Just got a few quick questions about the NPDP Reader and Carts. 1. In official use, would developers ever "hot-swap" carts? 2. How does the Gamecube IPL react when a cart is empty? 3. When a cart is empty, is it really empty? or are there place-holder template disc images on the cart? 4. Does the NPDP Gang flasher require any special PC side card? I plan to discover the answers to questions 2 and 3 myself, but if someone already knows any of the answers, I'd be quite happy to hear them.
1. No, it would damage it. 2. It just gives you a no data 3. It's just partitioned, no templates 4. Yes, an incredibly hard to get one.
with question 2, I'm getting a "Read Error" on a cart which is supposedly "empty". I'm going to dump the hdd/decrypt it.. possibly there's some interesting data on there then
Well if you break the xor, then you could do recovery on the dump. AFAIK only one person did so so far.
