Hacking My DS has been bricked!

[trae329]

My DS Lite has been bricked accidentally by it shutting off at 1% in Flashme.
I have an R4 and a CycloDS. I also am picking up a Supercard Lite on Monday.
Yes, I did see the one Start + Select trick, it did not work.
Please help me ASAP.

trae329
P.S I am new here.

 

[KazoWAR]

well, if START+SELECT do not work then im guessing you are screwed. how did the power turn off anyways?

 

[trae329]

I shut it off. I am a noob at this, but i did see someone fix this using a Slot-2 card.
I also have my Supercard Lite here, but i do not know how to fix it.

trae329

EDIT: Okay, I am buying a used ds lite tomorrow. Thanks anyway, KazoWAR!
P.S. Do you have an account in Projectpokemon?

 

[DanTheManMS]

What happens if you hold Start+Select with just the Supercard Lite inserted? Can you get to the Supercard menu?

 

[SifJar]

if you want, you could try the Parellel Port flashing thingy, which can recover you from a brick. But it needs you to dismantle your DS and solder stuff... If you're interested google DarkFader and find out how on his website.

 

[redact]

if you want, you could try the Parellel Port flashing thingy, which can recover you from a brick. But it needs you to dismantle your DS and solder stuff... If you're interested google DarkFader and find out how on his website.

it's a lite, no soldering at all is needed

just unplug the bios/wifi chip from working one
put it in bricked one
start flashme
swap working for broken
press xbxb
wait till 100%
????
profit!

 

[dark42]

R4 huh? Well, if it's a legit one (not a clone) you might be able to recover. I did this once and I recovered a bricked DS Lite. What you need to do is use a program called r4crypt (http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=243) to encrypt the flashme installer and name it the same as that system file of the R4 (_DS_MENU.DAT) and put it on the root of the SD card. If you've flashed enough of flashme to have the recovery code in there you should be able to use Start+Select to boot up the R4 and continue flashing, and therefore unbrick.

Got this info from this tutorial (http://www.allaboutgames.co.uk/blogs/2007/05/26/how-to-recover-a-half-flashed-ds-with-an-r4ds-or-m3-simply/), and I have personally used this info to recover a half-flashed DS Lite about 2 years ago. However if you turned off the power before flashme could write the recovery code in, you're SOL, your only option is to open up the DS and do a JTAG flash.

 

[House Spider]

It is possible to decode the generated _DS_MENU.DAT to work on clones so if he owns a clone he still has a shot.