Hacking Hacking DSi 2015?

[WulfyStylez]

Tested everything at once: Sudoku downgrading and save injection both work great. Sudoku injection probably won't be in the final tutorial, since it's kinda gray-area and other for-sale and exploitable games exist anyways. (You have to go find the srl from not-nintendo, the tmd can come from their server though.)

I'll probably work on cleaning up the tools for release soonish. They'll be open-source, since I don't want a repeat of the last DSi scene.

 

[zoogie]

Tested everything at once: Sudoku downgrading and save injection both work great. Sudoku injection probably won't be in the final tutorial, since it's kinda gray-area and other for-sale and exploitable games exist anyways. (You have to go find the srl from not-nintendo, the tmd can come from their server though.)

I'll probably work on cleaning up the tools for release soonish. They'll be open-source, since I don't want a repeat of the last DSi scene.

What last dsi scene. (i know, that's the whole point)

 

[Gadorach]

Tested everything at once: Sudoku downgrading and save injection both work great. Sudoku injection probably won't be in the final tutorial, since it's kinda gray-area and other for-sale and exploitable games exist anyways. (You have to go find the srl from not-nintendo, the tmd can come from their server though.)

I'll probably work on cleaning up the tools for release soonish. They'll be open-source, since I don't want a repeat of the last DSi scene.

A-MAY-ZING~

Great work, the DSi scene needed a kick in the arse to get it going again. Any word of pinouts for the XL, or am I committing to buy a broken board from Ebay?

 

[WulfyStylez]

A-MAY-ZING~

Great work, the DSi scene needed a kick in the arse to get it going again. Any word of pinouts for the XL, or am I committing to buy a broken board from Ebay?

I managed to guesstimate the DSi XL for Daz the other day, I can make an image of what I thought the pinouts would likely be in a little bit.

 

[Gadorach]

I managed to guesstimate the DSi XL for Daz the other day, I can make an image of what I thought the pinouts would likely be in a little bit.

Awesome, that would be greatly appreciated! You're really giving it 110% here, ha ha
I'll just go to sleep then, and hopefully I can solder it up in the morning.

 

[WulfyStylez]

Spoiler

Interestingly enough, every part on the DSi XL board seems to have exactly the same name as the DSi (normal) board? Because of that, I was able to make an educated guess and say emmc clk is proobably on either side of EM14. Also, not sure about which DAT line is DAT0. You'll have to test yourself.

 

[Jhyrachy]

Sure, if you already have a required game. Else, update, and buy a required game from the shop. It's not that expensive, and you need it anyway.
If you don't have a required game, you HAVE TO UPDATE AND BUY IT. That's REGARDLESS of your current firmware.

Where can i find a list of exploitable games?

 

[Gadorach]

Where can i find a list of exploitable games?

http://bootmii.org/dsiexploits/downloads/exploitslist

And as confirmed by @WulfyStylez , SUDOKU can be downgraded to an exploitable version without any issues, so you can buy that if you want to.

 

[reprep]

i am gonna go buy the games, even though sudoku is patched, it is safe to buy right? also which is the fastest exploit game, i mean the minimum time/clicks it takes to run the exploit?

 

[Gadorach]

i am gonna go buy the games, even though sudoku is patched, it is safe to buy right? also which is the fastest exploit game, i mean the minimum time/clicks it takes to run the exploit?

The order is SUDOKU > FieldRunners > Guitar Rock Tour > Legends of Exidia

Oh, also:

SUDOKU - 200 DSi Points
FieldRunners - 500 DSi Points
Guitar Rock Tour - 500 DSi Points (Unavailable in most stores now)
Legends of Exidia - 800 DSi Points

ALSO, IT WORKED!

Thanks again for the hypothetical pinout @WulfyStylez

Here's a finished image of the confirmed pinout

PS @WulfyStylez after reading the NAND and getting 4 identical dumps with matching CRC32, I removed the NAND mod and was greeted with a 0000FEFE error. As it's an integrity check error, I'm assuming there's something wrong with the NAND's filesystem. However, until I can confirm the NAND backups I have (all 240MB -> 251,658,240 bytes) are legitimate, I don't plan to write them back. Could I perhaps send you a copy to check?

