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From Nov 2007 to Nov 2008 dslazy was downloaded from my webserver 227780 times - thats just over 624 downloads a day! The zip file is 156k so it works out at over 33 gigabytes of pure interweb bandwidth. Crikey.

I’m sort of pleased its still “alive” but obviously the main reason its still so popular is the infamous “ARM7 fix”.  Therefore I feel its my duty so point out, as many other people have, that there are many other and better tools for doing this type of thing.

If I had to recommend another I’d go for crackers “ARM7fixa” which you can get from here:

http://crackerscrap.com/download.php?p=arm7fixa.rar&n=4

It uses a better method to do the patching and its “safer”. Yes there is no GUI; its command line only. You should check out his other projects too.

http://crackerscrap.com/index.php?p=projects

If you need a GUI there is a more modern version of dslazy made by a guy called WB3000 called “dsbuff”. You can get that from here. It does more stuff than dslazy too but it still needs .NET.

For some history what became dslazy started off as a sort of GUI for patching homebrew with the ndsloader for the Slot 2 Supercard. It was only intended to help a few people out on scdev.org.

Here’s the original release thread:

http://www.scdev.org/forum/index.php/topic,717.0.html

Anyway hope you all had a good 2008. Merry Christmas.

Cheers

dslazy is a discontinued ( and out of date? ) vb.net wrapper around a few command line only nds utilities. Open a nds file using the […] button and get information regarding it generated via ndstool by pressing the (i) button. Other functionality includes:

• remove blank space from a nds file (trimmer)
• prepend a small ndsloader (ndsloader)
• scan for “crashme” code in a nds file (crashme)
• patch a file with }[ains “ndspatcher” ( ndspatch )
• unpack and repack a nds file ( nds unpack & nds packer )

download dslazy ( Requires the .NET runtime )

The nds rom trimmer ( trim.exe ) really needs looking at; its reported to remove too much from certain files and it works in a suboptimal way ( ie its a bit slow ) however you can just drag and drop stuff onto it which certain people seem to like so here is a direct download: trim.zip

See: trim.exe updated

Prepending a ndsloader basically turns a .nds file into a .ds.gba file, however dslazy saves the output as a .nds file. This is because of the way the Supercard firmware works; you could in fact rename the ds.gba versions of homebrew files to .nds to get the same effect. DevkitPro now produces .nds files that work directly, but the file extension .sc.nds has been adopted for Supercard owners.

The Crashme scanner is also of little use any more, the malware in question isn’t generally found in the wild and in any case the ’sig’ darkfader provided to grep with finds possible bricker code in most homebrew. Please bear this in mind.