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

 

[Clément]

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Has anyone else gotten this error?

Write dspatch and not dspatch.exe. I'm not sure this is the problem but I did not get this error when writing dspatch

You mean the Download Station one or the Flashcart launcher one?

DSX_Launcher_v113 I do not think it should be used here. I think you have to use it for a game or other roms

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Good job on the exploit! But I really hope TWLoader gets updated for it to be compatible.

Yes, nds-bootstrap needs update

 

[Gericom]

You mean the Download Station one or the Flashcart launcher one?

The flashcard one. You first need to fix that rom.

 

[some1ne]

The flashcard one. You first need to fix that rom.

How do I "fix" it? I downloaded it from the OP's post, I thought it would work.

 

[Gericom]

How do I "fix" it? I downloaded it from the OP's post, I thought it would work.

Simply setting the 4 bytes at 0x50 to 0 should work. (The patcher will fix the crc for you)

 

[some1ne]

Simply setting the 4 bytes at 0x50 to 0 should work. (The patcher will fix the crc for you)

Thanks.
Also, I just noticed I was picking the wrong launcher. My card is an Acekard 2i clone, which launcher should I use?

 

[PrincessLillie]

Somebody, where is the download for previous unofficial versions? It apparently worked with one.

 

[Sega dude]

Reminds me of this.

 

[einhuman197]

I managed to launch my dstt clone on my friends dsi xl. Amazing. Thanks for the work.

 

[tozevleal]

I managed to launch my dstt clone on my friends dsi xl. Amazing. Thanks for the work.

I didn't so many luck with my R4i on my DSi XL with 1.4.5 :S

 

[PrincessLillie]

Alright, I'm going to try nds-bootstrap v0.2.0. I'll fill you in on what happens.

 

[PrincessLillie]

This, sadly, doesn't work on nds-bootstrap 0.2.0. I'm testing older TWLoader versions and will keep you guys updated!

 

[bennyman123abc]

It's supported, but you need to use 0.2.0 for some reason.

I can't even get it to run with Bootstrap 2.0

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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

How soon do you think it'll be done? I can't get it working with nds-bootstrap and I don't have a flashcart

 

[PrincessLillie]

Confirmed WORKING on TWLoader version 4.0.0!
Note: Sometimes TWLoader 4.0.0 will throw up an error. If this happens, delete the downloaded box art (SD/_nds/twloader/boxart) and icon cache (SD/_nds/twloader/bnricons) and try again.

 

[Deleted User]

Confirmed WORKING on TWLoader version 4.0.0!
Note: Sometimes TWLoader 4.0.0 will throw up an error. If this happens, delete the downloaded box art (SD/_nds/twloader/boxart) and icon cache (SD/_nds/twloader/bnricons) and try again.

THANK YOU! Finally, lets see what this is all about!

 

[bennyman123abc]

Confirmed WORKING on TWLoader version 4.0.0!
Note: Sometimes TWLoader 4.0.0 will throw up an error. If this happens, delete the downloaded box art (SD/_nds/twloader/boxart) and icon cache (SD/_nds/twloader/bnricons) and try again.

How long does it take to load after the black screen?

 

[PrincessLillie]

How long does it take to load after the black screen?

No black screen here! Just wait a few seconds after the Nintendo DS logo and you will be greeted by the console!

 

[bennyman123abc]

No black screen here! Just wait a few seconds after the Nintendo DS logo and you will be greeted by the console!

I think I am now stuck at a white screen. I disabled the VRAM extension because I thought that might be causing the black screen but, I'm stuck on the white screen now.

 

[PrincessLillie]

I think I am now stuck at a white screen. I disabled the VRAM extension because I thought that might be causing the black screen but, I'm stuck on the white screen now.

You ARE on TWLoader version 4.0.0, correct? It only works on 4.0.0! If you are on 4.0.0, reenable VRAM.

 

[Deleted User]

You ARE on TWLoader version 4.0.0, correct? It only works on 4.0.0! If you are on 4.0.0, reenable VRAM.

are you talking about the bootstrap version? Because actually downgrading the CIA causes a Crash with ARM11 when booting up the CIA.

 

[PrincessLillie]

are you talking about the bootstrap version? Because actually downgrading the CIA causes a Crash with ARM11 when booting up the CIA.

No, I mean TWLoader.

Note: Sometimes TWLoader 4.0.0 will throw up an error. If this happens, delete the downloaded box art (SD/_nds/twloader/boxart) and icon cache (SD/_nds/twloader/bnricons) and try again.