Hacking emuNAND Tool - Release and Support thread

[tmactx]

hi. noob question. how to format sd card w/1gb from emuland to recover 100% card "4gb"?
this: (1gb =emuland. 3gb free) to this: (4gb free)
tanks.

 

[gamesquest1]

use a partition manager to either expand the existing partition over the 1GB unallocated space, or delete the existing partition and make a new 4GB partition

 

[tmactx]

use a partition manager to either expand the existing partition over the 1GB unallocated space, or delete the existing partition and make a new 4GB partition

mane of this program is...? sory my enghis

 

[gamesquest1]

there is all different ones you can just use the one built into windows
press the start bar on windows, right click on "computer/my computer", select "manage", once computer management opens select "disk management" and delete the old 3GB partition on the SD and then make a 4GB partition

 

[tmactx]

there is all different ones you can just use the one built into windows
press the start bar on windows, right click on "computer/my computer", select "manage", once computer management opens select "disk management" and delete the old 3GB partition on the SD and then make a 4GB partition

dont work. need to program to restaure sd from 100% space

 

[GorTesK]

dont work. need to program to restaure sd from 100% space

windows partition manager works perfectly fine
I suspect the source of errors to sit somewhere between your keyboard and your screen

 

[scicol]

I'm trying to write a simple script to do this in linux.

Does anyone know whether the 954MiB emuNAND image is at the start or the end of the unformatted 1.0 GiB blocks?
I've tried truncating so that I'm left with the first 954MiB worth of blocks but that image didn't work when written to sysNAND.

 

[scicol]

After snooping with a hex editor, seems Gateway have left a little note at the start of their emuNAND "GATEWAYNAND - THIS IS DUMMY SECTOR, SEARCH FOR "NCSD" FOR REAL SECTOR" in ANSI. The real sector is actually at the end of the unformatted blocks, Gateway seems to have implemented a dummy sector to bypass something I suppose.

 

[Snailface]

After snooping with a hex editor, seems Gateway have left a little note at the start of their emuNAND "GATEWAYNAND - THIS IS DUMMY SECTOR, SEARCH FOR "NCSD" FOR REAL SECTOR" in ANSI. The real sector is actually at the end of the unformatted blocks, Gateway seems to have implemented a dummy sector to bypass something I suppose.

The first physical sector (sector = 0x200 bytes) of a fat32 drive can't be overwritten or it'll be corrupted. The first sector is thus written at the end of the GW Nand image at physical address 0x3BA00000. (sector 0x1DD000)

 

[n1ghty]

The first sector could also be at the physical address 0x3AF00000, depends on the NAND Size. There are 2 different NAND sizes / chips.

 

[Hypnotoad]

Worked like a charm. Thanks for the useful tool n1ghty.

 

[enarky]

I'm trying to write a simple script to do this in linux.

Does anyone know whether the 954MiB emuNAND image is at the start or the end of the unformatted 1.0 GiB blocks?
I've tried truncating so that I'm left with the first 954MiB worth of blocks but that image didn't work when written to sysNAND.

It's very easy to juggle around the dummy sector using Linux/OSX with dd, have a look at this. I've successfully injected my real 8.1 SysNAND dump yesterday using this method.

 

[scicol]

It's very easy to juggle around the dummy sector using Linux/OSX with dd, have a look at this. I've successfully injected my real 8.1 SysNAND dump yesterday using this method.

Yeah, managed to get my realNAND onto my emuNAND when the private beta got released. Just had to read up on dd's options to get it done. I'm a recent convert from Windows to Linux and I'm loving it

 

[Ryanrocks462]

I have a question, since we are able to use someone else ''Emunand'', Would it be possible to get an ''ambassador emunand with all the VC games on it and play them on ur 3ds?

 

[gamesquest1]

I have a question, since we are able to use someone else ''Emunand'', Would it be possible to get an ''ambassador emunand with all the VC games on it and play them on ur 3ds?

you can only use a nand dump from your own console on your own console......that applies to emunand or sysnand

 

[Ryanrocks462]

you can only use a nand dump from your own console on your own console......that applies to emunand or sysnand

oh ok lol, guess i just have to stick to finding them ported to .3ds

 

[gamesquest1]

oh ok lol, guess i just have to stick to finding them ported to .3ds

the ambassador games are already dumped....the nes games work fine, the GBA need a update from gateway to work which will likely be in the next update

* The Gameboy Advance virtual console games and DSiWare are not working yet.
We acknowledge this and we will try to get it working after the next firmware release.

but the same would apply even if you did manage to get them in emunand, the GBA support is broken in emunand

 

[Ryanrocks462]

the ambassador games are already dumped....the nes games work fine, the GBA need a update from gateway to work which will likely be in the next update



but the same would apply even if you did manage to get them in emunand, the GBA support is broken in emunand

hope gateway fixes this soon

 

[Jamesst20]

What happens if I try to boot the nand of another console via emuNAND ?

 

[gamesquest1]

What happens if I try to boot the nand of another console via emuNAND ?

black screen, the nand is encrypted for the specific console, so it cant decrypt the nand thats encrypted for a different console