Homebrew [Release] [Multi-platform GUI] HiyaCFW Helper

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Tested on another DSi and got the black screen with the error message. Tried with a different SD and worked. Noticed something that I was suspicious of: apparently HiyaCFW works better if the extracted NAND files are on the first sectors of the SD, so updated the helper with the option to choose the output destination after pressing "Start". The new release can be downloaded from the releases page of the repo.

EDIT: As extraction to SD is now possible, I had to use the method I am using for the NAND mode to set the read-only FAT attribute, so for MacOS I'm using chflags and Linux fatattr (binary included). If you opt for using another output folder, I recommend when you copy that to the SD to copy everything but the hiya, roms and the bootcode.dsi | hiya.dsi first, and those folders and file afterwards.
I got a lot of errors related to failed chown in the terminal, but otherwise the process seems to work fine (or at least as well as it did before). I've been running into a different issue now, but I don't think it's related to HiyaCFW Helper.
 

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@BLsquared If the new helper doesn't help you, it might also be useful to know what boots without causing the problem.
If you hold select while booting, you know Hiya is actually starting (because of the splash screen you most likely are), but if autoboot is enabled, it might be a good idea to disable it and see if the error still happens. And if that takes you to the normal DSi menu, it might be useful to check if TWiLight Menu++ is there, because if not, you could be booting to the internal NAND like I was...

@mondul I might be able to test the updated helper later today or tomorrow if you need me to. I already got mine working with what @Ryccardo suggested, but it'd be neat to have it all being done automatically by the helper (:
 

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I got a lot of errors related to failed chown in the terminal
Happens when the output is not a FAT formatted SD card because in non-Windows systems I'm setting the read-only attribute with fatattr | chflags instead of chmod.

I might be able to test the updated helper later today or tomorrow if you need me to.
If you have a spare SD card for testing it would be nice if you can test the latest release.

NOTE: You can see that I'm not releasing a v3.0 version, that's because I'm rewriting everything in C, for Windows at first. It has been a challenge because I am not going to use Visual Studio (I don't want it to depend on its runtimes) and I have not programmed anything using the WinAPI since 2002, so it might take some time.
 

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Happens when the output is not a FAT formatted SD card because in non-Windows systems I'm setting the read-only attribute with fatattr | chflags instead of chmod.
Well, it definitely is a FAT formatted SD card, otherwise the DSi wouldn't read it. Why HiyaCFW Helper doesn't detect it as such, I don't know.
 

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How can I solve this? This is HiyaCFW-Helper-v2.9.9, I always run into this problem.

Code:
Exception in thread Thread-7:                  ata\local\temp\
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.py", line 754, in run
TypeError: unmount_nand() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
 

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Hey guys!
I get ERROR: COULD NOT GET HIYACFW when trying downloading the hiyacfw package. What could it be? I disabled all firewall and antivirus. No success.
 

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Hey guys!
I get ERROR: COULD NOT GET HIYACFW when trying downloading the hiyacfw package. What could it be? I disabled all firewall and antivirus. No success.
I don't know, sometimes I also have problems like you,try to manually download HIYACFW and TWiLightMenu,put them in the root directory of HiyaCFW-Helper 2.99,
 
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I don't know, sometimes I also have problems like you,try to manually download HIYACFW and TWiLightMenu,put them in the root directory of HiyaCFW-Helper 2.99,

First, thank you! Finally it worked! Now, the helper can't download the eur launcher. What can i do?
 

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How can I solve this? This is HiyaCFW-Helper-v2.9.9, I always run into this problem.

Code:
Exception in thread Thread-7:                  ata\local\temp\
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.py", line 754, in run
TypeError: unmount_nand() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
Thanks for reporting this issue. Uploaded a new version with a fix for that.

Link
 

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Thanks, guys! I did a clean install with a newly formatted card, used the new installer, and everything now works great. Didn't even have to get the title manually this time, although I did have to manually get TWL++ on there, the download didn't work *shrug*.
But it all works now, thanks!
 

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@mondul I'm sorry it's been so long since I offered to test it, I was away from my usual workstation and I forgot to copy my NAND to go.

I've just tried the latest version (2.9.9.1) with my NAND dump on an empty FAT32 formatted 2GB micro SD, and I actually still have the same problem. I still seem to be booting to the internal NAND instead of the SD's, and attempting to turn autoboot on results in the black "An error has occurred" screen.

Since the first try didn't involve a fresh format, I re-formatted the SD (with FAT32) and tried the same thing again, only to get the same result...

Oddly enough, I'm not getting any problems with the downloads...
 
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@mondul I'm sorry it's been so long since I offered to test it, I was away from my usual workstation and I forgot to copy my NAND to go.

I've just tried the latest version (2.9.9.1) with my NAND dump on an empty FAT32 formatted 2GB micro SD, and I actually still have the same problem. I still seem to be booting to the internal NAND instead of the SD's, and attempting to turn autoboot on results in the black "An error has occurred" screen.

Since the first try didn't involve a fresh format, I re-formatted the SD (with FAT32) and tried the same thing again, only to get the same result...

Oddly enough, I'm not getting any problems with the downloads...

Today’s your lucky day as there’s a fix for the problem you are having over here!
 
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I'm using Hiyacfw helper and it's shown "Preparing HiyaCFW... - Extracting HiyaCFW archive..." for quite a while, it that normal?
 

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There still seems to be issues. Some people are reporting that they don't see TWiLight Menu++ on the system menu, or that trying to autoboot it brings up the error screen.
Does the helper download the correct Launcher's "title.tmd" from the HiyaCFW 7z archive? Because it doesn't seem like it.
 
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There still seems to be issues. Some people are reporting that they don't see TWiLight Menu++ on the system menu, or that trying to autoboot it brings up the error screen.
Does the helper download the correct Launcher's "title.tmd" from the HiyaCFW 7z archive? Because it doesn't seem like it.
Apparently it was not being overwritten on some systems. Just published a new release including a fix by Epicpkmn11 (don't know his/her GBATemp user name).

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Hi, I am getting "mounter failure". This must have something to do with OSFMount, which however by itself seems to work fine. I have it installed in the default location.
 

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