v2.2.0: This cart is a complete flop; maybe I can fix that

What's new?

• Added support for the EZ-Flash Parallel.
  • This cart is slow...

Improvements

• Updated BlocksDS to v0.14.0.
• Added a fix for timebomb carts not booting.
  • Turns out some variants of this cart does in fact need bloating, so the inflator has returned...
• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.

v2.1.1: hotfixes upon hotfixes

Bug fixes

• Fixed critical issue where DLDI patching boot.nds failed.

v2.1.0: workarounds upon workarounds

What's new?

• Added support for r4dspro.com.
  • While this cart is Acekard 2-based, some of the hardware commands are broken, notably CMD25. Thus it requires its own driver.

Improvements

• Updated BlocksDS to v0.12.0.
• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.

v2.0.1: maintenance release

Improvements

• Updated to BlocksDS v0.11.0.
  • Dependency on libnds32 has been dropped, as BlocksDS now allows a configurable DLDI allocated area (for us, 32KB, which goes beyond the normal libnds limit.)
• R4i-SDHC loader is now compiled directly without patching the ARM9 using an external tool.
  • Python dependency on compilation has been removed.
• Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience.

v2.0.0: rebuilding the project, block by block

What's new?

• Project has completely moved to BlocksDS.
  • All devkitPro dependencies have been either refactored or forked.
  • Thanks to @asiekierka on the work needed libnds-side for this port to even work.

Improvements

• By switching to BlocksDS, file size has further decreased.
  • An average of about 70KB decrease is seen.

v1.4.0: The clone cartridges were the saviour this time around

What's new?

• Added support for the EZ-Flash Vi (ez5isys.bin)
• Added support for the r4i.cn flashcart (_ds_menu.nds)
  • Side note: both of the carts are identical to the iSmart Premium, which has an open-source DLDI driver. (The title is written like so as the EZ-Flash Vi is actually the first cart to be released out of the three.)

Improvements

• Bootloader module is updated to nds-hb-menu version 0.9.0.
• Binary size has been reduced.
  • R4i-SDHC and related timebomb carts have seen over 200KB decrease in size!
  • All other carts have seen roughly 20KB decrease in size.

v1.3.0: no one knew what this was; also, do we care about old things?

What's new?

• Added support for the EDGEi (dsedgei.dat)
  • Not to be confused with the original EDGE or the iEDGE!

Improvements

• DLDI space is increased to 32KB. This introduces compatibility of launching flashcard-bootstrap from very old homebrew apps.
  • This requires forking libnds: it now lives at https://github.com/lifehackerhansol/libnds32
  • Moonshell 2, for instance, regardless of available DLDI space, will write the entire 32KB data into the binary, corrupting flashcard-bootstrap (and pretty much all other homebrew since 2017) in RAM and causing the system to freeze.
  • flashcard-bootstrap will refuse to launch boot.nds if the actual DLDI driver is over 16KB, as modern homebrew is now using 16KB drivers and anything over that will not fit.

v1.2.4: timebombs weren't meant to be

Bug fixes

• Fix DSONE SDHC's SDHC check (again. I'm sorry.)
• Fix timebomb carts freezing on SD driver initialization
• Update original R4 / N5 driver to r4tfv3

v1.2.3: A new era of DLDIs, and also a cheating machine

What's new?

• Added support for the Datel Games 'n' Music and the Action Replay DSi: bootme.nds

Improvements

• Newly written DLDIs, based on a newly written original R4 DLDI (though original R4 is currently not used in this project yet)
• Rewritten DLDIs are as follows:
  • Ace3DS+
  • M3 DS Real
  • DSTT
  • DSONE
  • DSONE SDHC
• Switched to open source GMP-Z003 driver (also based on r4tfv3)

Bug fixes

• Fix DSONE SDHC not having non-SDHC support temporarily. Added with the new rewrite.

Thanks to @Gericom for a new set of code for cartridge operations!

v1.2.2: nope, no 2GB, that didn't work

Regressions

• Switched back to the SDHC-specific DLDI for the DSTT and DSONE SDHC. Unfortunately it's causing more harm than good.