Homebrew [NDS] Forwarder CIAs for your HOME Menu

DanTheMan827 · Aug 17, 2016

@Another World
Is there any chance you could release the source code for the Wood firmware or make a quick patch that would allow auto-booting a .nds file specified in the .ini file?

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
@Another World
Is there any chance you could release the source code for the Wood firmware or make a quick patch that would allow auto-booting a .nds file specified in the .ini file?

This seems to be using WoodR4 v1.62, I can reset to menu using L+R+A+B+Down and everything works. you can also make a dummy file, make a cia for it, then delete it and when you run the cia it boots strait into wood fw and stays their since the auto boot fails to load the now missing game.

DanTheMan827 · Aug 17, 2016

KazoWAR said:
This seems to be using WoodR4 v1.62, I can reset to menu using L+R+A+B+Down and everything works. you can also make a dummy file, make a cia for it, then delete it and when you run the cia it boots strait into wood fw and stays their since the auto boot fails to load the now missing game.

The first post sounds like it uses YSMenu to actually boot the ROM which apparently has compatibility issues with ROMs...

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
The first post sounds like it uses YSMenu to actually boot the ROM which apparently has compatibility issues with ROMs...

hmm seems like things are differnt now...

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
The first post sounds like it uses YSMenu to actually boot the ROM which apparently has compatibility issues with ROMs...

what cart do you have?

DanTheMan827 · Aug 17, 2016

KazoWAR said:
what cart do you have?

On the front it says R4i 3DS RTS or R4i RTS 3DS depending on how you read it...

The website for the cart says Wood 1.64 is the newest version but my understanding is that only 1.62 was ever released...

The firmware has the ability for emulator-like save states, multiple .sav files for each game, cheats, etc... (Wood)

The First Card Supports 3DS
The world's first host system to support the DSi upgrade to V1.41
Compatible with all DS editions of different kinds of language
Supports DSL / DSi / LL / XL
Supports Action Replay cheat
DLDI auto-patching
Support SDHC (Micro SD 4G,8G,16G,32G)
2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
Flush fitting slot 1 card
Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
Built in NoPass
Automatically detect save type
Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
Supports Moonshell and other homebrew.
User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
Supports rumble pak and memory pak
Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )
Supports the Soft Reset.
moonshell 2.02 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 menu

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
On the front it says R4i 3DS RTS or R4i RTS 3DS depending on how you read it...

The website for the cart says Wood 1.64 is the newest version but my understanding is that only 1.62 was ever released...

The firmware has the ability for emulator-like save states, multiple .sav files for each game, cheats, etc... (Wood)

The First Card Supports 3DS

The world's first host system to support the DSi upgrade to V1.41

Compatible with all DS editions of different kinds of language

Supports DSL / DSi / LL / XL

Supports Action Replay cheat

DLDI auto-patching

Support SDHC (Micro SD 4G,8G,16G,32G)

2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)

Flush fitting slot 1 card

Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32

Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game

Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS

Built in NoPass

Automatically detect save type

Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip

Supports Moonshell and other homebrew.

User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation

Supports rumble pak and memory pak

Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser

Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface

Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically

Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )

Supports the Soft Reset.

moonshell 2.02 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 menu

it might be modded wood to add rts. try this

Download official firmware for your cart and put it on sd card for cart.
Put a DS ROM on the root of the cart's sd card and name it something like boot.nds
Make a forwarder cia for boot.nds for R4iDSN/Acekard RPG/R4i Gold RTS.
Delete boot.nds from cart's sd card.
Install forwarder-boot.cia

Run it and see what happens, for my cart (original r4) the above boot strait to wood fw.

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I also like to point out that when first booted help says wood 1.25 but after reset from game it says wood 1.62 so that might explain the poor ROM compatibility. i think the forwarder file is has embed _DS_MENU.DAT fomr old wood that it use when it first launches but when i reset back to menu, wood loads _DS_MENU.DAT form cart's sdcard.

DanTheMan827 · Aug 17, 2016

KazoWAR said:
I also like to point out that when first booted help says wood 1.25 but after reset from game it says wood 1.62 so that might explain the poor ROM compatibility. i think the forwarder file is has embed _DS_MENU.DAT fomr old wood that it use when it first launches but when i reset back to menu, wood loads _DS_MENU.DAT form cart's sdcard.

Yeah, it says in the first post that the forwarder is based on an outdated version of the wood source code that was found... That's why I asked @Another World for the newest version of the source code or to make the modification that @Robz8 needs

Robz8 said:
Q: Why are some of my games getting white screens?
A: The forwarders are based on an outdated version of Wood, which had it's source code found. The version used has bad compatibility with some games.

Hopefully @Another World is still active on these forums... (and of course willing to help)

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
Yeah, it says in the first post that the forwarder is based on an outdated version of the wood source code that was found... That's why I asked @Another World for the newest version of the source code or to make the modification that @Robz8 needs

Hopefully @Another World is still active on these forums... (and of course willing to help)

well i know this thread is about forwards but imo i think its best to just boot the cart's fw and leave it at that(less installed titles on the system) atm I have it setup that the fowarder is booting a decrypted woodr4 1.62 _DS_MENU.DAT and its works(problematic games like pokemon black white 2 work) but i would like to just have v1.62 run first.

