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[moviecouple]

I was thinking and am not sure if this sounds right. The new upgrade or any upgraded firmware to the SCDS1 is not a real upgrade to the card itself in the true sense. Atleast not like the past Supercards. Since all you are doing is throwing on the shell folder and msforsc.nds... there really is no flashing of a new firmware to the chip. Does this sound right.... am I getting this correct?

[Hanafuda]

I agree .. posted something about that at gbatemp a couple days ago, here.

In case you don't have a gbatemp account, here's what I said ...

One more thing ... this is being called a firmware update, but isn't the real firmware unaffected by this update? The moonshell based GUI is the OS, but surely there's a "BIOS" on the card itself ... hopefully there's a procedure in place for flashing it, cuz I suspect that's where the real improvements are hiding.

Unfortunately, noone has replied to that point.[/url]

[sarah]

I never called it a firmware update.
"New loader" is what I called it, forget the file label.
Please remember these files are being created by people who can barely speak English.

[AOforever1]

I would call it updating the OS
The update provided did not change the "program" sitting inside the hardware.

[moviecouple]

But... what I was getting at is that it is not a true firmware upgrade. Atleast not like the old Supercards were.

So you could load a new shell folder that someone has modified on their own or tweaked... and it shouldn't be able to hurt the SCDS1. Not like could have been done to the older Supercards if you got a bad Firmware upgrade.

[moviecouple]

But... what I was getting at is that it is not a true firmware upgrade. Atleast not like the old Supercards were.

So you could load a new shell folder that someone has modified on their own or tweaked... and it shouldn't be able to hurt the SCDS1. Not like could have been done to the older Supercards if you got a bad Firmware upgrade.

[sWampy]

I think the scds uses a micro bios, that pretty much does nothing, but load the bios from a file on the card,  so there should never be a need to reflash the bios on the chip if it's even possible to do so.   It would sure make since to not have a flashable bios, in cost savings of making the card itself, aswell as having to   replace broken cards due to flashes gone bad.