Hacking Nintendont

[ShadowOne333]

Well, I was thinking about making a cache for Shadow The Hedgedog, but I need all the levels unlocked, if I had your savefile, and a little of free time, I can make a cache for that game.

The levels took 10 seconds (aprox.) to load for me, with the cache I think it can took 5 seconds but I don't know very well

Good!

Can you try it right now and tell me if it works?
I will upload both the .raw and the .gct file, please enable both MCEmu and Ocarina and tell me how it works
Let me give you the .raw file, wait a little bit...

Ready!

 

[Goku Junior]

Good!

Can you try it right now and tell me if it works?
I will upload both the .raw and the .gct file, please enable both MCEmu and Ocarina and tell me how it works
Let me give you the .raw file, wait a little bit...

Ready!

I'll try tomorrow, that's why I wrote I need a little free time, now I've to study, the next week I'll have a lot of tests in school

EDIT:I need to put the cheats in the game folder,right?

 

[ShadowOne333]

I'll try tomorrow, that's why I wrote I need a little free time, now I've to study, the next week I'll have a lot of tests in school

EDIT:I need to put the cheats in the game folder,right?

Yep, the .gct file goes in the same folder as the game.iso file.
Don't forget that the .gct should be named as the GameID.
Since it is Shadow The Hedgehog, the .gct should be GUPE8P.gct

 

[Goku Junior]

Yep, the .gct file goes in the same folder as the game.iso file.

OK, going to the cache of Shadow The Hedgehog, I don't know when I can make it, the caches files are difficult to make it (a lot of files), but the problem isn't that, the problem is I need dolphin to make a cache file, but I tried to run Shadow the Hedgehog in my netbook (it has a very bad CPU and GPU) and it was terrible lag, so I need to use my PC (it has a medium CPU and GPU), but it is broken bacause I if I use more than 5 minutes, it overheat (yes, I'm not joking) the only option is my notebook, it has Intel Core 2 duo 1.5GHz with and Intel GMA x3100, 2GB RAM DDR2, you see the hardware isn't very good so I'm afraid I can't use dolphin to make the cache, in case I can't use the notebook I will have to wait for my Medium hardware PC gets to work again...

 

[SuperrSonic]

In games like Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic Heroes, the graphical glitches refer to some flickering or missing visual effects from certain points, like the Team Blast in Sonic Heroes or the Chaos Blast in Shadow.

Are you certain about that? I don't see any difference at all. Which Team Blast btw? Also tried Chaos Blast and it looks the same. Just tested all Team Blasts and did not see anything missing or messed up.


On another note I noticed that after using Nintendont for a while, trying out DML for example shuts the console off and when using Devolution the progressive scan screen specifically was in Japanese and the MC screen asked for a format. After going to the system menu's MC manager it went back to normal.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Are you certain about that? I don't see any difference at all. Which Team Blast btw? Also tried Chaos Blast and it looks the same. Just tested all Team Blasts and did not see anything missing or messed up.


On another note I noticed that after using Nintendont for a while, trying out DML for example shuts the console off and when using Devolution the progressive scan screen specifically was in Japanese and the MC screen asked for a format. After going to the system menu's MC manager it went back to normal.

Take a good look at the Chaos Control Team Blast of Team Dark, there are some red orbs or blinking lights that are missing, which in no way affect gameplay or are notable as glitches. Same for Chaos Blast, although I haven't played Shadow The Hedgehog but two times with Nintendon't so I cannot be sure about that one.

 

[Disorarara]

Does Nintendont work with USB keyboards?

 

[Goku Junior]

Does Nintendont work with USB keyboards?

I never had tried, but I don't think a USB keyboard would work, but I repeat, I hadn't tried...

 

[SuperrSonic]

Take a good look at the Chaos Control Team Blast of Team Dark, there are some red orbs or blinking lights that are missing, which in no way affect gameplay or are notable as glitches. Same for Chaos Blast, although I haven't played Shadow The Hedgehog but two times with Nintendon't so I cannot be sure about that one.

Could not see a difference so I took a video of both cases but still I see no difference.
See for yourself:


I'd ask first if you can actually notice which is which but the first one is Nintendont and the second is GC mode.

Since we're comparing though see how awful it looks in Devolution:

 

[ShadowOne333]

Could not see a difference so I took a video of both cases but still I see no difference.
See for yourself:


I'd ask first if you can actually notice which is which but the first one is Nintendont and the second is GC mode.

Since we're comparing though see how awful it looks in Devolution:

I beg you pardon.

I was confusing the gameplay of Devolution with that of Nintendon't, I completely forgot I had Sonic Heroes running through Devo and not Nintendon't.
Then I am not aware of the graphical glitches of those games :/

Does anyone know what graphical glitches does the Compatibility List refers to in those games?

