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[TheStump]

Hey, Doesnt the M3 software have an option of starting a NDS rom in conjunction with a GBA rom [this was used for things like unlocking extras with eg, GBA version of Advance wars and Advance wars DS]

is that possible to do?

 

[RueGorE]

So then, what "GBA ROM" will you run in conjunction with the DS browser ROM?

Nice idea, just not all that well thought out. ^_~

 

[memyselfandi]

YAY! i hope romman does get this to work!

 

[science]

Just came from the IRC channel....actually still there, but Romman said this shit will be working on SC in a few hours! w00t!!!

Lets hope he's seriously serious!

 

[TheStump]

Im sure the GBA side of it could be dumped, considering the DS regodnizes it as a DS option pak, would that mean it's going to run by a similar format.
im just throwing around ideas. im sure that a GBA dump is possible and if it works maybe it just redirects all the information the RAM on the cart, maybe thats all it does.

-meh, well i havent heard any other great ideas besides faulse claims of people just patching the DS rom and saying it runs..LOL come on, how stupid do you think we are.

 

[shado blackstar]

Couldn't you use the GBA 256Mbit flash space? It should have a similar enough RW speed, right?

 

[GHB]

Wow, the number of users stalking this thread seems to have halved since I started doing it.

Anyway here's hoping romman hooks us up before I go out tonight - if its working on SC first I will be very happy

 

[Scorpin200]

There is no rom cart nor will their ever be, cause for the fact that's it's hardware not a rom. Also if this thing ever does get to work sometime soon there maybe be no neeed to wait for the american release, because as i speak someone is in the process of doing so...although im not sure io can put the link here or not.

 

[fischju_original]

there has to be some kind of program already on cart, or whats stopping the program from trying to use a rumble pack or gba game?

 

[TheVirus]

The Romman that posted that on IRC was fake, just a regular user using his nick. Don't get your hopes up.

Scorpin: Doing what? Translating?

 

[KINGOFNOOBS]

I've used mobile Opera on my PDA before. Granted, by PDA is a very powerful unit, I still think the overall experience will be very similar to the DS version. That being said, I love Opera on my PDA.

By the way, is anyone currently working on a way to get this to run on Supercards/M3s?

~Dac

What IRC Channel is it?

 

[RueGorE]

How the hell are you gonna dump a RAM cart with a ROM dumper? There is no ROM to dump!

So let's see; in the case of M3 and Supercard, if being ran from SD / CF space, that means the DS is talking with the card through Slot-2, and then you're also gonna need to do RAM writes through Slot-2 as well? But it's already being used for another purpose!

As for the case of EZ or G6 carts, the rom is ran from it's flashable rom space, so it really has no other (ahem) large enough RAM to use?

Did anybody understand that? If not, try this: Run a DS rom from your favorite backup device. Then while the game is running, yank out the device from Slot-2. Oh hey guess what happened? So if the rom is currently using Slot-2 already, it doesn't seem quite likely that it'd do another process like write data to RAM in Slot-2 at the same time.

 

[KINGOFNOOBS]

How the hell are you gonna dump a RAM cart with a ROM dumper? There is no ROM to dump!

So let's see; in the case of M3 and Supercard, if being ran from SD / CF space, that means the DS is talking with the card through Slot-2, and then you're also gonna need to do RAM writes through Slot-2 as well? But it's already being used for another purpose!

As for the case of EZ or G6 carts, the rom is ran from it's flashable rom space, so it really has no other (ahem) large enough RAM to use?

Did anybody understand that? If not, try this: Run a DS rom from your favorite backup device. Then while the game is running, yank out the device from Slot-2. Oh hey guess what happened? So if the rom is currently using Slot-2 already, it doesn't seem quite likely that it'd do another process like write data to RAM in Slot-2 at the same time.

Actually your wrong. The RAM Cart can be run standalone via the GBA Cart. And you can view all the images you have cached. (You must have the Opera DS Cartdridge in there though.

 

[chillyp]

How the hell are you gonna dump a RAM cart with a ROM dumper? There is no ROM to dump!

So let's see; in the case of M3 and Supercard, if being ran from SD / CF space, that means the DS is talking with the card through Slot-2, and then you're also gonna need to do RAM writes through Slot-2 as well? But it's already being used for another purpose!

As for the case of EZ or G6 carts, the rom is ran from it's flashable rom space, so it really has no other (ahem) large enough RAM to use?

Did anybody understand that? If not, try this: Run a DS rom from your favorite backup device. Then while the game is running, yank out the device from Slot-2. Oh hey guess what happened? So if the rom is currently using Slot-2 already, it doesn't seem quite likely that it'd do another process like write data to RAM in Slot-2 at the same time.

I don't see what the problem is? What needs doing is a piece of code that acts as a wrapper for the flash memory inside the M3. Then point the RAM cart saving portions of the code to the new wrapper, and instead of interfacing with the RAM cart it will store it in the flash memory of the M3.

The biggest problem is the complete lack of documentation for interfacing with the M3 hardware.

Writing with FAT to the SD card has only very recently been solved via reverse engineering but I'm not aware of any library that can do the same with the flash memory onboard.

 

[RueGorE]

What I'm saying is that you're trying to run DS Browser from your flash cart and it's currently in use, which means it's going to have problems when it wants to try to interface with Slot-2 for it's RAM writing needs.

So what are you gonna do? Reverse-engineer the DS Browser ROM? You're gonna try to *force it* to co-exist without any problems?

 

[Dacvak]

So the Romman on IRC was a fake? I'm assuming we should not expect a working browser any time soon?

~Dac

 

[Tainted.]

if someone could just make a HB browser 8)

 

[Dirtie]

What I'm saying is that you're trying to run DS Browser from your flash cart and it's currently in use, which means it's going to have problems when it wants to try to interface with Slot-2 for it's RAM writing needs.

So what are you gonna do? Reverse-engineer the DS Browser ROM? You're gonna try to *force it* to co-exist without any problems?

I don't see why it wouldn't be eventually possible for a cart that has SRAM - let's just say I'm not going to discount the possibility of getting it running on a flash cart eventually. I mean, the patching mechanisms on all the current carts redirect the saving to the GBA slot, who says the RAM read/writes don't use a similar method to normal saving?

 

[Renegade_R]

I think you ppl are hoping just a bit too much.

 

[Dacvak]

Agreed. I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and order it from Play-Asia.

~Dac