Homebrew [RELEASE] NTRLDR - DS firmware on the 3DS

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It's useful for those who still have oldschool flashcarts that force autoboot slot-1 on power-on. Normally you'd have to take the flashcart out to go to settings but with firmware.nds you can launch it from the flashcart. This app restores that functionality when also on a 3DS, making it stay a one-stop for DS mode config.
 

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It's useful for those who still have oldschool flashcarts that force autoboot slot-1 on power-on. Normally you'd have to take the flashcart out to go to settings but with firmware.nds you can launch it from the flashcart. This app restores that functionality when also on a 3DS, making it stay a one-stop for DS mode config.
I don't think that's the case.
As far as I know firmware.nds is incapable of detecting Slot-1 carts, though maybe I'm wrong.
 

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It's useful for those who still have oldschool flashcarts that force autoboot slot-1 on power-on. Normally you'd have to take the flashcart out to go to settings but with firmware.nds you can launch it from the flashcart. This app restores that functionality when also on a 3DS, making it stay a one-stop for DS mode config.
I don't think that's the case.
As far as I know firmware.nds is incapable of detecting Slot-1 carts, though maybe I'm wrong.
And you need a flashcard to launch it
So theoriticaly you would have a flashcard which can boot without it
 

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And you need a flashcard to launch it
So theoriticaly you would have a flashcard which can boot without it
You don't need a flashcart since the latest few versions, but it doesn't show any games/flashcarts in the menu, so it's really only good for Pictochat (which you can load through the DSi SRL anyway, though the NDS version is slightly different)
 

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I don't think that's the case.
As far as I know firmware.nds is incapable of detecting Slot-1 carts, though maybe I'm wrong.
1. Yes it is the case, because that's exactly how I'm using it. :P
2. You misunderstand or I didn't word it well. Yes firmware.nds can't detect slot-1 cards. But that's not what I use it for. I arbitrarily launch it from the DS flashcart for reconfiguring the date/time/profile/whatever if I need to, instead of removing the card from the DS.
 
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1. Yes it is the case, because that's exactly how I'm using it. :P
2. You misunderstand or I didn't word it well. Yes firmware.nds can't detect slot-1 cards. But that's not what I use it for. I arbitrarily launch it for reconfiguring the date/time/profile/whatever if I need to, instead of removing the card from the DS.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's a good use for it. I used it for that on my DS Lite.
 
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Wish I could fix the sound for the DS firmware on NTLDR running on DSiWarehax, like I did for games on nds-bootstrap running on DSiWarehax, but sadly, I haven't found the function that jumps to the GetPitchTable call, in order to patch it. :(
 
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I've always been curious about something: sometimes when launching a DS software on 3DS, the screen would glitch and a tiny bar at the bottom would duplicate the last few rows of pixels. With ntrldr, version 7 did this very consistently but version 9 doesn't seem to do it at all. What is that and how is it fixed?
 
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I've always been curious about something: sometimes when launching a DS software on 3DS, the screen would glitch and a tiny bar at the bottom would duplicate the last few rows of pixel. With ntrldr, version 7 did this very consistently but version 9 doesn't seem to do it at all. What is that and how is it fixed?
I have absolutely no idea, lol. It happened for me once.
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It was happening to me 3/4 of the time on v7, I haven't launched v9 that many times, maybe 6 times but it's not happened once. I've had it happen in legit games rarely too so I'm guessing it's Nintendo's fault.
 

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this means you can now use any dslite or nds flash card ona 3ds

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do you think it would be possible the emulate the gba slot.
It actually means neither of these things...
I don't know enough about how firmware.nds works to know how to make it work with game carts and I know for a fact it won't work for loading GBA games.
 

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do you think it would be possible the emulate the gba slot.
Emulating the GBA slot would be TWLoader-tier levels of work. It's not as easy as a redirect. When the DS firmware activates that, it sends a hardware signal to the GBA part of the DS Lite, which does not exist on the 3DS. You're better off with an emulator like mGBA. But on a DS/L it boots the GBA slot just fine.
 
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Emulating the GBA slot would be TWLoader-tier levels of work. It's not as easy as a redirect. When the DS firmware activates that, it sends a hardware signal to the GBA part of the DS Lite, which does not exist on the 3DS. You're better off with an emulator like mGBA. But on a DS/L it boots the GBA slot just fine.
well yeah no one has hacked agb firm so you can use cheats though
 

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