I am an idiot. Thats what was missing, I confused the "Enable Patching" with the External Firms.
Now its working. Looks good. A bit blurr, but good.
Thank you for your rapid response.
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So I am using an older version of TWPatcher and would like to update to the latest one. Above the download text says:
"There is a new enabled-by-default patch in TWPatcher which reduces the wear on the DS WiFi flash. If you change the screen scaling with START/SELECT, recallibrate your touch screen, or change the system time, you need to hold X next time you boot into DS(i) mode, otherwise your touchscreen will be messed up. If you turn off this feature, DS(i) mode will be permanently bricked until you replace the WiFi chip, which is not possible on newer 3DS models because it's soldered onto the motherboard."
I don't quite understand that, so I am asking how should I configure it. Could it hurt my console. I have a New 3DS XL using a flash card to play games without Twilightmenu.
"There is a new enabled-by-default patch in TWPatcher which reduces the wear on the DS WiFi flash. If you change the screen scaling with START/SELECT, recallibrate your touch screen, or change the system time, you need to hold X next time you boot into DS(i) mode, otherwise your touchscreen will be messed up. If you turn off this feature, DS(i) mode will be permanently bricked until you replace the WiFi chip, which is not possible on newer 3DS models because it's soldered onto the motherboard."
I don't quite understand that, so I am asking how should I configure it. Could it hurt my console. I have a New 3DS XL using a flash card to play games without Twilightmenu.
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Don't worry, it's just a setting buried in the menus that you want to leave be, just don't turn off the anti-wear patch.
Yes, this one https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/releases/tag/v20191228-021638_ee7f6a0
I know it worked before, but I was using this patcher https://gbatemp.net/index.php?posts/8809166
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Nevermind, my bad I forget to enable external FIRMs and modules.
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Last edited by iGom,
It doesn't work on old3DS and old3DSXL yet. It does work on new3DS and 2DS though.
I'm pretty new to the 3DS scene. I just bought a New 2DS the other week and used 3ds.hacks.guide to load homebrew on it. I have everything working just fine. Coming across this thread I'm a little confused what its claims are. The first post has half the images missing and reading through 77 pages of posts seems excessive, but it makes me wonder if I could be playing better looking DS games. I know 3ds.hacks.guide streamlines through a whole bunch of stuff, and enables certain things, but it doesn't quite go over exactly what some of the stuff does so I'm unsure if I already have this enabled or not. Would someone be able to give me a TL;DR or lead me to a guide of this or something? Thanks.
I'm sure I'll get a lot of flak for this post but I'll let you know, I usually am pretty good at figuring most things out myself. Been hacking consoles since the Dreamcast and PSP-1000 days, so I'm not exactly a noob at it or at using a PC. Some parts of this console have me stumped though.
I'm sure I'll get a lot of flak for this post but I'll let you know, I usually am pretty good at figuring most things out myself. Been hacking consoles since the Dreamcast and PSP-1000 days, so I'm not exactly a noob at it or at using a PC. Some parts of this console have me stumped though.
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Better-looking than the default scaling mode. The 3DS screens are 1.25x the size in each dimension of the DS. The default scaling smears every 4-pixel group into 5. The 'crisp' mode of this patcher keeps the 4 pixels intact, and takes an average of the neighbouring pixels for the extra, fifth, one. This looks much better to me - it doesn't look blurry, but you will get a shimmering effect when the screen scrolls, as different bits of the image do and don't get expanded into the extra space.
As the top screen is 400 rather than 320 pixels wide, it is possible to stretch the picture on the top screen to be 384 pixels wide (1.5x rather than 1.25). For 2D games, this will make them look distorted. But for 3D games, you can make the game render a wider field of view (using cheat codes) but squash everything so that it gets stretched back to the right proportions. So you can run these games in widescreen. If you load your DS games from the SD card with TWiLightMenu++, you can set whether to stretch the screen for each game. Else you need to move/rename the patched system file to switch between sharper and sharper+widescreen.
Last edited by emcintosh,
The reply above this one tells pretty much everything important you need to know, except rtcom.
You said you can figure things out, but since you said you're new to the 3DS scene, I'll try to be as explicit as possible within sensible limits.
Find the last puu.sh link a few pages back which is the latest version containing a lot of patches. Install it with a .cia installer, like FBI (which you can install first time with the H&S inject method if it's not mentioned in the 3ds.hacks guide).
After installing the .cia and opening the patcher, you'll be greeted by a filter list. I made a scale hardware emulator which updates the background image in real time (at <1FPS, making the GUI laggy as hell), so you can see how each filter would look like. You can hold X and release X to see the difference between Nintendo default and the highlighted scale filter.
If you found the right puu.sh link, it should have a text on the bottom screen saying that you can press Y+B to open the patch menu. I'll highlight the more important ones:
- GPU scaling: you lost the ability to use filters, and it's blurry as hell, but it's a really-really high quality blur
- wide: it's just widescreen
- DPAD patch: allows you to press UP+DOWN and LEFT+RIGHT
- rtcom: long story short, it's a hack of abusing support hardware to open an extremely slow communication pipe between DS ARM7 and 3DS ARM11, allowing access to ARM11 hardware, like gyro
- CTR_Redshift: it's a blue light filter; it's like f.lux ported to the 3DS
On the filter selector screen, highlight the filter you like the most and press START to begin the compression process. Long story short, the original binary has to be decompressed before patching, and has to be re-compressed due to software and space constraints.
After compression, and if you're using Luma the first time, power off your 3DS, then power on holding SELECT until the config menu pops up. Enable "enable game patching and FIRM loading" and press START to apply settings. This only has to be done once.
Now after booting into a DS(i) game, the patches should be working.
He explained it about as simply as could be. You can press Up + Down and Left + Right. Whether that’s of personal value to you is not something anyone here can decide.
It's possible for a homebrew app to be coded to use such combinations.
Great explanations you two, I appreciate the help. I'll have to give this a shot probably tonight when I get some free time.
No updates on the patcher yet, but I have slightly reworked the first post. Now it finally includes a link to the latest experimental build, so people don't need to browse back many pages for a random puu.sh link.
Also new patcher build. Don't know if it works, it's untested. Link in the first post.
Also new patcher build. Don't know if it works, it's untested. Link in the first post.
Yes.
As I mentioned previously a good amount of pages back, I disabled it because it's most likely not necessary, and it actually confuses some users. And because I'm a "hardcore" dev, I can't word things in a way that most users can easily understand, which results in some awkward questions like "will the presence (or lack of) the anti-wear patch brick my 3DS, and do I have to re-patch?".
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