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Boot an nds file
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Is there some way to run a flashcard firmware updater ? #1576

Open SeleDreams opened 1 year ago

SeleDreams commented 1 year ago

basically I'd like to run the nds file of my flashcard's firmware updater to restore the firmware of my flashcard as i tried to force the install of a newer version that was incompatible, and thus bricked it since the flashcard now doesn't run even on og DS, i feel like running the firmware updater through nds bootstrap and make it access the flashcard from the slot would be the way to go, but i'm not sure if there's any way to do it ?

Masamune3210 commented 1 year ago

That would likely take almost complete redirection of cart accesses and it wouldn't be able to be active all the time due to the updater also having to be able to read from itself to read the data to flash.

SeleDreams commented 1 year ago

i see, i guess the only way then would be to find a way to extract the firmware to flash from the updater and then write a homebrew that reproduces the flashing behaviour