Play Back-Up ROMs... from Argos!

[TheGoatMonkey]

Just letting everyone know that for £20 quid you can get a guaranteed way to play back up ROMs and DS Homebrew along with movies and MP3s from of all places Argos! The ROM compatibility is nowhere near as high as with an M3 or R4 but that Argos guarantee does sweeten the deal. You do need some extra software to get the ROMs to play but you won't invalidate your guarantee or anything like that. If any wants one this is the link:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5681039.htm
If you want some help getting ROMs to play please feel free to PM me!

 

[crackerchalk]

This may explain why R4/M3 is so hard to get hold of
Guess they new it was coming and stopped making em

 

[edds]

I trust they mis-spelt MB as Mb? As I thought MB = MegaBytes whereas Mb = Megabits? They state "256Mb of cartridge memory allows you store up to 30 games." Small games, lol.

 

[witchy]

lol, that's mad.

Can you post details of what is needed to get it to run downloaded commercial roms?

 

[sunnyp]

I can't believe that Argos or any high street retailer is allowed to sell these pieces of kit!

 

[geeuk]

I can't believe that Argos or any high street retailer is allowed to sell these pieces of kit!

In this country you can buy anything seems illegal but its only illegal to use it lol... like our dboxes you can get them imported from germany no problem... you can flash the image no problem... but you can't plug it in to the cc's socket.

Like or blackcats, max232, they are not illegal unless they are used for illegal purposes.

 

[english]

lol thats unbelievable theres money in them there things

 

[Tiggzz]

Too noob to PM, so what's the method to use this to it's full potential?

TIA

Tiggzz

 

[karym6]

I can't believe that Argos or any high street retailer is allowed to sell these pieces of kit!

amazon actually sell the r4 also

 

[yorkie1]

can anyone actualy tell me does this stick out from ds lite or is it flush!!!!



or has anyone got 1 ?

 

[karym6]

which one? the r4 is flush, no idea about the argos one

 

[Tiggzz]

The argos one is as flat as a pancake, and only a single card arrangement in the DS Slot. Comes complete wit 256mb micro sd card, which can be upgraded to 2gb. It doesn't mke it clear in the argos ad that it is a card, and not a fixed amount.

It also comes with a usb card reader, and a cd with some homebrew games and a video convertor on it.

Just got one this afternoon.

I have DSorganizer running on it, by using the dldi patcher following the video on youtube.

[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=3XKSQGeJusc[/ame]

I am getting stuck getting commercial roms to work though.

If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.

Cheers

Tiggzz

 

[TheGoatMonkey]

For Commercial ROMs you'll need to boot them using a homebrew called Max Overload and the accompanying Patcher software. I'll add them as an ad attachement after this post to save you looking for them.

Copy the .nds backup rom to the games directory on the memorycard and then run Patch.exe, point it at the backup roms and hey Presto Bob is your mother's brother so to speak. After that copy Max_Overload_1_2.nds to the root directory of your memory card, turn on your DS, click Max_Overload and play that backup rom goodness.

If anyone is interested I could do a full tutorial with working ROM list. Let me know!

And remember... to play backups you need to own the original...

 

[Tiggzz]

Thanks for that,

I've just tried it, and when I run a .nds throughthe patcher I get errors

File: E:\GAMES\wrg-bba.nds
Patch: E:\GAMES\wrg-bba.PAT
Size: 8388608

Arm9
Rom offset: 00004000
Entry addr: 02000800
Ram addr: 02000000
Rom size: 000D9458
Card read: 0201CD24
Card id: 0201CCC0
Arm9 patched!

Arm7 (patch v2.0)
Rom offset: 000DD600
Entry addr: 02380000
Ram addr: 02380000
Rom size: 0002869C
Relocate src: 023801B0
Relocate dst: 037F8000
Error!

Arm7 (patch v1.0)
Rom offset: 000DD600
Entry addr: 02380000
Ram addr: 02380000
Rom size: 0002869C
Relocate src: 023801B0
Relocate dst: 037F8000
Error!


Then when I try to run max overload on the ds, it runs, but the displays the message

HDD / CF not found!


Have I missed something?

Thanks Tiggzz

 

[steve7713]

Teach me, pease.

