00:00Hello and welcome to this video.
00:01This week a new flashcard for the DS, DSi and 3DS in DS and DSi mode
00:07was released, namely the DSPico.
00:10And I just want to talk a little bit about it.
00:13And there are, I think, two main parts which are interesting for the users.
00:17First of all, there's this flashcard,
00:20which is interesting for people especially interested in the DSi mode.
00:24But there's also a launcher which got released with this.
00:26It's basically the menu for this card,
00:28but also for some other cards because it's completely open source,
00:33like the card is open source, the menu is open source,
00:36everything for this card is open source.
00:39So there's also support for many other DS flashcards to use the launcher.
00:45For example, for the original R4 card, for the Ace card 2i,
00:50and other Ace cards, for the M3i0,
00:53for the R4ids.cn cards,
00:59for the R4i-sdhc cards,
01:03for the R4i-sdhc cards,
01:06for the Ace3dsx and the Ace3ds+,
01:10for the DSDT cards, or at least some of them,
01:13and for the SuperCard,
01:14a Gamer at once flashcards.
01:17So, this video might even be interesting for you
01:21if you don't have this card or if you're not interested in this card,
01:24but have one of these cards,
01:25because the launcher for this card also works with these cards,
01:29excluding the DSi mode.
01:31DSi mode or DSi features only work with this card,
01:34but everything else also works with these cards.
01:37But I will show everything with the DSP-CO card.
01:43Also, the card is not sold by the developers,
01:47so you can just go to a website and order it in a normal way,
01:51but the instructions to manufacture it are published,
01:56so you can basically order it on websites
02:00that allow you to print PCBs, for example.
02:03That might be very expensive for small orders,
02:06so I think that for very small orders,
02:09you have to pay like 50 bucks per piece,
02:11and also you might have some limits
02:16on the least amount of cards you have to order,
02:19but I'm pretty sure that in a few weeks or months,
02:24there will be other resellers
02:26which have them for a much lower price,
02:27for example on AliExpress or so.
02:29So, I would wait for a few weeks
02:32and then see where the price for these cards go.
02:35And also, it might be possible that in the future,
02:39there are cards with a proper shell,
02:41because like this is also a 3D printed shell,
02:45and there are instructions to 3D print it,
02:48but that's not the perfect solution.
02:49The perfect solution would be a proper plastic shell,
02:52and maybe some reseller for these cards
02:55will make a shell at some point,
02:59and then you might be able to order a card with a proper shell.
03:04Also, this flash card had a few iterations,
03:08and it's based on the RP2040 chip,
03:11which is also used in the Raspberry Pi Pico.
03:14So, for the development, and I'm not really part of the develop,
03:17or I didn't really participate in the development,
03:20but I tested for some years for now this card.
03:24So, I was pretty close to the development,
03:27and this basically was the first prototype
03:30that everyone from the team made for him or herself.
03:34It's basically a Raspberry Pi Pico,
03:37which has the RP2040 chip,
03:40and a microSD card slot,
03:43which is sold out to the Raspberry Pi Pico,
03:46and an adapter for the DS card slot.
03:48Then, there was a second iteration,
03:51which only the hardware guy from the team has.
03:54Because it used a stamp, it wasn't very practical,
03:58and then we got basically the first prototype
04:02with its own PCB.
04:05In this case, it's the DSPico version 1.1.
04:10It also has the SD card sticking out a bit,
04:15but it also has the RP2040 chip already.
04:24And then, there was another iteration,
04:27which I don't have,
04:28because there were always only limited amounts
04:32for the iterations.
04:37And this is the final version that now got released.
04:40The SD card slot fits better,
04:42and I think that a few of the pins have changed,
04:44and so on.
04:48I have to be a bit careful when putting this apart,
04:51because it's not that stable,
04:53or like it's 3D printed,
04:55so it fits, it also holds together,
04:58but like it's not the most dirty material that's available.
05:06Yeah, it's always a bit of work to open this card.
05:11It also uses a micro USB port,
05:13which you can use to flash the firmware,
05:15but there are also some sample applications.
05:17for example, I think there's one to, like,
05:19use the Nintendo DS as a speaker,
05:21and that's the PCB for the current version,
05:25the version 1.3.
05:26There's the RP2040 chip,
05:29the micro SD slot,
05:30the micro USB plug,
05:33and a button to enable the flashing mode,
05:37which you can also access through the side of the shell.
05:44And there's also some security, for example,
05:46to check the source for the power.
05:52Now, let me reassemble this.
05:56This card, of course, works in DS mode,
05:58so you can use it as a normal DS flash card.
06:00It also supports to emulate the R4 card,
06:05so you can use the official VOD menu,
06:08which was released for the official R4 card.
