Hacking Games that Brick a Acekard 2i?

[coolness]

first i have heard that quality of the acekard 2i was best to play games
now i hear that it bricks by some games :S

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

No game can brick the acekard.
I thought the same thing about a few games with small sizes but after re-formatting my acekard, I never had that problem again.

 

[Hakoda]

first i have heard that quality of the acekard 2i was best to play games
now i hear that it bricks by some games :S

BAH. LOOK, NO GAME CAN BRICK ANY FLASHCARD. Get that out of your head and stop this nonsense. Now.

 

[Slimmmmmm]

With how popular the Acekard is IF this sort of thing was to happen you would see hundreds of people reporting the same thing, not one guy here and one guy there. Also I'm sure Acekard would post something online, and gbatemp would make a sticky, etc etc.

I'm guessing these people have faulty hardware and are jumping to conclusions.

 

[nl255]

first i have heard that quality of the acekard 2i was best to play games
now i hear that it bricks by some games :S

BAH. LOOK, NO GAME CAN BRICK ANY FLASHCARD. Get that out of your head and stop this nonsense. Now.

From what I understand, the Acekard 2i sometimes bricks itself for no real reason (though you can recover it with the updater/unbricker). In other words, ANY game can brick the Ak2i even if it is just a simple "hello world" homebrew you wrote yourself.

 

[Rydian]

1 - Then it's not the game doing the bricking.

2 - Then it's not even "bricked", if it can be fixed. :|

 

[nl255]

With how popular the Acekard is IF this sort of thing was to happen you would see hundreds of people reporting the same thing, not one guy here and one guy there. Also I'm sure Acekard would post something online, and gbatemp would make a sticky, etc etc.

I'm guessing these people have faulty hardware and are jumping to conclusions.

If it was faulty hardware then it wouldn't be possible to recover by using the Ak2i updater/unbricker. I suspect something (probably a firmware bug) is causing some carts to brick themselves and it only happens under very rare conditions making it very hard to track down and fix.

 

[tk_saturn]

If it really bothers people, soldiering a wire between the contacts at the arrows should enable the hardware write protect

It's interesting that 2 of my pins are already bridged, as looks like that is also in case in some of other peoples photos. Especially as one of those pins is meant to be a non contact.

 

[tomrev]

If it really bothers people, soldiering a wire between the contacts at the arrows should enable the hardware write protect

It's interesting that 2 of my pins are already bridged, as looks like that is also in case in some of other peoples photos. Especially as one of those pins is meant to be a non contact.

It's very interesting tip. Could you post more detail?

 

[tk_saturn]

It's not something I know a whole lot about.

From what I understand the Hardware write protect only protects a 64KB of section the of the memory, but it should be where the main firmware is. I know there's a dump of the Acekard 2i Firmware and it's 128KB, the language firmware updates are pretty small too (ie, neither have the Danny Phantom data).

It seems harmless, I might see what effect it actually has if I get the time.

The DataSheet is here

AKAIO 1.7 is able to identify if the Acekard 2.1 has a Spansion or SST memory chip, so i'm guessing it's has hardware access to the memory chip for it to be able to indentify itself. If i'm guessing Normmatt could just keep WE# high if it were an issue, which would disable writes and then force people to use an older AKAIO to do firmware. Then again I have no idea what i'm on about, and he still seems to think that the bricking is BS so he won't doing anything like that anytime soon.

 

[.Chris]

Not really a game but....

the updater thingy where it enables the acekard 2i to work on 1.4 DSi's.... if you turn off the ds while updating... i learned that the hard way..

 

[fearofshorts]

The key thing about these "bricking" stories is that they all occurred playing completely different games. At different times. Come on! It simply has to be a hardware failure.

I mean, it would only fail during use. And when would it be being used? When people are playing games.

So: person plays game, AceKard dies, person (wrongly) blames game. End of story.

 

[Doom32x]

So, the games doesn't brick the acekard, the acekards auto-bricks? =(

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

So, the games doesn't brick the acekard, the acekards auto-bricks? =(

How does that even make any sense?
There is no bricking with the common mentioning games (Love Plus, Inazuma, SS).

 

[Smiths]

i bricked my acekard playing LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

So everyone should play that.

AKAIO bricked it too when i entered the easter egg in the Wifi Plugin........................

 

[fearofshorts]

So, the games doesn't brick the acekard, the acekards auto-bricks? =(

These AceKards aren't bricking, they're breaking!
Those people who think that their cart is bricked just have bad carts that died while they were playing a game.

It happens with any product: cars, PCs, the DS, hard-drives etc.
If they are faulty and work for a while, eventually the flaw that was created during the manufacturing process will manifest itself and they will break.
So, if you were driving down a road and your old car broke down... would you think that it was the road? No. You'd realize that your car was just on it's last legs.

Futhermore, it would be nearly impossible for a game to be released with code in it which was designed to brick AceKards, as flashcarts boot roms differently to the way they boot homebrew. Not to mention the absurdity of the game developers targeting AceKards, with all of the R4s out there.

In short: it's not the games, it's not actually bricking, it's just bad luck or wear-and-tear.

 

[coolness]

So, the games doesn't brick the acekard, the acekards auto-bricks? =(

These AceKards aren't bricking, they're breaking!
Those people who think that their cart is bricked just have bad carts that died while they were playing a game.

It happens with any product: cars, PCs, the DS, hard-drives etc.
If they are faulty and work for a while, eventually the flaw that was created during the manufacturing process will manifest itself and they will break.
So, if you were driving down a road and your old car broke down... would you think that it was the road? No. You'd realize that your car was just on it's last legs.

Futhermore, it would be nearly impossible for a game to be released with code in it which was designed to brick AceKards, as flashcarts boot roms differently to the way they boot homebrew. Not to mention the absurdity of the game developers targeting AceKards, with all of the R4s out there.

In short: it's not the games, it's not actually bricking, it's just bad luck or wear-and-tear.

that while be logic i think