Hacking Nds backup tool slot2

[bigcw99]

Ok I have
Acekard2i working just fine with everything
EZ flash IV updated with their software
I didn't put any thing on the sd card in the ez flash so it's blank
I'm running backup tool slot 2 from acekard2i

I'm trying to use this because wifi backup is wayyyy too slow
It's like 2 1/2 hours for a 16mb game

 

[twiztidsinz]

And your question/problem is.....?


Or are you just giving us an update?

 

[bigcw99]

Sorry stupid me
So when I start nds backup tool it says change cart just like in wifi, I Change cart hit A. Then the bottom screen shows all info for rom, but the blue box that you are supposed to hit L and R to change to backup save or backup rom is blank I have no option to backup rom.
The wifi works good like I said. But slow
But theirs no box to hit A to save the ROM.

Thanks sorry Chuck

 

[OrGoN3]

Sorry stupid me
So when I start nds backup tool it says change cart just like in wifi, I Change cart hit A. Then the bottom screen shows all info for rom, but the blue box that you are supposed to hit L and R to change to backup save or backup rom is blank I have no option to backup rom.
The wifi works good like I said. But slow
But theirs no box to hit A to save the ROM.

Thanks sorry Chuck

Pretty sure it's on the second screen, and I'm pretty sure you press X.

 

[bigcw99]

Yeah it's identical to the nds backup tool wifi
But in the box it doesn't say save rom or save backup or anything I pressed all buttons nothing happens

 

[OrGoN3]

You realize you have to run this from the slot2 flashcart, right?

 

[bigcw99]

This is why I'm a noob
Can you give me a Brief description on how to run on my ez flash IV
There's nothing on the mini sd card for ez
Now I put the nds file and IMO file on root of sd mini for flash
But how do I run it on ez the only prompt I have or loader is the lord vader one

Thanks chuck

 

[Hakoda]

You realize you have to run this from the slot2 flashcart, right?

Who said that? There are solutions which only require a slot 1 card and an FTP Server while others only require a slot 1 & slot 2 card.

Someone did publish a guide a while back on how to do it with a slot 1 card & an FTP Server here (If you're using this guide here is the download for the NDS Backup Tool WiFi by Rudolph)

 

[twiztidsinz]

You realize you have to run this from the slot2 flashcart, right?

Who said that? There are solutions which only require a slot 1 card and an FTP Server while others only require a slot 1 & slot 2 card.

Someone did publish a guide a while back on how to do it with a slot 1 card & an FTP Server here (If you're using this guide here is the download for the NDS Backup Tool WiFi by Rudolph)

OP wants to back up the NDS game to the memory of the Slot-2 device because WiFi takes a long time.


I would imagine that you'd run the Backup Tool from the Slot 1 device, swap the Slot 1 card and then back it up to Slot 2.
Maybe that's why it's not showing up for you?

 

[Hakoda]

You realize you have to run this from the slot2 flashcart, right?
Who said that? There are solutions which only require a slot 1 card and an FTP Server while others only require a slot 1 & slot 2 card.

Someone did publish a guide a while back on how to do it with a slot 1 card & an FTP Server here (If you're using this guide here is the download for the NDS Backup Tool WiFi by Rudolph)

OP wants to back up the NDS game to the memory of the Slot-2 device because WiFi takes a long time.


I would imagine that you'd run the Backup Tool from the Slot 1 device, swap the Slot 1 card and then back it up to Slot 2.
Maybe that's why it's not showing up for you?

Oh. Well he'd need to find a dumper compatible with his EZ Flash IV, most are only compatible with the EZ Flash 3in1.

EDIT: Someone was able to do it with a Cyclo DS & an EZ Flash IV using this tool. Here is the ezsd.dldi. You can find the EZ4 firmware here. From the CycloDS Forums:
QUOTE

However, (Woo Hoo!!!) I HAVE solved my original problem and am currently using my EZ Flash IV Lite Compact to backup my NDS games directly to the microSD card in the EZ4 using NDS_Backup_Tool_Slot2_031.nds

For anyone else that wants to do the same thing, here's what I did (and what I did wrong the first time):

1) First, I reformatted the microSD card used in the EZ4LC, this time as FAT (not FAT32). I learned that FAT32 is simply not supported by teh EZ4 cards so it wont work, no way, no how.

2) I updated the firmware in the EZ4LC to the latest version (downloaded from either the EZ Flash site or gbatemp.net).

3) I then DLDI patched the original NDS_Backup_Tool_Slot2_031.nds file with the ezsd.dldi file and the dlditool32.exe (I tried using the .bin version after copying it to the EZ4LC but got an error saying that GBA games are not suppported, which makes sense for the EZ4 Light COMPACT version, so maybe this will work fine for the Deluxe version)

4) I then copied the patched NDS_Backup_Tool_Slot2_031.nds file to the microSD card in my CycloDS and booted my NDS to the CycloDS.

