Homebrew Add many more screen layout options in DS virtual console games

[KelSolaar]

i see. but i assume it's on the wii u itseld and i don't know how to access that folder. there is no such directory on my sd card

Are you running on Aroma or Tiramisu?

 

[asdasdasdasdasd]

Are you running on Aroma or Tiramisu?

aroma

 

[Windsall]

I'm using Aroma and just tried its ftp, but I can't access any files that says wiiu/games in the nand, there's just
fs and there's a content folder down the line but no games.

How do I access the right folders in the wii u itself?
-I guess i should add that I injected using UWUVCI AIO (and installed with wup installer)

 

[emcintosh]

I'm using Aroma and just tried its ftp, but I can't access any files that says wiiu/games in the nand, there's just
fs and there's a content folder down the line but no games.

How do I access the right folders in the wii u itself?
-I guess i should add that I injected using UWUVCI AIO (and installed with wup installer

Walkthrough of how to locate the installed files: https://gbatemp.net/threads/new-to-...on-about-virtual-consoles.465095/post-9374490

 

[Windsall]

Walkthrough of how to locate the installed files: https://gbatemp.net/threads/new-to-...on-about-virtual-consoles.465095/post-9374490

Thanks but this is only for with an external drive, while I wanted to know for the nand.

I'd still like to know, though for now I found one solution for the program I'm using, in the thread, to put the files in the base game when injecting, and it worked for me. It's just it would be useful to know how the folder paths work for the nand, something so simple but I can't find the info on xD.

 

[emcintosh]

Thanks but this is only for with an external drive, while I wanted to know for the nand.

I'd still like to know, though for now I found one solution for the program I'm using, in the thread, to put the files in the base game when injecting, and it worked for me. It's just it would be useful to know how the folder paths work for the nand, something so simple but I can't find the info on xD.

IIRC it's the same file structure - you just look under storage_mlc instead of storage_usb.

 

[Windsall]

IIRC it's the same file structure - you just look under storage_mlc instead of storage_usb.

I didnt see that but ill try to look for it next time i check.

So far injecting with the base games having it has worked well.

 

[HoRy205]

I translated the language of the settings screen into Japanese for myself! If you want to use it in Japanese, please overwrite this file.

 

[Rivers3k]

This is really nice, blew up my mind!
The Fullscreen Widescreen while setting your Wii U resolution to 16:9 while outputting to CRT 4:3 is perfection thank you! This is the way to play Chrono Trigger.

If its not too much, can you add another 2 options for the fullscreen widescreen?
1. Top Screen DS Fullscreen Widescreen(TV), Bottom Screen DS Standard DS Resolution (Wii U Pad)
2. Bottom Screen DS Fullscreen Widescreen on(TV), Top Screen DS Standard DS Resolution(Wii U Pad)

seconding this - playing these games on my CRT is a treat, and it looks incredible on CRT. But it requires using DS Fullscreen Widescreen(TV) and Bottom Screen Widescreen (WII U PAD), meaning the gamepad will always be stretched gameplay, whereas the CRT looks perfect. I'll include a pic as an example

 

[Tur7L3]

seconding this - playing these games on my CRT is a treat, and it looks incredible on CRT. But it requires using DS Fullscreen Widescreen(TV) and Bottom Screen Widescreen (WII U PAD), meaning the gamepad will always be stretched gameplay, whereas the CRT looks perfect. I'll include a pic as an exampleView attachment 455192View attachment 455193

You could always manually edit the layout values within the files and get the Gamepad in a normal res

 

[Rivers3k]

You could always manually edit the layout values within the files and get the Gamepad in a normal res

Oh yeah? that's great news, was there a post explaining how to do so?

 

[grandosegood]

Oh yeah? that's great news, was there a post explaining how to do so?

depending on how you have the game...

you would edit the configuration.json file within the unpacked ds game. use nus converter to unpack your game and navigate down the folder path, starting at content folder, until you get to configuration.json.

i would edit that file with notepad++, then adjust the desired resolutions.

 

[MelMellon]

I'm going to be trying this out later today, but would it be possible to develop some sort of automatic application on the console itself that applies these layouts to every NDS VC/Inject on your console? I'm unsure of how feasible it would be to automatically detect what is and isn't an NDS VC game but at the very least having the ability to apply these from the console itself instead of using FTPiiU would be a godsend.

I have a TON of DS VC games, so atm I'm going through all of them to see their IDs one by one so that I can find them with FileZilla...

Post automatically merged: Sep 2, 2024

Things went pretty well! It was a bit fiddly to set up FTPiiU for the first time and to find where exactly to find the files in question, but I got it to work and tested it on one game (Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney).

It works perfectly except that none of the new descriptions appear to work properly? It simply returns #NO_TEXT# on any description not originally in the files. What's going on here?

 

[MikaDubbz]

I'm going to be trying this out later today, but would it be possible to develop some sort of automatic application on the console itself that applies these layouts to every NDS VC/Inject on your console? I'm unsure of how feasible it would be to automatically detect what is and isn't an NDS VC game but at the very least having the ability to apply these from the console itself instead of using FTPiiU would be a godsend.

