Hacking NDSSFC/CATSFC revival

[Deleted member 319809]

That's weird. One post of distance in our conversation
About your modification:
- If accents ares posible then "Video" must be "Vídeo" and "menu" must be "menú"
- Refered to my last post I prefer "Avance rápido"

About capitol letters... if you prefer left out no problem. I normally use then with some terms that i consider important in some way.


Can I modify directly on github?

Sure, feel free to make a fork, edit the file and request a pull. UTF-8 is easy to input on a web page.

About capital letters, I know they're needed in German, but not in Spanish.

#MSG_LOAD_GAME_FROM_CARD
Wähle ein Spiel von der Karte aus

I prefer having no capitals wherever possible.

 

[Boriar]

My apologize for being tiresome but then, can i use "¿" and "¡" ?

 

[Deleted member 319809]

My apologize for being tiresome but then, can i use "¿" and "¡" ?

Yes, and if they're not in the font, I'll make them.

Edit: They're there, so you can use them already without problems.

 

[Boriar]

I'm totally noob with github.
When i edit the file what i do to update it before request a pull? i can't see any save button.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

I'm totally noob with github.
When i edit the file what i do to update it before request a pull? i can't see any save button.

The button is called Propose File Change, and it's at the lower right of the page, just to the right of Cancel.

 

[wolfmanz51]

Sure, feel free to make a fork, edit the file and request a pull. UTF-8 is easy to input on a web page.

About capital letters, I know they're needed in German, but not in Spanish.

#MSG_LOAD_GAME_FROM_CARD
Wähle ein Spiel von der Karte aus

I prefer having no capitals wherever possible.

After i took a German class i wanted to capitalize a lot of words all the time.

 

[XDel]

We already have something like this for the GBA. Works pretty darn good too!

 

[Deleted member 319809]

CATSFC 1.29, the History Revisited Edition, is now released. It features the 3 new translations from this thread -- German, Dutch and Spanish --, 32 kHz SNES-like sound, better sound output timing, fewer writes to settings files, better extended button press behaviour in the menu, faster ROM loading and better plugin argument support (mainly used in custom menus like BAGPlug and iMenu).

By default, it also has perfect button sync, BUT at the cost of automatic frame skipping forcing 2 frames to be skipped. You can set your frame skipping to be 1 or even 0, but beware the stuck buttons! For Yoshi's Island, Star Fox and most other chip games however, that shouldn't be a problem since they run so slowly anyway. Most non-chip games are also fluid under default settings:

/Video & audio
Frame skipping: [-] Keep up with the game
Fluidity: Prefer fluid video
/Options
CPU frequency: [5] 396 MHz

 

[Hanafuda]

Nebuleon, just wanted to say thank you. Any more you manage to squeeze out of CATSFC will always be appreciated, but you have finally made enjoyable SNES gaming on NDS a reality. I'm finally getting my money's worth out of this DSTwo (over cheaper alternatives).

 

[Deleted member 319809]

Nebuleon, just wanted to say thank you. Any more you manage to squeeze out of CATSFC will always be appreciated, but you have finally made enjoyable SNES gaming on NDS a reality. I'm finally getting my money's worth out of this DSTwo (over cheaper alternatives).

Thanks for the kind words, and you're welcome for the emulator improvements. Consider it the work of a SNES enthusiast working hard to make other SNES enthusiasts happy.

Frankly, NDSSFC 1.06, BAGSFC R3 and CATSFC 1.1 didn't feel like they were the best I could get... their controls, all had problems; their audio, all had jumpy notes; their video, I felt it wasn't normal for a simple sprite-BG game like Mario World to have to get to 10 auto-equivalent frameskip to render a level. Loading the emulator took too long; loading a game didn't go anything near the card's speed, even worse when zipped for space; most games looked like crap on the full-screen mode since it wasn't antialiased, and I hated having to set the CPU and aspect ratio every time, or to have to enter the menu to do a bit of fast-forwarding when it's so easy on a PC emulator, just press a key. Plus, the Engrish everywhere...

I started this revival mostly so I could have better controls. I continue this revival with much more understanding about the Supercard's hardware, and a build that plays games with good controls and great sound, plus it doesn't choke on Super Mario World's Forest of Illusion 3 level. (ha!)

Now, I think it's the best I can get, or if it isn't the best then it's near.

