Hacking I REALLY want to hack the DS's firmware...

[Brian117]

Ok, after seeing a thread about wanting to hack the DS's firmware.

I've been dying to know how to do it...

I want to make something like Flashme, where you can skip the warning screen etc.

I want to edit things like that. Maybe possibly add another color scheme.

Also what would be cool, is if I edited it around and maybe changed the font and text around.


But I really have no idea where to even begin

I've been looking everywhere on Google for a NDS firmware file, from there I can edit it. But no luck. I heard there was a way to extract the NDS firmware from your DS. But no idea how to even do that.


Just a little help here guys. I'll be on my own from there.

 

[playallday]

I've been looking everywhere on Google for a NDS firmware file, from there I can edit it. But no luck. I heard there was a way to extract the NDS firmware from your DS. But no idea how to even do that.

You can download it here. What's funny is that you can run it from most slot-1 cards.

EDIT: Link removed. Just Google "Loopy DS" or something.

 

[Vapourstreak]

what do you do with the extracted firmware? just curious because ive never heard of this before.

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what do you do with the extracted firmware? just curious because ive never heard of this before.

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what do you do with the extracted firmware? just curious because ive never heard of this before.

 

[Brian117]

Wow, thanks tons playallday!

I shall look into it.

 

[Isaiah]

hmm wow!? huh something wrong with the brightness setting

 

[alex]

hmm wow!? huh something wrong with the brightness setting

its the old phat firmware, i wish the ds lite was dumped.

at least i wont have to take out my flashcart now to play download play(when i just download the game

or pictochat) yes, we can all be lazier now!

but its the link illegal? its still copyrighted by ninty...

 

[playallday]

hmm wow!? huh something wrong with the brightness setting
its the old phat firmware, i wish the ds lite was dumped.

at least i wont have to take out my flashcart now to play download play(when i just download the game

or pictochat) yes, we can all be lazier now!

but its the link illegal? its still copyrighted by ninty...

I don't know but I removed the link.

QUOTE(Brian117 @ Sep 26 2008, 08:10 PM)

Wow, thanks tons playallday!

I shall look into it.

Your welcome

.

 

[FAST6191]

First I would become a top notch regular rom hacker, as in learn assembly and compression.

Next learn both the DS hardware. GBAtek is as good a place as any:
http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm
and
http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm#dscart...ryptionfirmware

and a decent amount of electrical engineering:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engin...ience/index.htm

Dumping the firmware is easy enough. 3 dumpers I know of
cory1492
http://nds.cmamod.com/2007/01/24/dsbf_dump...irmware-dumper/
ryanfb (author of picodriveDS)
http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2007/...ds-bios-dumper/
And some older ones.

If you have the other thread then you have the decompression/unpacking tool:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12270
There is no repacking tool just yet (that I know of) but the above has source and for someone who made it this far then that should not pose a problem.

Lastly the main problem everyone faces is lack of space (for a little while there we may not have even had wifi with the DS and flashme).

I also suggest you dig up the gbadev threads on hacked versions of flashme: before loopy/olimar came back with v8 (the updated v7 the last one made) some people took to hacking flashme to do things like the boot DS slot by default. That should provide a serious amount of insight, FWnitro source is also worth a look:
http://fwnitro.caitsith2.net/ (note if you are going to install it a DLDI capable GBA slot cart is probably worth having).