Hacking You know what the DSi really needs? Custom Firmware

[highanimalhouse]

I was actually just going to make a topic on the homebrew scene for the DSi...Ah well.

I think a good thing to be able to do is obviously be able to make custom firmware, but also install something along the lines of The Homebrew App or something. This could then, of course, use the SD slot. It would be just like the Wii has been used. I have no idea if this is possible because I know nothing when it comes to coding and the like. Honestly. But then we could boot games from the SD card (mainly for people who don't have flashcarts), and let normal DS games able to use WPA, not just WEP.

Just a thought.

I would love to see this too, but it'll be virtually like finding a needle in a haystick at this point. Still, it would make custom firmware easier to do and implement.

Do you realize how many Nintendo DS games there are and that's just the US alone??

At this point, I think we are more likely to see the Nintendo DS emulators have DSi support (i.e. the DSiWare games work on emulators).

 

[Advi]

Now this is purely speculation, but I get the feeling that the SD slot wil be the answer.

Because all sorts of media files will be going in and out, it might be easier to use that port to upload the FW. Kind of like the PSP's Pandora Battery (tho I highly doubt it will be hacked like that.)

OR New product: teh PassMi. Slot 1 passby, upload roms via the SD.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Lol yah the PassMi would essentially be the pandora battery of the DSi if it ever comes out.

But anyways I totally agree with the SD Card Slot being the answer. And it would help even more if Nintendo released an update allowing you to store saves on your SD card (see what I'm getting at?).

But after the Wii...I'd doubt Nintendo would do that.

 

[Link5084]

Lol yah the PassMi would essentially be the pandora battery of the DSi if it ever comes out.

But anyways I totally agree with the SD Card Slot being the answer. And it would help even more if Nintendo released an update allowing you to store saves on your SD card (see what I'm getting at?).

But after the Wii...I'd doubt Nintendo would do that.

Great idea, an PassMii like function can work well

 

[Kingfield]

I do think that eventually, we will have essentially the same setup as the psp, with games running off memory stick, or at LEAST a fully working unblockable flashcart.

However it might take ages, PSP custom firmware took a VERY long time... even though their first firmware was able to run unsigned code.

I'm just gonna wait for a few new flashcarts to come out and news on whether they will be blockable through firmware updates.

 

[Deleted-172301]

This wont help the fact thats its going to be easy but doesn't the Ipod touch jailbreak by downloading the file off that certain site which I dont think I can post. Is it possible to do that for the DSI? Even if we do manage to make a custom firmware.

I had a 1st gen iPhone and thats not exactly how jailbreaking started. . .

It started as "damn it, we need more things to do on the iPhone" so people hacked into it and found a way to make read and write access to the iPhone, they made it a bit simpler, but it was a long list of things to do. . .so people started making scripts that automated the process, it was in dos at first. People started finding more and more exploits that can unlock the phone change the imei # and a bunch of other stuff. So came to the final evolution of a .exe program that you see to day. Nice and easy buttons you click that can do everything that you could if you did a long series of steps that weren't for the light heated. Now people think they are "hacking" the iPhone themselves, by just click buttons. . . with out understanding the process that goes on.
(I came on to the iPhone scene a bit before the released the way's to JB.)

I also had a PSP, when it first came out actually, in 2005! I know that story was well lol, but long story short:
Sony makes cool device, has too many limitations on what to do, developers find exploit in FW, then make homebrew and battle Sony, then like around the beginning of 2007 Dark_Alex makes a custom FW that you boot off the 1.5 FW and from there he updated to combat Sony's efforts and add more features.

 

[klopfdreh]

I don't know a lot of exploit stuff, but I think if Nintendo is using the DSIWare well and create a lot of programs, that I would use on the dsi (irc client, pdf reader, video watcher, etc.) than for me there is no need for a custom flashcard anymore.

I think that I would never hack the firmware on ds because if there are any trouble while the update process, the system will be broken.

But I think there must be a way to somehow hide the flashcard as a normal game like zelda or something like that. In addition the flashcard has to be completely configurable to change even the chip-id so if nintendo find out the id and block it, the flashcard teams can change it.

Well but thats only a consideration...

All in all I'm very happy with my new dsi!