Ez Flash V

Detailed Product Description

Ez Flash V

MicroSD choice

A microSD card with serial number "SD-C01G JAPAN" or "SD-C02G JAPAN" printed on its surface is highly recommended. These are rebadged Toshibas and have proven to be fast and compatible. PNY, Kingston, Verbatim, Dane-Elec are companies which have been confirmed to use this card in some of their batches.

Format your MicroSD

It's always a good idea to start with a freshly formatted MicroSD card.

Windows Method

Short and simple, but may give some drawbacks.

• Insert your MicroSD into your PC.
• Double-click "My Computer".
• Right-click your MicroSD drive and choose "Format".
• Under the "File system", select FAT or FAT16.
• Click the "Start" button.

This also works on Windows Vista Systems, no administrative rights required

Using Official SD Association Tool

Another way is to use official SD formatting tool developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial. It can fix various corruptions and follows SD specification for best compatibility and speed.

Quick summary:

"Generally, SD/SDHC Memory Card file systems formatted with generic operating system formatting software do not comply with the SD Memory Card specification. If you have formatted the card using the PC's standard formatting program, make sure to reformat using SD format to take full advantage of maximum SD Memory Card performance"

Q: What happens when I format an SD Memory Card with a standard PC formatting program ?

A: The SD host equipment may not be able to recognize the SD Memory Card. Writing data to the card may take longer than necessary and some functions may no longer work.

 

The EZ-V MoonShell

MoonShell is part of the EZ-V Operating System and is required for it to run. It's located in moonshl directory (check picture).

Included in :

• Graphic files (*.bmp) that make up look and feel of the user interface (skin directory).
• Configuration files (*.ini) that change the way the user interface works.
• resetsp.bin file which is used by soft reset process. This one is often updated.
• plugins that are in plugin directory. These are necessary to read sound and picture files. We can find stand-by plugin too (files clk_xxx.xxx).

The EZ-V Loader

The Loader is the EZ-V Operating System. It's a good idea to update to the latest Loader for new features and bug fixes.

Installing and updating the Loader

• Visit the ALL YOU NEED FOR EZV WIKI
• Download the latest version of the Loader (kernel zip file)
• Unzip content to the root of your MicroSD card.
• Insert your MicroSD into your EZ-V
• Insert your EZ-V into your DS and turn it on
• Touch the health screen warning
• In the DS Main Menu, while holding down R, launch the EZ-V
• When the EZ-V splash screen appears, press R again to update the Loader
• Wait until it finishes updating then press A to continue.
• Your Loader is now updated

After updating, you can delete "ez5upldr.bin" from your MicroSD

Add games (ROMs) to your MicroSD

• Insert your MicroSD into your PC
• Drag and drop your "game.nds" file to your MicroSD
• IMPORTANT: Do not use the old hybrid tool in any way, even using it to trim will cause problems

Running games

You are now ready to play some games:

• Insert your MicroSD card into your EZ-V
• Insert your EZ-V into your DS
• Touch the health screen warning to skip it
• In the DS Main Menu, launch the EZ-V
• In the EZ-V menu, highlight a game using the D-Pad or touch screen arrows and press A to launch!

Savegame files are stored on the EZ-V and transferred to your MicroSD card next time you load the EZ-V menu. You will find them stored in a folder called "SAVE". It's a good idea to regularly backup your "SAVE" folder to your PC.

Running games in Clean Mode

At default games are run in new hybrid mode. That means they should load fast from most memory cards, allow use of cheats, reset from game and auto detect save type. But sometimes that may not work, and thats where clean mode comes in handy. For clean mode (as in old kernels), need to create ini file for every game separately. That file should have the same name as the game (but end with ini, not nds) and be in the same dir with nds file. For example:

---

root

→ games

→→ New Super Mario.nds

→→ New Super Mario.ini

---

In this mode memory card speed has to be specified in ini file. It is the same as in old kernels, that means it has to be integer in 1-12 range (where 1 is the fastest memory card, 12 the slowest).

 

Cheats

Intro

To use cheats you must have a folder named CHT on the root of your SD card. If you followed install instruction correctly this should already be there. The CHT folder is where all your cheat files(yes plural) will be stored. These cheat files are in the form of .cht and have a certain format. Two ways of getting cheats going will be explained: the simple way, and the advanced way.

