Hacking [Open Sourcing] Screenshot plugin for NTR CFW 1.0 and 2.x

[conanac]

I have spent some time doing RE and modification to the screenshot plugin for NTR CFW 1.0 as well as taking a look at the built-in screenshot plugin in the NTR CFW 2.x.

I have decided to make it open source so that anyone could use and perhaps improve and help fixing any issues. Hopefully it could make screenshot ability becomes easier to implement for any 3DS *applications*. You could use "REaMscreenshot.plg" file (available in the "release" folder in GitHub) when running both NTR CFW 1.0 or 2.x by putting it in the "/plugin/home" folder in your 3DS SD card.

Here is the link:
https://github.com/conanac/REaMscreenshot

When I have a time, another de-assembly and de-compile future project would be the savetool plugin.

And in case anyone is interested, I have also managed to decompile the simple "main.o" from the gameplg package (template or example for creating game cheat codes) that cell9 somehow did not include in the source code package (while the object file is there so I don't know what the reason is). I am planning to publish it in GitHub as well.

Cheers.

 

[OctopusRift]

God I love you.

 

[dsrules]

are there any new features between this REaMscreenshot.plg and the original screenshot.plg?

 

[conanac]

are there any new features between this REaMscreenshot.plg and the original screenshot.plg?

I changed the order of screenshots, the original uses top then bottom. In REaM version, bottom then top. This helps getting the bottom screenshot for the ACNL game. The original always gives the bottom screenshot the same as the top screenshot for this game (i.e. the top and bottom screenshot bitmap files show the same picture which is from the top screen). Actually this problem is not in the plugin itself, but I think the issue is in the acquire/release control video functions in the NTR CFW itself (and cell9 has not addressed this issue, or I am not sure whether it will be addressed or not).

 

[Rhymekaze]

now, someone smarter than i, make it a cake for rxtools 2.6b

good shit though, OP!

 

[dfsa3fdvc1]

Any chance we could get a release for NTR 3.0? I put the .plg from the "release" folder in a "plugin" folder on the root of my SD and I don't think it worked. The menu had just the same options as before. (NTR 3.0 on GW EmuNAND)

One big useability change that would make this the best thing ever is having screenshots be named "[TITLE_ID]_[DATE&TIME]_[TOP_or_BOTTOM].bmp"

If only I could get this working with 3.0
I'm not good at programming though sadly. (I did write a program that batch merges the top and bottom screenshots generated into single images)

 

[soneek]

One thing I wanna look into is running this in the background, essentially dumping frames into raw video.

 

[ShizzleMyDizzle]

a release for NTR 3.0 would be great!

 

[dfsa3fdvc1]

a release for NTR 3.0 would be great!

It works on 3.0. Just put the plugin file in \plugin\home\.

 

[Deleted member 355359]

One thing I wanna look into is running this in the background, essentially dumping frames into raw video.

That would probably make the game VERY choppy (we're talking 3 fps max maybe if we're lucky) since the screenshot plugin doesn't take the screenshots immediately already.