Hacking m3 sakura 1.12 reverse engineering

[iamanobody]

OK, i'm back

this thread is for REVERSE ENGINEERING/HACKING of m3 sakura 1.12 (not for discussion/questions/etc.) i'll try to post information when possible. if you have something related to REVERSE ENGINEERING, please post it here. please leave questions/comments out of this thread to avoid clutter. i've just downloaded the new version and i need to look at it. it may take longer this time because i have school/life

EDIT: main thing hacked, working on loaders

 

[Densetsu]

iamanobody FTW

Please post here for any questions or comments that aren't related to reverse-engineering the firmware.

*EDIT*
NOTE: The firmware download on this thread is no longer up-to-date. The game loaders (ROM config menus) are still in Japanese.

Get the FULL English version on the M3 Sakura FAQ.

 

[iamanobody]

at first glance, the gba loader protection looks the same

EDIT: after checking, it does look the same, testing

EDIT2: GBA working, but will be busy for a while so i'll crack the NDS loader later

EDIT3: NDS and GBA working

i need to do something now so i'll package/release it later

 

[Leon2457]

EDIT: I apologize for this, I didn't read the first post to begin with.

Sorry!

 

[lilkerv90210]

EDIT: sorry didnt look at the second post

 

[Normmatt]

at first glance, the gba loader protection looks the same

EDIT: after checking, it does look the same, testing

EDIT2: GBA working, but will be busy for a while so i'll crack the NDS loader later

EDIT3: NDS and GBA working

i need to do something now so i'll package/release it later

Is there any chance you want to share with us your findings and how you patched it to work, just incase your not around in the future?

EDIT: why the hell is there acekard, supercard and ezflash stuff in this release? dsmenu.bin is acekard, the included moonshell is ezflash v, and there's a supercard ds1 dldi.

 

[iamanobody]

at first glance, the gba loader protection looks the same

EDIT: after checking, it does look the same, testing

EDIT2: GBA working, but will be busy for a while so i'll crack the NDS loader later

EDIT3: NDS and GBA working

i need to do something now so i'll package/release it later

Is there any chance you want to share with us your findings and how you patched it to work, just incase your not around in the future?

EDIT: why the hell is there acekard, supercard and ezflash stuff in this release? dsmenu.bin is acekard, the included moonshell is ezflash v, and there's a supercard ds1 dldi.

i'll write some stuff out soon. i was wondering about that too

the included moonshell actually seems to be a DSLink, the "morning timer" has a r4 dldi, there's a acecard rpg sd dldi

 

[Normmatt]

at first glance, the gba loader protection looks the same

EDIT: after checking, it does look the same, testing

EDIT2: GBA working, but will be busy for a while so i'll crack the NDS loader later

EDIT3: NDS and GBA working

i need to do something now so i'll package/release it later

Is there any chance you want to share with us your findings and how you patched it to work, just incase your not around in the future?

EDIT: why the hell is there acekard, supercard and ezflash stuff in this release? dsmenu.bin is acekard, the included moonshell is ezflash v, and there's a supercard ds1 dldi.

i'll write some stuff out soon. i was wondering about that too

the included moonshell actually seems to be a DSLink, the "morning timer" has a r4 dldi, there's a acecard rpg sd dldi

Its a mess of flashcarts, indeed, I've just finished making a dldi version of this. The dsmenu.bin is a hacked version of the acekard firmware (it is open source so m3 should technically have to release their modifications as open source). I seriously wonder WTF the m3sakura team is doing? seems bad for business too include stuff from other flashcarts.

 

[iamanobody]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L5GLM8S4

it should work, but don't blame me if it doesn't. documentation will be written somedaysoon

 

[LUGiA]

has the new loader been translated into english

 

[-Mew-]

FUCK YEAH! I love you guys ;_;

 

[Toni Plutonij]

has the new loader been translated into english

Erm....the post above yours?!?!

That's the download for hacked english version!

 

[-Mew-]

This is surely a stupid question but how do i soft reset?

 

[Toni Plutonij]

If the button combination is the same.....Than push either L, R, A, B, X, Y together or L, R, A, B, X (L, R, A, B, Y)....I might be wrong, but I think that's the button combination (and you have to enable it in the NDS config. menu!)..

 

[-Mew-]

If the button combination is the same.....Than push either L, R, A, B, X, Y together or L, R, A, B....I might be wrong, but I think that's the button combination (and you have to enable it in the NDS config. menu!)..

Holy shit it works

AWESOME

!

Yeah it's L,R,A,B,X or L,R,A,B,Y and you have to enable it in the menu.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

If the button combination is the same.....Than push either L, R, A, B, X, Y together or L, R, A, B....I might be wrong, but I think that's the button combination (and you have to enable it in the NDS config. menu!)..

Wait, does that mean that Soft Reset works now? Alright, that a very big step in the right direction!

I'll wait for a bit until this is included in the M3 Real Triple Loader, then I'll use it a lot. Thanks for your awesome work iamanobody!

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Yeah, Soft-Reset and returning from config. menus to File Browsing are updates in this version..

Also, NDS-GBA linkage is added..

 

[-Mew-]

Yeah, Soft-Reset and returning from config. menus to File Browsing are updates in this version..

Also, NDS-GBA linkage is added..

As in you can link Harvest moon GBA Rom to the NDS rom or just links between the gba and nds?

Or am i stupid and it just supports GBA roms now.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

As in you can load GBA game into slot 2 (GBA expansion), and play NDS game with extra features that GBA game enables..

example. Aria of Sorrow and Down of Sorrow (at the start of game you get extra ring)...or Pokemon Linkage etc.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Yeah, Soft-Reset and returning from config. menus to File Browsing are updates in this version..

Also, NDS-GBA linkage is added..

That's very nice! This might be a dumb question, but how can you start linkage? In the normal M3 Real software you used the Y-button, is that still the case in M3Sakura?