Creating/Getting Cheat Files

Simple Way

In the Simple way all you need is Teammarry's CheatCodeTransferforEZ5 and the Action Replay code manager. Simply unzip teammarry's tool anywhere on your computer. The structure must remain the same though. You now need the code manager from the actual AR devices. Find the USA version here and the Europe version here. Install and run the program. Then right click the codelist you want and paste it into the white box under 'My Codelists'.You can repeat this for every subscription you have. This may take several minutes depending on your internet connection(you need internet for this). Once thats done run teammarry's program, click on the xml button navigate to C:Program FilesDatelAction Replay Code Managerlocal_codelists (assuming you left everything default). Select one of the files there other than default_codelist. Then chose where you want your cheat files to end up(to save time point it to your CHT directory on your microSD card. Repeat this for every codelist you downloaded.

Advanced Way

Unfortunatly the advanced way is just that, advanced, this means it takes a lot of typing to properly explain and for the users that don't care about this stuff i will put this on a seperate page as this doesn't really fit in a Quickstart Guide.

 

Activating

To use cheats you must have cheats toggled on(see EZ-V settings) and the appropriate cheat file in your CHT folder. When you select a game that has cheats a new menu will pop up on the touch screen, this will list all the cheats available. Simply scoll down the list toggling on any cheats you want to use, use up and down arrows to go through list and right arrow to toggle on & off. Press A when your done to run the game. Tap the close icon to cancel.

Once in-game you'll notice the cheats aren't active straight away. Press L+R+START(in-game) to turn them on and L+R+SELECT to turn them off

EZ-V Settings

There are a few extra items you should be aware of. These are accessible from the EZ-V menu:

Brightness settings

Access this by pressing sun icon. Only for DS Lite, does nothing on original DS

Enabled cheat mode and soft reset

• Toggle by touching second button on the left(two arrows on default skin).
• Orange = cheat mode disabled (OFF), Blue = cheat mode enabled (ON)

The Help Screen

Access this by pressing question mark icon. It contains some simple instructions and the version number of your EZ-V Loader.

The Settings Screen

Access this by pressing hammer and screwdriver icon. Here you can change language, 3in1 rumble strength and moonshell icons size.

Shutdown DS

Access this by pressing red icon.

Additional EZ-V features

This is a simple list of additional features of the EZ-V. Essentially the EZ-V operating system is a modified version of Moonshell - a homebrew Media Player developed by Moonlight. As such, most of the features listed here also apply to Moonshell.

PassMe function

If you have an EZ-IV or other Flashcart that inserts into the GBA slot of your DS, you can use the EZ-V as a PassMe device. Also boots normal GBA cartridges.

Using the built-in passme function

• Insert your Slot-2 Flashcart into Slot-2 and your EZ-V into Slot-1
• Turn on your DS
• Touch the health screen warning
• In the DS Main Menu, launch the EZ-V while holding down R
• Press L then press A

Using EZreset

EZreset is a homebrew program written by Cory1492. It will boot a slot-2 Flashcart in either DS or GBA mode.

• Copy the two .NDS files to your MicroSD card
• Launch the .NDS file from the EZ-V menu by highlighting it and pressing A

Music playback

The EZ-V includes support for MP3, Ogg, WAV and MOD:

• Copy your audio files to your MicroSD
• Load the EZ-V menu
• Highlight the audio file using the D-Pad and press A to play.

Video playback

The EZ-V includes support for DPG files. To convert video files (AVI, etc) to DPG, you'll need to use either

Image viewing

The EZ-V includes support for viewing BMP, JPG and PNG graphics files:

• Copy your graphic files to your MicroSD
• Load the EZ-V menu
• Highlight the graphic file using the D-Pad and press A to view.

Text file reading

The EZ-V supports viewing of text files (*.txt and *.ini):

• Copy your text files to your MicroSD
• Load the EZ-V menu
• Highlight the text file using the D-Pad and press A to view.

Skinning the User Interface

You can change the look and feel of the EZ-V User Interface:

• Replace all the files in skin folder on your MicroSD with new one

Keys while running backups

• L+R+A+B: Return to EZ-Flash V main menu (cheat mode icon must be enabled)
• L+R+START: cheat mode enabled (cheat mode icon must be enabled)
• L+R+SELECT: cheat mode disabled (cheat mode icon must be enabled)