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As many people know, and suffer, the last update from the Nintendo DSi/DSi XL has blocked all the cartridges from the DS scene. But several cartridges keep offering a support for charging backups, among them the Ez Flash Vi

To make this cartridge works in our console we will need, before anything, that the microSD is formatted on FAT 32 and in a slow mode. This will avoid us to start again all the process when we have it already finished.

Note:This step is not required, but is advisable, the best thing is make a backup of what we have in the microSD and put all inside once is done.

This update will also allow us to use our Ez Flash Vi in a Nintendo 3DS with the update 2.1.0.4

Required:

• Ez Flash Vi Update (the operative System is already included)
• Console DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL (DSi or DSi XL with a previous version than the 1.4.3)

Instructions

1.Unzip the File Ez Flash Vi Update 1.4.3 and it will rest the following files

• Folder EZ5Shell
• File ez5isys
• File ez5firmwreUP_V101.nds
• File EZ5F106A.nds

2. Once we have put the microSD in the cartridge, and the cartridge inside our console (remember that the first time we must put it into a console without the firmware 1.4.3) Once we are at the menu, we must make two updates from the flashcard’s firmware in order to make it works.

3.Now it’s time to exec the file ez5firmwreUP_V101.nds, and it will ask us to press the button Y and then A. We have to wait a few seconds and then will appear the sentence: “Upgrade Successfully” and this moment we turn off the console.

4,Now it’s time to execute the file EZ5F106.nds once more, the same process as before (step 3).  When the console shows again “Upgrade Successfully” we must turn off the console.

5.We delete now from the microSD the ez5firmwreuUP_V101.nds file as the EZ5F106A.nds This step is optional, but in this way we will avoid the updates by mistake.

6.And we will have the cartridge ready to work at Nintendo DSi 1.4.3 or 3DS version 2.0.1.4.

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From the official web of X360key it’s announced that the device which will allow to play all games from Xbox 360 stored in a USB reader or an external hard disk.

• Console Nintendo DS, DSi or DSi XL
• 3DS Update Firmware 2.1.0.3
• Operative System R4i RTS PT 3.2

• Folder _system_
• Folder moonshl2
• File _DS_MENU
• File _ds_menu
• File moonshl2.nds

• File _DS_MENU
• File _ds_menu
• File EON_Write

• File _DS_MENU
• File _ds_menu
• File EON_Write

• File _DS_MENU
• File _ds_menu

Due to the magazine EGM we have just know the face of Booker DeWitt, the agent responsible of the rescue Elizabeth, a girl who is jailed at the aerial city since her childhood. Booker will be the main character, and we will control him at Bioshock Infinite, which is expected to be launched to the stores during the spring of 2012 to Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

It's the first time that the main character of Bioshock show us his face, despite of the Big Daddy who is so ugly.

Such a good new for all the followers of this sagas, perhaps with this presenting acts of both franchises at least  we can see the final dates of the betas and the commercials ones.

We are so many people expecting the third part of Diablo III, this epics adventures which Blizzard offers us always funny, we just have to look back and see what they've done with the first Diablo and the great Diablo II.

Another franchise we will see is the “the first expansion” of Starcraft II, where we can play the whole campaign of the awful and lovely Zergs.

We expect that little by little they announce the dates of the beta, because as we all know the BlizzCon is far, because it will be celebrated at Octobe, at the 21th and 22th

At August we will have a date to see this workshop with all their news and announces, 5 intense days where so many people will taste the game announced at the E3 and see what is expecting us during this year.

Snowblind Studios and Warner has presented with some details the new collector edition which will be launched the game “The Lord of the Rings: The War in the North” that will arrive at November for Xbox 360, Playstation and PC.

This new edition it's inspired in the Tolkien's saga which will have a collector edition confirmed at this moment at the USA, although we can't say that this won't reach Europe.

This edition will have:

• The game of the Lord of the Rings: War in the North
• Art book
• A DVD with some interviews about the game developing, specially about the music of the game, which will be included.
• Exclusive items for Xbox 360 and PS3 to our avatars (for Xbox 360 a special suit for our avatar and at the Playstation 3 a wallpaper, themes and icones)
• A leather quive

A leather quive.

The agonic console of Nintendo is in its last years of life, but despite of being dying it still has some good games.