 

[TheGoatMonkey]

What ROM is it you're trying to patch? If it won't patch ARM 7 there is a workaround but I'd have to know the ROM first lol

 

[Tiggzz]

I was just trying to start off with something nice and easy????yeah right. Big Brain Academy to begin with

I've just tried brain training also, this time it erros with arm 7 v2 but is ok with arm 7 v1

The error I get is when I first run Max, the blue screens come on and then on the bottom screen I get the error of no Hdd or CF found.

I'm just wondering if I'd been better off with a R4.

Thanks for your help here. I just don't want to give up on this.

Tiggzz

 

[steve7713]

I get the same error, I have tried Space Invaders DS and when I run Max Overload, I also get the HDD/CF not found.

 

[yorkie1]

has anyone got one of these to work yet as i am tempted to go and get one !!!!



chers for anyhelp yorkie1

 

[TheGoatMonkey]

Okay here is a working ROM list. Big Brain Academy sadly at the moment doesn't appear to work... although Brain Training (Which is just as good if not a better game) does work! This is by no means a complete list so feel free to ad!

Advance Wars Dual Strike (some text unreadable)
Animal Crossing Wild World (some lag)
Animaniacs- Lights Camera Action
Asphalt Urban GT
ATV Quad Frenzy
Battles of Prince of Persia
Big Mutha Truckers
Blades of Thunder 2
Bomberman
Brain Age
Break Em All
Bubble Bobble Revolution
Burnout Legends
Cars
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Cocoto Kart Racer
DBZ Supersonic Warriors 2
Devilish
Dig Dug Digging Strike
Dragon Booster
Electroplankton
Elf Bowling 1 & 2
Feel the Magic XY XX
FIFA 2006
FIFA Street 2
Fifa World Cup 2006
Finding Nemo Escape to the Big Blue
Ford Racing
Franklins Great Adventures
Freedom Wings
Frogger Helmet Chaos
Golden Nugget Casino
Goldeneye Rogue Agent
Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAXd
Guilty Gear Dust Strikers
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Genie and the Amp
Ice Age 2
Incredibles Rise of the Underminer
James Pond Codename Robocod
Jump Super Stars
Kim Possible Kimmunicator
King Kong
Lost in Blue
Lost Magic
Lunar Dragon Song
Madagascar
Madden 2005
Madden 2006
Magnetica
Mario & Luigi Partners in Time
Mario Kart DS
Marvel Nemesis
Mega Man Battle Network 5
Meteos
Metroid Prime Hunters (some lag)
Metroid Prime Pinball
Miss Spiders Happy Time Hope and Fly
Monopoly Boggle Yahtzee Battleship
Monster Truck DS
Mr. Driller Drill Spirits
NanoStray
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Need for Speed Underground 2
Nicktoons Unite
Nintendogs Best Friends
Nintendogs Chihuahua
Nintendogs Dachshund
Nintendogs Labrador
Pac Pix
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man’s Chest
Pokemon Dash
Pokemon Link
Pokemon Trozei
Polarium
Puyo Pop Fever
Rainbow Islands Revolution
Real Time Conflict Shogun Empires
Resident Evil Deadly Silence
Rub Rabbits
Scooby Doo Unmasked (minor graphics issues)
Sega Casino
Snood 2 On Vacation
Snowboard Kids
Sonic Rush
Space Invaders Revolution
Spongebob Squarepants The Yellow Avenger
Sprung
Star Wars Episode 3
Sudoku Gridmaster
Super Black Bass Fishing
Super Monkey Ball Touch and Roll
Tak and the Great Juju Challenge (some lag, text barely readable, minor graphics issues)
Tamagotchi Connection Corner Shop
Taos Adventure – Curse of the Demon Seal
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3
Tenchu Dark Secret
Texas Hold Em Poker Pack
Texas Hold Em Poker
The Sims 2
The Urbs
Tiger Woods 2005
Top Gun (some lag)
Trace Memory
Trauma Center Under the Knife
True Swing Golf
Viewtiful Joe Double Trouble
Wario Ware Touched!
Whac-A-Mole
World Championship Poker
Worms Open Warfare
Yoshi Touch and Go
Yu Gi Oh Nightmare Troubadour
Zoo Keeper
Zoo Tycoon

Most homebrew and emulators for DS also seam to work. I've got several Gameboy emulators, a gamegear and a near perfect SNES emulator working!

Hope this clears things up!

For the guy who mentioned Space Invaders try redownloading the rom from your romsite or using a different ROM version. For some unknown reason a couple of these will only work on certain regions version of the ROMs :S