@DanTheMan827 give it a try, rename r4i rts v1.64 _DS_MENU.DAT(its already decrypted) to boot.nds and make a cia for it .

DanTheMan827 · Aug 17, 2016

KazoWAR said:
well i know this thread is about forwards but imo i think its best to just boot the cart's fw and leave it at that(less installed titles on the system) atm I have it setup that the fowarder is booting a decrypted woodr4 1.62 _DS_MENU.DAT and its works(problematic games like pokemon black white 2 work) but i would like to just have v1.62 run first.

@DanTheMan827 give it a try, rename r4i rts v1.64 _DS_MENU.DAT(its already decrypted) to boot.nds and make a cia for it .

If @ahezard's GitHub is anything to go by I think a new version that chainloads Wood 1.62 could very well be in the works..

RocketRobz · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
If @ahezard's GitHub is anything to go by I think a new version that chainloads Wood 1.62 could very well be in the works..

It'll be in a new version of Forwarder3-DS that should be released tonight.

KazoWAR · Aug 17, 2016

DanTheMan827 said:
If @ahezard's GitHub is anything to go by I think a new version that chainloads Wood 1.62 could very well be in the works..

that seems to be the wood v1.25 that this forwarder cia maker uses.

yubimusubi · Aug 18, 2016

Olmectron said:
Although, what Ketchup901 was saying is that he can't even boot the app at all. He is using ArchLinux. And while, I've been able to test it in Ubuntu and Mint, I haven't been able to test on an Arch Linux distro, yet. From the logs he shared, it seems the ArchLinux JVM (be it with Open JDK or with the official Oracle release) doesn't understand some of the internal paths in my code as internal paths (for files inside the JAR), and actually try to find those files outside the JAR executable. Why this happens is a mystery to me, and I'll need to test it properly installing an ArchLinux distro myself.

I am running Arch as well and was unable to start the app also - I was getting the exact same error as Ketchup901. For me the solution was to install javafx. I am guessing that library is not included in the JAR? If it is, I suspect that is a bug with Arch's version of java; more likely it's just a dependency issue and installing javafx is the "right" thing to do. It is possible Ubuntu and Mint pull in javafx in their default java install - they tend to be more "user friendly" distros.

FWIW, the Oracle versions of the JDK are not available through pacman (but they are on the AUR). It's certainly possible this is just a difference between the Oracle installs and the OpenJDK.

Another World · Aug 18, 2016

i had nothing to do with the firmware. all i did was post news about it and do a bit of beta testing for yellow wood goblin. i haven't spoken to YWG for well over 5 years. good luck.

-another world

DanTheMan827 · Aug 18, 2016

Another World said:
i had nothing to do with the firmware. all i did was post news about it and do a bit of beta testing for yellow wood goblin. i haven't spoken to YWG for well over 5 years. good luck.

-another world

Ah, okay...

Thanks!

Olmectron · Aug 18, 2016

yubimusubi said:
I am running Arch as well and was unable to start the app also - I was getting the exact same error as Ketchup901. For me the solution was to install javafx. I am guessing that library is not included in the JAR? If it is, I suspect that is a bug with Arch's version of java; more likely it's just a dependency issue and installing javafx is the "right" thing to do. It is possible Ubuntu and Mint pull in javafx in their default java install - they tend to be more "user friendly" distros.

FWIW, the Oracle versions of the JDK are not available through pacman (but they are on the AUR). It's certainly possible this is just a difference between the Oracle installs and the OpenJDK.

Oh, so that's it!

Thanks for giving more info about the issue. In fact, Oracle's Java JRE releases include always JavaFX since the very first Java 8 release. So, if Open JDK isn't installing it along with the main Java, that's the issue. This project is for JavaFX. I assumed even OpenJDK came with the JavaFX API included. So yeah, you're right about everything. Thanks again.

Deleted User · Aug 18, 2016

Hey @Robz8

https://gbatemp.net/posts/6611168/

RocketRobz · Aug 19, 2016

Fowarder3-DS v1.9.4 now up in the OP!
Update the packs, and overwrite your forwarders with updated ones. For DSTT/R4i Gold/R4i-SDHC/SC DSONE users, just overwrite the .DAT files.

What's new?

Game compatibility has been increased for users of the Original R4/M3 Simply, Acekard RPG, and R4iDSN/R4i Gold RTS cards. DSi-Enhanced games like Pokémon BW 1&2 should work now.
The option of boosting ARM9 speed has been added, thanks to @ahezard!

Even though the Acekard RPG now has a template of it's own, one of the flashcard selections still say R4iDSN/Acekard RPG/R4i Gold RTS. It should be fixed soon.

EDIT: It's been fixed in v1.9.6.

divekicked · Aug 19, 2016

Robz8 said:
Game compatibility has been increased for users of the Original R4/M3 Simply, Acekard RPG, and R4iDSN/R4i Gold RTS cards. DSi-Enhanced games like Pokémon BW 1&2 should work now.

Do you plan on increasing the compatibility for other cards? Would be nice to have those games work on my R4i-SDHC RTS

RocketRobz · Aug 19, 2016

divekicked said:
Do you plan on increasing the compatibility for other cards? Would be nice to have those games work on my R4i-SDHC RTS

They already work, aside from the AP issues.

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