Hacking M3 Sakura vs. Standard firmware

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Ok.
Since we need a topic like this, I decided to make one.

Which firmware do you need?

If you play lots of homebrews and roms, then I reccomend the standard firmware.
If you play loads of media and roms, then Sakura.

That is obvious
but...
what if you do all three?
Then I reccomend getting the Triple-boot firmware and the dual standard/sakura firmware.

Both firmwares have different compatability:

M3 Standard: 100% Compatability Roms/ High homebrew compatability (excluding DSorganise and several others)

M3 Sakura: High compatability, known problems with Trauma Center 2, Etrian oddessy 2, and GRID

Please post anything you think I should add.

Coming soon: Tools for M3

 

[choupette]

M3 Standard: no favorites, soft reset.
m3 sakura: favorites, no soft reset.

 

[thedicemaster]

what are the problems with grid?

 

[strata8]

what are the problems with grid?

I was wondering the same thing

 

[illithid]

I played those 3 games fine so far, what is the problem?

 

[AXYPB]

I use the iTouchDS firmware for troublesome homebrew. Whatever the default firmware and Sakura can't run, iTouchDS boots every time.

 

[Brainy142]

I use DSO to boot er, troublesome homebrew

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Fair enough.
I had problems with GRID (crashing every time it saved) so I switched back
This thread is only a guide for people who want to know what one they should use (until Sakura is released officially)

 

[thedicemaster]

the "known problems" for GRID might actually be a microSD problem.
you're the only one in this topic having problems with it.

 

[Dark]

I the standard firm ware cause its a smaller file

 

[Joe88]

DSO works fine with the regular firmware


I will keep using official until official eng sakura comes out

 

[xJonny]

Sakura, but it's missing features.

 

[TheWingless]

known problems with Trauma Center 2 and GRID

No problems and no problems. Unless there was any save trouble which I am unaware of and I don't think I encountered. I usually use Sakura, but there are those times I need to use default/iTouch.

EDIT: I used a Patriot 2GB for those who are wondering what micro SD I used.

 

[xJonny]

No problems here too, although my friend had trouble with GRID on Sakura (he was using a 4GB Sandisk).

 

[saxamo]

I'm using the standard firmware until the team releases the english sakura

 

[Diffusion]

I'll be happy with Sakura when soft reset works, and you don't have to turn off the DS whenever you enable cheats, slow motion, or download play.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

I'm using Sakura from it's release, but that's just because I watch lots of movies, and I was making a skin, so I hat to check it up all the time..
I don't have any problems with the old firmware, but I really prefer Sakura..

 

[triple-sevenz]

i use the triple loader but mainly sakura cause the real fw lags and itouch fw looks gay.

 

[Deleted User]

I've tried to use DSOrganize a bunch of times but it tells me to dldi patch it. So I went out and tried to figure out how to do so. So I did what I thought was going to work, and nothing did! Can anybody help me to dldi patch DSO so that I can run homebrew from it?

Also, I use the Sakura firmware as much as I can. But I have the triple loader on it, so I use itouch mostly other than sakura for homebrew. I don't see any reason to use the original m3 since itouch has practically perfect homebrew support. Although I can't remember now, but I had to use the og m3 loader once for some reason cuz something wouldn't work on anything else.

 

[Joe88]

I've tried to use DSOrganize a bunch of times but it tells me to dldi patch it. So I went out and tried to figure out how to do so. So I did what I thought was going to work, and nothing did! Can anybody help me to dldi patch DSO so that I can run homebrew from it?

just put DSO in the root directory of the microsd card and boot from there