Nintendo DS Debug Dev Unit Cart

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special the TWL MODE TEST

thats basically DSi Mode Test

I see "CART NTR MODE TWL TEST"
that's basically "DS mode DSi test"

QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 11:06 AM) Read a couple pages back, I don't have a flash cart to dump anything. I don't cheat Nintendo out of new game sales.

Right.
But buying a flashcart doesn't cheat Nintendo out of new game sales.

It does if you use it for the wrong means. If Nintendo wanted you to have a flash cart, they would sell them. no?

Nothing forces you to use it for the wrong means.

 

[NintendyFan]

Hey that distribution card in the middle looks in great conditions from the front view how about the back.I doubt it has any importance what so ever,but I'm curious

It is in good shape, but won't load. I can't figure it out. Something tells me it might need specific hardware maybe..

any TWL carts working

thats what we want!!

DSi mode

i can almost smell it

All of the carts shown do not load at the moment, so no. :/

lol thats why im saying if you wanna fix

aim for them ones

they contain the jewels

That actually might explain why they won't do anything in a DSLite.. I'll see what I get out of it.

 

[Pong20302000]

Hey that distribution card in the middle looks in great conditions from the front view how about the back.I doubt it has any importance what so ever,but I'm curious

It is in good shape, but won't load. I can't figure it out. Something tells me it might need specific hardware maybe..

any TWL carts working

thats what we want!!

DSi mode

i can almost smell it

All of the carts shown do not load at the moment, so no. :/

lol thats why im saying if you wanna fix

aim for them ones

they contain the jewels

That actually might explain why they won't do anything in a DSLite.. I'll see what I get out of it.

would laugh if the data dumped is unencrypted
would make my day
as it is dev code

 

[loco365]

Good enough proof?

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

 

[NintendyFan]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

 

[loco365]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

 

[Apache Thunder]

If whoever tried to destroy these had any brains, they could have just threw them in a microwave.....anything electronic is completely destroyed if left in a microwave long enough. (like maybe 5-10 seconds. You don't have to leave it in long enough for it to catch fire or spark believe it or not.

) But I guess they didn't have access to one? Lucky us!

 

[NintendyFan]

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

 

[SifJar]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

None for 3DS, and one which looks like DS mode of the DSi (perhaps would also work for DS mode on 3DS, I dunno). Nothing of huge potential I reckon, but still pretty neat.


QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 06:38 PM)

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

On a few of them it looks like its mostly that the pins are messed up. I dunno for sure, but maybe just desoldering the chips from those cards and soldering them onto working game cards would do the job?

 

[Pong20302000]

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

well someone I know works for a company where they make main boards and solder the chips to them. I'm sure they could recreate the chip and move the chips onto a working one

 

[loco365]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

None for 3DS, and one which looks like DS mode of the DSi (perhaps would also work for DS mode on 3DS, I dunno). Nothing of huge potential I reckon, but still pretty neat.


QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 06:38 PM)

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

On a few of them it looks like its mostly that the pins are messed up. I dunno for sure, but maybe just desoldering the chips from those cards and soldering them onto working game cards would do the job?

Well, I was talking that there are more than what we have here, and that there are more debug and testing cards.

And, if you're willing to, I have a 3DS we can try using them on. See if they yield any results.

 

[NintendyFan]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

None for 3DS, and one which looks like DS mode of the DSi (perhaps would also work for DS mode on 3DS, I dunno). Nothing of huge potential I reckon, but still pretty neat.


QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 06:38 PM)

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

On a few of them it looks like its mostly that the pins are messed up. I dunno for sure, but maybe just desoldering the chips from those cards and soldering them onto working game cards would do the job?

Well, I was talking that there are more than what we have here, and that there are more debug and testing cards.

And, if you're willing to, I have a 3DS we can try using them on. See if they yield any results.

Oh, I tried the one cart on the 3DS. It just errors out before it does anything. My system also took a while to boot back up after that. I was worried I had broken it.. :x

 

[loco365]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

None for 3DS, and one which looks like DS mode of the DSi (perhaps would also work for DS mode on 3DS, I dunno). Nothing of huge potential I reckon, but still pretty neat.


QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 06:38 PM)

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

On a few of them it looks like its mostly that the pins are messed up. I dunno for sure, but maybe just desoldering the chips from those cards and soldering them onto working game cards would do the job?

Well, I was talking that there are more than what we have here, and that there are more debug and testing cards.

And, if you're willing to, I have a 3DS we can try using them on. See if they yield any results.

Oh, I tried the one cart on the 3DS. It just errors out before it does anything. My system also took a while to boot back up after that. I was worried I had broken it.. :x

Odd. Hm. But, I'm wondering how much you'd offer for the duds.