5) I then launched the DLDI patched NDS_Backup_Tool_Slot2_031.nds file (turning off the auto-patching by holding down the SELECT button when pressing the A button from the CycloDS window.

6) The patched version of the backup tool now saw my EZ4LC and allowed me to backup my NDS ROMs directly to the microSD card in the EZ4LC. I was able to backup 2 games one after the other, each in a single pass in about 10 minutes or so.

The only flaw I see in using this with an AK2 is that in AKAIO, you CANNOT turnoff DLDI patching. (Unless you delete the ak2sd.dldi from SD:\__aio).

 

[jakeyjake]

If you were to back up a DS game, would you be able to extract saves from it?

Same with GBA game with a slot 1 card?

 

[Hakoda]

If you were to back up a DS game, would you be able to extract saves from it?

Same with GBA game with a slot 1 card?

That is correct but it would use two different tools, one for GBA Backup and another for NDS Backup

 

[jakeyjake]

If you were to back up a DS game, would you be able to extract saves from it?

Same with GBA game with a slot 1 card?

That is correct but it would use two different tools, one for GBA Backup and another for NDS Backup

Sweet! now all I have to do is find these! I want to continue my ff3 game, but I am too lazy to take out my supercard dsonei. xD

and I want to get the pokemon off my gba games.

 

[Hakoda]

If you were to back up a DS game, would you be able to extract saves from it?

Same with GBA game with a slot 1 card?

That is correct but it would use two different tools, one for GBA Backup and another for NDS Backup

Sweet! now all I have to do is find these! I want to continue my ff3 game, but I am too lazy to take out my supercard dsonei. xD

and I want to get the pokemon off my gba games.

The DS portion has already been linked to you as well as with a guide in my first post of this thread. Here is the GBA Backup Tool.

 

[Bent]

One thing to keep in mind. I have an AK2 and a GBA movie player. In order for me to use the backup to slot2 dumper, I need to replace the ak2_sd.dldi file in the _akaio directory with the dldi file for the GBA movie player. Otherwise, the dumper program tries to write to the microSD card in the AK2, which is obviously missing since it was ejected to put in the game you are dumping. So maybe that is what you need to do, find the dldi file for your slot2 device, name it ak2_sd.dldi, and place it in the _akaio directory on the microSD, backing up the existing dldi file so you can restore it when you are done.

 

[Hakoda]

One thing to keep in mind. I have an AK2 and a GBA movie player. In order for me to use the backup to slot2 dumper, I need to replace the ak2_sd.dldi file in the _akaio directory with the dldi file for the GBA movie player. Otherwise, the dumper program tries to write to the microSD card in the AK2, which is obviously missing since it was ejected to put in the game you are dumping. So maybe that is what you need to do, find the dldi file for your slot2 device, name it ak2_sd.dldi, and place it in the _akaio directory on the microSD, backing up the existing dldi file so you can restore it when you are done.

*facepalm* Wow, you explained that better than I did. Okay so strike what I said, download the ezsd.dldi & rename it to ak2sd.dldi and place it into the SD:\__aio directory, overwriting the existing file. Remember to redownload AKAIO and place the AKAIO ak2sd.dldi back into SD:\__aio.

 

[Bent]

Hmm, I didn't even see your reply before I typed that in, I had the page loaded while I was at a meeting at work, then didn't refresh before I replied. So yeah, we meant the same thing

The way I mentioned is the easiest, since the ak2 does auto dldi patching, no sense in manually patching the dumper. Just let the card do it.

 

[Hakoda]

Hmm, I didn't even see your reply before I typed that in, I had the page loaded while I was at a meeting at work, then didn't refresh before I replied. So yeah, we meant the same thing

The way I mentioned is the easiest, since the ak2 does auto dldi patching, no sense in manually patching the dumper. Just let the card do it.

Yeh its morning here in Cali, don't know what I was thinking.

 

[jakeyjake]

If you were to back up a DS game, would you be able to extract saves from it?

Same with GBA game with a slot 1 card?

That is correct but it would use two different tools, one for GBA Backup and another for NDS Backup

Sweet! now all I have to do is find these! I want to continue my ff3 game, but I am too lazy to take out my supercard dsonei. xD

and I want to get the pokemon off my gba games.

The DS portion has already been linked to you as well as with a guide in my first post of this thread. Here is the GBA Backup Tool.

Thanks alot!

 

[bigcw99]

First of all thanks to everyone.
So I copy the 6 or 7 steps that was copied from somewhere else here. Then I switched DLDI file in _aio Folder
Perfect
Started program everything is working perfectly untill.........

It gets to 21% then frezzes
I tried the same game 3 or 4 times much faster dumping this time though

Anyway any suggestions


Thanks In advance