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DS Misc > Looking for: iQue DS/DSL firmware dump

#107184 - Lick - Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:38 pm

Is there anyone who dumped the iQue DS/DSL firmware? It's 512KB.

Thanks,
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#107265 - felix123 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:31 am

I found this on the net. It's *supposed* to be the firmware for IDS/L.
http://www.fileskip.com/download.php?file=a3bc73474e1b6d9a2cfba3dd4538b030
And here's the FlashMe IDS/L stealth version. I don't think there is a non-stealth version.
http://www.fileskip.com/download.php?file=1bf1e8c353572c0b18d7be0b5874126b

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#107270 - zzo38computer - Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:47 am

Why do you need the iQue DS firmware dump?
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#107281 - tepples - Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:33 am

The iQue DS Lite firmware may store the brightness setting in a different place, causing anything that writes to the settings area of the iQue DS Lite firmware not to work.
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#107295 - Firon - Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:14 am

Doesn't the iQue DS have different firmware with additional kanji for Chinese?

#107303 - OOPMan - Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:22 am

I would imagine so, since Chinese (Which Chinese anyway, Mandarin or Cantonese?) is not the same as Japanese...
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#107305 - felix123 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:43 am

Yeah. It uses Simplified Chinese. (Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken, not written, and we generally call Chinese characters "hanzi" in Chinese.)

#107318 - OOPMan - Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:54 pm

Thanks for that felix. I wasn't too sure about the written forms of Chinese. I mean, you see it all the time at chinese places, but you don't really know that much about the intricate details :-)
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#107339 - Lick - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:47 pm

Does the Japanese DS's have a different firmware as the 'western' DS's? I think not, right?

felix123 wrote:
I found this on the net. It's *supposed* to be the firmware for IDS/L.
http://www.fileskip.com/download.php?file=a3bc73474e1b6d9a2cfba3dd4538b030
And here's the FlashMe IDS/L stealth version. I don't think there is a non-stealth version.
http://www.fileskip.com/download.php?file=1bf1e8c353572c0b18d7be0b5874126b

Thanks, but I can't reach that page. Their server is under construction. =(

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#107342 - tepples - Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:32 pm

Latin-locale DS (US, Ca, EU, Au, NZ) has the same firmware as Japanese DS.

Chinese uses a lot of ideographic characters, which need a lot of glyphs. Assigning a 16x16 pixel glyph at 1 bit per pixel to each ideogram takes 32 bytes, meaning the 256 KB extra part of the iQue firmware could possibly hold up to about 8,000 glyphs.

Japanese, on the other hand, replaces a lot of those Chinese characters with phonetic signs called kana. A kana font is simple enough to be represented even on an 8-bit system, and the 64 KB to hold glyphs for 2,000 common ideograms is considered small enough in a .nds file.
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#107344 - Lick - Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:36 pm

Thanks for the detailed explanantion!

[edit] I found the dumps here: http://www.yyjoy.com/yy/?p=1482.
Direct link: http://www5.emu-zone.org/driver/FLASHME_firmware.zip. Note that the normal NDS(L) dumps don't contain User Settings.. But I needed the IDS(L) dumps, so it's all good!
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