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DS Flash Equipment > Flashing the NDS firmware with wifime

#60697 - busser - Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:33 pm

has anyone in here did the firmware upgrade with the wifime way i can load demos that way but not the flashme.nds file to do the firmware doesn't make sence plz plz if anyone can help i have been working on it for 3 hrs now someone in here should know or beable to helpplz and thank you, the files i got are the ones i think

BUSSER

#60703 - tepples - Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:53 pm

Do you have a GBA flash cart or a GBA Movie Player?
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#60706 - busser - Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:16 am

a gba flash cart it is flash 2 advance 256 pro and i use faw31.exe to write to it
the i get to it saying it is downloading and then the nintedo logo that comes up is all scramble up and then it does nothing

#60707 - tepples - Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:30 am

You can't do wmb -data flashme.nds unless you're updating an already flashed Nintendo DS. You have to load it on the cart and then do wmb -data wifime
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#60809 - RedRobot - Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:40 am

tepples wrote:
You can't do wmb -data flashme.nds unless you're updating an already flashed Nintendo DS. You have to load it on the cart and then do wmb -data wifime


What do you do if you are just updating your firmware, say for mario kart? Get the new flashme.nds, use wifime to send to nds while connecting the contact in the back?

#60819 - The 9th Sage - Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:10 am

RedRobot wrote:

What do you do if you are just updating your firmware, say for mario kart? Get the new flashme.nds, use wifime to send to nds while connecting the contact in the back?


If you're just updating an already flashed firmware, you can download FlashMe via Download Play, then press the button combination it says on the screen. You don't need to start shorting SL1 until FlashMe is loaded and starting to flash.

In most cases though, you probably won't need to short SL1 when just updating FlashMe on a previously flashed DS, it'll just flash automatically when you get it started. The Mario Kart update is a special case.
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