13 years.

The original DS was released in 2004, and to this day, no hax for Download Play had been made.

Until now.

Gericom found an exploit in DS Download Station, allowing us to run any homebrew we'd like over DS download play.

Source code for dspatch: https://github.com/Gericom/dspatch

Enjoy!

Credits:
Exploit: shutterbug2000, Gericom, and Apache Thunder
Graphics: Jaames, Robz8

And if you want to load unsupported flashcarts on a DSi:

Yes.
Here's Apache Thunder's flashcard launchers edited for HaxxStation. @shutterbug2000 should put this in the first post.
https://www.odrive.com/s/23b9f39c-ae15-4c1b-8ff7-64344fa6f2d2-5939fc7f

 

[tozevleal]

Not as of right now.

Well... time to start finding a broken DS and make a COMPLETE Download Station full of homebrew to share to my neighbors xD

 

[Gericom]

This is really cool! I tried this out, and I have a quick question: can I insert multiple roms into one download station?

This is planned for later versions

 

[Clément]

Can we use it with TWLoader and bootstrap 0.2.0 ?

 

[invaderyoyo]

How do you attach roms to nesds so we can use it with this?

 

[FIX94]

Very neat project, thanks to this I realized that nobody seems to have written some wii homebrew to make use of its ds features, so I guess I'll get to it then and maybe even write some form of wii emulator that then does the same as ds download station to send over unsigned code directly from a wii. Oh and also, do you happen to have the hack somewhere explained in a bit more detail or some RE done of the download station protocol? That'd be cool

 

[tozevleal]

Can we use it with TWLoader and bootstrap 0.2.0 ?

Didn't tryed with that version! But try my tutorial here (scroll a little down) http://gbatemp.net/threads/haxxstation-ds-download-station-exploit.473648/page-7

 

[Aluminite]

What's the max size that a ROM can be with this?

 

[ItsMetaKnight]

What's the max size that a ROM can be with this?

Around 3 MB, but in that case it must use less than 1 MB of RAM or it won't work.
And if the ROM is only 1 MB, the game can use 3 MB of RAM.

 

[tozevleal]

For you guys who don't know what kind of homebrew need to run i give you a good sugestion:
Textris! Made by SnailFace!
https://gbatemp.net/threads/textris-ds.314865/

Works perfectly!

 

[Oleboy555]

source?

 

[Clément]

Complete tutorial to make this to Haxxstation to work on TWLoader:

What you need:
DSPatch
Download Station Volume 1 (USA) - i will not give any links of this because its copyrighted content... try to find it


Step1: Compile your Custom Haxxstation with your Homebrew app do you want to use
-Go to your PC and download DSPatch
-Extract the Zip file to somewhere easy to reach with your windows terminal (something like this C:/dspatch/) but you can extract to your desktop if you want
-Open CMD (aka terminal/console/shell)
-Navigate to the directory you extracted (use like this "cd NAMEOFTHEFOLDER") ...btw be sure if your folders don't have spaces on the name
-Now just use this command "dspatch download_station.nds rom_to_boot.nds result.nds"
-Its an example what you should do

Step2: Copy the "result.nds" to your 3ds SDCard
-Just grab your result.nds to your SD:/roms/nds/

Step3: Configure and run from TWLoader
-Open TWLoader
-Go to the configuration Icon
-Press R
-Set Bootstrap has unOfficial
-Press Y to update your bootstrap
-Go back
-Run your custom download statation (aka HaxxStation)

(Have fun )
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There some place we can download Grand dad NDS? Or there are some "copyright issues" ? :S

Thanks ! I think that would walk but i get this error

 

[Billy Acuña]

Complete tutorial to make this to Haxxstation to work on TWLoader:

What you need:
DSPatch
Download Station Volume 1 (USA) - i will not give any links of this because its copyrighted content... try to find it


Step1: Compile your Custom Haxxstation with your Homebrew app do you want to use
-Go to your PC and download DSPatch
-Extract the Zip file to somewhere easy to reach with your windows terminal (something like this C:/dspatch/) but you can extract to your desktop if you want
-Open CMD (aka terminal/console/shell)
-Navigate to the directory you extracted (use like this "cd NAMEOFTHEFOLDER") ...btw be sure if your folders don't have spaces on the name
-Now just use this command "dspatch download_station.nds rom_to_boot.nds result.nds"
-Its an example what you should do

Step2: Copy the "result.nds" to your 3ds SDCard
-Just grab your result.nds to your SD:/roms/nds/

Step3: Configure and run from TWLoader
-Open TWLoader
-Go to the configuration Icon
-Press R
-Set Bootstrap has unOfficial
-Press Y to update your bootstrap
-Go back
-Run your custom download statation (aka HaxxStation)

(Have fun )
--------------


There some place we can download Grand dad NDS? Or there are some "copyright issues" ? :S

OP should add this.

 

[tozevleal]

Thanks ! I think that would walk but i get this errorView attachment 89523

Try on the root of your partition like i recomended on the tutorial and try again... also show your files

 

[GerbilSoft]

Thanks ! I think that would walk but i get this errorView attachment 89523

The error message says "file not found". You're trying to load a file named "downoad_station.nds". Did you mean "download_station.nds"?

 

[ChampionLeake]

There's always portalsds

 

[tozevleal]

There's always portalsds

Hum.... we should make a list of compatible homebrew of this kind of exploit could be very interesting!

 

[Van28]

Complete tutorial to make this to Haxxstation to work on TWLoader:

What you need:
DSPatch
Download Station Volume 1 (USA) - i will not give any links of this because its copyrighted content... try to find it


Step1: Compile your Custom Haxxstation with your Homebrew app do you want to use
-Go to your PC and download DSPatch
-Extract the Zip file to somewhere easy to reach with your windows terminal (something like this C:/dspatch/) but you can extract to your desktop if you want
-Open CMD (aka terminal/console/shell)
-Navigate to the directory you extracted (use like this "cd NAMEOFTHEFOLDER") ...btw be sure if your folders don't have spaces on the name
-Now just use this command "dspatch download_station.nds rom_to_boot.nds result.nds"
-Its an example what you should do

Step2: Copy the "result.nds" to your 3ds SDCard
-Just grab your result.nds to your SD:/roms/nds/

Step3: Configure and run from TWLoader
-Open TWLoader
-Go to the configuration Icon
-Press R
-Set Bootstrap has unOfficial
-Press Y to update your bootstrap
-Go back
-Run your custom download statation (aka HaxxStation)

(Have fun )
--------------


There some place we can download Grand dad NDS? Or there are some "copyright issues" ? :S

still white screen...
EDIT: i also tried to open the rom with Desmume and it loads correctly

 

[RocketRobz]

still white screen...

Latest bootstrap needs to be fixed for it.

 

[Van28]

Latest bootstrap needs to be fixed for it.

then how did tozevleal get it to work?

 

[Gericom]

Very neat project, thanks to this I realized that nobody seems to have written some wii homebrew to make use of its ds features, so I guess I'll get to it then and maybe even write some form of wii emulator that then does the same as ds download station to send over unsigned code directly from a wii. Oh and also, do you happen to have the hack somewhere explained in a bit more detail or some RE done of the download station protocol? That'd be cool

Thanks. It's strange that nobody looked into that indeed. I have not reversed the protocol yet, but I can sniff wifi packets with my raspberry pi and an usb wifi adapter, so I'm sure we can figure that out.

Maybe we could talk on discord. Send me a pm if you like.