4 Brightness Levels on Normal DS!!!

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Apoc posted this news:

I'm a member of a spanish board (elotrolado.net), and we think we discovered something.

One user tried to install flashme on his DS, and it got recognized as DS Lite. He continued the process and now he has the Lite firmware, and he have four brightness levels.

The problem is that not all DS get recognized as Lite (only v5), so we are asking for help on how to sign the lite firmware as the old one, to be able to flash all old DS with it, so we can get the four brightness levels.

I'm trying to contact loopy, but I can't find his e-mail, so If any of you can talk to him about this please do it.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=9314

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Here's what loopy said on gbatemp:

Run the newest flashme. If it thinks you have a DS Lite, you're in luck. If not, there's nothing you can do about it, it's not going to work.

Sorry if I come off sounding like an a$$hole. I keep saying the same thing over and over, and nobody wants to listen (not just here, but also on gbadev).

Using the flashme beta won't help. It's the same thing.

Installing V5 firmware before running flashme won't help. You can't trick flashme into giving you more light settings... it doesn't work like that.

It's not your firmware that determines whether your DS is capable of changing its brightness. This is a hardware thing. The DS Lite has a newer power management chip (this is what turns your backlight on and off) which allows multiple brightness settings. Some of the newer "normal" DSes are also being built with this chip. These are shipping with V5 firmware. When flashme runs, it detects whether or not your DS has this new PM chip, and installs the Lite firmware if you do. Loading Lite firmware onto a DS that doesn't have this chip will not do anything for you.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=31581&view=findpost&p=414117