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DS Flash Equipment > Dumping DS v5 firmware

#70802 - Burkey - Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:17 pm

Hi guys, I got my girlfriend a DS today (pink with Nintendogs) and it appears to be a v5, ie. turns magenta on firmware check like so:

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I read in one of the other posts that it would be a help if someone could dump this firmware and send it to Loopy. I have a supercard sd and superpass2 and a fairly good technical knowledge. I've been reading about and since its an SD it looks like I have to use the dump to SRAM program. My question is how do I get the firmware from my SRAM on to my computer?

Thanks.

#70812 - pepsiman - Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:04 pm

Burkey wrote:

I read in one of the other posts that it would be a help if someone could dump this firmware and send it to Loopy. I have a supercard sd and superpass2 and a fairly good technical knowledge. I've been reading about and since its an SD it looks like I have to use the dump to SRAM program. My question is how do I get the firmware from my SRAM on to my computer?

Supercards don't have battery backup for SRAM, so you're out of luck.

#70813 - Burkey - Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:09 pm

Damn. No way to dump it then?

Do you think I should just go for it and flash it? Flashme said unrecognised firmware and I won't be able to revert back.

#70814 - m2pt5 - Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:12 pm

pepsiman wrote:
Supercards don't have battery backup for SRAM, so you're out of luck.

Not so, you just have to make several blank sav files on the SD card, dump the first part to SRAM, quickly power cycle the DS, and use the SC menu to write the SRAM to the sav file. Repeat for as many blocks as it takes, and concatenate the .sav files to produce the dump.

Edit: Press right on the SC menu to access the saves, and select the sav file to write to.
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#70816 - Burkey - Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:16 pm

It won't write to SRAM on the new DS, it works on my own one though :( Damn it. Strange that.

#70826 - m2pt5 - Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:29 am

In retrospect, that method wouldn't work - to boot with a pass-2 you need to rewrite the GBA SRAM every time you boot, which would prevent you from using it for saving the firmware.

Hmm... I wonder if the other dumper could be rewritten for direct SD access. (I wouldn't know how, but I know there are SD FAT drivers out there.)
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#70892 - Burkey - Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:05 am

I tried it with natriums help but with no joy. So I just decided to flash it anyway and it worked. So from here, v5 is flashable, other than flashme giving an "unrecognised firmware" message. I'll leave the firmware dump to someone with better equipment than me.

#71038 - tepples - Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:41 am

m2pt5 wrote:
In retrospect, that method wouldn't work - to boot with a pass-2 you need to rewrite the GBA SRAM every time you boot, which would prevent you from using it for saving the firmware.

Unless you dump a section of the firmware and then save it to a file from GBA mode.
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