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Nintendo DS Homebrew and Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

wraggster writes "Natrium 42 has updated his site with many more pictures of his Passthrough Device for the Nintendo DS, called the PassMe. In other DS News, Desktopman has updated His Tetris Game with a 2 player mode on one DS. Also for those interested in DS Hacking you have the DS Homebrew Reference Site and finally Darkfader the original DS Hacker."

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  1. more pictures here by dmf415 · · Score: 4, Informative

    slashdotted...
    here are other sites with pictures of the device

    http://www.dsgaming.co.uk/html/modules/news/arti cl e.php?storyid=230

    http://www.darkain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=74 3

  2. I've tried this by KingOfTheNerds · · Score: 3, Informative

    Watch out when trying to build a passme, I've tried to build one myself, and after I soldered it up it did not work no matter what I did. I think it might have been because I held the soldering iron on the pads too long. Just don't be too pissed off if you try to build it and it doesn't work, mine was a dud.

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  3. Forgot One by drakethegreat · · Score: 5, Informative

    The author forgot another great website http://www.darkain.com which has a lot of DS info involving WiFi hacking.

  4. More Information at www.maxconsole.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is more information online at www.maxconsole.com .

  5. Re:Obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have Linux running off a GBA cart on a GBA, and since the DS can play GBA games, yes.
    Actually it is a uClinux port.

  6. Re:I love the DS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Good job on believing rumors and not following up on it.

    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=58 091

    The "Gameboy successor" is most likely nothing more than an enhanced SP with multimedia abilities. Did you really think Nintendo has enough R&D to pump out two new systems within a year's time? On top of that, with the DS selling so well, would it really try to kill off it's own system?

    Sigh...people will believe anything these days...

  7. Re:Offtopic: DS Gateways? by xenocide2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of them have been canned, saying its too hard. XLink Kai laughed in the face of those who were claiming they'd have tunnelling working within a week, as it then turned into month, into months. But their own efforts were equally abandoned around new year. I don't know if they really did just give up, or if they found out that warp pipe was going to be taking over anyways. (Expect Animal Forest DS to feature warp pipe tech)

    In short, not yet, and not on the visible horizon.

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  8. Re:Err... Eeeh? by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Informative

    The passme takes in a DS cartridge (Metroid First Hunt). It sends a modified version of the ds cartridge header when it reads from the ds cartridge. The modified header changes the ARM7 Code Start to point to GBA cartridge space. Then the ARM7 code edits the ram and starts up the ARM9 with new code.

  9. Re:Emulator by OneHungLo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, GBA flash carts are compatible with the Nintendo DS. For DS homebrew, the passthrough connects to the DS cartridge slot, with a DS card (Metroid Prime: Hunters Demo, although the CRC can be adjusted for any game) to do the initial boot process, and then the passthrough intercepts some internal DS calls, and executed the DS code stored on the GBA cartridge.

    For GBA homebrew, you can use the flash cart in a DS without a passthrough unit, operating in GBA mode.