#82025 - Dan2552 - Wed May 03, 2006 4:36 pm
Homebrewers created the passme and passme2 right? So are we expecting any nopass from them or can we only expect fully commercial ones?
#82036 - JaJa - Wed May 03, 2006 6:00 pm
Can you compete with datel?
Can you sell a homebrew nopass for less than them?
Would yours have an offical size case?
Datel have done something right for once, and it's just what we need (and what many of us have wanted).
Unless you can think of a way to make a homebrew NoPass for less than $20, i don't think anyone will do it.
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#82052 - HtheB - Wed May 03, 2006 6:53 pm
how about passcard 2 :D Hwahhah
#82054 - Lynx - Wed May 03, 2006 6:55 pm
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the topic. CHEAP?? How much cheaper do you need? $20 for a fully packaged NoPass!
Keep in mind that a homebrew device would REQUIRE the use of the click in/out mechanism if it's going to fully fit into the DS slot.
#82067 - Dan2552 - Wed May 03, 2006 7:37 pm
I didn't say the Datel one wasn't cheap...
I was purely asking for an alternative because apparently no one has got thiers from Datel
#82068 - Sausage Boy - Wed May 03, 2006 7:58 pm
Well, obviously it's cheaper to make thousands of copies of a product than to make 50. I think you'll just have to wait for the datel's, they're pretty new. Give it time.
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#82098 - josath - Thu May 04, 2006 12:25 am
Neoflash is making one as well. I think they call it the Super Magic Key 4 Ultimate Edition or something. But they aren't known for making things low priced.
#82674 - dualscreenman - Mon May 08, 2006 1:17 pm
Hehe, the might as well call it "Super Happy Mega Ultra Super Magic Key Uberly Ultimate Edition that will Bankrupt You".
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#83214 - HyperHacker - Sun May 14, 2006 3:24 am
Hm, on the subject of cheap passthrough methods, I heard of a bug in Metroid Prime Hunters. I don't have it and you can't do it in the demo, but it sounds true enough. Apparently the name you enter is misused in a sprintf() call - for example, put in %d and it prints random numbers. (You can't do it online; they patch it when you connect, but I'm pretty sure the patch isn't permanent. After all, how could it be?)
The trick here is it's pulling these random numbers off the stack. Also, you can put in something like %0256d to print a 256-digit number, potentially overflowing a buffer. See where I'm going with this? Your name can be up to 8 characters AFAIK.
I doubt this would end up being of any use; the ARM7 has control of the GBA cart on official binaries, and if you could overwrite a return address on the stack or a function pointer, you'd be writing ASCII characters, and I don't think anything from 20xxxxxx to 7Exxxxxx is even valid. However, you might be able to put in other characters by editing your save file using someone else's DS or by building a device to access the save RAM (which I hear is pretty easy). This might even allow you to do it with the demo.
Now if we even could get it to jump anywhere we wanted with this, what good does that do if we can't jump to the GBA cart? Well, how about jumping to the place in RAM in which incoming wifi packets are stored? A long shot, but possibly worth looking into.
BTW the only reason you can't do this in the demo is you can't use the % character.
#83549 - Lynx - Tue May 16, 2006 10:09 pm
Hmm.. Metroid Prime = $35, NoPass = $20
It might have been helpfull if they would have released the game a year ago, and people were still trying to get homebrew on the NDS.. Seems kinda late now.
#83559 - CubeGuy - Tue May 16, 2006 11:40 pm
It's worth looking into for those that can easily get their hands on a friends Metroid game for all of five minutes.
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#83564 - tepples - Wed May 17, 2006 12:03 am
Codejunkies.com charges different amounts for MAX Media Launcher depending on the billing and shipping countries, and it also charges shipping. Metroid, on the other hand, is available in the store that's next door to somewhere else you normally visit on the bus.
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#83963 - Diablohead - Fri May 19, 2006 10:59 pm
| tepples wrote: |
| Codejunkies.com charges different amounts for MAX Media Launcher depending on the billing and shipping countries, and it also charges shipping. Metroid, on the other hand, is available in the store that's next door to somewhere else you normally visit on the bus. |
I live in the uk and the codejunkies website gave me free shipping, still waiting for the package though, ordered it last night :P
#84103 - Lynx - Sat May 20, 2006 3:59 pm
I live in the USA, I paid $10 extra for express shipping. (could have only paid $5 shipping) So even at $30 it's still cheaper than Metroid Prime and doesn't require any "hacking" or fudge factor (end user screwing stuff up) to take place.. you know it works.. So, what have others paid for shipping? Meaning, what is the maximum price? $20 or the MML, and $50 or shipping?