Hacking GBA injection

lordelan · Apr 7, 2016

daxtsu said:
As long as your game compresses down to 8 megabytes or less (you can test by zipping your ROM to get a general idea, but obviously, don't feed this script the zip file, give it the raw gba file), here's how I did it:

Open command prompt/terminal window

Code:

python inject_gba.py -z alldata.bin your-rom-file.gba

Put your-rom-file.adb that you get from the Python script onto your SD card where appropriate (/wiiu/games/your-gba-game/content) and rename it to alldata.bin

Run game through Loadiine

If you've used Python, before it's no different than running any other scripts, really. Just use -z if you have The Minish Cap as your base game, or -m if you have Mario.

Edit: As a side-note, FireRed works great, but you can't save. C'mon Nintendo, support more save formats!

With goomba I turned Zelda: Link's Awakening DX into a GBA rom which I then injected with your guide. Although -z isn't used any longer as it seems it worked like a charm and I'm happy to focus on that great game once I finished A Link to the Past.
Just to let you guys know that this thread is a great solution to even play all Gameboy (Color) games on your Wii U.

Deleted User · May 16, 2016

Why another GBA injection app? This one is even more complicated than the other one.

VinsCool · May 16, 2016

rotebrotobias said:
Why another GBA injection app? This one is even more complicated than the other one.

How is it "another one"? The is the one and only one that let us inject roms into the alldata.bin.

Deleted User · May 16, 2016

VinsCool said:
How is it "another one"? The is the one and only one that let us inject roms into the alldata.bin.

Oh it was such a long time I did this so I forgot it didn't inject really https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-agb_firm-signature-patcher-gba-rom-converter.390313/
But what makes this version so special?

VinsCool · May 16, 2016

rotebrotobias said:
Oh it was such a long time I did this so I forgot it didn't inject really https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-agb_firm-signature-patcher-gba-rom-converter.390313/
But what makes this version so special?

It is for the Nintendo WiiU

Deleted User · May 16, 2016

VinsCool said:
It is for the Nintendo WiiU

Oh my bad.

ajd4096 · Jun 1, 2016

Some options changed again, just to mess with people's minds.

Three separate entry points now:
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inject_gba for cli operation
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inject_gba_batch for batch operation.
This does your basic "copy base/* -> foo/*, inject foo.gba into foo/content/alldata.psb.m".
You can create a desktop shortcut for drag-n-drool operation.
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inject_gba_gui for click-n-drool wizard.
(There's still a bug in easygui if you click cancel in a file dialog. It's been patched but not updated on pypi yet.)
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All support -h. Use it.
All support adding a prefix (goomba, pocketnes, whatever).
All support padding with 00 or FF.
All support "@optionsfile". (Might make it easier if you're writing a wrapper.)
The verbosity option is now less useless.

No save patches yet, still a WIP.

pedro702 · Jun 1, 2016

nice so save patches is all that is left xD.

julienbdes · Jun 15, 2016

I am not able to inject , inject gba get corrupted imput output not finding -z . I have à rom or 2 i want to inject anyone can assist me?

ajd4096 · Jun 18, 2016

julienbdes said:
I am not able to inject , inject gba get corrupted imput output not finding -z . I have à rom or 2 i want to inject anyone can assist me?

Get the latest version, read
the readme.

RoyMaster4 · Jun 28, 2016

I'm having difficulty with the installation. Yes, I've read the readme and followed it exactly, but I keep getting a syntax error in the middle of running it, which is preventing something from getting installed and also preventing the inject_gba executables from working properly. I'm currently using 3.5.2 (3.5.1 isn't available on the Python site but it should be close enough), but I've also tried it with 3.4.4 and obtained the same error. Reinstalling python did not fix the issue.

I've attached images of the error output - the first one is near the end of the installation procedure, and the second is when attempting to run inject_gba_gui. Help would be greatly appreciated.

ajd4096 · Jun 30, 2016

RoyMaster4 said:
I'm having difficulty with the installation.

Ah, new version of easygui was finally pushed to pypi, I'll take a closer look.
What version of windows, what version of python?

RoyMaster4 · Jun 30, 2016

ajd4096 said:
Ah, new version of easygui was finally pushed to pypi, I'll take a closer look.
What version of windows, what version of python?

Windows 7. I've tried both Python 3.4.4 with and without Pyyaml, and 3.5.2. All produce the same error.

markehmus · Jul 4, 2016

same... damn win7

celebi23 · Jul 6, 2016

I'm having the same issues here. I tried it with Python 3.5.2 on Windows 10, & Python 3.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.10.5. Got the same error output as RoyMaster4's post.

Djinni · Jul 6, 2016

Go to your easy gui install folder, you can find it by following the file location where your cmd prompt says the syntax error occured. In this directory will be a file called choice_box.py. Open this with a text editor and scroll down to line -76-, it should say "except Exception, e:" <--replace this with "except Exception as e:"

civickm · Jul 6, 2016

This is sweet! Thanks!

celebi23 · Jul 6, 2016

Really dumb question here but, how can I dump the contents of the alldata.psb.m file? I mean the manual jpg images. Like piratesephiroth managed to. Not sure which python command to use for that.

piratesephiroth · Jul 7, 2016

I modified some file I don't remembner, But right now this thing is just too cluttered with too many modules and python is awful so I don't think I'll mess with it again.

MajoraAKC · Aug 3, 2017

When using --pad00 the rom only gets padded to 8mb instead of 16mb. Is this intended?

I'm trying to inject a goomba color rom with no success. I've tried making the rom with goomba, then inject it. I've tried to use the prefix by selecting the goomba.gba file and injecting the .gbc rom along with it. I've tried with and without padding but I just can't get any of it to work. The screen just stays black when I try to boot the game. I've also tried a different game with my rom base (minish cap) and it worked so there's an issue somewhere with the injecting of the goomba rom.

Edit: It's actually 7.9mb

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