Hacking Is my DS bricked?

[WishCow]

Hmm, I always thought the swap trick goes like this:

You start the working DS Lite, and launch flashme.bin normally.
Pull out the BIOS chip, and put in the non-working DS Lite's chip, press the button combination as asked by Flashme, bridge the SL1 and done, switch back the chips. You don't need to use the recovery, you can start normally the bin file.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I believe this method must work.

Yes letting the G6 team know about this is a very good idea.

 

[outphase]

Hmm, I always thought the swap trick goes like this:

You start the working DS Lite, and launch flashme.bin normally.
Pull out the BIOS chip, and put in the non-working DS Lite's chip, press the button combination as asked by Flashme, bridge the SL1 and done, switch back the chips. You don't need to use the recovery, you can start normally the bin file.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I believe this method must work.

Yes letting the G6 team know about this is a very good idea.

ah yes, i wasn't 100% sure on the bios swap trick, thanks for clearing it up for me

btw, the DS in question here isn't bricked as it is recoverable.

 

[Falkentyne]

Hmm, I always thought the swap trick goes like this:

You start the working DS Lite, and launch flashme.bin normally.
Pull out the BIOS chip, and put in the non-working DS Lite's chip, press the button combination as asked by Flashme, bridge the SL1 and done, switch back the chips. You don't need to use the recovery, you can start normally the bin file.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I believe this method must work.

Yes letting the G6 team know about this is a very good idea.

That all depends on *IF* the NDS uses the BIOS after you've booted it or not. I'm assuming that if Outphase is talking about using a non flashed, stock working DS Lite's bios chip after booting it up, and im 100% he is, then swapping, then it doesn't use the chip after boot. I guess this is like hot flashing a motherboard BIOS for a PC, with another identical motherboard, in MS DOS. But I don't think anyone in the world has tried pulling out a BIOS chip while in windows (of course, using an insulated tool, or else...).

So yes, you wouldn't need any recovery mode. BUT YOU WOULD need to make DAMN sure you are using a PERFECTLY INSULATED TOOL or you will have succeeded in "re-bricking" the "bricked" chip. (Ok, partially bricked).