The first full Nintendo DSi mode flashcart: DSpico [English|HD]

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This week the first Nintendo DS and DSi flashcart was released that has full DSi Mode support. In comparison to the CycloDS iEvolution, this card is region free, has all permissions (e.g. for WPA Internet and for the camera) and the flashcart supports DS, DSi Enhanced, DSi Exclusive games and DSiWare. This flashcart is completely open source and is not beeing sold by the developers. In addition to the flashcart, there is a new menu for Nintendo DS Flashcarts. The Pico Launcher can be used with older flashcarts like the Ace3DS Plus and X, the cards by r4isdhc.com and r4i-sdhc.com, the original R4, the Acekard 2i and even the Slot-2 Supercard GBA flashcarts.  Links: Project: https://www.lnh-team.org

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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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