxtools.

That was not a Luma issue, your saves should be safe if you didn't touch your "Nintendo 3DS" folder.
Which entrypoint are you using to access your CFW?

 

[Shah Isah]

I'll try again tommorow. Any way to backup the emunand and restore later? That matters to me. And hopefully, i can get hb menu up and running

 

[Billy Acuña]

I'll try again tommorow. Any way to backup the emunand and restore later? That matters to me. And hopefully, i can get hb menu up and running

Of course, you can use both Multi EMUNAND Creator or just use Decrypt9.

 

[Rodrigo Barros]

That's outdated. hbmenu has been able to run .nds files from SD card for a while.

So, we can play ds games from sd or still only demos?

 

[RocketRobz]

So, we can play ds games from sd or still only demos?

Still only homebrew and Download Play titles.

 

[nooby89]

rxTools in 2k16

 

[MSearles]

Still only homebrew and Download Play titles.

Is the ability to play DS roms stored on an SD card something that we can say for sure it will happen, or is there a good chance that this may never happen, and I should just go ahead and buy a flash cart?

 

[RocketRobz]

Is the ability to play DS roms stored on an SD card something that we can say for sure it will happen, or is there a good chance that this may never happen, and I should just go ahead and buy a flash cart?

With recent discoveries in DSi-Mode, it sure will happen.
If you want, you can buy a flashcard while you're waiting.

 

[Queen of SoS]

You need to switch to another CFW which supports TWL patches (Luma, Corbenik or SaltFW) and get the lastest FBI in order to run any of the recent discovers of DS(i) mode.

So i can use this to play .nds roms without flashcard or do i still need a flashcard.

 

[RocketRobz]

So i can use this to play .nds roms without flashcard or do i still need a flashcard.

For now, the only .nds ROMs you can run without a flashcard are homebrew and Download play games. In this case, you still need a flashcard.

 

[Billy Acuña]

So i can use this to play .nds roms without flashcard or do i still need a flashcard.

Except retail roms and homebrews that requires DLDI.

 

[Queen of SoS]

Oh okay thanks guys!

 

[Gonzalee]

Oh okay thanks guys!

yeah dude, flashcards (at least R4) are relatively cheep nowadays

 

[MistWisp]

Shouldn't something like a partition in your SD card formated like the TWLNAND to redirect the read/write works on this case?
something like an emuTWLNAND, so when the home menu request info on TWLNAND data the CFW redirects the access request to that emuTWLNAND, dunno if this is remotely possible though

 

[metroid maniac]

Running NTR software at TWL clockspeeds can produce a pretty dramatic difference!
I tried playing Rayman DS because its performance made it close to unplayable when I last tried it, but the framerate appeared to double!
I'm impressed and I can't wait to make the most of this software. I only wish that it worked passively when you run stuff from the cartridge slot... Oh well, it's probably quite difficult under the hood.

How about a .bin for a9lh that just autoboots the DS card, preferably with TWL clock. Is that possible?

I'd also like to ask: Is it possible to transfer files between my 3DS's SD card and my AK2i's internal micro SD? It's kind of a pain to remove the card manually and FTP is also inconvenient because of WiFi encryption.
Ahezard's HBMenu can read both the SD card and the AK2i's storage, but I can't see any way to copy files. I can only run a few .nds files; homebrew works from the AK2i but retail roms don't. And nothing works from the SD.
I'd especially love it if SD access was built into AKAIO, but maybe I'm asking too much

 

[DeoNaught]

Have you guys seen this https://github.com/ahezard/dldi4dsisd, it has a release!
it says its untested though