Flash Cards No Longer Work on DSi
October 31st, 2008 Posted in Nintendo DSi
If you have been a fan of homebrew on the Nintendo DS platform, you better prepare yourself for this one. With the release of the new DSi model also comes the end of homebrew development, or so it seems.
Well, the main tool of homebrew were the flash cards, shaped like a DS game, that you could load software on from your computer and then boot it up in your DS. Well, the DSi prevents these cards from working, both auto-boot and menu-bootable. If an auto-boot card is inserted, the DSi will crash, while if a menu-bootable card is inserted the DSi will crash upon sellection.
Bummer, looks like hackers and crackers everwhere better get on this, but for now? If you really want to continue using homebrew just stick to a DS lite.
Tags: homebrew
October 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm
File this under “duh”
October 31st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Good idea!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I came.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I’ll give the hackers a week before they crack the DSi. That’s about how long it took the Wii to get re-cracked after Nintendo “fixed” the piracy issues on it, and I doubt the DSi will be using any different software.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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October 31st, 2008 at 11:13 pm
[...] everyone year it seems like and I fine with that as long as it’s all legal, but according to DigitalBattle the homebrew world for DSi might just come crashing down…Until someone fines a way around [...]
November 1st, 2008 at 2:53 am
Why would they do this…like Cervantes said, it will take a week for a crack…
November 1st, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Dude,,, why Not do this?
Nintendo is a company that needs and wants money and if it doesn’t get it then they stop making stuff.
They cant just go around making Pentagon lvl security on handhelds so yea there gona get hacked kus lots of people are …. like free stuff shall we say…..
But they can at least try to stop the current hacks and then the next system will have anti-hacks for that.
Or would u just think they lie over and make u hardware while u get the free software?
And this will obviously NOT kill homebrew, ppl will hack and new R4 cards will be out soon enough, so stop bitching
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:01 am
[...] Flash Cards No Longer Work on DSi [DigitalBattle] [...]
March 16th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Would anyone happen to know if Flash cards like the R4 SDHC would work on the original DS [DS Fat] ? Do any flash cards work on the DS Fat?
March 19th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
They have cracked the dsi through the SD slot (big surprise huh?) and only after 3 Days in Japan. Also a few flash carts work on the dsi.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
It has a SD card slot, only a matter of time till they hack that….
June 21st, 2009 at 6:16 am
July 27th, 2009 at 3:12 am
You company is truly upstanding and is behind its product 100% We were treated like royalty. To be honest you cannot beat the services or the people that I have dealt with.