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[banana man]

is there a way to unbrick your ds lite if you brick it i didnt brick mine but i was just wondering if i do is there a way to reverse it thanks

[dantheman]

Depends on the nature of the brick.  If you bricked it from running a malicious program without FlashMe installed, then you could be screwed.  If you brick it while installing FlashMe and have at least 2-3% of the process done, you can use the emergency failsafe button combo to boot your system and try again.  Between 0% and ~2% though, a brickage could be serious.  In all cases, you can restore the firmware using PPFlash, though this is not recommended.

Since you have a DS Lite, the firmware can also be recovered using a BIOS swap trick, which Bitblt can do for you if you wish (see his stickied topic in the Marketplace forum).

Now I do know that DS Lites have much of the firmware write-protected by default, but I don't know exactly how much would be affected if you ran a bricker program without FlashMe installed.  Perhaps you could run the bricker and be just fine, but it might corrupt enough to brick the whole firmware.  I'm not really sure.

[banana man]

alright thanks for the help

[bitblt]

Actually, it doesn't matter how a DS is bricked it can be recovered by performing the BIOS swap procedure. The procedure requires a working BIOS to be removed from working DS and used to boot the bricked DS. Once the bricked DS is booted the BIOS modules can be hot swapped and the bricked BIOS recovered by running flashme or noflashme. As long as there is no physical damage then any DS Lite can be recovered.

Fixing your bricked SC (bricked by the old-new 1.63 update)
http://www.scdev.org/forum/index.php?topic=3931

BTW I offer DS Lite brick recovery service here . . .

NDSL recovery service + Supercard service + more
http://www.scdev.org/forum/index.php?topic=2648

[mudlouse1]

ahh, so that's what it is, i always thought that removable bit was the wifi module

[dantheman]

Yes, but the procedure only works on DS Lites, correct?  Do the Phats have different BIOS chips that aren't socketed or something like that, right?

(also I turned your image into a link as it was nearly 1 MB in size, bad for 56k users or Opera DS users)

[bitblt]

ahh, so that's what it is, i always thought that removable bit was the wifi module

It's both actually.

Yes, but the procedure only works on DS Lites, correct?  Do the Phats have different BIOS chips that aren't socketed or something like that, right?

I was talking about DS Lite as banana man was asking about. The DS phat BIOS is not removable and requires soldering wires and using a utility program called ppflash.exe made by DarkFader.

(also I turned your image into a link as it was nearly 1 MB in size, bad for 56k users or Opera DS users)

That image has been posted many times before. Please do no edit my posts. You can PM me if you have an issue with something. Thanks. 

[dantheman]

That image has been posted many times before. Please do no edit my posts. You can PM me if you have an issue with something. Thanks. 

Sorry about that, it's just a reflex I have from other forums where people complain about large images.  I'll PM in the future.

[bitblt]

No problem. Dan, you are the man.