And you said it took a bit for the 3DS to reboot? I wonder why it did that. And, if we can dump these working cards, what would they do on flashcards? I can dump them, but then many others besides me can as well.

 

[Pong20302000]

Ok. Now I'm jealous. I'd want one even if it didn't work.

At least I know I will be able to get rid of the duds as well.

Haha. Well, I don't have much money atm, just a prepaid Visa, so I don't think I'd be getting one anytime soon. Edit: That flicker test one looks interesting. But I think that there are more, seeing as I think there are specific testing cards for the DSi and 3DS.

None for 3DS, and one which looks like DS mode of the DSi (perhaps would also work for DS mode on 3DS, I dunno). Nothing of huge potential I reckon, but still pretty neat.


QUOTE(NintendyFan @ Jun 21 2011, 06:38 PM)

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

On a few of them it looks like its mostly that the pins are messed up. I dunno for sure, but maybe just desoldering the chips from those cards and soldering them onto working game cards would do the job?

Well, I was talking that there are more than what we have here, and that there are more debug and testing cards.

And, if you're willing to, I have a 3DS we can try using them on. See if they yield any results.

Oh, I tried the one cart on the 3DS. It just errors out before it does anything. My system also took a while to boot back up after that. I was worried I had broken it.. :x

Odd. Hm. But, I'm wondering how much you'd offer for the duds.

And you said it took a bit for the 3DS to reboot? I wonder why it did that. And, if we can dump these working cards, what would they do on flashcards? I can dump them, but then many others besides me can as well.

if it took longer to boot noticeably then maybe it was leaving something to change firmware
3DS saw it, didnt think was useable to booted what it already had

 

[loco365]

if it took longer to boot noticeably then maybe it was leaving something to change firmware
3DS saw it, didnt think was useable to booted what it already had

Maybe, Quite possible. Maybe, also, seeing as the DSi errored out, it might be because the game is attempting to auto-boot and these newer systems (DSi and 3DS) no longer support auto-boot of any game.

 

[NintendyFan]

if it took longer to boot noticeably then maybe it was leaving something to change firmware
3DS saw it, didnt think was useable to booted what it already had

Maybe, Quite possible. Maybe, also, seeing as the DSi errored out, it might be because the game is attempting to auto-boot and these newer systems (DSi and 3DS) no longer support auto-boot of any game.

When placed in the DSi after start up it does show that there is a game inserted. It shows blank cart where one would normally show a picture from the game and the description is also blank.
After you click to start it up, it errors out and tells you to restart the system.

 

[loco365]

if it took longer to boot noticeably then maybe it was leaving something to change firmware
3DS saw it, didnt think was useable to booted what it already had

Maybe, Quite possible. Maybe, also, seeing as the DSi errored out, it might be because the game is attempting to auto-boot and these newer systems (DSi and 3DS) no longer support auto-boot of any game.

When placed in the DSi after start up it does show that there is a game inserted. It shows blank cart where one would normally show a picture from the game and the description is also blank.
After you click to start it up, it errors out and tells you to restart the system.

Well, I did see that, but I was referring to the point when you started the DSi with the cartridge already in the system. I am assuming this because when you had it in the DS Lite, it said to touch the screen, then automatically started the program. Kinda like Datel's ARDS.

 

[indask8]

Maybe, Quite possible. Maybe, also, seeing as the DSi errored out, it might be because the game is attempting to auto-boot and these newer systems (DSi and 3DS) no longer support auto-boot of any game.

I think it's the same with the DS download station cartridges, they don't work on DSi because they try to auto start...

 

[Pong20302000]

if it took longer to boot noticeably then maybe it was leaving something to change firmware
3DS saw it, didnt think was useable to booted what it already had

Maybe, Quite possible. Maybe, also, seeing as the DSi errored out, it might be because the game is attempting to auto-boot and these newer systems (DSi and 3DS) no longer support auto-boot of any game.

When placed in the DSi after start up it does show that there is a game inserted. It shows blank cart where one would normally show a picture from the game and the description is also blank.
After you click to start it up, it errors out and tells you to restart the system.

well clearly some data on the card

either its not all reaching the ram or its slightly corrupted

or maybe its looking for a hardware extension that is not present

 

[raulpica]

On another note, does anyone know someone with the skills to repair damaged carts? I would assume it would be much like repairing a computer chip of sorts ( RAM, MOBO, Etc..).

Let me know and maybe we can get more of these working.

Desoldering the flashrom and dumping it via a programmer should be enough... not sure of that though, never tinkered with DS gamecards.

That should be the fastest way, even if the PCB is partially cut-out, the important thing is that the central flashrom is intact.