Hacking Nintendont Themes and Custom Mods

[Adeka]

Here's my "badass" idea:
I have the GCN boot animation and sound playing on a separate processor thread while the game boots:
(Sorry the sound is out-of-sync, my cheap video capture device doesn't work very well.)

You mean covering up the verbose with the boot animation? Would be badass but very difficult

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

You mean covering up the verbose with the boot animation? Would be badass but very difficult

That's exactly what I mean, and that's exactly what I did!

 

[Adeka]

That's exactly what I mean, and that's exactly what I did!

The closest we got in the mod right now is making the verbose completely a blacks screen and the bios will boot the animation afterwards. Not sure if saving the extra 5 seconds is worth the time though.

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

The closest we got in the mod right now is making the verbose completely a blacks screen and the bios will boot the animation afterwards. Not sure if saving the extra 5 seconds is worth the time though.

Oh, I figured out why you're acting like it's not worth the time it would take to do this mod. I actually have already done it and I have a boot.dol that I meant to upload, but gbatemp blocked it because it was too big. Here is the link to the file.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Oh, I figured out why you're acting like it's not worth the time it would take to do this mod. I actually have already done it and I have a boot.dol that I meant to upload, but gbatemp blocked it because it was too big. Here is the link to the file.

How big is the file??

 

[Adeka]

Oh, I figured out why you're acting like it's not worth the time it would take to do this mod. I actually have already done it and I have a boot.dol that I meant to upload, but gbatemp blocked it because it was too big. Here is the link to the file.

Going to test it out later. If it's bug free then you can share the source and get it added to the master mod

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Going to test it out later. If it's bug free then you can share the source and get it added to the master mod

Can he? I feel like that's unlawful use of copyrighted material...

 

[the_randomizer]

Does the most recent version include the audio stream fix for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater?

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

Can he? I feel like that's unlawful use of copyrighted material...

What about all those other custom themes that use copyrighted Nintendo graphics?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

What about all those other custom themes that use copyrighted Nintendo graphics?

They're technically not part of the mod, but an add-on, but I guess we'll wait to see what ABZ's perspective is

 

[Adeka]

Can he? I feel like that's unlawful use of copyrighted material...

A backup loader is already pushing the boundaries of legal/illegal

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

Going to test it out later. If it's bug free then you can share the source and get it added to the master mod

The only drawback is the size of the dol. Because the Nintendont GRRLIB version can't use JPG images, I had to make the frames PNG. That increased the size of the animation from 1.5MB to 4MB. The total size of boot.dol is about 6MB. (Versus the old 1.5MB.) And I did try putting the frames on the SD instead of in the DOL and using GRRLIB_LoadTextureFromFile(), but then the loading time was too slow. The animation didn't play at full speed even for my EP extra fast SD card.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

Here's my "badass" Nintendont mod:
I have the GCN boot animation and sound playing on a separate processor thread while the game boots:
(Sorry the sound is out-of-sync, my cheap video capture device doesn't work very well.)
I attached a video of my Nintendont mod booting Luigi's mansion.
Here is the link to the boot.dol.

So does this fix the bios lag for emulated mc more than 4 mb?

 

[the_randomizer]

It would seem that my question fell on deaf ears yet again.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

The only drawback is the size of the dol. Because the Nintendont GRRLIB version can't use JPG images, I had to make the frames PNG. That increased the size of the animation from 1.5MB to 4MB. The total size of boot.dol is about 6MB. (Versus the old 1.5MB.) And I did try putting the frames on the SD instead of in the DOL and using GRRLIB_LoadTextureFromFile(), but then the loading time was too slow. The animation didn't play at full speed even for my EP extra fast SD card.

oh so you are replacing the bios with a png video! so we can't press A and Z and what not during boot!
if that's the case then this is not a fix

 

[the_randomizer]

AbdallahTerro Maybe I shouldn't have asked such a trivial question. My mistake.

Link to page http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/page-1350#post-5446168

 

[AbdallahTerro]

AbdallahTerro Maybe I shouldn't have asked such a trivial question. My mistake.

Link to page http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/page-1350#post-5446168

which question?

 

[the_randomizer]

which question?

The link above http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/page-1350#post-5446168 has a revision that fixes how audio streaming works in the Tony Hawk games, has the mod been updated to work with said revision, the one Fix94 released today? I thought that my earlier posts were being ignored, heh, sorry.

 

[AbdallahTerro]

yes it was fixed. the mod is always up to date

 

[the_randomizer]

yes it was fixed. the mod is always up to date

Cool beans, thanks for the awesome work