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Tom's Hardware's French site reports a DS virus is rampant and it renders the DS useless by fucking up the firmware.

Link: http://www.tomshardware.fr/lirenews.php?IdNews=5403

Un virus touche la Nintendo DS
Un nouveau trojan vient de faire surface sur Internet. Celui-ci rend la Nintendo DS tout simplement inutilisable en s'attaquant directement au firmware de la console. Le virus utilise pour cela une application montrant des « hentai », autrement dit des images de mangas à caractère pornographique. Une fois le logiciel uploadé sur la DS, le trojan endommage le firmware de manière irréversible. Cette nouvelle arrive peu de temps après qu'une menace similaire ait affecté la PSP. Sony a immédiatement réagit en mettant un nouveau firmware à disposition qui interdit l'utilisation d'applications artisanales et autres jeux piratés.

A new trojan just made surface on the internet. This one renders the Nintendo DS simply unusable by directly attacking the handheld's firmware. The virus uses a Hentai application (to see hentai slides) in order to get into the DS. Once the program is uploaded on the handheld, the trojan damages the firmware and is irreversible. This new virus comes soon after a similar one which affected the PSP. Sony immediately reacted by releasing a new firmware that prohipids homebrew apps and pirated games.

 

[Spiritreaver]

This is old, very old, in fact the guy who made it has already apoligized, for some reason.

 

[Wario64]

This is old, very old, in fact the guy who made it has already apoligized, for some reason.

reggie took his name, seems so

 

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old?

ok lock this

 

[koam]

DS Bricking
Posted by Dovoto on 2005-10-08

A day or so ago, Darkfader released a certain malicious bit of homebrew under the name r0mloader. This software claimed to allow a person to run commercial roms off of their GBAMP or supper card. What it actually does is corrupt the firmware on your DS as well as on your supper card or GBAMP effectively turning your DS into a brick.

It is suspected that this was done as an act of anti-piracy but it has caused many beginning amateur programmers to shy away from the system. Although I tend to fall heavily on the anti-piracy side of things myself, I do not feel it is the homebrew communities place to take such actions.

Fortunately the first thing most people do when the set up their DS for homebrew is apply Firefly's firmware patch. Unlike Nintendo’s firmware, Firefly's patch has recovery code built in which allows you to restore your firmware if you have a gba flash cart.

If you do not have the firmware patch applied be careful of what you run. If it is already too late it is still possible to recover although it requires a bit of effort.

I am not sure how wide spread this is, feel free to email me if you were affected and I will work on getting a recovery guide posted.

DarkFader is the person who cracked the DS originally.