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Team SuperCard has released a service pack for their SuperCard DSONE flashcart. OS v3.0 SP1 upgrades the Realtime Save function, making it faster, and adds various homebrew fixes. This New Year’s gift from SuperCard is mostly a bugfix, but includes some nice enhancements.

From the release notes:

Happy New Year to all of you. DSONE/DSONE(sdhc) OS3.0 SP1 released. We redesigned the realtime save program. Realtime save function speed is much faster than before. Especially for SDHC version. It can be saved and loaded in 2 seconds. It has become a very very applied function. We supercard team release it as a new year gift for all DSONE user. :)

Main Feature:

1. Upgraded the Realtime save function speed. Now, save/load speed is much faster than before. SDHC version can save and load in 2 seconds.
2. Added RESET plug in. Homebrew software Imgview can press START to use RESET function.
3. Fixed DLDI data align problem.
4. Homebrew software do not creat *.sav and *.sci files to save the storage space.
5. Added the config database for each game. Player can setup patch info. for each game dividual.
6. Added write card check-up to avoid error when writting card.
7. Fixed some problems in patch database.
8. If realtime save make noise, please close NDS to sleep mode and open can fix the problem.

Important:Please backup the save before upgrade OS.

Download: SuperCard DSONE OS v3.0 SP1

• dsone_v3.0_sp1.rar - 3227KB

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Morpheon Mods, following up their Rockstar Themed Wii, have been comissioned to make a “Clerks” themed Wii for none other than Kevin Smith himself.

From the Report:

Floored. Amazed. Excited. Speechless…err..Silent. Those are just a few of the feelings we had when we were commissioned to do custom “Clerks” themed Wii for Kevin Smith’s Christmas Gift!! From what we understand Silent Bob is an avid gamer and this would be his first Wii - No pressure :).

The Wii was painted using flat gray scale colors to match the black and white clerks characters. The stand features the main characters each back-lit with two “stage lights” that beam up to highlight the custom 3D Clerks logo. The opposite side has a specially back-lit logo of his production company. Finally, the controllers were painstakingly hand painted letter by letter to feature his name one controller and his most famous alter ego on the second. As a most respectful nod to his writing, the font was meant to look like one an old typewriter might use.

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Teh Skeen managed to track down Brushing, the presenter and one of the people behind the recent Wii Hack demoed at 24C3, for an Interview. There are some interesting insights available, it’s a good read, Check it out.

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Teh Skeen is reporting that eke-eke has released a major update to the Genesis Plus emulator for Gamecube and Wii. Most of the updates included in the v12-28-2007 version relate to optimization and improvements to the graphics rendering code. (more…)

• genplus-071228.7z - 586KB

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Infectus have released pictures of the PCB for the upcoming Jtag programmer for Argon titled “Injectus”. The programmer is slated for an early January release at a “CHEAP” price. Pictures of the final production Argon chip have also been released.

 

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Ski Freak wrote in to tell us of an interesting presentation that took place at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) right now; it would appear that a fully hacked Wii capable of running native homebrew with full hardware access has been presented.

From the report:

The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native wii
homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)

They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory
dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were
able to create a Wii ‘game’ that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).

Details are minimal and we’re waiting for additional conformation from additional sources. If you’re in attendance at the event and can provide us with additional information please let us know.

UPDATE: Thanks for the conformation we received from those in attendance at the confrence. A youtube video has been posted with the Wii segment on “Why Silicon-Based Security is still that hard”. You can watch the complete inofficial recording if you wish, the Wii segments starts at 59 minutes. Thanks to atzplzw and xjw for the links.

UPDATE #2:PSX-Scene received some additional information about the hack from some of their members:

• They got the wii keys, and we could use them without hacking our wii again.
• This hack requires a drive modchip to execute the code.
• There is not any tool to sign the code, but it’s coming soon.
• They are working to access to the SD thought EXI.
• There is not any stack homebrew for bluetooth
• A linux port for Wii will be released easily.

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In a forum post on the Team Cyclops website, the team has released a beta version of the 1.3 firmware for their CycloDS Evolution flashcart. Beta releases are becoming common for the CycloDS, but this one is unique in that it adds Real Time Saving to the feature list. While not entirely completed, it is in working condition and has been tested by Team Cyclops. The CycloDS becomes the 2nd flashcart to have Real Time Save, as the SuperCard DS ONE was the first to implement this. The team requests that any bugs they have missed be reported.

Team Cyclops also noted that the black version of the CycloDS has been shipped to resellers, and that orders of this product will arrive just after the new year. Pictures of this model are coming soon.

From the official post:

We’re pleased to greet our users during the festive season with a very special new firmware. We’d like to thank all of our users for their patience and understanding whilst we’ve been working on the new release! Some of you may be wondering why we have held off from making a major release for considerable time. In short, we’ve been chiseling away at a new feature which we’re sure many will love and find increasingly useful as times goes by. RealTime Save is now a reality for the CycloDS Evolution, thanks to many hours of hard work and testing. It’s by no means perfect yet, but as always, we’ll continue to strive for perfection and user satisfaction. However, it’s here and works well, so we feel that it’s time to treat CycloDS Evolution owners to some advanced functionality and reward their patience. General compatibility with many titles has now been enhanced too, building on our already extensive foundations. These changes are available as part of the CycloDS Evolution v1.3 BETA firmware release which is available for download from the support page. Please note that this is a BETA release, so be sure to read the included documentation thoroughly before using.

Now on to other news, many will undoubtedly be pleased to learn that the first shipments of the black CycloDS Evolution are now on their way to retailers, and customers should receive their orders in the first few days of the new year! So you may now order Evolution in black or white from your retailer. We will be posting pictures of the black soon for those that are interested to see how it looks.

Download: CycloDS Evolution v1.3 BETA

• evo-firmware-1.3-BETA.zip - 1606KB

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Japanese accessory company, Hori, has released an Illuminated USB Stand for Wii. Available in both black and white the vertical stand features blue LED illumination of both sides of the Wii console, drawing power from the Wii’s USB ports. The Stand also features a flap on the front that when folded down will reveal another USB port, making it much easier to plug in items such as a USB microphone or keyboard.

 

The stand is available now in Japan at a price of 1980 yen (~$17 ). It is unclear when it will become available internationally.

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TehSkeen is reporting that nuvalo has ported Wolfenstein 3D to the Gamecube and Wii using GC-Linux. The port is based on an earlier Linux port by the icculus team. At present sound does not work and saving must be done from the main menu, aside from that it is fully functional. Running the game is as simple as launching the .dol file from SD media in your preferred method, just like any other Gamecube homebrew.

Download: Wolfenstein 3D for Gamecube

• wolf3d-GC.zip - 7803KB

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Team AceKard has updated their open source DS flashcart, the AceKard R.P.G., to version 4.06. This adds a bug fix and some translation for the soft-reset, etc. The team has also pointed out a technique for launching any troublesome files.

From the release notes:

AK RPG menu 4.06 update

1.Fix a bug when display free space of 6G or more larger SDHC card.

2.Add translations for soft-reset and so on.

If your RPG prompt that your TF card can’t run games on it please try to modify file “sdlist.ini” at /__rpg and enter a smaller number at [SD Card Speed]. It’ll make RPG won’t display the warnning and run games from TF card. But some games can’t run well by this way. You must copy them to flash to run it.

Source code of 4.06 has been released too.

Download: AceKard RPG Menu v4.06

• akmenu406_release_20071224.rar - 910KB

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