Homebrew [Release][DSi] Title Manager for HiyaCFW

[banjo2]

You have no idea how much I love this tool, this makes it SO much easier to keep track of titles. The only issues I've found so far is when I install GodMode9i there's no text or icon for the app, it doesn't bug me at all though

Seems kinda strange, as that's a new app.

 

[Girtana1]

Seems kinda strange, as that's a new app.

That's exactly what I was thinking too

 

[banjo2]

That's exactly what I was thinking too

I guess RocketRobz/Robz8 uses an out-of-date ndstool, as suggested?

 

[Girtana1]

I guess RocketRobz/Robz8 uses an out-of-date ndstool, as suggested?

Idk maybe, gonna try installing TWiLightMenu in a bit

 

[banjo2]

Idk maybe, gonna try installing TWiLightMenu in a bit

That works fine, as it's intended to work on the DSi Menu.

 

[Girtana1]

That works fine, as it's intended to work on the DSi Menu.

Yea I know I just wanted to be 100% on it, I still don't get why GM9i doesn't though, hopefully Rob fixes that and adds cart dumping with TWL support soon

 

[banjo2]

Oops, wrong thread.

 

[RocketRobz]

Yea I know I just wanted to be 100% on it, I still don't get why GM9i doesn't though, hopefully Rob fixes that

There's no padding at the end of the .nds file like in TWiLight Menu++, which is why the banner is shown blank.

and adds cart dumping with TWL support soon

libnds itself doesn't support TWL cart reading, I believe.

 

[JeffRuLz]

There's no padding at the end of the .nds file like in TWiLight Menu++, which is why the banner is shown blank.

That is VERY interesting.
I knew the problem had to do with a lack of padding, but I didn't consider when a banner is the last thing in an nds file. I can make my program patch those situations.

 

[RocketRobz]

That is VERY interesting.
I knew the problem had to do with a lack of padding, but I didn't consider when a banner is the last thing in an nds file. I can make my program patch those situations.

Banner size should be 0x23C0 bytes, so when the banner appears near or at the end of the .nds file, add some bytes at the end, so that the banner appears as 0x23C0 bytes.

 

[JeffRuLz]

Version 0.5.1
- Fixes some white icons by padding short banners (Tested with GodMode9i and Chip-84-ds)

 

[Girtana1]

There's no padding at the end of the .nds file like in TWiLight Menu++, which is why the banner is shown blank.

libnds itself doesn't support TWL cart reading, I believe.

ah, thank you for clearing that up

 

[xxNathanxx]

I've just tried installing a game and it all went fine, but nothing shows up in the DSi menu. Am I missing a step?

 

[JeffRuLz]

Can you be more specific? Which game?

 

[xxNathanxx]

Can you be more specific? Which game?

All of them. They work fine when I launch them from Unlaunch, but they just don't show up in the DSi menu. One thing I've noticed is that in Unlaunch, the DSiWare I had already installed before, like Four Swords and Flipnote, are listed twice, once in green and once in gray (or whatever that colour is supposed to be), but the newly installed DSiWare is only listed in gray.

Another thing I just noticed when going over the list again is that all of the DSiWare I had already installed before has seven zeroes and one non-zero before the .app (edit: I was wrong, it's not all of them), and everything installed through TMFH has eight zeroes before the .app.

What I did to get here was: install Unlaunch, install HiyaCFW, then load TMFH from Unlaunch and install the DSiWare.

Edit: I just tried installing Twilight Menu++, and it doesn't show up either, so the problem is not with the way the titles are installed through TMFH. I'll dig into it some more.

 

[xxNathanxx]

Turns out the DSi was still booting to its internal NAND, and not to the SD card's SDNAND. This here turned out to be the solution to get my DSi to boot to the SD card instead, and now everything works as expected.

 

[MRJPGames]

What does this do that NDS2Hiya doesn't already do?

 

[MaxiBash]

What does this do that NDS2Hiya doesn't already do?

It's cleaner, can install homebrew and uhh

yeah, that's it.

 

[xxNathanxx]

Huh, now I'm running into yet another different issue. With fourteen titles installed on the SD card (on top of the system titles, Flipnote and Four Swords which are on the DSi itself already), I get the black "An error has occurred" screen when HiyaCFW is supposed to send me to the launcher. Thirteen titles are just fine. I did notice that installing a game with TMFH installs on both the SD card and the DSi itself, and I suspect the problem shows up as soon as the DSi has less than 100MB free in its internal memory.

 

[Ryccardo]

I did notice that installing a game with TMFH installs on both the SD card and the DSi itself, and I suspect the problem shows up as soon as the DSi has less than 100MB free in its internal memory.

Oh, it doesn't, although I did find the text confusing too - this app doesn't even access the internal flash, and "free DSi space" means "the official capacity of an empty twlnand partition - the size of the files on SD that are located inside folders with names that are normally used in twlnand" (in fact I don't think it should subtract /photo/ since twlp is a separate partition)

And yes, there is a fixed limit about the combined size of DSiware - in fact it's more surprising that it starts at all with a 2 GB twlnand without filling space to less than 256 MB free!