 

[kingdsx]

I have an unofficial repository on Github. It has a Sunshine cache, but it's not recommended to use it right now, since it tries to cache 3 times more memory than the Wii has physically, so it needs to be adjusted.

Thanks for the reply. I will try to modify the file to what I need cached. Just needed the file list mainly.

 

[faku1810]

Thanks for the reply. I will try to modify the file to what I need cached. Just needed the file list mainly.

The cache for Sunshine in the repository has only the levels (which are over 2 or 3 mb each); so it won't be as easy as simply deleting things from it. If you want to know which files are in the iso you'd have to use dolphin with the log enabled and see what's loaded.. I've already tried that though, and didn't get any notable benefit from caching the files I saw loaded at boot and the beginning of some levels.

 

[Prior22]

Good to see an update, I only own one dspv6 game that actually boots (Battalion Wars) so i'm going to test it right now.

fixing dspv4 will fix alot of very popular games as well

Edit: Battalion Wars sound still does not work

Edit2: Also on a smaller note, both Nintendont and dspscan cannot find the dsp of Animal Crossing NTSC

Have newer updates fixed the Battalion Wars issues? Never knew about Battalion Wars until recently, and being a huge Advance Wars fan I'm looking forward to playing it (ideally without any audio issues).

 

[pedro702]

well i played battalion wars in the past and the sound was great never tryed it since the new dspv codes tough

 

[Goku Junior]

Yep, the .gct file goes in the same folder as the game.iso file.
Don't forget that the .gct should be named as the GameID.
Since it is Shadow The Hedgehog, the .gct should be GUPE8P.gct

ShadowOne333, the save you gave to me it isn't working, I load the .raw file as GUPE.raw in saves folder, but it says "corrupt memory card" and I put Cheats ON, but it doesn't do nothing, the cheats file have the game ID, in the games folder in Shadow The Hedgehog folder, but it doesn't work. Sorry I will try to format the memory card and see what happends
EDIT: I format the memory card but it doesn't work

 

[faku1810]

ShadowOne333, the save you gave to me it isn't working, I load the .raw file as GUPE.raw in saves folder, but it says "corrupt memory card" and I put Cheats ON, but it doesn't do nothing, the cheats file have the game ID, in the games folder in Shadow The Hedgehog folder, but it doesn't work. Sorry I will try to format the memory card and see what happends

If you format the memory card then it's pointless. Try running the game without the memory so it creates one, then use Dolphin's MC manager to transfer Shadow's save to the one recently created and try with that one.

 

[Goku Junior]

If you format the memory card then it's pointless. Try running the game without the memory so it creates one, then use Dolphin's MC manager to transfer Shadow's save to the one recently created and try with that one.

But, the memory card ShadowOne333 gave to me was made by Nintendont, well he gave me a .raw file, but I'll try it, thanks!
EDIT: faku1810 I was putting the cheat file in the right place? I put it in the Shadow The Hedgedog game.iso folder with it's ID but I don't know if Nintendont is using the cheat file (cheats is on)

 

[faku1810]

But, the memory card ShadowOne333 gave to me was made by Nintendont, well he gave me a .raw file, but I'll try it, thanks!
EDIT: faku1810 I was putting the cheat file in the right place? I put it in the Shadow The Hedgedog game.iso folder with it's ID but I don't know if Nintendont is using the cheat file (cheats is on)

According to the first post, you might want to change the folder's name to the GameID as well. I'm not sure if it needs the kenobiwii.bin also, since JuanLeonardo mentioned that it wasn't working lately, but Shadow has tested more with cheats so he might know what exactly you need.

Yes, cheat codes are working on the Open source version (Not on the Alpha).
To enable the cheat codes, you need to download kenobiwii.bin file and put it in your sneek folder from the device where your games are located, like this: SD:/sneek/kenobiwii.bin and USB:/sneek/kenobiwii.bin

Generate your cheat code file using your preferred method (USBloader, online, etc.)

If you launch Nintendont from the Homebrew Channel, put the .gct file in /games/GameID/GameID.gct
if you launch from a loader, it will be loaded wherever the loader's default gct location is.

Then, enable Ocarina or Cheat option and launch the game.

 

[Goku Junior]

According to the first post, you might want to change the folder's name to the GameID as well. I'm not sure if it needs the kenobiwii.bin also, since JuanLeonardo mentioned that it wasn't working lately, but Shadow has tested more with cheats so he might know what exactly you need.

Ok, I can try that, but I need sneek? or only need to make the sneek folder? I know you are not sure if I need the kenobiwii.bin but, I can try it.

 

[adamnewy]

how do i get nintendont to work in cfg loader?