How to check your Nintendo DS, DS Lite, or iQue Firmware Ver

This is a tutorial video to How to check your Nintendo DS, DS Lite, or iQue Firmware Version. Nintendo iQue is the Chinese DS Lite.
Different firmware versions have different behaviors if a DS Game Card or Game Boy Advance cartridge is ejected during Pictochat. To determine your DS firmware version, follow these steps:

First method: 1. Insert an authentic Nintendo DS Game Card into SLOT-1, or a Game Boy Advance cart into SLOT-2, of your Nintendo DS.
2. Turn on DS (hold Start if you have autostart enabled in the settings).
3. Enter Pictochat.
4. Enter any chat room.
5. Eject the Game Card or GBA Cart from the DS.

Second method (doesn't work if firmware is v.1): 1. Turn on DS (hold Start if you have autostart enabled in the settings).
2. Enter Pictochat.
3. Enter any chat room.
4. Close Nintendo DS and observe color of the screen.

Result: * v1: Pictochat hangs/no color appears (for the second method) * v2: two greyish blue screens * v3: two dark green screens * v4: two golden yellow screens * v5: two magenta screens (DS lite units have this, along with a few pink original DSs) * v6: two dark blue screens * iQue: two dark green screens

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• phantom
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• firmware
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[1darkonyx1]

I got v3 on my original NDS :P

[NandaTemee]

how about knowing the firmware without opening the box? like some sort of serial tags. ^_^ could be very helpful i guess.

[Xludo73GoEco]

@Xludo73GoEco Because I just tested it by taking out my DS cart of my DSi and It didn't freeze or change colour.

[Xludo73GoEco]

@superstarxalien169 No. DSi doesn't allow the same trick.

[superstarxalien169]

what about dsi?

[freakit4]

Trollin' ?

[TCJJ]

That's pretty neat. Mine's a v2 because I preordered it and it's a New Zealand (European) version. I'm guessing only Japanese, and POSSIBLY American DS systems could have v1 firmware. But that is pretty cool. I don't really know if you could call it firmware though. I can't see the point in knowing, although it's interesting to know for sure.

[12333100]

FUCK YA

[illuminatioracle]

get your ahss to maaars

[Ilovevulpix17]

what does checkin this do? can someone tell me?

my friend has the triforce one. i hav no clu where she got it tho