flashcart_core

A hopefully reusable component for dealing with flashcart specific behavior.

Usage

End users cannot use this directly, and should use one of the following applications:

• ntrboot_flasher for the 3ds
• ak2i_ntrcardhax_flasher for use through DS flashcarts.

Supported Carts

• Acekard 2i HW-44
• Acekard 2i HW-81
• DSTT (some flash chips only!)
• Infinity 3 R4i (r4infinity.com)
• R4 3D Revolution (r4idsn.com)
• R4i 3DS RTS (r4i-sdhc.com)
• R4i Gold 3DS (RTS, revisions A5/A6/A7) (r4ids.cn)
• R4i Gold 3DS Deluxe Edition (r4ids.cn) (variants of this such as 3dslink, Orange 3DS, etc. may work as well, but have not been tested!)
• R4i Ultra (r4ultra.com)
• R4i-B9S (r4i-sdhc.com)
• R4i-SDHC Dual-Core (r4isdhc.com)
• R4i-SDHC Gold Pro (r4isdhc.com)
• R4i-SDHC RTS Lite (r4isdhc.com)

Note: Flashcarts from r4isdhc.com tend to have yearly re-releases; all versions of these carts (2014-2017) should work but not all have been tested.

Planned Carts

• Supercard DSTWO

Requesting support for a new cart

We get a lot of requests for new carts to be supported. Before requesting support, please read other issues, both open and closed, to see if your cart has been considered or not. If you'd like your cart to be supported please provide, at the very least, the following information:

• Where your flashcart was purchased from and/or the website listed on the cart.
• Any updaters, kernels or other misc software that may be useful.
• Pictures of the inside of the cart. Please note we are not responsible for any damage to your cart.
• A dump of the ROM using GodMode9.
• Any other pertinent information, like any known commands for interacting with the cart.

Developer Usage

Define Flashcart::platformInit, Flashcart::sendCommand, and Flashcart::showProgress, and use Flashcart::detectCart to detect whatever you have. Then you can use the methods on the returned device to preform stuff in a (mostly) device-independent manner.

Porting flashcart_core to a new flashcart

Information needed for a new cart.

• Initialization sequence.
• Size and cluster size (for erasing) of flash.
• Commands for reading flash, erasing flash, and writing flash.

Licensing

This software is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3. You can find a copy of the license in the LICENSE file.

Credits

@Normmatt for bug squashing, expertiese... etc.
@SciresM for sighax/boot9strap
@hedgeberg for testing and inspiration.
@stuckpixel for testing.
@Myria for testing.
@Hikari for testing.