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[japez]

yes! please tell Mcnasty to help us gba only users!

[NeXsus]

I had a thought about this couldn't we rename the modified FIRMWARE.BIN to UPGRADE.scu the supercard should autoboot this and ask if you want to flash

[arcc]

I had a thought about this couldn't we rename the modified FIRMWARE.BIN to UPGRADE.scu the supercard should autoboot this and ask if you want to flash

Hmmm... that may just work, but I know normally the upgrade.scu has some kind of compression. I don't have have a way to unbrick my card if it does not work so I didn't test it myself. Maybe someone out there will be kind enough to give it a shot? If that works, then we are also one step closer to getting this to work on the SCL (just need to find a way to extract the firmware now).

[NeXsus]

I would be willing to try with my mini sd supercard however if it does brick it how would I go about recovering it

I have two flashed ds' and a flashed ds lite, a SC mini SD and SC micro SD also have a wifi card capable of wifime and WMB

please let me know

[arcc]

I would be willing to try with my mini sd supercard however if it does brick it how would I go about recovering it

I have two flashed ds' and a flashed ds lite, a SC mini SD and SC micro SD also have a wifi card capable of wifime and WMB

please let me know

Ahh, the simplest way would be to build a flashmp file for your miniSD, just like if you was going to skin it. Should the scu test fail, just load up the flashmp into your wifime and run it just like you was going to skin your card normally, that should reflash it.

[NeXsus]

bummer it didnt work out, it appears it has some kind of built in file checker it states

"It isn't accurate upgrade file, Please turn off GBA."

Doh

if we could find the portion of the file it checks perhaps it could be patched, I tried with my gba and it did boot the UPGRADE.scu directly

[arcc]

A little bit of news for everyone.

I decided to directly email Romman directly and ask him if he would be willing to share the SC:Lite firmware with us since we have been unable to extract it. I think he misunderstood me in my email however and thought I was asking about the rumble series, which apparently the firmware is protected. That may also be the case with the lite firmware, which would explain why we have been unable to extract it. I doubt that protection would prevent us from flashing if we can manage to get the firmware however.

The one awesome thing he told me in the email however is exactly how to replace the graphic on the bottom screen! So look forward to that.  I had to email him back because the program he told me we needed I have been unable to find. If anyone wants to help search for it, its called BMPtoAGP (closest I have been able to find is references to bmp2agp, but have not found the actual download link). There are other graphic conversion programs that convert to AGP, so we will experiment with those if we can't find the exact one he was talking about.

[NeXsus]

Thats excellent news, the program name may be BMPtoAGB as AGB is how alot of overseas dev equipment names the GBA, just a thought I could be totally off, could you post the email reply from romman it may help us out a bit

Man that WII skin would look wicked with as the lower pic

ps. edge808 your wii skin rocks!

[Thundrestrike]

arcc- thats awesome news!
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to replace the solid background of top screen with a picture?
But i doubt thats possible without modification of the supercard...

can't wait to replace bottom one though!

[Shinster]

I have all my fingers and toes crossed for Romman to give you the SCLite firmware. Y_Y

[arcc]

Well good news, he did.

I got the (soon to be released) Supercard LITE firmware v1.70 in my inbox and passed it on to Mc.Nasty, who will hopefully be able to make it work.

[Nickman]

Well good news, he did.

I got the (soon to be released) Supercard LITE firmware v1.70 in my inbox and passed it on to Mc.Nasty, who will hopefully be able to make it work.

Any news on BMPtoAGP ?  :wink:

[arcc]

Nope. I think BMPtoAGP is the official nintendo tool, as the only references I found to it seemed to have originated on a professional coders forum. I guess we will give the other tools a try and see if we can make it work.

Oh, and when I messaged Dr.Katts, I asked him if in a future version the hacking can be done to the installation bins instead of the raws. Which should eliminate the need for flashmp and make it work on GBAs.

[ponpoko]

I also tested variously.I ｃannot write the Supercard of a new blue version, and JAPver.MiniSD Supercard.I confirmed these.
It was thought first that it is disagreeing of the chip of a Programmable logic device(Lattice & Actel).However, it was wrong.
Flashmp.nds seems to check hardware ID.Therefore, it doesn't correspond to the Supercard of a new version.

Then, I hit on one method.
Because the form of a new upgrade file is scu, cannot do.But, the upgrade file of 1.62 is BIN, can execute it with GBA.The content of this BIN file is not compressed.There is skin's information, too.
I wrote the firmware of this 1.62 in Supercard that had already exchanged skin by way of experiment.Skin returned in the original.

It would be greatly appreciated if it serves as a reference.

Thanks,

[ponpoko]

If the upgrade file of sd_162.bin is rewritten based on the content of the file of LITE firmware v1.70 that you got, I can be likely to do.
I expect the great result.