Hacking R4i-B9S flashcart: tested and impression

[aos10]

Flash godmode 9

huh? how to flash godmod9?
i have R4i-B9S card, already flashed with B9S.

 

[thisisallowed]

huh? how to flash godmod9?
i have R4i-B9S card, already flashed with B9S.

Use ntrboot_flasher to flash godmode9 on it.

 

[aos10]

Use ntrboot_flasher to flash godmode9 on it.

from godmod9 menu? or from ntrboot_flasher menu?

 

[Yandere-chan]

This is great. Thanks @pandavova and @Kitlith for your hard work on this! Got my r4i b9s unbricked and running the r4 kernel properly and I've got it loaded with DS games, SNES games, NES games, Genesis games, and I'm currently playing some classic GBA games on my DSi LL via gbaemu4ds

 

[pandavova]

ntrboot_flasher v0.3.1 is out. Has injection support and everything. Have fun. https://github.com/kitling/ntrboot_flasher/releases/tag/v0.3.1

Can i somehow help, that my (bricked) R4i-3DS (Imgur) get "dump support"?
It's a Winbond 25Q16BVSIG Chip, here is the Datasheet.

 

[AngelSL]

One gotcha here is that (at least for me) there are only 7 chunks restored, and when restored to/as R4i B9S ntrboot the cart is not registering as inserted if your device is booted "normally", but loads up as it should using sleep/magnet.

ntrboot_flasher only writes the chunks that actually need to be written, so you may not see the full 32 chunks written. It's fine.

Also, yes, when the cart is serving ntrboot, the Home Menu won't show any cart inserted.

Can i somehow help, that my (bricked) R4i-3DS (Imgur) get "dump support"?
It's a Winbond 25Q16BVSIG Chip, here is the Datasheet.

I guess you've tried the current dumper for R4isdhc family carts already?

Can you try it with loglevel debug and post the log?

 

[Phoenix333]

I am working on a new flasher nds that can run on r4i(-)sdhc.com cards
It will allow you to install b9s

Thanks so much dude, you, Kitlith, and the other devs are awesome!

 

[thisisallowed]

Thanks so much dude, you, Kitlith, and the other devs are awesome!

My knowlage of programing is not very good, so for some reason it doesn't detect my R4i Gold that I test on.
If anyone wants to help, source is C++ and up on GitHub. Newest fork of ak2i_ntrcardhax_flasher.

 

[aos10]

This is great. Thanks @pandavova and @Kitlith for your hard work on this! Got my r4i b9s unbricked and running the r4 kernel properly and I've got it loaded with DS games, SNES games, NES games, Genesis games, and I'm currently playing some classic GBA games on my DSi LL via gbaemu4ds

Hi, i managed to restore the DS on that card, it's now showing "touch! Bomberman land" game
I installed the ds file system on it, but when i launch a game, it freezes.

 

[pandavova]

I guess you've tried the current dumper for R4isdhc family carts already?
Can you try it with loglevel debug and post the log?

Yeah i tried. Only FF with your ntrboot_flasher.

I tried with it with the new 0.3.1, there is the card (of course) unsupported, different chips.
Here the Log i got from the 0.3.1 flahser:

Spoiler: ntrboot.log

[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 99 01 04 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xA7180000
[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xA7180000
[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 99 01 04 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xA7180000
[DEBUG]: ** Card reset **
[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 9F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xAD180000
[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xAF180000
[DEBUG]: Read chipid = FFFFFFFF
[DEBUG]: Sending cmd: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[DEBUG]: ROMCNT = 0xAC180000
[DEBUG]: Read header; state = { game_code = 0xFFFFFFFF, hdr_key1_romcnt = 0xFFFFFFFF, hdr_key2_romcnt = 0xFFFFFFFF, key2_seed = 0xFF }

 

[Yandere-chan]

Hi, i managed to restore the DS on that card, it's now showing "touch! Bomberman land" game
I installed the ds file system on it, but when i launch a game, it freezes.

Bad dump. I've only had one game do that, and it's a bad rom.

 

[aos10]

Bad dump. I've only had one game do that, and it's a bad rom.

oh, thanks, i just tried another dump and it worked.
i hate that it's very hard to insert the card just like my supercard DS2, my blue gateway card is very easy to inserted to the system.

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another question about this DS menu in this card, how to quit a game or open a menu just like DS2?

 

[pandavova]

another question about this DS menu in this card, how to quit a game or open a menu just like DS2?

x + y + b + a + L + R

BTW: press b in the game selection to get to the ROM tab. there you can turn RTS on.

 

[aos10]

left + right + up + down + x + y + b + a + L + R

BTW: press b in the game selection to get to the ROM tab. there you can turn RTS on.

thanks, what is RTS on?
is there an option to open the menu without exiting the game? to disable cheats or make save stats?

 

[RustInPeace]

Thread is tl:dr, I needed an excuse to make this GIF, so I guess to the people who made this cash-grab...

And this is more potent coming off the newest NTRboot flasher release adding more support to carts that are significantly cheaper than this (R4iSDHC and R4i-SDHC).

 

[pandavova]

thanks, what is RTS on?
is there an option to open the menu without exiting the game? to disable cheats or make save stats?

RTS = Real Time Saves.
You can turn off "SoftReset" and then use prob. this feature.
(Will confirm in some min.)

 

[aos10]

RTS = Real Time Saves.
You can turn off "SoftReset" and then use prob. this feature.

after enabling RTS, i can't load the game any more.

 

[pandavova]

after enabling RTS, i can't load the game any more.

Hmm.. As i said, i will try stuff shortly.
Formating my sd right now with the recommended tool. (Formatter 3.1.zip)

 

[zoogie]

Ok, so r4isdhc.com is supported now.

3 cards show up under this category on nds-card.com
Which ones should be supported? Or more accurately, has anyone tested these cards yet with the new update?
http://www.nds-card.com/ProShow.asp?ProID=507
http://www.nds-card.com/ProShow.asp?ProID=490
http://www.nds-card.com/ProShow.asp?ProID=450

 

[Kitlith]

Thread is tl:dr, I needed an excuse to make this GIF, so I guess to the people who made this cash-grab...

[removed gif from quote]

And this is more potent coming off the newest NTRboot flasher release adding more support to carts that are significantly cheaper than this (R4iSDHC and R4i-SDHC).

I would like to note that their flasher release is what made it possible to support it in ntrboot_flasher, so...