One of the games which will arrive for Wii (at this moment is only confirmed at Japan, and it's complicated that it arrives here in Europe) is Inazuma Eleven Strikers, an arcade game of football where we can see the most famous characters from this franchise pretending to be the Capitain Tsubasa crew.

It looks good to play some matches, it's a pity that we won't have it in Europe, or for PS3 or Xbox 360.

The beginning of July is so hard to publish a new, because all the writer over the world (well, over the north of the planet) are on holidays, and well, because the warm make us work so slow, you know, we the gamers are some kind of animals with cold blood.

But today we give you some advices: never spitting against the wind? Always use clean underclothes?  Of course but: what we should do when we are among a fire hazard

This reminds me when Moss of IT Crowd email the firemen, because his office is burning out.

Interview to the x360Key main developer. If you are on this planet you know X360key is the product will let you play all your Xbox 360 games from any USB drive! Exciting stuff indeed. Lets get this thing going, enjoy!

Q - What products have the x360Key Team developed in the past?

X360Key, Wode, Wiikey, Drivekey, d2pro, xenoGC, Qoob, Crystal Chip, Aladdin XT/XenoFX series mod chips for Xbox 1.

Q - How long has x360Key been in development now?

Approximately 6 months.

Q - Will x360Key work with all Xbox 360 consoles, including Slim?

Yes and as new drive versions appear we will add support for them too.

Q - How do you install x360Key, is it easy?

Very easy, it's Plug 'n' Play, if you can dump the firmware from your drive then you can install the X360key.

Q - Both PS3 and Wii software backup loaders have compatibility problems with some game titles when loading from hard drive, due to firmware version requirements or protection in general, how is x360Key in that regard?

This is where drive emulations really come into their own, because the console sees a real drive with a real disk inserted there is no need for any patching or hacking. Everything 'just works' as normal.

Q - In relation to x360Key; what exactly is the Xbox 360 DVD drive needed for?

The X360key offers two modes, emulation & passthru. In emulation mode the drive is not required at all, in passthru mode the drive works as normal.

Q - Does the Xbox 360 DVD drive need any custom firmware flashed to work with X360key?

No, quite the opposite in fact. You need a dump of the original drive firmware to configure X360key. The good news is that's all you need to configure X360key.

Q - How safe is x360Key on Xbox Live compared to iXtreme?

While we take every care to accurately emulate the XBox's drive we do not recommend using X360key with XBL at launch. Shortly after launch we will release updates that address this.

Also, plenty of people have been banned while using CFW and there are still issues even with the latest iXtreme. For example, in order to pass the new Slim FW checks a lot of data has to be swapped around (C4E's so called 'rootkit'). This takes time and the checks take a lot longer to perform than they would on a stock drive. In the worst case it takes CFW takes 5 times longer to perform the check (15 seconds instead of 2-3). If MS have noticed this then it is quite possible that every Slim owner using CFW has already been marked for a ban.

[See timing graph for details.]

By comparison X360key features a powerful ARM9 CPU that can perform the FW checks *faster* than the real drive running stock FW. We have the horsepower & the storage capacity to handle anything the future brings.

Q - How will the new XGD3 disc format (eg. Halo Reach) be handled by x360Key, any special backup considerations?

We do not anticipate any problems with XGD3, game ISOs are stored on HDD and are not limited by the capacity of a DL DVDR. X360key supports any number of HDDs upto 2 TB in size.

Q - Regarding backups in general, most gamers use abgx360 to verify their backup ISO images, is that still recommended with x360Key?

abgx360 verifies that the ISO is an accurate backup of a game disk. Whether an ISO is burned to a disk or used by X360key it must be an accurate backup. For this reason gamers should continue to abgx360 to verify their ISOs.

Q - Besides official updates, are there any features of the x360Key that will be open for the user to customize?

We have no plans at this time.

Q - For lazy guys like me, will there be any possibility to select games from the comfort of a sofa?

We do, however, have plans for wireless control of X360key.

Q - I'm really eager to get my hands on one of these, when can we expect x360Key to be released?

Current plan is for a July launch and we are on track.

Q - Is there anything else you would like to tell us about x360Key at this point?

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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X360key team posted three hardware pictures today, 15 days before release, and released the short news as below: "We are now assembling a number of prototypes that will soon be in the Xboxes of a selected few beta testers."

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