Comments on: Recent Events – the DS “Bricker”

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:57:12 +0000

Actually, it’s true guys. The reason I made the bricker is because I’m upset about my tiny micropenis.

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:49:11 +0000

WTF. I didn’t say “I have a small penis” because that’s not true.
Sorry for this late correction.

By: Lionheart

Lionheart — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:10:43 +0000

Thats no reason to make DS trojans!

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:22:06 +0000

I have a small penis .

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:55:55 +0000

So when will I be unbanned from #dsdev (and #gbadev)?

By: Akoi Meexx

Akoi Meexx — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:36:16 +0000

I’ve just started learning about the homebrew scene, and coming across articles like this scares the hell out of me. Firstly, it means I’m going to have that much harder of a time learning about writing my own apps as my intentions may be second-guessed. Secondly, it scares me to think that things like this might end up being written over into supposed ‘tools’ that one might think were for learning more about the DS.

Really, it’s in bad taste to brick a system of any sort.. Money doesn’t grow on trees. =/

By: Whacko

Whacko — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:59:08 +0000

BigRedPimp, you are totally right. I already pasted this to you in pm. but maybe more people ready it if I paste it here aswell. My feelings about this whole thing: http://www.nintendev.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19

By: kiwibonga

kiwibonga — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:54:41 +0000

There’s a lot of people asking “WHY?” — Now I’m not trying to take sides, to justify, or to make it right, but here are some things for everyone’s consideration, including those crying murder:

1. DarkFader spent countless hours learning how to dump/write/erase firmwares for many DS devices ; CrashMe “showcases” all the knowledge he has accumulated, either from his reverse engineering, or other people’s info/official documentation.
2. Before “CrashMe,” there was Tubgirl.nds, disguised as a rom loader, pretty much like DF’s program in the way that it basically flips off warezers. Then people started jokingly talking about “making an app that pretends to be a warez app and destroys your DS” — well, be careful what you wish for!
3. The PSP scene had one, and it made slashdot. Everything they do, we must do better
4. DF linked to his brickers on several occasions, they were always thoroughly explained either before or after the links were pasted, the only person who got “tricked” didn’t speak english, but had flashme installed, therefore it was recoverable. The r0mloader.zip was the only one advertised outside of #dsdev, it targeted people interested in running commercial roms, the person advertising it was using a .nl proxy — that’s not very relevant however… I believe that it was originally meant as an inside joke, and was not meant to leak out of #dsdev…
5. Unless I’m mistaken, DF is working on a fixer utility, I also noticed that he complained about the lack of open official documentation for programmers ; perhaps he wants to use this to pressure GBAMP/g6/etc into releasing the docs?
6. As joat said, if he truly wanted to kill everyone’s DS, he could have gone much further ; this was obviously meant as a joke — whether it was of good taste or not is subjective… (Although a lot of people are not really leaning towards the good taste option)

Oh yeah, and to those who are wondering about the rumors, Darkfader does not own neoflash, and he is not killing “everything except neoflash” –the program does attempt to erase XG/Neo carts, but well, if you’ve got only the r0mloader on it, not like it’s gonna be a big loss (and flash carts like neoflash cannot be ‘bricked’)

And finally, just because people in #dsdev tell you to GTFO, or seem to say “serves you right,” etc, doesn’t mean that we are happy people’s DSes are being turned into bricks. However, if you’re coming in just to start useless drama, we’re not going to be friendly with you!

Just a little FYI to everyone… la la la