hello,
is there a more precise tutorial than the one in the readme.md? (for example, how do i "set up my bootloader so that it's the first thing that gets loaded"?)
i've never used a thing like this so i'd rather be a little careful to not screw up my n3ds lol
thanks and have a good day!
ok so your looking for a tutorial... ok i can type this up for you...
first of all bax files just need to be put into a folder and the cfw 3ds/2ds system will just play the bax without having to set anything in the luma menu or anything just follow these steps to setup your sd card (or micro sd card) and convert gif to mp4 or just an mp4 to an ivf file then to bax!
SD card/Micro SD Card steps:
1. make sure your micro is connected to your PC (not referencing Macintosh since i really don't ever use 1) by the wifi method or physically taking the card and putting it into an adapter.
2. once you have opened up file explorer go to your Micro/sd card and inside your card make sure to make a folder called bax (no uppercase) and put your luma/roslina boot.firm file into the bax folder so that way after it plays the bax it'll boot to luma for splash screens and then take the boot.firm that came with the official bax download and put that at the root of your card.
3. place whatever bax files you have into the bax folder (small note if you have mulitple bax files in the folder then it'll pick a random one to play since there hasn;t been a way to select which bax to play since that has not developed yet).
that's mostly it for the Micro sd card/sd card part
how to make a successful bax file:
1. once you have bax maker from the official download get a short gif file (and convert it to mp4 just google a gif to mp4 conveter) (skip getting a gif file if you have an mp4 file of whatever you want that is short)
2. make sure your mp4 file is in the same folder as ffmepg (this is very important) and in the folder ffmepg is in press shift and right click in an empty spot of the folder for a small menu and click on open power shell window here.
3. paste in this command after power shell comes up... .\ffmpeg -i "example.mp4" -f ivf -vf scale=400:240,fps=60 "example.ivf" (you can replace example with whatever your mp4 is titled).
4. after filling in the names for the mp4 and ivf make sure to have the _ moved all the way to the end of the command and press enter for ffmpeg to do some work.
5. now you should have an ivf file in the folder, now take that file and cut and paste it into the folder makebax is in (like makebax 64 or 86) then here comes another step...
6. do the same thing as step 2 and 3 but instead do this command in the power shell command window for the makebax folder...
.\makebax-win64.exe "example.ivf" "example.bax" -s 60 -c 1 -b 0000 -a "whatever" -i "something"
7. after pasting in the command make sure to do same thing as step 4 (but ignore mp4 and ivf as well as ffmepg) then press enter once the _ is at the end of the command.
8. after you see makebax process all of this congrats once it says or you see a succesful make bax file that you wanted in the folder you can cut and paste the bax into your sd card's bax folder!
ok now after having to type all of this and that when i am high enough level i can post a working link (with folders and instructions that took me less time to make up) without having to tell people to replace things for a working link.