#57902 - hanman - Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:12 am
hi, this is my first post, and as you have guessed, i have a question. I have an NDS, and a wifi card that works with wifime. i have successfully loaded the polarium demo with wifime. however, when i try to load flashme.nds on my NDS, all i get is white screens with what i think should be a nintendo logo, but the word nintendo is all scrambled and only the border around it is recognizable. then, it fades out slightly and locks up. am i doing something wrong?
#57903 - Sektor - Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:17 am
You need to put flashme on a GBA flash cart and start it with wmb -data WifiMe
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#57904 - hanman - Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:17 am
i can't do it without a flashcard of some type?
#57907 - tepples - Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:23 am
If you already have a digital camera that uses CompactFlash memory, try a GBA Movie Player.
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#57911 - hanman - Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:11 am
well, i had already planned on getting an M3...can anyone explain why i can't do it? just curious about the way this thing works. i don't get why i can run demos and such, but not flashme.
#57913 - tepples - Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:20 am
Official WMB demos have been digitally signed by Nintendo using RSA public-key cryptography. Nintendo's public key is in every DS, but the private key is presumably locked in a vault in Japan. In order to run homebrew through DS Download Play, you need to disable the firmware's signature verification using FlashMe. The only way you can get FlashMe onto a DS without using something in the GBA slot is through a variant of darkfader's UnBrickMe (ppflash) technique, which involves soldering.
Besides, you're not using "WiFiMe" to run demos; you're using WMB. WMB is an abbreviation for "wireless multiboot", which is said to be an internal name for DS Download Play. WiFiMe is a small DS Download Play program whose header's ARM7 run address has been changed to point at GBA ROM space, which is the same modification performed by the PassMe adapter on the header of a DS game.
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#57915 - hanman - Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:30 am
i see...i was thinking WMB and WiFiMe were one in the same. it all makes sense now. well then, i guess i'll have to get to ordering that M3.
btw, thank ya'll for answering so quickly...i really expected it to take a few days.
#57957 - DiscoBoy - Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:48 pm
But doesn't the DS need to be flashme'd in the first place to boot from the GBAMP?
Or can you flash the DS with just WiFiMe and a flashed GBAMP v2?
#57963 - MaHe - Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:37 pm
WiFiMe can be done if a FlashCart is inserted. It's somekind of a limited virtual PassME/FlashME.
#57967 - pepsiman - Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:44 pm
| DiscoBoy wrote: |
But doesn't the DS need to be flashme'd in the first place to boot from the GBAMP?
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No, passme or wifime will work.
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Or can you flash the DS with just WiFiMe and a flashed GBAMP v2? |
Yes.
#58034 - DiscoBoy - Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:35 am
| pepsiman wrote: |
| DiscoBoy wrote: | But doesn't the DS need to be flashme'd in the first place to boot from the GBAMP?
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No, passme or wifime will work.
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Or can you flash the DS with just WiFiMe and a flashed GBAMP v2? |
Yes. |
Thanks for the reply pepsiman. I'll try again then. Couldn't make it work at all, but I guess I didn't try hard enough.
Oh and thanks for all the work on linux-ds so far.