DSi "Channels" Exploit Announced

[YayMii]

I don't know if you can run purchased DSiWare from an SD card now, because i know the Dsi NAND is 256mb, but if you cannot then I guess thats the only semi legal reason there is.

You can copy DSiWare to an SD card, but you wouldn't be able to run it. The DSi packs them into encrypted packages that can only run from the NAND of the DSi it was packaged from. As of now, there's absolutely no benefit to transferring them to the SD card, as you can't use it on another DSi.
I'm assuming that this is a plausible legal reason to be able to do this. Say you bought a DSi XL, and due to Nintendo's encryption you can't just simply transfer the DSiWare from your old DSi unless you used this hack/exploit. Or you could share a single purchased copy of DSiWare with your real-life friends (although I don't know about the legality of this). But I'm assuming that some people here want the feature for illegal reasons...

 

[heartgold]

@Ozmodchips, do you know if this new team has access to the dsi nand/unlocked it. Any hints would be greatful =)

 

[YayMii]

@Ozmodchips, do you know if this new team has access to the dsi nand/unlocked it. Any hints would be greatful =)

I don't think it'd be possible to install a custom channel if they didn't have NAND access. Because if the picture they released is legit, then that's a custom channel (notice the DS card slot icon to the right of the channel).

 

[supersonic124]

And 99% of everyone will say "Fuck this, 3DS is out soon".

The way people carry on about a $50 flash card, I doubt many will be buying the 3DS on launch

Are you gonna be charging for this exploit? Or will you release it for free?

 

[YayMii]

And 99% of everyone will say "Fuck this, 3DS is out soon".

The way people carry on about a $50 flash card, I doubt many will be buying the 3DS on launch

Are you gonna be charging for this exploit? Or will you release it for free?

I'm thinking that it depends on what the exploit actually is. But it wouldn't make sense for a store to advertise the exploit unless it came from some kind of physical product.

 

[m3rox]

And 99% of everyone will say "Fuck this, 3DS is out soon".

The way people carry on about a $50 flash card, I doubt many will be buying the 3DS on launch

Are you gonna be charging for this exploit? Or will you release it for free?

I'm thinking that it depends on what the exploit actually is. But it wouldn't make sense for a store to advertise the exploit unless it came from some kind of physical product.

Unless it was something that could be applied to future or existing flash cards. Wouldn't this boost their sales?

 

[Vigilante]

Damn,why is everything cool like this coming very late.With 3ds coming.............

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

i'm going to be pissed if I have to shell out money for this

 

[monkat]

i'm going to be pissed if I have to shell out money for this

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what is this i dont even...

 

[YayMii]

i'm going to be pissed if I have to shell out money for this

Okay then, be pissed. You should also be pissed that you had to shell out money for a DSi then.

 

[Quincy]

This might be a reason to buy a DSI(XL) for me

 

[supersonic124]

I'm thinking that it depends on what the exploit actually is. But it wouldn't make sense for a store to advertise the exploit unless it came from some kind of physical product.

Fuck that. I'll just stick with my ds lite then.

 

[Astoria]

Again, les hope that this will be a free software!

 

[YayMii]

Again, les hope that this will be a free software!

Again, it wouldn't make sense for a store to advertise free software!

 

[.Chris]

I'm thinking that it depends on what the exploit actually is. But it wouldn't make sense for a store to advertise the exploit unless it came from some kind of physical product.

Fuck that. I'll just stick with my ds lite then.

+1 Maybe.

 

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

Me, I was not bashing the iEvolution. I was just thinking that they would not want to buy a relatively expensive card when they can do an exploit for a maximum cost of a full-retail game. Furthermore, other cards would most likely run the exploit from themselves, using only a super-firmware update (like the one used to "unite" the different builds of the EZ Flash Vi) to access the exploit. (This also would have a side-effect of not needing an extra convention to label DSi-mode enabling cards as opposed to DSi-playable cards. Then again, we can just have the DS TWOi and the EZ Flash Vii, the other way.)

 

[VashTS]

this would be cool, i just got my dsi XL from the wife for christmas. its a sweet machine.

i would love to get some custom content (mainly emulators!) with full access to dsi hardware. the cpu speed seems a lot faster than the lite.

 

[Maplemage]

Do we need a zelda game for a exploit? =D

 

[DiscostewSM]

Not to say it is fake, but anyone that has a little experience in DS programming could display images on both screens easily. A camera cannot really tell if it's done that way or not.

 

[RupeeClock]

Not to say it is fake, but anyone that has a little experience in DS programming could display images on both screens easily. A camera cannot really tell if it's done that way or not.

I don't believe it's currently possible to grab clean DSi screenshots so easily.
Besides, forget about the photo, it's a tease, a video is supposed to be coming.