31st July 2005, 10:46 PM
http://www.double.co.nz/nintendo_ds/nds_develop1.html
Seems some people have been working on custom applications for the DS, as well as a method of getting them on there via Wifi (not a bit of bluetooth support in the DS by the way, just wifi).
The main problem is that without a memory card, the only way to actually run the custom code is by buying a special blank writable GBA cart.
But, I really don't care all that much about that stuff due to the costs involved. What I was actually searching for online is whether or not the firmware of the DS could, potentially, be updated. There are a number of things I was hoping could be, at least, fixed on the DS (like, for example, how you have to shut the system off and power it back on to exit out of ANY menu in the OS).
http://ds.gcdev.com/dsfirmware/
http://www.dspassme.com/FlashMe.shtml
Turns out, the firmware CAN be updated, but, at least using outside methods from hackers, so far it's a messy process. The potential seems to be there though. The question is, how much can be altered in the existing code, and how much extra space is there for more data? Those two things determine exactly how much the firmware can be altered or added to.
So anyway, I really don't want to risk doing anything to my DS right now, but hey maybe some of you are? Well, do with this info what you will...
Seems some people have been working on custom applications for the DS, as well as a method of getting them on there via Wifi (not a bit of bluetooth support in the DS by the way, just wifi).
The main problem is that without a memory card, the only way to actually run the custom code is by buying a special blank writable GBA cart.
But, I really don't care all that much about that stuff due to the costs involved. What I was actually searching for online is whether or not the firmware of the DS could, potentially, be updated. There are a number of things I was hoping could be, at least, fixed on the DS (like, for example, how you have to shut the system off and power it back on to exit out of ANY menu in the OS).
http://ds.gcdev.com/dsfirmware/
http://www.dspassme.com/FlashMe.shtml
Turns out, the firmware CAN be updated, but, at least using outside methods from hackers, so far it's a messy process. The potential seems to be there though. The question is, how much can be altered in the existing code, and how much extra space is there for more data? Those two things determine exactly how much the firmware can be altered or added to.
So anyway, I really don't want to risk doing anything to my DS right now, but hey maybe some of you are? Well, do with this info what you will...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
