Hacking The M3 Quad-Boot

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A Gay Little Cat Boy said:
Touchpod has updated, I will be uploading a new Quad-Boot when I get home from school, which should be a few minutes
Thanks for that, unfortunately Sakura doesn't boot for me anymore (no, not the checkdisk freeze), it simply freezes directly at the beginning with the pink splash screen.
 

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Tormentor667 said:
A Gay Little Cat Boy said:
Touchpod has updated, I will be uploading a new Quad-Boot when I get home from school, which should be a few minutes
Thanks for that, unfortunately Sakura doesn't boot for me anymore (no, not the checkdisk freeze), it simply freezes directly at the beginning with the pink splash screen.
Did you try backing up your card and formatting it with this?
http://filetrip.net/f10976-SDFormatter-Version-3-0BETA.html

News!
gaboros is making a replacement loader for me to dual-boot Sakura and Wood. Right now it loads into Wood, but the games aren't working, yet. So the next Quad-Boot update will be up soon, once that error is figured out.
I am uploading the latest Sakura right now.
 

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Nice work!
I have another question: Is there any shortcut on booting to load an specific FW?
Like, on start, hold X to boot r4? Something like that? That would be better than replacing the touchpod on the default loader, in my opinion.
I'm sorry for asking those things, but that's actually all I can do... for now (soon I'll enter college, then I'll start digging onto programming).
 

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tkg21 said:
Nice work!
I have another question: Is there any shortcut on booting to load an specific FW?
Like, on start, hold X to boot r4? Something like that? That would be better than replacing the touchpod on the default loader, in my opinion.
I'm sorry for asking those things, but that's actually all I can do... for now (soon I'll enter college, then I'll start digging onto programming).
There is no way to do that anymore since the M3 Team locked that out with the latest versions. So the only option is to either remove Touchpod or replace it.
And gaboros is replacing it, which was the original plan
 

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I have updated The M3 Quad-Boot. It is now The M3 Quad-Boot 3.0.
It will now auto-boot directly into Sakura instead of booting into the boot loader. I have removed all Touchpod's loading files. So yes you can load into Touchpod if you really want to, but it won't boot any games since I don't want it to anymore. You can re-add the Touchpod files if you want, but I will not add them to any future releases of The Quad-Boot and do plan on removing or replacing the boot loader when either gaboros or anyone can figure out how to remove it or modify it properly.
I am including the latest touchpod in the Temp Sakura if you interested in that.
I added the M3 Wood created by gaboros. I did set up the sav extension option so now it does work with .sav by default .
This is the one year gift I was planning on doing, but wasn't able to do at the time, so it's the late one year gift to everyone!
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great post, great effort!

what you should add though, is a README. Something to get new users started. What do i do once i download the files? Do i copy it onto the SD? Then what? How do i switch FW's?
Like for example, holding down the A button only lets me choose Sakura and TP, how do i boot into other Firmwares? How do i access RTS features using the different firmwares? What are the hotkeys?

Of course i know all these things, but i had to figure it out myself. A short and sweet section, call it "QUICK START GUIDE" maybe, and this thread becomes even more awesome. I still don't know how to access RTS in the R4iRTS fw.
 

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it reads Z003 in a small square box in the top right corner of the Sticker. If there is no mentioning of 003 then you got the normal M3i Zero
 

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Waflix said:
A Gay Little Cat Boy said:
This does not work on M3i Zero gmp z003!

How should I know if I have that one?
I was about to post a picture before you asked
photofail.jpg
 

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tkg21 said:
Nice work!
I have another question: Is there any shortcut on booting to load an specific FW?
Like, on start, hold X to boot r4? Something like that? That would be better than replacing the touchpod on the default loader, in my opinion.
I'm sorry for asking those things, but that's actually all I can do... for now (soon I'll enter college, then I'll start digging onto programming).
hold x or hold y to boot a specific fw is only possible with iSakuReal,
actually iSakuReal could be called the Only True Quad Boot (defaultn=fw1, x=fw2, y=fw3, b= fw4 Sakura 1.12+)
but, people don't like iSakuReal anymore because it doesn't have the RTS function (which is a worthless function, IMAO, and a waste of 4mb on the microsd for each game that enables RTS)
 

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rave420 said:
great post, great effort!

what you should add though, is a README. Something to get new users started. What do i do once i download the files? Do i copy it onto the SD? Then what? How do i switch FW's?
Like for example, holding down the A button only lets me choose Sakura and TP, how do i boot into other Firmwares? How do i access RTS features using the different firmwares? What are the hotkeys?

Of course i know all these things, but i had to figure it out myself. A short and sweet section, call it "QUICK START GUIDE" maybe, and this thread becomes even more awesome. I still don't know how to access RTS in the R4iRTS fw.
I had that in the original version, but after several updates, I never got around to updating it. I was planning on making it.
After that I made it part of the post, but then took it out. I will add it back later as part of the main post.
 

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Waflix said:
A Gay Little Catboy said:
Waflix said:
A Gay Little Cat Boy said:
This does not work on M3i Zero gmp z003!

How should I know if I have that one?
I was about to post a picture before you asked
photofail.jpg

Mine doesn't say anything in that corner. I hope I may suggest I don't have a M3i Zero gmp z003?
If it doesn't say anything in that corner, then it is just a regular M3o Zero and will work with this firmware
 

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just updated the firmware on my M3i Zero and updated the System folder after formatting my Micro-SD first.
And now my pokemon platinum cheats don't work anymore.

Does anyone have a clue why this could be happening?

I selected the same cheats.

running on the newes F_Core and the newest Sakura.
 

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Puzzle84 said:
just updated the firmware on my M3i Zero and updated the System folder after formatting my Micro-SD first.
And now my pokemon platinum cheats don't work anymore.

Does anyone have a clue why this could be happening?

I selected the same cheats.

running on the newes F_Core and the newest Sakura.
it seems like AR Pointer code types has been broken in this release, so no Pointer codes will work

update: Seems like the cheat function itself is broken, no cheats will work on any game
 

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so, out of thousands on M3Real/M3i Zero users, no one cares to test the cheat function on M3Sakura 1.49 3rd Edition to see if it's completely broken or not??????
 

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dsrules said:
so, out of thousands on M3Real/M3i Zero users, no one cares to test the cheat function on M3Sakura 1.49 3rd Edition to see if it's completely broken or not??????
My M3 hardly even works anymore
 
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