#89319 - thundrestrike - Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:05 am
I was searching google for DS Mods (i was bored)
And look what I came across
http://mash-mods.com/products/Nintendo%20DS/dschipadvanced
Has anyone heard of this before? Its kind of interesting.
What do you think?
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#89325 - HyperHacker - Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:04 am
Cool, but what I'd really like to see is a chip you wire into the A/B/X/Y buttons, that when activated, virtually rotates them 90 degrees (Y=B, B=A etc). That'd solve one of the major problems with GBA games.
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#89328 - chishm - Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:06 am
| HyperHacker wrote: |
| Cool, but what I'd really like to see is a chip you wire into the A/B/X/Y buttons, that when activated, virtually rotates them 90 degrees (Y=B, B=A etc). That'd solve one of the major problems with GBA games. |
Yeah, I think a lot of people would want this. The problem is, in order to remap B to A, you have to cut traces on the DS's main board. The other functions simply require a wire to join to where the button's output goes.
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#89344 - Snowy? - Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:31 pm
Might this not be possiable to do via the DS's firmware???
Just wondering how is button mapping done? is it via firmware?
#89347 - rmco2003 - Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:57 pm
It's via the bios
#89356 - HtheB - Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:25 pm
rofl! :D
#89361 - Critical_Impact - Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:04 pm
When you boot up a GBA game it doenst have access to the DS hardware, as the X and Y buttons are mapped to the DS section or something gba games dont know that there is a x and y button there. The only way to get X and Y to work as L and R is using a hardware based mod like the one listed above
#89364 - Snowy? - Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:35 pm
| Critical_Impact wrote: |
| When you boot up a GBA game it doenst have access to the DS hardware, as the X and Y buttons are mapped to the DS section or something gba games dont know that there is a x and y button there. The only way to get X and Y to work as L and R is using a hardware based mod like the one listed above |
So could you set up a sort of bridged loader/emulator that would load GBA titles under DS mode?
Be interesting to learn where the brightness settings are stored in the DS lite unless it sets at boot and then turns over to the GBA 'side of things'
#89367 - Critical_Impact - Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:52 pm
I dont believe so, im pretty sure the gba hardware doesnt have any physical or logical access to the ds hardware, pretty much the gba part is standalone. I suppose a custom firmware or something might work but you'd really need to know what your doing to make something like this
#89396 - MaHe - Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:10 pm
The only modchip I'd be interested in would be one that'd add multiplayer capabilites to the GBA mode ... One can dream ... :)
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#89413 - HtheB - Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:48 pm
| MaHe wrote: |
| The only modchip I'd be interested in would be one that'd add multiplayer capabilites to the GBA mode ... One can dream ... :) |
yeah! :) that would be a real cool mod chip!
#89447 - Lynx - Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:22 pm
"Easy to install - 10 wires to solder".. Yeah.. only 10.. how hard can it be..
<sniff sniff>.. what's that smell? Smells like something burning.. hmm.. how come my DS won't turn on?
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#89449 - thundrestrike - Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:27 pm
they have installation service
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#89499 - chishm - Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:27 am
| Snowy? wrote: |
Might this not be possiable to do via the DS's firmware???
Just wondering how is button mapping done? is it via firmware? |
Buttons are hardwired to specific bits in specific registers. There is no button mapping done by the DS BIOS or Firmware, or by the GBA BIOS.
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