SD Slots never helped piratesJPH said:Dude, you gotta be kidding me - none of the flashcarts work?
Nintendo really showed us now.
That's pretty fucking crazy - kudos to you, Nintendo.
Hopefully some DSi-compatible flashcarts will pop up at the time needed, but until then let everyone enjoy their Lite's and the stacks of flashcarts available.
Mainly the fact that the firmware never gets a chance to run, because the DSi won't boot the carts in the first place.WildWon said:Erm, whats stopping flash-cart makers to update the firmware to be read in a different way?
Haruhi said:AFAIK DS is technically capable of region lock, but it was never used. Not even as a proof of concept.
Although they probably wouldn't =)thegame07 said:The question is will newer versions of the nds lite work with flash cards?
They probably won't put effort into the DSL since they WILL kill it.
Give them about 2 months after release =P
They want to focus their energy on theiDSDSi
arctic_flame said:QUOTE(Haruhi @ Oct 31 2008, 12:56 PM) AFAIK DS is technically capable of region lock, but it was never used. Not even as a proof of concept.
It is technically possible. The GameCodes in the header contain a region flag.
Destructobot said:Mainly the fact that the firmware never gets a chance to run, because the DSi won't boot the carts in the first place.WildWon said:Erm, whats stopping flash-cart makers to update the firmware to be read in a different way?
As far as I know, the bit of code that boots the flashcarts and then loads the firmware cannot be overwritten (at least not on most flashcarts). This bit of code is what the DSi won't run.WildWon said:whats stopping them from making a compatible update that you put into a DS or DSL and updated it, then it works with DSi as well?