Finally the connectors have arrived! 
Here are two pictures of a finished PassMe with DS cart inserted.
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April 13th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
what a beauty
I want it now! 😀
April 13th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
That ones mine! (Providing it actually works!) ;p
April 13th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
ShALLaX: You forgot one detail. Did that fully completed passme get assembled from the one on the bottom right? You declared that one as yours first.
April 13th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Awesome, excellent work Natrium42. The borrom right one is mine! I’ll never allow it to fall into your evil hands ShALLaX!
April 13th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Perhaps I should put the bottom right one up for auction… 😉
April 13th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
Yo this roxz0rz now i already ordered mine. I can’t wait to get it so natrium42 they only take 1 week to ship right?
April 13th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Yes, that’s about right.
April 14th, 2005 at 6:01 am
Yo,
looks nice man =)
Whart missing is: massproducation of them and a real case like a real DS game to get the catridge easier in 😉
peace
April 14th, 2005 at 11:47 am
That one IS the bottom right one…. I recognise it! :p
April 14th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
What are the distinguishing marks?
April 14th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Hot damn! I thought it was just going to be the old PCI clip connectors. These look spiffy! Can’t wait to get mine!
April 14th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
natrium > was thinking of a think.. was looking through the vhdl code darkfader got on his site. and just got this idea..
is it possible to change the entry adress in the vhdl code so I can use my flash cart with multiboot (if I calulate the correct adress for the ds code I want to run)?
like if the ds code is on adress 0xC0100000 I change the patch to this instead of 0xC0000008?
April 14th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
just realised that I had it all wrong with the adresses 😉 ofcourse I meant 0x080000C0 and not 0xC0000008
April 14th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
dXtr, it’s indeed possible to change that address in the VHDL.
I don’t understand what this has to do with multiboot. Could you clarify it, please?
April 14th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
multiple binaries is what I ment not multiboot.. another typo
What I understand of how the flashcarts works (after some guessing, couldn’t find any info) with multi. bin. is that you have a loader app that you put in the begining of the memory and then you just add on with other binaries after, that the loader points to. but maybe I’m wrong… =/
April 14th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
Woooohooo just got a shipping confirmation email from Natrium! PassMe here I come ;p
April 14th, 2005 at 8:16 pm
OK, makes more sense now
What 0x080000C0 does is jump over the 192 byte header that is sometimes messed up by menu loaders.
Menu loaders are usually behind the actual demo, since demos are not relocatable (i.e. cannot be moved with respect to the address space). Menu loaders usually use bank switching fo multiple demos. Note that this might be wrong for some fancy carts. For example, they might use a hardware adder to shift addresses; or some other mechanism like execution RAM…
So if you *do* have a fancy flash cart, you would have to investigate how it actually works and experiment with it.
April 14th, 2005 at 8:23 pm
well. I don’t know what counts as ‘fancy cart’ but I got a efa 512mb so I guess it might be counted as fancy
what I was thinking was that it looked something like this in memory:
0x08000000 : Loader that points to other bins
0x08100000 : some kewl demo
0x08200000 : some other demo
but that’s not the case?
April 14th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
Looks like your cart has been tested already
See http://www.dspassme.com/docs/html/pm_07_flashcarts.html
Technically, the scheme you describe is possible, if the flash cart has some hardware-adder that shifts the requested addresses by the given offset. I have not seen this used in the limited number of carts I have looked at.
“EZ-Flash 3 1Gb” is the weirdest I have seen so far. It loads a demo from flash to dedicated RAM on the card and then runs it. Luckily it also allows to run demos from flash with some trickery.
April 14th, 2005 at 8:52 pm
well the reason I was asking all this stupid questions is that I want to know if I can change the load adress so I don’t have to clean the entire flashcart and have it totaly dedicated to ds deving.
April 14th, 2005 at 9:02 pm
It’s possible, but you would need to write some custom tools / software
For example you could write your own DS menu loader that would switch banks and go to GBA mode to run a GBA demo.
April 14th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
hm… in that case I think it wont happend (atleast not any time soon)
I got to little knowledge of how the flashcarts work to do something like this for now… maybe later on.. some time. (or maybe not) 😉
April 14th, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Costis was working on a DS loader menu to put multiple homebrew DS demos onto one cart. One of the requested features was to add GBA demo support. I don’t know whether he actually added it yet or not.
April 15th, 2005 at 1:11 am
And we don’t know how long it will take before he releases it too, hey, it’s Costis! Someone else might aswell write a simple .NDS loader w/ GBA support.
April 15th, 2005 at 3:13 am
My PassMe(s) have been shipped! Thanks again Natrium, looking forward to fooling around with it.
April 15th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
:'( soldout. How long untill next batch are created ? lol I bet you will be pissed off to read this
April 15th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
lol looks great… I might buy one but i’m considering using the wirless one to save money… I really can’t decide! (really no difference though, just loading and stuff)
April 15th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Kev, have you tried the other sites that are selling passmes?
