Inferno port to the Nintendo DSi, anybody?

[Salva Peiró]

The DSi will begin to be sold outside Japan on April,
I'm going to get one to continue developing the DS/DSi port.

Anybody is interested in joining in?
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salva

[Noah Evans]

I will. I'll try to buy one on my way out of JP. Speaking of which,
would anybody be up for a inferno-ds europe meetup? I'll be in Europe
permanently as of mid April.

Noah

[Uriel]

Some of us will go to https://har2009.org/ (I might even submit a
paper, others are encouraged to do the same).

It is a rather centric location as far as Europe goes, and the last
version was quite fun.

uriel

[Uriel]

See also: https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Village:Glenda

And anyone coming feel free to add yourself to that page.

uriel

[Salva Peiró]

On 3/2/09, Noah Evans <noah....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I will.

great!, that's good to know.

> I'll try to buy one on my way out of JP.

I've been waiting for the europe release just to avoid compatibility
probs and be sure that the people developing have = hardware.

The other reason being that i don't know a word of japanese.
Besides seems you'll arrive in time to get one european DSi.

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salva

[Noah Evans]

What's the cost of the DSi going to be in Europe? In Japan it's 18,000
yen(about 144 Euros). In Europe the expected price is 149 Euros. Does
that include VAT?

Noah

[Salva Peiró]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Noah Evans <noah....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What's the cost of the DSi going to be in Europe? In Japan it's 18,000
> yen(about 144 Euros). In Europe the expected price is 149 Euros. Does
> that include VAT?
>
> Noah
>

i'm speculating a bit here,
but i think in the overall it's worth mentioning a few things:

seems the DSi's price here in europe will be around 170€:
http://recherche.fnac.com/search/quick.do?text=dsi

besides the DSi itself, a flashcart is needed to run homebrew code,
a few considerations that come to mind are:
- boot code using the same mechanism used by the DS (SLOT-1 cards)
- the flashcart runs .nds images, so the ndstool should work.

There're other media suitable for boot, but i guess that atm not much is
known about the SD card controller, so they're using the same
mechanism used in the DS.

About the flashcard alternatives, there're a few: r4dsi, ttdsi, ak2i,
... (probably + to come)

There's not much to say about these because the DSi it's still not
widespread yet,
so there're no reviews, descriptions about these devices.

In any case, there're a few things i'd have in mind when choosing a flashcart:

- choose one which is common enough
- have the flashcard i/o source code (which afaik none of the above has)

I'm interested in more correct/complete or up to date information, if
that's the case just post it.

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salva

[Noah Evans]

Speaking of which are we applying to google summer of code?

[Salva Peiró]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Noah Evans <noah....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Speaking of which are we applying to google summer of code?
>

If you want to, just do it.
i'm busy enough atm, i don't expect to have the time

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salva

[Noah Evans]

That's fine. I heard that we might be applying and I wanted to make sure.

[robert wilson]

Salva Peiró wrote:
> - have the flashcard i/o source code (which afaik none of the above has)

shouldn't the code for the R4 work on the R4i?

[Salva Peiró]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:20 AM, robert wilson
<hot...@thinkindifferent.net> wrote:
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> shouldn't the code for the R4 work on the R4i?
>

from what i've read the R4i is unrelated to R4,
it doesn't even appear on the official site: http://r4ds.cn
so i'd doubt that they would even share the code.

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salva

[robert wilson]

Salva Peiró wrote:
> from what i've read the R4i is unrelated to R4,
> it doesn't even appear on the official site: http://r4ds.cn
> so i'd doubt that they would even share the code

well the same code works for other R4 clones, like the R4 SDHC
(http://www.r4sdhc.com/index-en.htm), so it might...

[Salva Peiró]

thanks for pointing this out, morever i noticed i was missing r4 ultra,
it should be a matter of checking if the firmware uses the R4TF.dldi.

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salva