 

[WhoAmI?]

Tested everything at once: Sudoku downgrading and save injection both work great. Sudoku injection probably won't be in the final tutorial, since it's kinda gray-area and other for-sale and exploitable games exist anyways. (You have to go find the srl from not-nintendo, the tmd can come from their server though.)

I'll probably work on cleaning up the tools for release soonish. They'll be open-source, since I don't want a repeat of the last DSi scene.

I love you! Remember when I asked you about DSi Homebrew? You're making it happen! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 0u0

 

[Jhyrachy]

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An hardware mod is absoluteley necessary on any firmware, if i do not have any of this games, right?

 

[reprep]

An hardware mod is absoluteley necessary on any firmware, if i do not have any of this games, right?

yup, that is what i wonder too. i am at 1.4.5 with a dsi XL. Any chance i can buy the said games and use the exploit without a hw mod?

 

[Gadorach]

yup, that is what i wonder too. i am at 1.4.5 with a dsi XL. Any chance i can buy the said games and use the exploit without a hw mod?

Nope, no chance. HW mod is necessary. I'm going to update the diagram for the XL to be safer though, so no worries. I broke the resister array testing the DAT points, but found better, lower risk points as a result.

 

[Jhyrachy]

If we can downgrade, why can't we downgrade without a game and then inject sudoku using 1.4.1 exploit?

 

[Gadorach]

Don't use the Alt point unless you have to. The resister is fragile, and if you break it, your console won't start.
The VIA pad is MUCH more stable, and won't break as easily. Use it instead.

If we can downgrade, why can't we downgrade without a game and then inject sudoku using 1.4.1 exploit?

To answer your question, there never was a point at which you could inject the full game. The thing that was injected is a save file. This doesn't change that requirement. You still need a valid license to run the DSiWare, so until you buy the game, you can't launch it, even if you inject it. By having SUDOKU installed, even at the higher version, you still have a license for that title. Having that license allows you to downgrade the content of that file and run Sudokuhax.

TL;DR - Buy the game, and you can get DSiWareHax.

 

[loco365]

Ah, now I see why the downgrade is necessary. Perhaps I'll wait for a NAND mod service to be made available then. After seeing the pinout that @Gadorach posted makes me cringe because they're so dismally tiny.

Now I kinda wish I had a way to spoof my DSi Shop Channel to get shop access so I can get the software while on 1.4, hence not requiring the downgrade, since it's not patched in that firmware.

 

[Gadorach]

Ah, now I see why the downgrade is necessary. Perhaps I'll wait for a NAND mod service to be made available then. After seeing the pinout that @Gadorach posted makes me cringe because they're so dismally tiny.

Now I kinda wish I had a way to spoof my DSi Shop Channel to get shop access so I can get the software while on 1.4, hence not requiring the downgrade, since it's not patched in that firmware.

The only painful point was DAT0, but if you use the new diagram, it's not a big deal. Just don't touch the resister array, unless you don't want your console to boot ever again. I have a few spare arrays, so I'm not worried about it. It's still a pain in the ass to replace. Still, better it break on me, where I can fix it myself, than break on one of you guys, that can't, ha ha

 

[loco365]

The only painful point was DAT0, but if you use the new diagram, it's not a big deal. Just don't touch the resister array, unless you don't want your console to boot ever again. I have a few spare arrays, so I'm not worried about it. It's still a pain in the ass to replace. Still, better it break on me, where I can fix it myself, than break on one of you guys, that can't, ha ha

Considering I only took Electronics class 3 years ago, and that was the only time that I did anything soldering, I don't think I'll be able to do this because we never worked with contact points that small. We designed our own boards and soldered the parts in that class, so everything was fairly large.

 

[WulfyStylez]

If we can downgrade, why can't we downgrade without a game and then inject sudoku using 1.4.1 exploit?

There's no way to get around buying a game for this. I tested injecting one srl over a different title's, no good.