Nintendo DSi firmware 1.4 Blocks Flash Cards
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 5:11pm by Will
Nintendo is at it again, trying really hard to stomp any homebrew and piracy on their devices. They have just released System Menu 1.4 in Europe and in America that brings support for facebook but also blocks out a flash card.
If you use the AceKard 2i I would suggest that you didn’t update your DSi since it will not work after the update. (Be aware of your Wi-fi!) As Nintendo may update it automatically without you knowing (its in the terms of agreement). If you do not want to update I’d recommend to turn off your wireless connection in your DSi settings.
Here are the following changes for DSi system menu…
- Facebook support in “Nintendo DSi Camera” application. You can now share your photos in your facebook account.
- New version of Nintendo DSi Browser
- Acekard 2i blocked. Other cards confirmed also at GBATemp
July 30th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Just another reason the DSi has no earthly reason to exist.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Damnit…
Any info on whether it blocks other flash carts? I mean, I have the 2i but is it worth buying another?
July 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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July 31st, 2009 at 12:35 am
I can’t even download the update seeing as how my DSi keeps saying that the DSi system is up to date. It’s currently at 1.3 U
What gives?!
July 31st, 2009 at 12:57 am
Guess that’s another month or two in which I won’t be buying a DSi. I think that by the time the homebrewers really have their way with it like they did with the Wii, I’ll have enough games to play on my Palm Pre (and there are zero now, by the way, except for some rudimentary homebrew) that I won’t care anymore. Even if not, I’ll probably be looking at a jailbreakable iPod Touch to play games on, not the DSi.
I have no idea whether Nintendo’s DS success will continue with the DSi, but I’m getting less and less interested. They’d have to make that Zelda game a DSi exclusive — and a mandatory buy, unlike Minish Cap and some other portable Zeldas — before I bought a portable computer I couldn’t install my own software on.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:56 am
The Acekard site says that they’re working on an update for people who haven’t updated yet, because once they do, then there’s nothing that can be done. So hopefully…
July 31st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I don’t think 1.4U is out in America yet.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Good. To all the flash cart pirates out there, SCREW YOU!
I hope Nintendo sticks it to flash cart users, and really fights to keep their system free of all the cheap, lazy, parasitic, thieving pirates that are leeching off the real gamers and harming the overall industry.
July 31st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@skeptical: SCREW YOU, IDIOT!
They copy, they don’t steal!
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 am
As a pretty avid homebrewer with no pirated games on his flash carts, I’m really tired of being tarred with the pirate brush by Internet trolls.
I don’t buy computing devices that I can’t run my own code on. I don’t buy computing devices whose makers reserve the right to install code later that limits what I do with it, unless I have a pretty bulletproof way around it (like disabling the update manager on my Palm Pre, or disabling the network altogether on my Archos and my Wii.) I don’t buy “entertainment devices”; I buy computers, whether their designers intended their computerized nature to be hidden or not.
Sucks for Nintendo if their business model is incompatible with that, though I don’t think they really need the gadget-freak market segment anymore than I need to spend 40 hours staring at a 3″ screen to play Zelda.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Chris..
so theres no hope for acekard 2i to work on the new update
cuz i updated it and i feel stupid
August 8th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Aaw and here I was waiting for all the cool homebrew DSi demos to start showing up.
Though I guess this’ll only be temporary, as always. The hackers will find a way! :>