Hacking New Theme for EZ-Flash Omega!

Sterophonick · May 23, 2020

Moonfall_Prince said:
Ah, okay, thanks anyways!

I did see people updating "definitions.xml" files in the skinner tool to be able to work on editing the themes of specific unofficial builds...is that a thing I'd be able to find on your github?

If Universal Skinner adds support for all the extra icons that I have implemented in here, that would be dope.
Uh, as for definitions.xml, possibly.

Staffo · Jun 1, 2020

game gear games won't save emulation settings, I can edit the gg.mb by hex editing,someone know where can I find bytes for gamma / scaling / region etc ?

Localhorst86 · Jun 1, 2020

Sterophonick said:
If Universal Skinner adds support for all the extra icons that I have implemented in here, that would be dope.
Uh, as for definitions.xml, possibly.

Does it even need to add support? The icons are a singular bmp or does your skin use a secondary bitmap to include the new icons?

Sterophonick · Jun 2, 2020

Localhorst86 said:
Does it even need to add support? The icons are a singular bmp or does your skin use a secondary bitmap to include the new icons?

All of the new icons are separate in code, but in the ROM they may be right next to each other. I don't know for sure.

Staffo said:
game gear games won't save emulation settings, I can edit the gg.mb by hex editing,someone know where can I find bytes for gamma / scaling / region etc ?

Uhhh, I don't know where the bytes are for those, you're gonna have to find them yourself, through source code or NO$GBA.

Staffo · Jun 4, 2020

thanks, finally found something^''

@6909 gamma values
subsequent bytes are for scaling, sleep, region etc

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

morgenman · Jun 5, 2020

Sooo I was pretty happy with this firmware, when all of a sudden GBA games were missing saves. I never turned it off for 10 secs after saving in game, so I don't know what happened.
I looked at the structure and apparently the system folder was majorly corrupted. I couldn't even open it on windows/mac. Running the "fix errors" thing on the sd card made a bunch of rec files. The system folder was no more at this point.
I had the save backup option on, so I copied all the saves, changed the .sav0 to .sav, and put it in a new system/savers folder.
Now, this worked for some saves, but all of the ones that are 32.8kb don't load! (assuming its sram?)
Is there any reason why this would happen?
Thank you!

Shadow#1 · Jun 5, 2020

morgenman said:
Sooo I was pretty happy with this firmware, when all of a sudden GBA games were missing saves. I never turned it off for 10 secs after saving in game, so I don't know what happened.
I looked at the structure and apparently the system folder was majorly corrupted. I couldn't even open it on windows/mac. Running the "fix errors" thing on the sd card made a bunch of rec files. The system folder was no more at this point.
I had the save backup option on, so I copied all the saves, changed the .sav0 to .sav, and put it in a new system/savers folder.
Now, this worked for some saves, but all of the ones that are 32.8kb don't load! (assuming its sram?)
Is there any reason why this would happen?
Thank you!

Bad SD card

veikkos · Jun 9, 2020

morgenman said:
Sooo I was pretty happy with this firmware, when all of a sudden GBA games were missing saves. I never turned it off for 10 secs after saving in game, so I don't know what happened.
I looked at the structure and apparently the system folder was majorly corrupted. I couldn't even open it on windows/mac. Running the "fix errors" thing on the sd card made a bunch of rec files. The system folder was no more at this point.
I had the save backup option on, so I copied all the saves, changed the .sav0 to .sav, and put it in a new system/savers folder.
Now, this worked for some saves, but all of the ones that are 32.8kb don't load! (assuming its sram?)
Is there any reason why this would happen?
Thank you!

Could you share some titles which had these broken 32.8 kb saves so it could be checked if it's systematic issue with the backup or just smashed SD.

snootgirl · Jun 10, 2020

this is really great, thank you

Sterophonick · Jun 10, 2020

snootgirl said:
this is really great, thank you

No problem dude! Was fun!

Shadow#1 · Jun 12, 2020

@Sterophonick updating your custom kernel to 1.07?

Devili · Jun 13, 2020

Does this consume more battery power? thanks

Chaykin · Jun 13, 2020

Compared to a regular GBA game cart? Yes.

lamvuong · Jun 14, 2020

Devili said:
Does this consume more battery power? thanks

All flashcart for the gba uses more power than the original cart, depending on the game and cart you can look to loose approx. 15 - 20%.

Devili · Jun 15, 2020

lamvuong said:
All flashcart for the gba uses more power than the original cart, depending on the game and cart you can look to loose approx. 15 - 20%.

Thanks for answering!
I'll just find a better battery for my SP then

Shadow#1 · Jun 15, 2020

Devili said:
Thanks for answering!
I'll just find a better battery for my SP then

https://a.aliexpress.com/_dSGHd5k

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/gaB93JkC

lamvuong · Jun 15, 2020

Devili said:
Thanks for answering!
I'll just find a better battery for my SP then

I was able to get an official replacement battery by calling up Nintendo, they charged around 15 euros.

playstays_shun · Jun 24, 2020

Any one got photos of the custom UI with titles on screen and image so I can see what that looks like?

sounds like an improved save method

also if one moves SYSTEM to root of folder but not add anything does SAVER w saves still in root ? Cause seems like there’s a SAVER in SYSTEM but instructions say not to add ANYTHING so bit confused

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is it easy to flash back to stock kernel if desired?

Shadow#1 · Jun 24, 2020

playstays_shun said:
Any one got photos of the custom UI with titles on screen and image so I can see what that looks like?

sounds like an improved save method

also if one moves SYSTEM to root of folder but not add anything does SAVER w saves still in root ? Cause seems like there’s a SAVER in SYSTEM but instructions say not to add ANYTHING so bit confused

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is it easy to flash back to stock kernel if desired?

If your using this custom firmware and don't put all the system folders under "SYSTEM" it won't save or work right

Sterophonick · Jun 25, 2020

The entire save file folder was moved to SYSTEM.

Yes. It is easy to roll back if desired.

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