DSi incompatible with existing flash carts?

[cutterjohn]

Hey! How about the hw beyond the SD slot, camera(s), larger screen and more memory: i.e. Did they beef up the arm9 any? Drop the artificial GPU throttling?

 

[Dark]

Aw I don't want to buy a new flash card for the DSi and have it end up like the r4 =[.

 

[Mangofett]

just a bit of speculation here but even though it cant boot flashcarts (no surprise really) the code needed to defeat this will be in the new games sooooooo it only takes someone to hunt through the code from one of the said new games to find exactly wot piece of code is doing this

My theory as stated in IRC last night:
QUOTE(chuckstudios) there will be a whitelist built into the flash memory for all existing games
(chuckstudios) something like MD5, which could hold about 3000 games in under 50KB
(chuckstudios) all games from now on will be digitally signed in such a way that the DSi recognizes but the old DS models ignore
(chuckstudios) effectively killing piracy and homebrew

If they did it properly, then no.

The chip has to be able to be written in some way. Maybe it's like SL1 on the current DS' but I doubt Nintendo will want to repeat that mistake again

 

[JPH]

Sure if they don't do what djgarf said, they'll (hackers) figure out how to load up NDS roms from the SD card.
could probably be done

 

[shakirmoledina]

well speculation is what makes gbatemp interesting... hadrian always says things like so and so game is gonna be gr8 (insecticide anyone?) but then things change thus this is what makes it interesting but also know this much tht to say with understanding of the DSi is better than just speaking.
Also i wanna repeat 2 things ie. Ahtin is very much trusted since someone doubted tht and also we all love each other by mouth thus we respect each other's opinion

 

[Spikey]

People at Maxconsole have the following scan which supposedly comes from dsi manual.

If that's indeed from the manual, nice to see that SDHC logo. I thought ass backwards Nintendo would use only standard SD.

 

[11gardir]

DON'T BUY THIS MOTHER ***KER!..DON'T LET NINTENDO WIN!

Huh?
Nintendo made your DS...

 

[lilkerv90210]

since the dsi has an sd slot couldnt there e some type of program tha could bypass the dsi firmware in order to boot games snd homebrew

 

[Deleted User]

please donate to [email protected] to help me pay for a DSi so that I may begin reverse-engineering it.

 

[TrolleyDave]

since the dsi has an sd slot couldnt there e some type of program tha could bypass the dsi firmware in order to boot games snd homebrew

How would you load the program without a flashcart?

 

[playallday]

I was about to ask why they haven't dumped the firmware

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[Another World]

Sure if they don't do what djgarf said, they'll (hackers) figure out how to load up NDS roms from the SD card.
could probably be done

assuming the sd slot has access to the hardware in the right way. what if it doesn't allow certain reads from the sd slot based on a set of paramaters, like if it has part of a header that makes it a rom/homebrew? info that is not in mp3s for example. ---- sorry for adding on to speculation =P

-another world

 

[Noitora]

Nope, someone else will hack it, no need to donate to you.
Also how do we know that you're actually able to hack the flashcart protection?

 

[chuckstudios]

Nope, someone else will hack it, no need to donate to you.
Also how do we know that you're actually able to hack the flashcart protection?

He isn't.

 

[MystikEkoez]

DAX should make a custom firmware for DSi ;D
Just kidding. If the Wii can't have custom firmware, what's the chance of the DSi being able to have one?

 

[chuckstudios]

DAX should make a custom firmware for DSi ;D
Just kidding. If the Wii can't have custom firmware, what's the chance of the DSi being able to have one?

The Wii can have custom firmware, but what's the point? IOS patches and such give you everything a "custom firmware" does on the PSP.

 

[Noitora]

Nope, someone else will hack it, no need to donate to you.
Also how do we know that you're actually able to hack the flashcart protection?

He isn't.

I figured as much.

 

[ridgecity]

http://gizmodo.com/5072713/nintendo-dsi-bl...ted-flash-cards

Nothing works anymore. time to reach for your wallet!

 

[Noitora]

http://gizmodo.com/5072713/nintendo-dsi-bl...ted-flash-cards

Nothing works anymore. time to reach for your wallet!

It will probably be hacked eventually...

 

[TrolleyDave]

http://gizmodo.com/5072713/nintendo-dsi-bl...ted-flash-cards

Nothing works anymore. time to reach for your wallet!

Uhm, considering this whole thread has been about that very same subject don't you think you're a little late to the party with that one! lol

edit : lol The link in the article even takes you to this very thread!