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DS Flash Equipment > Unsigned code with WMB!

#41575 - josath - Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:47 pm

FireFly's done it again!
http://users.belgacom.net/bn967347/

He uploaded darkstar over wifi, with no gba flash cart!

The trick was, to modify the firmware to not check for the encrypted signature, so unfortunately, you still need a gba flash cart to flash modified firmware. But still, pretty neat. Check out the video!

#41579 - tepples - Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:17 pm

Why does this smell exactly like an Xbox soft-mod-to-TSOP hack? :-)
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#41581 - Kyoufu Kawa - Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:27 pm

tepples wrote:
Why does this smell exactly like an Xbox soft-mod-to-TSOP hack? :-)
...a -what-?

#41584 - tepples - Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:57 pm

http://www.xbox-linux.org/Hardware_Method_HOWTO
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#41614 - MumblyJoe - Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:37 am

It's pretty impressive, looks like he has made a couple of tasty modifications to the firmware. Looking forward to more information on this.
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#41616 - Dwedit - Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:03 am

Could the firmware be modified to be able to read unencryped DS cartridges?
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#41626 - headspin - Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:33 pm

So does this mean we have to perform the FlashMe operation again to flash the new firmware? And will we keep having to do this everytime a new update comes out? Is there a way to update the firmware through the "DS download play"? Finally, has firefly not actually release this new firmware update yet? I like how he's changed the text on the warning screen, maybe next firmware could remove it altogether?
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#41631 - Chetic - Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:01 pm

I'm s-s-scared!

Can these roms really be up to 4MB in size?