#125391 - tepples - Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:40 am
SaTa was the maintainer of REIN, a backup tool for the save chips on DS Game Cards. Like DragonMinded with DSOrganize, he stopped developing his work after it became clear that the community could no longer keep up with the new makes and models of SLOT-2 storage devices. But unlike DragonMinded, SaTa did not resume REIN after chishm introduced the DLDI framework for SLOT-2 device drivers. A few other tools, such as eepinator, came in to fill the gap.
Though REIN had specific support for Daigassou! Band Brothers, no program to my knowledge has had specific support for Animal Crossing: Wild World. Until now.
RAC is a homebrew tool to back up an ACWW town (or the save data of any other DS Game Card with a 2 Mbit save chip) to a SLOT-2 storage device for Nintendo DS. It is capable of displaying the town name and names of residents in ACWW saves, and it names each backup after the town name and current date. It can also restore saved data from a SLOT-2 device to such a Game Card.
See RAC page for more info.
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#125407 - HyperHacker - Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:23 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Like DragonMinded with DSOrganize, he stopped developing his work after it became clear that the community could no longer keep up with the new makes and models of SLOT-2 storage devices. But unlike DragonMinded, SaTa did not resume REIN after chishm introduced the DLDI framework for SLOT-2 device drivers. |
You just gave me an idea: save backup plugin for DSO. But does libFAT provide any method to access save data?
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#125445 - tepples - Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:25 pm
| HyperHacker wrote: |
| You just gave me an idea: save backup plugin for DSO. But does libFAT provide any method to access save data? |
RAC uses Cardme, the same SLOT-1 save I/O library that REIN used before SaTa abandoned it. You'll have to ask DragonMinded whether plug-ins can access SPI bus directly; if so, you can use Cardme.
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#125454 - Devil_Spawn - Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:09 pm
idea:
make it so you can use slot 1 by putting the save in ram, then writing when cards or swapped
#125464 - dantheman - Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:06 pm
Tepples's response to that on another board was this:
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| in practice, common SLOT-1 devices do not like to be hot-swapped. DS-X resets the DS on reinsertion, and R4 fails to remount the FAT without a power cycle. |
#125471 - Devil_Spawn - Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:06 pm
fine, transfer the save over wifi!
#125477 - tepples - Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:14 pm
To what server?
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#125489 - Devil_Spawn - Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:17 pm
i dunno.....
use dsftp or something :P
#125525 - HyperHacker - Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:41 am
Email it to yourself?
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#125873 - kittyprincess66 - Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:11 pm
I'm sorry I may be misunderstanding this... I have been using REIN to backup and write saves to ACWW v1.1 cards with great success for months now. I have also had good results using other new cards such as Izuna and Inuyasha and also Castlevania? Am I going to have problems with REIN in the future? Thank you.
#125876 - tepples - Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:25 pm
| kittyprincess66 wrote: |
| I'm sorry I may be misunderstanding this... I have been using REIN to backup and write saves to ACWW v1.1 cards with great success for months now. I have also had good results using other new cards such as Izuna and Inuyasha and also Castlevania? Am I going to have problems with REIN in the future? |
It's not an issue with DS Game Cards but with SLOT-2 devices. SaTa terminated REIN before DLDI became popular. It doesn't work correctly with every make and model of SLOT-2 device. Specifically, it doesn't work with the version of SuperCard SD that my cousins have. It also doesn't name backup files after the town name, making it difficult to sort out backups of Picken, YoshiX, and MegaTown.
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#125878 - kittyprincess66 - Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:17 pm
Ah thank you, that is an improvement in naming. I use M3ProLite (micro sd) in slot 2 and it seems that is supported by REIN hence no issues. Thanks for posting this. I will give it a try. Just the naming alone is a big improvement.
#125903 - dantheman - Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:11 am
| tepples wrote: |
| Specifically, it doesn't work with the version of SuperCard SD that my cousins have. |
According to a video tutorial posted on Youtube (and I believe here at GBAdev as well), REINMOON works on a standard Supercard SD. However, I'm guessing that it would not work on newer Supercards that have the hardware change that prevents older homebrew like NES DS from accessing the filesystem correctly.