#80502 - thundrestrike - Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:34 pm
my friend doesn't know whether its greyish-blue (ver3)
or dark blue (ver6)
is there a way to check firmware with the barcode?
or do you think since he got his ds about 5 months ago (estimate; maybe more but probly not less) that its ver3?
also, does a passme 1 (which i have) work with ver3 firmware (if he has it)? im gonna flash it for him using my passme so he doesnt have to buy one himself.
please reply soon, i need to let him know, thanks :)
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#80503 - thundrestrike - Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:38 pm
wait, i just remembered, sorry guys...
i remember letting him use my passme and my gbamp to play that hockey-e3-demo game awhile back. so i assume he has ver3
yay for memory regain-ing!
i'll call him up and tell him :)
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#80511 - tepples - Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:37 am
We're going to need somebody with a digital camera and a DS with each firmware version to take a picture, using the same camera, of what each color looks like so that people can learn to distinguish v2 blue from v6 blue.
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#80538 - Nushio - Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:19 am
| tepples wrote: |
| We're going to need somebody with a digital camera and a DS with each firmware version to take a picture, using the same camera, of what each color looks like so that people can learn to distinguish v2 blue from v6 blue. |
Can we force the DS to "unflash" into v2 and v6 respectively?
I'd do it, but I only have a PassMe v1, so I wouldnt be able to go back to v6 :(, but perhaps someone else might do the job? :D
#80542 - caitsith2 - Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:57 am
IIRC, loopy added that feature into noflashme.nds, such that if the firmware version is not known, it defaults to version 3. If the firmware version CRC is known though, it will default back to that version. Pushing a certain button will allow you to change which firmware version is installed. It would not however be a good idea to install anything greater than version 3, if you only have a passme 1. Also, IIRC, version 6 is what DS lite has. Unless the latest version of flashme identified your DS as a DS lite, (via PM register 4, bit 6 == 1), it would not be a good idea to install version 6 onto it.
#80569 - olimar - Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:18 pm
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#80572 - thundrestrike - Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:22 pm
i was at the movies with my freind yesterday, and after the movie i tested to see if my passme1 works with his ds, and alas! it did!
i was gonna flash it, but i left the screwdriver at home :(
oh well, ill remember it next time
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#81152 - Xtreme - Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:16 am
| tepples wrote: |
| We're going to need somebody with a digital camera and a DS with each firmware version to take a picture, using the same camera, of what each color looks like so that people can learn to distinguish v2 blue from v6 blue. |
Have you heard about white balance? This is the most common problem that ppl don't get. They just use automatic settings and that is no good. To set the white balance you could just use a blank white paper with your digital camera and manual settings to take correct pictures.
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#81160 - Diablohead - Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:21 pm
Its hard for me to tell if I got a FW2 or whatever the other greyish blue one is, my mario kart ds bundle is pretty new but reading about it nearly every kart ds bundle had fw3...
Pictures of each firmware would really help, just need someone to do so, or at least contribute to start with, I can take a picture of mine.
#81397 - Xtreme - Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:49 pm
| Diablohead wrote: |
Its hard for me to tell if I got a FW2 or whatever the other greyish blue one is, my mario kart ds bundle is pretty new but reading about it nearly every kart ds bundle had fw3...
Pictures of each firmware would really help, just need someone to do so, or at least contribute to start with, I can take a picture of mine. |
I have collected these (no idea who took which pic. if you know just pm me and i'll add it here):
FW1
FW2
FW3
FW4
FW5
FW6 (by Emil007)
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#81399 - olimar - Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:54 pm
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#81425 - chishm - Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:00 am
| olimar wrote: |
| If anyone's bored enough, you could use noflashme to look at all of them. Push select before flashing to change the version that's flashed. |
Just a quick warning to anyone who tries this: Make sure you have a PassMe2 or a NoPass before flashing to official firmware versions above v4.
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#81550 - m2pt5 - Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:12 am
| olimar wrote: |
| If anyone's bored enough, you could use noflashme to look at all of them. Push select before flashing to change the version that's flashed. |
I might just do that next week at school, when I can borrow one friend's camera phone and another's SuperPass2. Then we can have "same-conditions" pictures of all the colors.
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