Homebrew [NDS] Forwarder CIAs for your HOME Menu

[RocketRobz]

Is there any way to use more than 40 forwarders but using a flashcard? YANBF can exceed 40, but it doesn't work with flashcards, right?

There is no way to use more than 40 forwarders with a flashcard, afaik.

 

[RookieKid]

I want to play Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow (rom) on my 3DS, but I remember when I tried to play it on my DS many years ago, the game would always freeze from time to time, making it unplayable. As I recall this was one of those game roms that didn't work very well. Can anyone confirm if it's working any better today and actually is fully playable without any freezes/white screens.

 

[RocketRobz]

I want to play Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow (rom) on my 3DS, but I remember when I tried to play it on my DS many years ago, the game would always freeze from time to time, making it unplayable. As I recall this was one of those game roms that didn't work very well. Can anyone confirm if it's working any better today and actually is fully playable without any freezes/white screens.

Haven't heard any issues with that game recently, so it's safe to assume it's working fine now.

 

[Nomelas]

what are all the different settings for in nds-bootstrap.ini ? Alos, SOUND_FREQ is not in there, but mentioned in the OP.

 

[RocketRobz]

what are all the different settings for in nds-bootstrap.ini ? Alos, SOUND_FREQ is not in there, but mentioned in the OP.

Which settings are you wondering about, in particular?

 

[Nomelas]

BOOST_VRAM = 0
CARD_READ_DMA = -1
ASYNC_CARD_READ = -1
DSI_MODE = 1
EXTENDED_MEMORY = 0
DONOR_SDK_VER = 0
PATCH_MPU_REGION = 0
PATCH_MPU_SIZE = 0

all these? lol

 

[RocketRobz]

BOOST_VRAM = 0
CARD_READ_DMA = -1
ASYNC_CARD_READ = -1
DSI_MODE = 1

See this page: https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/nds-bootstrap/glossary

These are either unused, or not important:

EXTENDED_MEMORY = 0
DONOR_SDK_VER = 0
PATCH_MPU_REGION = 0
PATCH_MPU_SIZE = 0

 

[raxadian]

EXTENDED_MEMORY is the extended memory duh.

DONOR_SDK_VER No clue about this one.

PATCH_MPU_REGION Should be forcing game to switch to a region?

PATCH_MPU_SIZE I think this one is about pixel scaling?

 

[RocketRobz]

EXTENDED_MEMORY is the extended memory duh.

DONOR_SDK_VER No clue about this one.

PATCH_MPU_REGION Should be forcing game to switch to a region?

PATCH_MPU_SIZE I think this one is about pixel scaling?

EXTENDED_MEMORY was meant to expand ROM space limit when pre-loading a ROM into RAM. As it is has been improved and now a default feature, the .ini setting went unused.
DONOR_SDK_VER is meant for ROM hacks which strip out the SDK information. The forwarders and TWiLight Menu++ automatically set that.
MPU stands for Memory Protection Unit.

 

[DawgeatDawg]

wont run. I have updated java and winrar multiple times and still doesnt open. Even the run,bat method gives me an error. Anyone know how to fix?

 

[lone_wolf323]

wont run. I have updated java and winrar multiple times and still doesnt open. Even the run,bat method gives me an error. Anyone know how to fix?

posting the error would likely be a help to find out whats going on

 

[trijim]

So im on a newer PC (which means I have to reinstall all of the tools I used for Forwarding). Whenever I download the forwarder and extract, the .jar comes up as a rar file; no biggie. I try to run it as .jar as its intended but when I do the command terminal launches for a brief second then disappears. It seems that I can't run the .jar file for whatever reason.

 

[Kahashi97]

Can pls someone teach me how to run the .jar file, i tried to fix it with the .bat but isn't working, thx in advance.

 

[Hayato213]

Can pls someone teach me how to run the .jar file, i tried to fix it with the .bat but isn't working, thx in advance.

You need java as stated in the opening post.

 

[Kahashi97]

Necesitas java como se indica en el post inicial.

Yes, I know I'm aware of that, but it still doesn't work.

 

[jimcarreyfan64]

Hi! ive been trying to do the first step of extracting the files into my sd card but when I go to move them it tells me the file name for nds-bootstrap.ini is too long/invalid. it won't let me shorten the name. I also noticed in the _nds folder that is on the sd card from when i homebrewed it it already has another file by the same name but nothing else in the folder is the same as the _nds folder in the for sd card root folder. what can I do to fix this?

 

[RocketRobz]

Hi! ive been trying to do the first step of extracting the files into my sd card but when I go to move them it tells me the file name for nds-bootstrap.ini is too long/invalid. it won't let me shorten the name. I also noticed in the _nds folder that is on the sd card from when i homebrewed it it already has another file by the same name but nothing else in the folder is the same as the _nds folder in the for sd card root folder. what can I do to fix this?

You need to use the 7-zip application to extract the files.

 

[Shokai]

I tried to extract the .cia generated by the program to insert an e-manual and rebuild the cia, but all I could extract was a single file that I can't use to rebuild the cia.
Could you help me insert the e-manual?

 

[RocketRobz]

I tried to extract the .cia generated by the program to insert an e-manual and rebuild the cia, but all I could extract was a single file that I can't use to rebuild the cia.
Could you help me insert the e-manual?

You cannot insert e-manuals into DSiWare-type titles (of which the forwarders are, if you used Forwarder3-DS).
Also, even if it weren't a DSiWare-type title, I wouldn't know what to do.

 

[vincentjoshuaet]

Changing the BOOST_CPU value from nds-bootstrap.ini does nothing, it gets reverted to -1. I read that using TWL clock speed improves Pokemon Platinum and I want to try it without using Twilight Menu as I prefer having the icons and my activity log showing these games. AFAIK Platinum isn't included in the blacklist so it seems the bug/issue of nds-bootstrap.ini overwriting this value came back.