[DS] NDS/GBA Flashing/PassMe discussion

Check this out, you can change the brightness in the same way as the DS Lite on a normal NDS!
This is really awesome! I wonder how long the battery can survive on the highest setting though.



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I'm a member of a spanish board (elotrolado.net), and we think we discovered something.

One user tried to install flashme on his DS, and it got recognized as DS Lite. He continued the process and now he has the Lite firmware, and he have four brightness levels.

The problem is that not all DS get recognized as Lite (only v5), so we are asking for help on how to sign the lite firmware as the old one, to be able to flash all old DS with it, so we can get the four brightness levels.

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Hrm, does anyone know where I can find instructions for using the Superpass 2 for flashing the firmware? I only needed to use the Superpass 1 on mine, but a friend is picking up the superpass 2 soon since his DS is a lot newer..

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I have Silver NDS's with firmware 6 (dark blue screens),what I need now to play homebrew on DS?
sorry I'm Noob

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

bump,any help?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Most homebrew is made for the GBA, so you won't actually need to flash your firmware.. Getting an M3 or a Supercard will let you run GBA homebrew right out of the box.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

here are the things need it:

first you need a passkey2 or the new passcard2 that works with all the DS even the lite version, this pass is like a chip for the DS, you can buy a pass or
flash your firmware, and then you save battery time, but you still need to buy a pass for flash you DS for first time

you need a a M3 SD or CF adapter, i recommend a M3 Perfect Mini-SD adapter, and Mini SD / SD memory module where you put the games

then you need a External memory card reader / writer, like
Zonet memory card reader/writer, this one is for transfer the games to you Mini SD memory

i think that this is all the things need it, all can be buy here: http://shop.01media.com/

FELIPE NO

Also visit http://www.m3-forum.com which has tons of information about everything you need. Lot's of discussion about the latest developements including flashme, flashcarts etc

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I have 2 DS.that mean I can buy 1 pass for 2 DS?

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So let me get this straight, because this is really fucking confusing to approach.

I have a PC card reader, right. (the first one pictured.) I also have a DS Lite. From the information I gathered, if I purchase a 512mb or 1GB MiniSD Memory Card, a Super Card, and a Passcard, all I need to do is stick roms on the memory card, shove it into my Supercard, and I'm all set? (while the passme just sits in my DS slot quietly?)

This is what I currently have in mind:



USB PC Card Reader, Passcard, Supercard, 1 GB Mini SD card. Will this work? Will it work with the DS Lite? Will the Supercard stick out like regular GBA games do with the DS Lite?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You also need an original DS game for the Passme to take the ID from.

HEY GUYS, has anyone bought something from linker4u.com or superufo.com? I'm interested to buy a M3 from them but I'm not sure if they're reliable. Some help?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

...that's it? Of course I have legit games. I'm just not sure if this is the way to go.

I recently saw a MagicKey2. It's a device which sticks into your DS slot, which has a slot for a Mini SD card. Since the DS doesn't need to read DS games from the GBA slot (with the supercard) why can't you just load DS games onto a Mini SD card, and use the MagicKey2 with your DS? Jesus, this is all so confusing.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

There's some different ways to do it. The usual way involves a GBA flash cart (M3, EZFlash...) with DS roms and a PassMe/FlashMe/WiFiMe to bypass the protection and load the roms from the flash cart.


I'm not exactly sure of how the MagicKey works, but it seems to eliminate the need for the SuperCard.

(The Passcard looks like it works on all DS's, but I'm not sure if it works with the SuperCard)

I was speaking idiomatically.

Okay, confused again. If I use a M3 Passcard, so it bypasses the DS slot so I can run DS games from the GBA slot, why can't I just put .nds roms on any GBA flash cartridge, and stick it in the GBA slot? Shouldn't the M3 Passme do it's job, bypass the DS slot and load the game from the GBA slot?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Did you use the Supercard program? You need to convert NDS files to NDS.dsq

Oh yeah that kingmax SD card is an ass, sometimes it gives me the "DS CANNOT BE READ INSERT IT AGAIN" while other SD card doesnt. =o

FELIPE NO

What supercard program? What's a dsq file?

Can you use a passcard (passme 3) to flash a DS like you could with the passme 2?

More importantly, how do I flash a DS (or DS Lite) without the use of the GBA slot?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The thing is, when i bought this at hongkong its already modified, well the guy said "ahh i need to update this one" then he put on a cartridge, after that it worked all he did was get an NDS rom conver it using supercard's program thing then transfer it onto miniSD or SD.

