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Force creation of backup.bin. Demand backup.bin exists before allowing injections. Dual backups. #79

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Asure opened this issue Dec 18, 2017 · 1 comment
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Asure commented Dec 18, 2017

This is a change i'd like to request. From the past few days i am seeing people not backup up the original cards' firmware, and then;

1a. Attempting to restore back the dumps available on-line and failing.
1b. Succeeding in a restore from a dump on-line but loosing options or partially failing.
Sometimes a new HW revision comes along and it differs from the previous one.
Flashing 'old' dumps into those cards breaks them (or some part is gone, like wifi or rts/ability to read SD, as it was just a clever clone with a different SD interface in the globtop.
2. Not backing up the cards' firmware (resulting in a restore, and we're back to # 1 above.)

Implementing this would mitigate the risk of a broken card.
I would suggest a double backup with a crc file (sha256?) to ensure both are the same file proper dumped.
A database could optionally be created to detect (un)dumped firmware and implemented later in GUI. (as done with EvoX and the original Xbox in its .ini file)

@kitlith kitlith added the bug label Dec 18, 2017
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kitlith commented Dec 18, 2017

Huh. This has changed since the initial release. Thank you for pointing it out.

Originally we didn't let you inject if a backup was not present. Apparently this changed. (probably around the time of the UI rewrite)

One thing that needs to go along with this is having a different name for backups depending on the cart. e.g. dstt_backup.bin, ak2i_backup.bin, etc...

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