The most important bug ended up being related to the sound output, which I found out about early but couldn't fix properly: CATSFC issue 27. Optimising the rest didn't yield any noticeable improvement, but now that the underlying cause is fixed, those optimisations showed their true potential. And then I proved that was the worst bug: after 1.28, I made a build with the sampling frequency at 48 kHz and it didn't lag any further.

Finally, here's how I feel right now:

 

[2ndApex]

I get a "Some icons are missing Load them onto your card Press Any key to return to the menu" error when I try to load 1.29

I have tripled checked and am absolutely sure I have every file in the ZIP.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

I get a "Some icons are missing Load them onto your card Press Any key to return to the menu" error when I try to load 1.29

Extract the CATSFC folder too (minimally extract the contents of CATSFC/SYSTEM to your card's /CATSFC/SYSTEM folder). You just extracted the 1.29 .plg over a pre-1.21 CATSFC folder. You'll also get new interface text for some new options created since 1.21.

 

[2ndApex]

Extract the CATSFC folder too (minimally extract the contents of CATSFC/SYSTEM to your card's /CATSFC/SYSTEM folder). You just extracted the 1.29 .plg over a pre-1.21 CATSFC folder. You'll also get new interface text for some new options created since 1.21.

I've reextracted the CATSFC folder and PLG from 1.28->1.29 about five times, nothing seems to be working.

Perhaps try and use the uploaded filetrip version yourself? It might be a problem caused by the language updates or something.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

I've reextracted the CATSFC folder and PLG from 1.28->1.29 about five times, nothing seems to be working.

Perhaps try and use the uploaded filetrip version yourself? It might be a problem caused by the language updates or something.

after carrying out these steps on a Linux system:

a) delete /_dstwoplug/catsfc.plg
b) delete /CATSFC/system, except ndssfc.cfg
c) extract ZIP/catsfc.plg to /_dstwoplug
d) extract ZIP/CATSFC/system to /CATSFC

I start up CATSFC and it goes straight to "No game is currently loaded" and the lovely GUI shown in the filetrip download.

I notice that it took me about 30 seconds to get the download page to load; maybe your download has been cut short (it should be 2.5 MB, 2,541,311 bytes) or BassAceGold's updated filesystem access code is choking on Windows-extracted files (unlikely but possible).

 

[Hanafuda]

I've reextracted the CATSFC folder and PLG from 1.28->1.29 about five times, nothing seems to be working.

Perhaps try and use the uploaded filetrip version yourself? It might be a problem caused by the language updates or something.

I'm using 1.29, obtained from filetrip, and it works beautifully. I don't know why you're having troubles, but it isn't anything wrong with the uploaded zip.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

I'm using 1.29, obtained from filetrip, and it works beautifully. I don't know why you're having troubles, but it isn't anything wrong with the uploaded zip.

On which OS? [edit: On which OS... did you extract the files onto your card?]

 

[2ndApex]

On which OS? [edit: On which OS... did you extract the files onto your card?]

Windows 7 and WinRAR?

 

[Deleted member 319809]

1.29 includes filesystem access improvements by BassAceGold, which apparently require more correctness in the card's filesystem than previous versions of CATSFC (which created corrupted-named files in /CATSFC/gamerts). You might need to use the Check Disk tool on the card a few times, as discussed by HitsuMaruku in CATSFC issue 31.

If all else fails, you may need to back up your games and delete the /CATSFC folder entirely, then extract the games again, or if that fails too, reformat your card with the Panasonic SD Formatter as explained in the setup thread after backing up all of the card's files.

 

[BassAceGold]

If you are launching snes games through a menu such as BAGPlug or Imenu, make sure the CATSFC.plg is inside the CATSFC folder, and not somewhere else! This allows you to move the CATSFC folder to anywhere on your card rather than having it in the root directory.

 

[2ndApex]

If you are launching snes games through a menu such as BAGPlug or Imenu, make sure the CATSFC.plg is inside the CATSFC folder, and not somewhere else! This allows you to move the CATSFC folder to anywhere on your card rather than having it in the root directory.

Thanks, that did the trick! I was about to reformat my microSD with 7.7G of stuff too

It's kinda weird though, I was doing all the other versions of CATSFC with ARG loading just fine with the PLG in the plugin folder.