Hello, quick note, as of today there was a series of updates from Nintendo from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 for DSi systems that effectively blocks ALL of our cards. We’ve yet to confirm all the details, and this storm of updates might not be over yet. For now do NOT perform any updates, or use the DSi Store on your DSi and DSi XL/LL systems.
In August of 2009 Nintendo released a new firmware update to their DSi system that effectively blocked ALL flash cards from booting their custom firmware. It took weeks to develop the workaround, but it’s been over a year since any update to the system has come up. This update comes as somewhat of a shock to the community. Hopefully users will recall what happened with the 1.3 to 1.4 update and refrain from updating their systems. Here is the quote from the Nintendo Update Page
“September 7th, 2010
Nintendo DSi Menu Ver 1.4.1U
This update provides behind-the-scenes improvements to system performance.”
With the huge release of Pokemon Black & White, and the Nintendo 3DS Release Date announcement on the horizon community experts speculate that Nintendo is trying to clamp down control before moving forward. There is also a Wii update that also blocks homebrew applications from running that was released simultaneously. This is following on Sony’s new strategy for blocking custom run applications on their PS3 and PSP systems and seems to be an industry trend.
This new update was released on Sept. 7th 2010 as 1.4.1 and blocked the vast majority of cards including the Acekard 2i, M3i Zero, R4i, iEdge and the Supercard DSTWO. It seemed like the EZFlash Vi and iPlayer safe, but Nintendo followed up the patch with 1.4.2 less than two days later which effectively blocks every card on the market. Updates to the DSi are completely voluntary, only required for heavy online games like Phantasy Star and the DSiWare shop. Users are encouraged NOT to update as it will render their flash cards useless.
There is no telling how soon updates and workarounds will be released until the developers have had time to investigate. There is no known improvement to the DSi system, or function, this update merely blocks flash cards from operating. Patience is required to allow the development teams time to analyze the problem and ensure their card’s future support, but as long as the update is ignored it’s business as usual.
As we get further details we will report them here.
Stay safe, and happy gaming,
The DSCardWorld Team
i need to make my nintendo with R4i 1.4.1