Hacking The SuperCard DSTWO Beginner's Guide: How to Setup the DSTWO

[daddie05]

Thanks! I accidentally updated my 3ds and this tip saved me! can I just copy and paste my old games and saves?

 

[Terminator02]

Thanks! I accidentally updated my 3ds and this tip saved me! can I just copy and paste my old games and saves?

Yes.

 

[DJPlace]

hey i'm having trouble with this i'm putting firmware EOS and EOS Patch on the root of the SD Card. and it gives me a white screen when i start it up. is there anyway to fix this or is it bricked let me know.

 

[Dark]

NVM

 

[OuahOuah]

Noob question : I enabled "autorun" in "start menu" en eos and now it always launch moonshell on start !
How can I disable this to launch game now ?
By the way, an unofficial update is available on sc forum for 4.4 Nintendo update

 

[Terminator02]

Noob question : I enabled "autorun" in "start menu" en eos and now it always launch moonshell on start !
How can I disable this to launch game now ?
By the way, an unofficial update is available on sc forum for 4.4 Nintendo update

I'd imagine launched the in-game menu and pressing the X should get you back into DSGAME where you can change the setting.

 

[ErynnePattz]

I'm looking at getting a DSTwo to replace my current setup (A EzVi and a G6lite).

My question is this: What format are the gba saves? Are they .sav files?

And to clarify: This card is one of the few (if only) slot 1 carts that does GBA and SNES emulation without a slot 2 expansion pack, correct? I had heard this and it is another reason why I am seriously considering this card.

Thanks, and awesome guide, BTW.

 

[Terminator02]

Yes, they are .sav

Correct.

 

[ErynnePattz]

Awesome. Ordering this now. Thanks for the help Terminator!

One more thing: Will the pokemon gba roms clock function work on it's own or does it need patching? (Is that what the game_config.txt file listed in the guide is for?)

 

[OuahOuah]

I found another way : I modified ini file for settings changing "lastrun" to "0"

 

[Terminator02]

Awesome. Ordering this now. Thanks for the help Terminator!

One more thing: Will the pokemon gba roms clock function work on it's own or does it need patching? (Is that what the game_config.txt file listed in the guide is for?)

IIRC having game_config.txt makes the clock work properly.

 

[ErynnePattz]

Thanks Terminator. Ordered My DSTwo last night. Hoping RealHotStuff ships it soon.

 

[Dark]

Is it better to run a game on clean or patched?

 

[Terminator02]

Is it better to run a game on clean or patched?

If you run it clean you won't be able to access the real time menu. You should only really need to use clean mode if there is a problem playing a game in patch mode.

Edit: updated guide for firmware 1.18

 

[Bluewoods]

Alright, here's a question. I did update to 4.4.0-10 a couple days ago-- I wasn't even thinking of getting a Flash cart back then. I decided to order a DSTWO roughly a day or two later. It should be coming by mail by the end of the week.

According to what I read so far, although there is an update patch for the DSTWO OS that will make it support 3DS 4.4.0-10, the currently released OS would not even be able to run on an updated 3DS, let alone run the patch upon itself. So, if I'm not mistaken, I'm stuck finding a console that doesn't have that blocking feature on it just to run the update patch. I don't own any.

So... I presume DSTWO will release an up-to-date OS eventually, but they're not even like... talking about doing that or anything. So why doesn't anybody with a fully updated DSTWO 1.18 OS go ahead and upload the 1.18 OS files from their own SD card for others to put on their SD cards as-is? Does it work that way? Could a good samaritarian test it?

 

[Terminator02]

So... I presume DSTWO will release an up-to-date OS eventually, but they're not even like... talking about doing that or anything. So why doesn't anybody with a fully updated DSTWO 1.18 OS go ahead and upload the 1.18 OS files from their own SD card for others to put on their SD cards as-is? Does it work that way? Could a good samaritarian test it?

You're mixing up the EOS and the firmware

Q: What is the difference between the Kernel/OS (EOS) and the Firmware?
A: There are two things you need to keep in mind here: Internal firmware and kernel/OS. The internal firmware is the internal software of your SuperCard itself, stored *only* in your SuperCard. Whereas EOS is the kernel/OS, the software that your SuperCard runs from the microSD.

Think of your microSD as the harddisk. You put Windows (the OS) on your harddisk on your computer, and when your computer turns on it runs Windows. And from Windows it runs the rest of your programs, like games. If the microSD is your harddisk, and the EOS is your Windows, then the Firmware is the stuff your computer runs before it loads Windows.

If you've never seen it before restart your computer right now, and look at what it does after it turns itself on again. It will always load something before Windows. And that "something" is in the internal 'memory' of your computer, just like your Firmware is in the internal memory of your SuperCard.

The firmware has to be installed onto the memory inside the DSTWO itself, you can probably get a reseller to update your DSTWO to 1.18 before shipping it to you.

 

[Bluewoods]

The firmware has to be installed onto the memory inside the DSTWO itself, you can probably get a reseller to update your DSTWO to 1.18 before shipping it to you.

I'm pretty sure it's already been shipped out, though. I suppose I could use a friend's console. Do we know if a DS-Lite can set-up a DSTWO? Or a DS-i with a relatively old firmware?

 

[Terminator02]

The firmware has to be installed onto the memory inside the DSTWO itself, you can probably get a reseller to update your DSTWO to 1.18 before shipping it to you.

I'm pretty sure it's already been shipped out, though. I suppose I could use a friend's console. Do we know if a DS-Lite can set-up a DSTWO? Or a DS-i with a relatively old firmware?

Any DS/lite/i/XL can do it as long as you have the latest EOS on the Micro SD card.

 

[Bluewoods]

Any DS/lite/i/XL can do it as long as you have the latest EOS on the Micro SD card.

And, please bear with me, I'm not too familiar with these things and their vocabulary. Does the DSTWO come with a preinstalled EOS? If it does, I have no way of telling if the one I ordered has the last one installed. Now, to have the latest EOS, I would download the v1.11 EOS and unpack "ds2boot.dat" as well as the "_dstwo" folder in the root of my SD card, or does it require additional steps? Do I need to run it once to set up the EOS before running it with the update package or something?

 

[Deleted-236924]

Awesome. Ordering this now. Thanks for the help Terminator!

One more thing: Will the pokemon gba roms clock function work on it's own or does it need patching? (Is that what the game_config.txt file listed in the guide is for?)

IIRC having game_config.txt makes the clock work properly.

From my experience, the game wouldn't even boot without game_config.txt