If you want i can probably send you the supercard program, if you wanna try it =o, i assume you already have one ofcourse.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't have ANYTHING, at the moment. I'm so fucking confused beyond belief that I cringe when I have my friend on msn telling me "i thought this was pretty simple to me..." making me feel like a dumbass.

I basically need to know how you can do this without flashing, because I can't import a Passme2. My options are listed above, and I can also get myself a 256mb flash cart, or a MagicKey2 and any given SD card. Those are my only options.

How ya doing, buddy?

It's real easy.

The M3 is the STORAGE. It goes on the GBA slot. You load the DS roms on it. You don't bypass stuff with it alone. It's like a memory card with the roms, but it can come bundled with a PassMe2 if the store you bought it from has that option. Using the Supercard is the same thing, think of it as another brand of the M3.
There's two kinds of STORAGE carts.

Memory card adaptors: M3 and SuperCard. They are memory card adaptors that fit like game carts, but use the memory card's space for storing stuff. SD, CF and MiniSD models available.

Game Carts/Flash Carts: NeoFlash, G6... Those are game carts like the ones used in GBA games. They work in a similar fashion to memory card adaptors, but these have the memory built into them instead of using third party memory cards. The only changes between them are the ammount of storage and compatibility with the bypassers.



The PassKey (or PassMe or MagicKey or whatever the hell you choose) is the bypasser. You use it for the DS to go apeshit and think whatever DS roms you got on the M3 are real DS games, and thus playable.

The MagicKey2 is just another kind of PassMe, but it serves the same function. Using carts like the NeoFlash is recommended on this one.

So the setup goes like this:

M3 + SD card + PassKey = DS/GBA games
M3 + SD card = GBA games only

If you need some good help, ask pink. He knows lots about this stuff.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh yeah that sounds reeeeeeeeal easy, dude.

If I decide to do anything I'll probably stay legit. The person who was offering me the passcard was selling it four times the original price, when it's only apparently $25 US. So I won't even bother asking him twice what his supercard price was.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Luxo

You also need an original DS game for the Passme to take the ID from.

HEY GUYS, has anyone bought something from linker4u.com or superufo.com? I'm interested to buy a M3 from them but I'm not sure if they're reliable. Some help?

I've made a couple purchases from linker4u.com and no problems here.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Just went out and did some research. Seriously, I'd just wait for the MK4-SD version. It has a passme in it and stores games and saves on the SD card. Best of all it doesn't require a gba flash card at all.



Use this whenever it comes out for DS games and use a gba flash card if you want to play GBA games.


Also I read up on the M3 and I don't think it has 2 MB of memory or something which is required by certain games like Nintendogs and Mario Kart. I have those games already but still if more games use that as standard then you're going to get fucked. I think the games might be able to be patched to play on M3 but I dunno.

I think I'll wait around for the MK4-SD version.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Hopefully this will be better than their NeoFlash kit endeavor. That thing was crap.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, this thing looks promising. If it does what it says it's supposed to do then all you need is a SD card of any size and the MK4-SD. Much less complicated than also having a GBA flash card. It's also less clunky. A great feature is it works with the DSlite. I've heard older Magic Key passme cards don't work with the DSlite.

But I've been waiting for something like this because of the possibility that there might be a game that uses the GBA slot somehow. I've never liked the idea of having to use the GBA slot for storing DS games. I want that for GBA games or DS slot 2 add-on devices.

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Of course older MagicKey/PassMes don't work with the DS Lite. DS Lite would be based upon newer firmware anyways that obsoleted the original PassMe/MagicKey items about 2 versions ago.

I don't have any problem using GBA flash carts for NDS games other than having to patch everything, but I would like to see something that uses SD cards.

The one bad thing about having to use SD cards is that they're marked in MBytes while typically you see NDS games listed in MBits. Though I guess you can look at your computer and see it listed there. ^^;;

I wonder how well compatibility will be too.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Also I read up on the M3 and I don't think it has 2 MB of memory or something which is required by certain games like Nintendogs and Mario Kart. I have those games already but still if more games use that as standard then you're going to get fucked. I think the games might be able to be patched to play on M3 but I dunno.

I think I'll wait around for the MK4-SD version.

The M3 supports RTC saves, and from what I gather from the M3 forums, it has a SRAM battery, as well.

LINK! :
http://www.m3-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2334
http://m3wiki.emuparadise.org/index....Save_Questions

Newbie question: Does the M3 work on GBA? I'm not sure of this

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