06:11Also, this card only supports micro SD cards,
06:14up to four gigabytes,
06:15but you can only get, like,
06:17so there are some special cases
06:19with four gigabyte micro SD cards,
06:21but this one also supports four gigabyte micro SDHC cards,
06:25which this one doesn't.
06:27And most four gigabyte micro SD cards are micro SDHC cards,
06:31but this also won't support more than four gigabytes
06:34with VOD together.
06:35With the official launcher, or with the Pico launcher,
06:37you can use bigger micro SD cards with this card.
06:42And for DSi mode,
06:44it supports hacked consoles,
06:47and nothing really special is required,
06:50but it also supports unhacked consoles.
06:53For that, it requires the WFRU tester version 0.60
07:00as a donor ROM.
07:00It works similar to the cyclo DSi evolution,
07:03not completely similar,
07:05but like it uses the game to get into the DSi mode.
07:09But the special reason why the WFRU tester is used
07:15is because, for one, it's region-free,
07:18so it can be used with all regions without stopping everything.
07:22And second, it has all permissions.
07:25So for example, this also can use WPA internet connections with the DSi,
07:33which the cyclo DSi evolution was not able to do.
07:37It also supports NTR boot for the DSi and for the 3DS,
07:41so you can also use it to install DSi or 3DS custom firmware.
07:46But now I want to show you the launcher,
07:48and there won't be any cut in this video for that.
07:51So now I plugged the card into the DSi.
07:54It boots relatively fast.
07:55On 3DS, it's even faster.
07:58And that's also, I think, one of the main features of this card.
08:01It's a very fast card.
08:03So first, let me start a DSi exclusive game.
08:08Phase training sadly doesn't work,
08:09because it uses a NAND chip,
08:11and NAND games currently aren't supported.
08:14But for example, the women build creator can be started.
08:19And that one works just fine with this card.
08:24So this is also the first card to support DSi exclusive games.
08:27The cyclo DSi evolution only supported normal DSi enhanced games.
08:35But the DSi also supports DSi exclusive games.
08:40Of course, DSi enhanced games with a better compatibility than the cyclo DSi evolution,
08:46and also DSiWare.
08:48And for DSiWare, it uses basically Immunand,
08:54like there's a backup of the NAND chip of the DSi on the SD card for the DSi
08:59PCo, and then it accesses the backup on the SD card of the DSi PCo,
09:03not the NAND chip of the DSi.
09:05Although the card technically can access the DSi NAND,
09:10but that's not very secure.
09:11It can also support DSi enhanced games.
09:14For example, I can start Tron Evolution,
09:16and then I can show you the camera that it works.
09:22And you can also see that it starts pretty fast.
09:26Of course, when it comes to the internet connection,
09:28you can't play games online where the servers are down.
09:31You either have to use third-party servers, or you simply can't use them.
09:36So for example, in Tron you can scan a QR code,
09:40so it can access the camera just fine.
09:42And I can put this card here, and it also is on the camera.
09:47Of course, the other flash cards only support the DS mode,
09:49so they can't play DSi exclusive games or DSiWare.
09:53But of course, these are enhanced games in DS mode.
09:57And that's also maybe interesting for some cards,
10:00because for example, the Ace 3DS Plus and X cards and similar cards
10:06don't support Pokemon Black and White 2.
10:11And with Pico Launcher, you can simply use the games with the cards.
10:17And you can either chain load them, so you can keep the original menu
10:20for, I don't know, special features or so.
10:24And then you can use the Pico Launcher to run a game,
10:28which the official menu doesn't support.
10:29Or you can replace the official menu with Flash Card Bootstrap.
10:35Of course, the Pico Launcher at the moment is very limited in functionality.
10:40It supports skins, which is pretty great.
10:43It has different layouts, so you can go to the settings, and then you can change the layout,
10:48so that the settings are on the side.
10:51Or you can choose this view.
10:55Or you can also choose this layout.
10:58For this, it's suggested to have images for the games on the SD card, which I don't have,
11:03so there are only question mark logos.
11:05But if you had the images on the SD card, you would have proper images for the games.
11:10But I also prefer this layout.
11:12And of course, in the future, additional things might be added,
11:17thanks to the open source nature of the project.
11:20Not everything works now.
11:21So, for example, the NAND saves in Fayscan doesn't work yet.
11:25And also, I think, WarioWareDIY uses NAND saves, which don't work.
11:32There are some games which use the MetaFortress DRM,
11:36like Prince of Persia, The Forgotten Sands, which also isn't supported yet.
11:40And there might be some additional problems with some platform.
11:44So, props to the team.
11:46Apart from me, of course, I'm also, like, maybe a bit of part of a team,
11:50because I tested many things during the development.
11:55Thanks for watching.
11:56You can find the official website with all of the links and information in the description.
12:00See you in the next video, and bye.
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