I have a TON of DS VC games, so atm I'm going through all of them to see their IDs one by one so that I can find them with FileZilla...

Post automatically merged: Sep 2, 2024

Things went pretty well! It was a bit fiddly to set up FTPiiU for the first time and to find where exactly to find the files in question, but I got it to work and tested it on one game (Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney).

It works perfectly except that none of the new descriptions appear to work properly? It simply returns #NO_TEXT# on any description not originally in the files. What's going on here?
View attachment 455876

You must not have a US Wii U. See my advice for the same issue someone asked about earlier.

That would be that because you're not on a US English Wii U, that it's not pulling the descriptions from the same file location. Not sure where exactly you want to put the file in question, but I'm sure if you do a little searching and testing you can figure it out.

Strings.json is the file in question, without the file directory in front of me, I can't tell you where exactly to go, but you need to move out from the us_en folder to the folder that is appropriate for your region and language.

 

[MelMellon]

You must not have a US Wii U. See my advice for the same issue someone asked about earlier.

Strings.json is the file in question, without the file directory in front of me, I can't tell you where exactly to go, but you need to move out from the us_en folder to the folder that is appropriate for your region and language.

Thank you! I peeked into the file directories myself and found that EU consoles store English strings under "eur_en". So for anyone else with a PAL Wii U reading this: Go into wherever you extracted the DS Layouts ZIP, navigate to 0100/data/strings/, and copy the "en" folder that's there. Paste the copy and rename it to "eur_en". Having both there at once didn't seem to hurt the implementation but you can delete the "en" folder if you want.

Could you add this to the main post on the first page in case other EU users run into this issue?

 

[Rivers3k]

I'm going to be trying this out later today, but would it be possible to develop some sort of automatic application on the console itself that applies these layouts to every NDS VC/Inject on your console? I'm unsure of how feasible it would be to automatically detect what is and isn't an NDS VC game but at the very least having the ability to apply these from the console itself instead of using FTPiiU would be a godsend.

I have a TON of DS VC games, so atm I'm going through all of them to see their IDs one by one so that I can find them with FileZilla...

Post automatically merged: Sep 2, 2024

Things went pretty well! It was a bit fiddly to set up FTPiiU for the first time and to find where exactly to find the files in question, but I got it to work and tested it on one game (Apollo Justice - Ace Attorney).

It works perfectly except that none of the new descriptions appear to work properly? It simply returns #NO_TEXT# on any description not originally in the files. What's going on here?
View attachment 455876

a way to apply the filter/patches to all DS games would be so good, especially since a lot of games are injects and it's a little hard to find what the ID is for it haha

Post automatically merged: Sep 12, 2024

depending on how you have the game...

you would edit the configuration.json file within the unpacked ds game. use nus converter to unpack your game and navigate down the folder path, starting at content folder, until you get to configuration.json.

i would edit that file with notepad++, then adjust the desired resolutions.

sorry for the double post fellas

is the configuration file you're talking about called "configuration_cafe.json" ?

 

[Rivers3k]

depending on how you have the game...

you would edit the configuration.json file within the unpacked ds game. use nus converter to unpack your game and navigate down the folder path, starting at content folder, until you get to configuration.json.

i would edit that file with notepad++, then adjust the desired resolutions.

Sorry for the double post. I finally tried this out, and I could NOT understand all the text displayed in the configuration.json. All I wanted to do was edit the bottom-screen's resolution to the normal aspect instead of widescreen (for the dual widescreen option). Is there any way someone can help guide me in this? Maybe in the terminology or anything lol

 

[creedof69]

Hi everyone, I don't know if the issue has already been reported but on the top screen on tv / touch screen on gamepad layout (not stretched), there's those border acting like YouTube ambiant mode. In games (I tested on Pokemons) every time you talk to npc, or just any textboxs appears it change the screen contrast... Kind of, hard to explain it. I'm still investigating to know if it causes because of the base rom or not. Is it possible to put back blacks normal border for this layout ?

 

[MikaDubbz]

Hi everyone, I don't know if the issue has already been reported but on the top screen on tv / touch screen on gamepad layout (not stretched), there's those border acting like YouTube ambiant mode. In games (I tested on Pokemons) every time you talk to npc, or just any textboxs appears it change the screen contrast... Kind of, hard to explain it. I'm still investigating to know if it causes because of the base rom or not. Is it possible to put back blacks normal border for this layout ?

Whatever those borders are, it wasn't something added with these layout changes. So it's not something I can change with these layout changes unfortunately. If it's a bizarre byproduct and it annoys you too much, you may just have to revert to only the official layouts.

 

[creedof69]

Whatever those borders are, it wasn't something added with these layout changes. So it's not something I can change with these layout changes unfortunately. If it's a bizarre byproduct and it annoys you too much, you may just have to revert to only the official layouts.

I see... I'm using the Uwuvci inject option "add layout" which tell us that it takes layout from https://gbatemp...etc your thread url. So I thought you choose to use these transparent borders. And I wanted to use between this layout and the one with the little touche screen and big top screen which has less border than the official one so he touch screen can be bigger.