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According to CBS11tv.com, a southern California college student has been arrested on allegations of bypassing the DMCA by installing modchips into consoles.

A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 27-year-old Matthew Crippen was released Monday night after posting $5,000 bond.

The California State University, Fullerton student who lives in Anaheim is accused of modifying Xbox, PlayStation and Wii consoles in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents got a tip from the Entertainment Software Association and searched Crippen’s home in May.

He was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury. Crippen faces 10 years in prison if convicted and is scheduled for arraignment on Aug. 10.

Attempts to reach Crippen for comment were unsuccessful.

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Nintendo has released one of their first major updates to the Nintendo DSi handheld. While claiming Facebook integration and faster camera response as features, they’ve notably left out that all current flashcart models are blocked.

If you have purchased a flashcart for the DSi which did not come with a firmware updater, you are highly advised to avoid this update. Updating with a cart like this will render it useless to you indefinitely. If you do have a flashcart with updating capabilities (that is, a hardware update, not simply a software one) you can decide for yourself whether or not you trust your flashcart’s company to update the device.

Firmware 1.4 is currently out in Japan, Europe, and Australia. A North American release is likely very soon.

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Moonshell is a homebrew multimedia player for the Nintendo DS/DSi. It has been updated to version 2.00 beta.12.

2009/04/26 Version 2.00 beta.12

DPGPlay: The pause was keeped though it sought while doing the pause.
System: The soft reset file for DSTT was made.
FileList: Corresponded shuffle play. (but, DPG player is random play. �j
FileList: Stop and power supply OFF were able to do when it finished reproducing the playlist.
FileList: The bug that the last character of ID3TagV1 is lost was corrected.
TextReader: The position of a setting item was made flexible.
System: Deleted POffMEnd.txt on /misctools/Additional folder.
System: The bug in which the backlight was not defined by old DS was corrected.
ScreenSaver: The idle time is revokable.
ScreenSaver: Not the clock but the backlight can be turned off.
ScreenSaver: The clock draws a day of the week.
SkinFile: Changed name to MP3Cnt_p4_shuffle.png from MP3Cnt_p4_random.png.
SkinFile: Changed Custom_BG.bmp size to 256×512pixels from 256×384pixels.
LanguageFile: SSC_ScreenSaverTimeOutSecTitle, SSC_ScreenSaverTimeOutSec10sec, SSC_ScreenSaverTimeOutSec30sec, SSC_ScreenSaverTimeOutSec60sec, SSC_ScreenSaverTimeOutSecOff implimented.
LanguageFile: Changed to FL_Popup_PlayMode_Shuffle from FL_Popup_PlayMode_Random.
LanguageFile: CS_PlayListEndTitle, CS_PlayListEndLoop, CS_PlayListEndStop, CS_PlayListEndPowerOff added.
SkinFile: SCN_WeekStr.png, SCD_WeekStr.png, SCE_WeekStr.png added.

(more…)

• 200904282314_moonshell200beta12.zip - 49378KB

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I used the DSi’s recording program to record parts of the Daft Punk soundboard from Matias Najle which can be found here http://www.najle.com/idaft/ and played them along to Daft Punk’s song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNeC2DVfORA

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Official Site: http://www.nintendodsi.com/

Introducing an all new way to play, create, and share on the go. Have fun with sight, sound, downloadable games and more. What will you and I do? Coming April 5, 2009

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Over at HackMii, bushing has posted a brief article on the DSi. He has purchased one for himself, and hints at an attempt to dump the NAND. Similarities in the Wii and DSi system are already seen, such as in the use of TMD files for updates, etc.

While still in its infancy, a newly created wiki, DSiBrew, has been founded. If you have any information regarding the DSi software or hardware internals, bushing invites you to contribute!

From HackMii:

Nintendo recently began selling their next-generation handheld console, the Nintendo DSi. I picked one up on eBay from Japan, since they will not be available for sale here in the US until April.

Bunnie did the first real writeup of this thing, which was enough to encourage me to buy it. I, of course, took it apart and nearly broke the thing (blew a fuse) while trying to dump the flash on it; I didn’t succeed.

The reason this device is interesting to me is that the DSi seems to be to the DS what the Wii was to the GameCube. The DSi has two modes — a “native mode” and a “compatibility mode”. In the compatibility mode, the clock is slown down to half the speed and access to the new peripherals is disabled — sound familiar? In the native mode, you get a faster clock and more RAM — used to perform the real-time face recognition and image processing shown above — as well as an SD slot and two cameras (front and back-facing). The device boots up into a “System Menu” that is fairly reminiscent of the Wii.

Oh, did I mention that it has a Shop Channel where you can download apps, like Opera? And you can download firmware updates online? Hey, guess what — we can download firmware updates online!

The ticket and contents are downloadable in the same way. Unfortunately, they aren’t reusing the same common key, so we can’t actually disassemble anything (yet). Although they’re probably reusing much of the ES code from IOS, they probably fixed the blatant flaws that allowed us to rip the key and fakesign.

Now all we need is someone to step up to the plate and grab the new key! Then you can come and start filling in our new wiki.

Check out bushing’s HackMii post, or take an early glimpse at DSiBrew!

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MoonLight, the author of MoonShell and the M3 Sakura firmware, has released what he claims to be his final build of the Nintendo DS media player MoonShell. Depressed from bad treatment by M3, he has decided to quit DS development, leaving users with a final beta build.

From the (heavily translated) release notes:

I was promised many things over the phone with the company president, but they didn’t deliver. I was told that if I had anything to say, I should say it directly. So I’ll give it to you straight!

Yes! I created M3 Sakura! If you buy and use it, you can get firmware that plays commercial games! But I haven’t tried it myself! Yes, I know that it plays games! You would think that if I could create Sakura, I would at least know about that! Even if Sakura sells I won’t see a single yen of the profits…

I have decided to stop developing for the DS. For the longest time I’ve been putting up with crap, so there, I’ve said it directly…

Version 2.00 beta.5 - 2009/01/16

‘Skin format and language specification’ was decided.

The bug that SPC did not open was corrected. (Tone quality has decreased.)

The key operation was reviewed. The MP3 seek was changed to ‘L/R single + long’.

I added Russian area support. CP866 has not been mounted. CP1251 can be used.

Download: MoonShell 2 Beta 5

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Acekard has announced the first compatible flashcart for the DSi, known as the Acekard 2i. It is almost identical to the Acekard 2, with the exception of it being compatible with all the current DS models.

From the release notes:

We are proud to announce our latest acekard now fully works on DSi, we call this new product Acekard 2i. Acekard 2i is completely compatible with Acekard 2, besides, the 2i works on DSi. Acekard 2i will come up in a very short time, please keep eyes on our website, thank you.

The Acekard 2i is the same size as an original cart and you don’t have to flash your machine or use a passme in order to use it.

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The DSi (Nintendo’s new DS revision) is already cracked.

Source: http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds/

Thanks you xboxbman.

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Yasu, author of the popular YSMenu program for the DS, has released a short video showing what appears to be the first homebrew code being run on the DSi. Little information has been released on this video, as Yasu wishes to keep the DSi free from the piracy plaguing the DS, at least for awhile.

Watch the video here on YouTube.

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