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A hopefully reusable component for dealing with flashcart specific behavior.
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R4 Revolution for DS (fakely rebranded as R4i-SDHC) (site unknown) #41

Closed BellezaEmporium closed 3 years ago

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

This card is a hell of a fake card. The card is "bricked", and freezes every 3DS when this card is put on. Last minute edit : It was said to be not working since a pink DS that I've had tried to make it work without success. Methinks it was an upgrade problem. At digging in my memories, it either had a timebomb or told the user when they had a "fake" firmware. ChipID: 04040404 HW Revision: 04040404 Firmware that worked on this card before : http://www.r4i-sdhc.com/R4i%20V1.12d%20French.zip

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GM9 Untrimmed Dump: not possible to have, 0 bytes on the card (as GM9 says) Debug.log ; https://hastebin.com/cedudejuqa.md
BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Tried to take a firm dump via D9, it says product name : ** Product ID: ***** Cartridge ID : 08080800 Cartridge data size : 32mb Cartridge used size : 128mb Cartridge dump size : 32mb Used size exceeds cartridge size.

Nuck-TH commented 7 years ago

Without pictures of cart circuit board it is hard to tell anything.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Well when I can open the card I'm gonna put photos of the PCB.

hedgeberg commented 7 years ago

Yeah there's like 0% chance of this getting supported if it exhibits the behavior youve described. That being said pcb pics and purchase locations may be really helpful so we can dissuade other users from buying from there.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Ummm... By digging into my head.. I do only remember that the card was sent from China... Not sure about the purchase site, since it has been 8 or 9 years that this card was bought.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Finally got to the PCB, pictures are coming.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

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BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Have tried with 0.3.1, cart is detected by ntrboot_flasher (which is pretty good in fact) and it is not supported by all of the methods.

kitlith commented 7 years ago

"Not supported by all of the methods." What do you mean by that?

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

I've tried all of the methods available, from AceKard to R4i Gold, i meant.

I suspect my card being still functional, but my card might have been flushed due to a bad update.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Oh, and I have mainly tried the R4i-SDHC variant, due to the fact you've made it through ! (awesome work)

kitlith commented 7 years ago

Okay. I hear there's a PR that may fix support for some of the older r4i-sdhc carts, I'll have you try it once it's merged and a new release is made.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Okay, thank you @kitling ! Hope it can make mine work !

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

I have another question, though the card might work when flashed with ntrboot_flasher, can I revert these changes and inject a R4i-SDHC kernel on it when it finished the work it have done ? Would be nice !

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Also, due to the changes you've made, shouldn't it be good to precise in the readme that R4i-SDHC RTS + r4isdhc.com cards are supported, or are you making sure that a lot more of cards are supported due to the Pull Request you talked about ?

kitlith commented 7 years ago

Oh. Right. Readme. That does need to be touched at some point.

As for reverting the changes, you should be able to take a backup and restore it.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

I would like to, but when it have 0 bytes even with GM9 looking at the cart, it is completely flushed

Le 16 oct. 2017 00:17, "Kitlith" notifications@github.com a écrit :

Oh. Right. Readme. That does need to be touched at some point.

As for reverting the changes, you should be able to take a backup and restore it.

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kitlith commented 7 years ago

I mean, you could restore with someone else's backup.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Oh yes, just need to find who has got the same card as mine !

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

@d3m3vilurr did an amazing job on the R4i cards ! Just saw the pull request, and the code he changed. He "uniformized" the NTRboot code, here i'm talking about the last part of the "gold" code, on the injectntrboottype1 and type2.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Last minute edit : It was said to be not working since a pink DS that I've had tried to make it work without success. Methinks it was an upgrade problem. At digging in my memories, it either had a timebomb or told the user when they had a "fake" firmware.

BellezaEmporium commented 7 years ago

Ah, my cartridge ID changed, my product name and ID showed something. Cartridge ID : 00000FC2 Name : STSTSTSTSTST Product ID : STSTST

Product version : 83 Cartridge used data/date size and dump size now show 0 on Dump Cart (trim)

R4i Gold variant ? Seems like a lot of them have a FC2 at the end.

kitlith commented 6 years ago

FYI 90% of carts seem to have FC2 for the chipid.

BellezaEmporium commented 6 years ago

@kitling So it means that my card is... like any other card. Something is going wrong on it so.

BellezaEmporium commented 6 years ago

At least my card is now readable as I've saw. Do I need to attach a log ? @kitling