#43457 - hoagie - Mon May 23, 2005 7:30 pm
I'm worried that when Nintendo releases the DS online games that flashed firmware will not run the online games...It is just as easy to unflash if we need to?
#43461 - assassda - Mon May 23, 2005 8:07 pm
from what i understand the is a program that can be run the same way the patch was to restore your firmware
#43462 - cocole - Mon May 23, 2005 8:16 pm
If you are concerned about online, you still can flash back to the original state. Anyway, I would be more concerned if Big N realeses a game that patches the firmware.
#43463 - hoagie - Mon May 23, 2005 8:17 pm
Is that possible without shorting teh SL1?
#43464 - Lynx - Mon May 23, 2005 8:24 pm
Yes and no. SL1 is only needed to be shorted for the first xx bits of firmware. The rest can be flashed without SL1 being shorted. It just happens that the firmware patch that Loopy made needed to touch the first xx bits of the firmware.
So, N could release a game that updates the firmware. I'd hope they would give you the choice to update, and not just do it.
Loopy. What would the outcome be if N decided to update our firmware without asking. I'm guessing your patch would be calling a part of the firmware that no longer exists?
#43472 - josath - Mon May 23, 2005 10:03 pm
if nintendo updates our firmware without asking, they cant touch the protected parts unless SL1 is shorted (which it wont be if they dont ask). Therefore, even if it corrupts the firmware or breaks it, the recovery code will still be there in the protected region so you can recover it, then uninstall the flashme patch, then re run the nintendo upgrade if you want.
#43489 - olimar - Tue May 24, 2005 1:05 am
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#43508 - MumblyJoe - Tue May 24, 2005 2:03 am
I wouldn't worry anyway, if Nintendo releases a game that flashes the firmware without asking, and it doesn't do a crc or anything first, and just replaces part of it, and this causes the DS to stop working, you will hear about 5000 people crying no matter where you are.
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#43545 - privateers69 - Tue May 24, 2005 12:56 pm
Then Ninty will say its your fault for modding/changing the DS's bios
#43578 - caitsith2 - Tue May 24, 2005 9:11 pm
| privateers69 wrote: |
| Then Ninty will say its your fault for modding/changing the DS's bios |
Yeah, because they might likely do some tweaking, to make sure whatever they change, is one, entirely outside of the non-writable area, and two, causes the crc16 inside of the non-writable area to match. (This can be brute forced, as if it does not match, just tweak 2-3 bytes, close together, till it does.)
However, this is not likely to happen. They reserved firmware updates for new ds systems, and one for when one possibly gets their ds system repaired, (and they do repair it.)