This is the thread Another World was refering to
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=206800&hl= The thread I got lynched in by certain people lol.
Being fair in that thread I did warn people these Actel clones probably wouldn't work with AKAIO 1.6, which is why I kicked up such a fuss. At the time we were still using 1.5.1.
being that i don't own any of the 2is....
the actel design was hwid 44. then they took out the window in the shell and glued it shut, and give it a new hwid of 81. then they changed the chip to the SST chip but the hwid is still 81?
is that correct?
i have not heard anything about a hwid 80 ak2i. it is hard to get responses that make sense from the official team. specific questions are usually answered with a generic response. i guess they know by now that i like to start shit, lol.
tk_saturn: first they say they are real and they don't want to be accused of selling fakes. then in response to you they say they might not be real but their seller says they are. LOL
what the hell!
-another world
From what I gather the Ak2i's have always had the SST chips, both the 44's and the 81's. 81's have the new 'blob' chip and no window. Some of the 2i's have SST chips, some don't. There must be a reason they only use SST chips on the 2i's and I would assume it's to do with being able to update the firmware.
The new 2.1's 0SZ have are are identical to the bad batch apart from having the SST chip like they used to, so they could be from the from a working previous batch (like you suggested) or from a fresh production run. The only difference is the flash chip and Acekard does say they use the SST chip for some AK2.1 batches, but also other chips too. So 0SZ could still have a Acekards from a fresh batch, and Acekard may still use the Spansion chip on other batches.
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AK2 and AK2i both use the chip of “SST” and it’s 48 pins. Some batches of AK2 used other banners of 48 pins chips.
The HW80 RSH refered to are the actel clones which don't run AKAIO 1.6 on a DSi. Some of them don't even work on a DSi at all, nor will they run the firmware update. I believe the reason they work on a DS Lite is because the their HWID 80. I believe AKAIO thinks they Acekard 2.1's and so allows them to run on a DSL, but if they are running on a DSi AKAIO knows they are clones because an Acekard 2.1 won't run on a DSi. The clone makers made a poor choice, if they label these carts as Acekard 2.1's instead of the Acekard 2i, they would have got away with it for some time.
I can't find the references now, but when I was doing posts in that thread I remember finding references that did actually back up some of what RHS said. From what I gather Acekard switched back to '44' Actel's for a very short period when the 1.4 was first released. I've no idea where I found the references. Normmatt should know if that's acutally true or not.
Problem is RHS was saying that that the 80 card were based on this '44' design which was the first to run the 1.4 firmware. They also said everyone else was selling them. Problem we know that is BS, the '80' clones are clones of the Acekard 2.1 and not the Acekard 2i. Because they are clones of the Acekard 2.1 they won't run the firmware update (no SST chip) and they also display Acekard 2 and not Acekard 2i when inserted into a DS Lite. I imagine the Danny phantom is applied to the flash chips before they were soldered into the PCB. The PCB design, shape, layout are different from Acekard 2i's. To me they look more like a R4 PCB, the case was also very different internally.
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