April 15th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
The other sites don’t have passmes with that cool connector :S
April 16th, 2005 at 6:11 am
hello! I WANT ONE!!! but thats not the only thing i had to say: i am just wondering… why do you need to put a ds cart in the passme??? and i had an idea: when you load a gba game on a screen it must be checking where these settings are, so using the arm 9 processor for acces… so when we put a few extra lines that say that it has to load homebruw codes, in the address that says on witch screen to load the game then you only need the passme to load that code in it fore ever (so when you reset the nintendo ds it is still there…)
and you dont need any passme ever!!!
i don’t know for sure i’m just a kid and really unproffesional at this level of technology so… and sorry,too if my spelling is bad because i am from the Netherlands…..
April 16th, 2005 at 7:43 am
uhh…first of all i have no idea what you’re talking about…second of all…there’s no way to have a game on the ds “forever”…when you turn your ds off, whatevers in ram goes bye bye…and you NEED the passme to run homebrew at this point…loopy is working on patching the firmware so we won’t need the passme…but ironically you will need the passme to rewrite the firmware…so either way, you need one to run homebrew till a ds specific flash cart comes out…(which will hopefully be soon but probably won’t happen till my guess the earliest would be the end of this year begining of next year, but even that is wishful thinking)
April 19th, 2005 at 3:53 am
Mines on the way too, Thanks again Natrium42.
April 19th, 2005 at 8:52 am
Got mine! Thanks again, works like a charm!
April 19th, 2005 at 9:31 am
Yo Natrium if u scroll to the top you’ll see me asking one mine would ship lol. But the thing is i ordered it 2 days before i posted that so why hasn’t it come? i ordered it and now there sold out so i thought i was lucky but if its not coming im getting very worried.
April 19th, 2005 at 9:37 am
Oh sorry man i used a bad email address. So i geuss i just didn’t notice the email. I didn’t no there was a delay did u post it here? I was getting way to scared.
April 19th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
whoa! mine is on it’s way 😀
April 20th, 2005 at 2:19 am
Got mine yesterday, and I can tell it was the bottom right =D
April 20th, 2005 at 6:23 am
Mine’s on the way too!
Shipped on monday, it’s wednesday now, I live in .NL. So I guess it would take some more days to arrive *can’t wait*
Thanks for all the effort natrium! Thanks to you many people will get kickstarted in DS dev
April 20th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
hey natrium if someone lives in the USA on the eastern side how long do you think it would take to ship cuz this is almost my second week of waiting.
April 20th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
I’m on the eastern part of the US too and haven’t gotten it yet either…
April 20th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Heh, im in Australia 😛
April 21st, 2005 at 1:24 am
Vinnymac, mine shipped Apr 14 and I live on the west coast (LA) and still haven’t gotten mine either. It just takes a while to ship overseas. Patience! 😉
April 21st, 2005 at 7:01 am
Hoooooooooooooooo Yessssssssssssss…
upsss on the keyboard again.
Got shipped , checking mail every 5 min
April 21st, 2005 at 9:57 am
hheheheh guest what… it looks even better in my hands…
brrrr still have 4 hours of works ahead before going home , damn
April 21st, 2005 at 2:29 pm
I got mine yesterday, thanks a lot. I plan to use it with EZFA 256 (borden’s red cart). Is there a howto of sorts how to setup development environment for DS with passme? Thanks
April 21st, 2005 at 2:30 pm
PS: passme looks super-professional! Great job.
April 21st, 2005 at 4:45 pm
Yay! Just got mine
April 21st, 2005 at 9:05 pm
wheeeeee!! 😀
just tested it with battleshipDS, works great!!
April 22nd, 2005 at 2:43 pm
Great work Natrium. Ijust received my Passme and it works fantastic
April 22nd, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Got mine’s today…it’s SWEET!!!
😀
April 24th, 2005 at 4:33 am
Got mine, works on the 3 demos I tried it with. Thanks again Natrium!
April 25th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
It came finally It’s so sexy and hot OMG its like the miniature version of SEX its just pure skillet.
April 26th, 2005 at 1:52 am
Just got mine, awesome job Natrium42. (Opened the envolope and first thing it fell on the floor :P)
April 27th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
Can’t wait till the coding competition is over at GBAX, there should be a LOT of stuff that will be pretty sweet (compared to what there is now) considering the DS came out not that long ago…can’t wait to see everyone’s projects…hehehe…
April 28th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
Hey when can we expect to see more of these for sale? Looks great!
May 2nd, 2005 at 3:31 pm
build more. I need one!
lol thanks for your efforts
May 2nd, 2005 at 7:21 pm
I need one =/
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:21 am
What’s the use if we don’t have a flash cart and/or a cable to hook it to our PC and stream homebrews demo and/or test our own shits?
Cygoku
May 16th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
the passme is great job.
but, i think nds maybe can not use sram save function by passme+flash gba cart…???
August 8th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Hey when would i be able to purchase this?
August 31st, 2005 at 3:09 pm
y0! Finally got my passme today. It took me a while to figure out that you can’t write the rom loader to the gba card for the passme to work. But man, i’m loving it. Just got done playing dsHeretic. Great game . Finally i can start testing doomDS code on the DS. hip hip, HOORAY!
September 11th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
I’m a bit confused. but what is the main prpose of the passme?