13 years.

The original DS was released in 2004, and to this day, no hax for Download Play had been made.

Until now.

Gericom found an exploit in DS Download Station, allowing us to run any homebrew we'd like over DS download play.

Source code for dspatch: https://github.com/Gericom/dspatch

Enjoy!

Credits:
Exploit: shutterbug2000, Gericom, and Apache Thunder
Graphics: Jaames, Robz8

And if you want to load unsupported flashcarts on a DSi:

Yes.
Here's Apache Thunder's flashcard launchers edited for HaxxStation. @shutterbug2000 should put this in the first post.
https://www.odrive.com/s/23b9f39c-ae15-4c1b-8ff7-64344fa6f2d2-5939fc7f

 

[Phillipos]

I don't think you can. At least not easly.

I still want to. Even if it isn't easy. Can you show me how?

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I still want to. Even if it isn't easy. Can you show me how?

Follow this thread and do as krabscode says until you find the file named "ds_demo_client.srl". Use the haxxstation rom instead of the other DS DL Station roms. Let me know when you find it, then I'll give you the rest of the instructions.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Nevermind, not even tinke can help. Hmm....

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Yep, atm you can't change the icon

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Frick.

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Though, someone is working on a version of DSPatch-gui that supports custom icons.

 

[alivebacon]

I need a new link

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I need a new link

for what?

 

[alivebacon]

for what?

haxxstation. OP link is dead

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

haxxstation. OP link is dead

oh, oof. but there's always haxxstation gui.

 

[ItzTacos]

I need help with the Exploit, i tried to boot the HaxxStation from TwilightMenu and my other console was able to see the software after downloading the HaxxStation from download play. The problem is that my other console freezes when the download of the software that i injected start

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I need help with the Exploit, i tried to boot the HaxxStation from TwilightMenu and my other console was able to see the software after downloading the HaxxStation from download play. The problem is that my other console freezes when the download of the software that i injected start

The rom it's downloading is too big. The size limit is 4 MB, but 2 MB or below is recommended.

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It's because the rom is being downloaded to the DS's RAM, which is 4 MB. (Yea yea on the DSi and forward theres more RAM but for compatibility reasons I guess, Nintendo capped the RAM in DS Mode to 4 MB... even on the new 3DS...

 

[HALT]

I know this is a 4 year old thread but how in the world I'm I suppose to use this? I get I need a flash cart and 2 ds systems but like... there's no download link the the compiled project.

 

[Dentus]

I know this is a 4 year old thread but how in the world I'm I suppose to use this? I get I need a flash cart and 2 ds systems but like... there's no download link the the compiled project.

I couldn't find the GitHub page I downloaded the gui-tool. But I found a very recent version here: Releases · RetroHeim-Soft/dspatch-gui · GitHub and an older version here: Release 1.0 - The Grand Debut! · bennyman123abc/dspatch-gui · GitHub. My browser reported these files may be dangerous. That's most likely a false positive, but just so you know.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

I couldn't find the GitHub page I downloaded the gui-tool. But I found a very recent version here: Releases · RetroHeim-Soft/dspatch-gui · GitHub and an older version here: Release 1.0 - The Grand Debut! · bennyman123abc/dspatch-gui · GitHub. My browser reported these files may be dangerous. That's most likely a false positive, but just so you know.

Chrome on my PC didn't mark either of them as dangerous, so it's definitely a false positive. Are you sure your browser it up to date?

 

[RetroHeim]

Hi! I made a couple of changes to the dspatch-gui that bennyman123abc made a while back from gericom's cli, it is mostly just customization. I can see that gbatemp has linked it. Feel free to give me any other customizability suggestions, though I think I might abandon it soon.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Hi! I made a couple of changes to the dspatch-gui that bennyman123abc made a while back from gericom's cli, it is mostly just customization. I can see that gbatemp has linked it. Feel free to give me any other customizability suggestions, though I think I might abandon it soon.

I forgot to mention this in the flipped path boxes issue on github, (Thanks for fixing that, btw!) i think it would be cool if we could change the internal icon, (as in the title icon that appears in the Download Play menu) and change the control type for each title in the HaxxStation rom, (so that they're not all just labeled as touch control) and change the order in which the titles are displayed on the client systems when picking a title to download.

 

[RetroHeim]

I forgot to mention this in the flipped path boxes issue on github, (Thanks for fixing that, btw!) i think it would be cool if we could change the internal icon, (as in the title icon that appears in the Download Play menu) and change the control type for each title in the HaxxStation rom, (so that they're not all just labeled as touch control) and change the order in which the titles are displayed on the client systems when picking a title to download.

Sounds interesting!
I might need to redo a bit of the original code to make it possible, but I'll work on those for the next update.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Sounds interesting!
I might need to redo a bit of the original code to make it possible, but I'll work on those for the next update.

Also, I think it'd be cool if we could add the special DS keyboard characters (Y'know, like the ABXY buttons, and those little boxy emoticons?) into the username that shows up in the download play menu.

 

[RetroHeim]

Also, I think it'd be cool if we could add the special DS keyboard characters (Y'know, like the ABXY buttons, and those little boxy emoticons?) into the username that shows up in the download play menu.

Sorry about the late reply, I am not sure how I'd do this, currently I am working on making it so that you can change the icon for every single rom, including the ones inside and outside. As I am only doing this out of interest, I will be taking my time, I've only just become not busy enough to work on this again.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Sorry about the late reply, I am not sure how I'd do this, currently I am working on making it so that you can change the icon for every single rom, including the ones inside and outside. As I am only doing this out of interest, I will be taking my time, I've only just become not busy enough to work on this again.

Ah. As for changing the icons for the roms inside, I just change the icons before packing them in. As for the icon that shows in the Download Play menu, I actually don't know how to change that exactly.

 

[RetroHeim]

Ah. As for changing the icons for the roms inside, I just change the icons before packing them in. As for the icon that shows in the Download Play menu, I actually don't know how to change that exactly.

Currently you can only change it via changing line 19 to 71 (haxxStationIconImage and haxxStationIconPltt (the icon and the palette respectively)) on DownloadStationPatcher.cs inside the master branch, at this time, so not very user friendly, but still doable, you also have to change all the data into Hexadecimals before doing so, and then compile the whole program, and every single station will have that same image. The way I am currently working on it would allow me to just change any icon anyways, so I'll just give the user the ability to do everything in-app.

I am not sure how I'd make a icon creator built in, so it won't be for now, you'll have to use a different tool and upload it via either bmp or palette and icon.

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Currently you can only change it via changing line 19 to 71 (haxxStationIconImage and haxxStationIconPltt (the icon and the palette respectively)) on DownloadStationPatcher.cs inside the master branch, at this time, so not very user friendly, but still doable, you also have to change all the data into Hexadecimals before doing so, and then compile the whole program, and every single station will have that same image. The way I am currently working on it would allow me to just change any icon anyways, so I'll just give the user the ability to do everything in-app.

I am not sure how I'd make a icon creator built in, so it won't be for now, you'll have to use a different tool and upload it via either bmp or palette and icon.

Yeah, I think it's best if you just make it a "rip and edit the icon yourself" type thing.
(e.g. can export current icon, and can import new ones)