EZ-Flash USA Forum

Mbmax, long time no see. It's good to see you still come to the forums. I don't think you saw that Windirt replied in this thread about two weeks ago. He said "the team is busing time to wait", so the guy in charge has spoken. If there was a good reason Mbmax, then Windirt should have told us the good reason, but he didn't. He was very short with his words, especially since they were his first words since December of last year. I agree that many teams owe YWG (MAJOR) credit for game fixes, but not for firmware updates. The other teams, as far as I know, do their own firmware updates and I know because I'm in contact with them...r4ids.cn, r4idsn.com and others. Nintendo only added a few bytes to the security check, and this change to the copy protection wouldn't have made the EZ Flash Vi hardware obsolete. So the only thought left, is what myself and others have concluded, EZ Flash Team is being lazy or have abandoned the EZ Flash Vi flashcard. I have respect for them as people, but a good kick in the butt is what a true person does when someone is falling off. It isn't rude, or non-classy, to tell someone their service has gone down hill and you're not happy about it. Some people have gone so far as to say they know their money could have gone further with another flashcard team, and I agree with them. I love the build quality of my EZ Flash Vi (it's one of the top two flashcards in that category), but that's about it at this point in time. There is a lengthy list, of user requested features that have gone ignored, to a certain extent, for a fairly long period of time. During that time Windirt never spoke to anyone on the forum about the EZ Flash Vi, and he surely didn't mention any good reason for the standstill. At the very least, Windirt has opened some users eyes to future decisions, and frankly, I don't know if a new kernel where he fixes 10 games or less will change their, or my, perception of the EZ Flash Team. If he were to really address user requests in his next kernel, then I'd let him off the hook...but that's pie in the sky (see what I did there). I would like to formally remind Windirt that we all paid enough money to expect quality service and he has fallen off. Windirt, dust yourself off and get to work......tell the chiquitas that you'll catch up with them later. Don't become the new Team M3/Team Cyclops.

Then you don't know ywg at all.

BTW, Windirt can't tell anything about why the firmware is delayed. Don't try to push him to answer on that. I respect his position.

There can be many reasons we dont get an update i understand this though we are clueless windirt did good and tell us though after this they are completely gone. i think they may prepare kernel update and firmware update to be honest if the team is still alive i think they will "thank us" for the long w8ing I hope so . I feel bad whining but man i havent touched my 3ds for a month

OK, so can I quote you as saying the r4ids.cn team doesn't make their own firmware updates? What are you smoking Mbmax? It must be some good stuff. Where in my post did I say I "know" YWG? I know you aren't a native English speaker but you TOTALLY missed the point of my entire last post, and you're drawing incorrect information out of what I said. It's sad really. It appears as though you are attacking/contradicting my previous post, and I really feel insulted to tell you the truth. Also, not so much as a "hello, jimmyemunoz glad to be back....", should I assume this isn't a language barrier?
It sounds like you are hinting at a 3DS flashcard....I don't buy it though. You can quote me, EZ Flash will not be the first team to hack the 3DS, or YWG, for that matter. I see what you're trying to do...calm the other users down and create a possible fantasy/excuse....have at it bro (just know, that I know it's a facade)

It's just me or you are jumping on the guns ?

Now just think one second on how a ds flashcart is able to run on a DSi or a 3DS. What do you need ?
A game, an exploit to run the flashcart's kernel. Now please tell me that all the "teams" you mentioned are doing that job themselves and doesn't use at all ywg work.
Modify a CPLD/ASIC code is a breeze for a Chinese engineer. Investigate to find the right faked game and exploit is another story.

I'm not going to argue that point, but if they don't change their rom/exploit, what will you say then? I, for one, wouldn't find you reliable after that. A new set of challenge routines totally killed their rom exploit. The exploit they used in Sudoku must have not been very complex to block, or a bad choice in general, if the EZ Flash Team has to abandoned it after one Nintendo firmware update.

Jimmy, the problem isn't on the exploit and the faked game, the ez team's coder is able to build such thing like the sc team's coder and like ywg.

The problem is the engineer is not available for a reason i can't tell and if windirt didn't mentioned why, i have to respect that position.

Now everyone here is free to leave or stay and i understand everyone here. I won't blame them.

BTW, i talked to the coder today and we should have a kernel update. It's better than nothing.

O.K., Mbmax. I'll talk to you later....

Strictly coming from a consumer point of view, as the posts are becoming more technical than a layman such as me don't understand: if I have two companies that offer the same-ish standard of card at the same-ish price, but one has better support, of course I'm going to choose the one with better support. To hell with all these excuses and tech-talk, they're supposed to provide a business, and they're not offering the support. End of, right?

That's like if McDonalds can't tell you why they can't serve you fries, but asks you to wait for an undefined amount of time anyway.

As i said, i won't blame anyone. Feel free to leave then.

As far as I know, I paid for the card, not the support. I agree that it may be frustrating to not be able to have a guarantee that my card will receive an update so as to keep in line with Nintendo's ever stricter DS card filtering, but I realize that I do not necessarily need 3DS software updates nor am I owed an update from the EZTeam when one is released. It is a rather good idea in situations like this to keep an eye on the latest news, never accept updates to your machine on a whim, never update your machine until all issues with the homebrew hardware have been completely resolved, and to always - ALWAYS - have a backup solution. My entire immediate family (That's five people - my mom, my dad, my younger brother and sister, and myself) owns individual EZFlash V carts, and while they may not be as diligent as I on update news, I haven't heard very many complaints on the servicing required of the EZFlash V, and they also don't bitch all of the time if they happen to update and it breaks their card - they've got backups in the forms of DS Lites.

As for the issue of the EZTeam being slow, it would be greatly appreciated to know what's up, but again, they don't necessarily owe us anything. They've already given us a great Slot-1 solution that worked perfectly as advertised all along the DS' lifeline. Updates that get around Nintendo's jewupgrades for the 3DS are just icing on the cake. They didn't have to give us cheat support, savestate support, soft resetting in-game, in-game walkthroughs...

I just updated the AP thread, maybe i have forgotten some games.
If you wish to participate, it's here as usual : viewtopic.php?f=16&t=16747

any1 know something new about the kernel update? not trying to be a leech... :/

This is the first time I've posted here, but have used EZ Flash since I got a dsi and have a 3DS now and it's been awesome. I feel like if you're in this forum you're smart enough to realize that you shouldn't update for awhile if you want your ez flash to work. I usually just say screw it for the new features or something and update anyways, knowing that I'm losing my ez flash for awhile, but knowing that it will work again in the near future. The conversations are all the same here after each update, but know that honestly these are cheap products and if you wanna buy another brand go right ahead, I'm sure it's cheaper than any actual DS game that you want at your local store.

My only reason for updating my 3ds is either 1, I need to enter the Store or 2, a game I want to play requires it. I don't need all the fancy new features that really should have been there in the first place. It doesn't bother me one bit if I have to wait. I haven't even touched my 3DS for over 2 months now. I am still waiting for a few 3DS games to come out before I will.

As a side note: I really want to save up and get the new 3DS XL when it comes out. The 3DS is way to small for my hands.