Homebrew TWPatcher - DS(i) mode screen filters and patches

jeff93063 · Oct 12, 2020

ccfman2004 said:
That's a bug in the 09/03 release. Try this one:

Thanks for your help. Which version did you link? I tried it and same issue. Should I get the stable "outdated" version from the original post?

Sono · Oct 13, 2020

jeff93063 said:
Thanks for your help. Which version did you link? I tried it and same issue. Should I get the stable "outdated" version from the original post?

I don't think that old version even has a patch menu yet, let alone widescreen.

Here are some old versions to try:
https://puu.sh/G7Bui/83b8e6329e.cia
https://puu.sh/G1SXA/4acd55b478.cia
https://puu.sh/FFbnU/9bf3e53512.cia

jeff93063 · Oct 13, 2020

Thanks for your help. Do need to do anything special to try different versions? Like wipe data or reboot? I just installed each CIA over the old one, ran the patcher with Linear Sharpen selected and Un-Start patch, then saved. The compression ran and said it succeeded each time. Then I ran a twilight forwarder DS game, but the un-start had not taken effect. I can't say 100% whether the scaler change worked or not, since it is not a very dramatic change.

8e6329e 2020-07-06 Didn't work
acd55b478 2020-06-29 Didn't work
9bf3e53512 2020-05-02 Didn't work

emcintosh · Oct 13, 2020

jeff93063 said:
Do need to do anything special to try different versions? Like wipe data or reboot? I just installed each CIA over the old one, ran the patcher with Linear Sharpen selected and Un-Start patch, then saved. The compression ran and said it succeeded each time. Then I ran a twilight forwarder DS game, but the un-start had not taken effect. I can't say 100% whether the scaler change worked or not, since it is not a very dramatic change.

Do you have firmware patching enabled in Luma's hold-select-on-power-on settings menu? This seems to be the most common reason for the patching not to take effect.

r0achtheunsavory · Oct 13, 2020

Sono said:
This is embarrassing. Not only is the new build several MONTHS behind schedule, but it's more broken than ever, and it's sad to see all the complaints about it. At least the complaints are chill.

I was showcasing TWPatcher to my cousin, and for some reason widescreen and GPU patch is indeed not working after having recompiled a *known working* source.

If I figure out why this feature combo (and as it turns out, many others) are broken, I'll turn off some (broken and/or slow) features, so I can hopefully somehow exert a new build before the end of the year... this is peak game dev crunch, except I'm not making a game.

Everything works fine for me with the 9/03 build (including widescreen) + the previous version of TwilightMenu. Aren't the problems caused by changes to the newest update of TwilightMenu and not TWPatcher itself? Also, contrary to some people claiming 32k cluster size is best, while using a 128 GB SD card with around 90 GB of stuff on it, everything runs better for me with 64k cluster size.

jeff93063 · Oct 13, 2020

emcintosh said:
Do you have firmware patching enabled in Luma's hold-select-on-power-on settings menu? This seems to be the most common reason for the patching not to take effect.

Thanks. I enabled "game patching" (there was nothing about firmware patching in luna) and tried the whole process again, but it still didn't take effect.

r0achtheunsavory said:
Aren't the problems caused by changes to the newest update of TwilightMenu and not TWPatcher itself?

That would make a lot of sense, since this is a new console and I just recently put CFW on it. So I probably have the latest versions of everything.

RadoMiami · Oct 13, 2020

jeff93063 said:
Thanks. I enabled "game patching" (there was nothing about firmware patching in luna) and tried the whole process again, but it still didn't take effect.

That would make a lot of sense, since this is a new console and I just recently put CFW on it. So I probably have the latest versions of everything.

Game patching isn't the same as firmware patching. Firmware patching should be right below New 3DS CPU or PIN lock, and should be listed as "Enable loading external FIRMs and modules." Hope I could help!

emcintosh · Oct 13, 2020

jeff93063 said:
Thanks. I enabled "game patching" (there was nothing about firmware patching in luna) and tried the whole process again, but it still didn't take effect.

It’s the third option: 'Enable loading external FIRMS and modules'.

jeff93063 · Oct 13, 2020

RadoMiami said:
Game patching isn't the same as firmware patching. Firmware patching should be right below New 3DS CPU or PIN lock, and should be listed as "Enable loading external FIRMs and modules." Hope I could help!

emcintosh said:
It’s the third option: 'Enable loading external FIRMS and modules'.

Thanks both of you! That did the trick. On my version of Luna it was the first option.

Maybe there should be a note about this on the original post, for future idiots like me who have trouble.

By the way, even after fixing this, the 2020-07-18 version still didn't work but the 2020-05-02 version did.

Thanks again everyone!

intergalacticoh · Oct 14, 2020

jeff93063 said:
Thanks both of you! That did the trick. On my version of Luna it was the first option.

Maybe there should be a note about this on the original post, for future idiots like me who have trouble.

By the way, even after fixing this, the 2020-07-18 version still didn't work but the 2020-05-02 version did.

Thanks again everyone!

Are you able to use widescreen with DS forwarders? That's something I wanna do but I'm not too clear on

RocketRobz · Oct 14, 2020

intergalacticoh said:
Are you able to use widescreen with DS forwarders? That's something I wanna do but I'm not too clear on

You can, but the cheats themselves won't work, so it'll just stretch the top screen without expanding the sides.

intergalacticoh · Oct 14, 2020

Robz8 said:
You can, but the cheats themselves won't work, so it'll just stretch the top screen without expanding the sides.

Gotcha, thanks for the quick reply.

thegame386 · Oct 14, 2020

I cant change between normal and widescreen after the patch. Everything is widescreen, fowarders, twilight menu setting to 4:3 also wiedescreen. Anyone else?

Revildaron · Oct 14, 2020

Hi this twpatch has same option with other crt_redshift by sono. Like we can choose where to apply patch on top or bottom screen cause temp both of my screen dont match i using redshift option. But that apply for both screen.

Sono · Oct 15, 2020

Revildaron said:
Hi this twpatch has same option with other crt_redshift by sono. Like we can choose where to apply patch on top or bottom screen cause temp both of my screen dont match i using redshift option. But that apply for both screen.

Sorry, but it's a space limitation. Using my custom compression, it still barely fits. There is not enough space for a second redshift curve, let alone space for other patches.

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thegame386 said:
I cant change between normal and widescreen after the patch. Everything is widescreen, fowarders, twilight menu setting to 4:3 also wiedescreen. Anyone else?

It's probably TWiLightMenu++'s new change. I'm doing widescreen manually when I need it, so I sadly can't assist with it.

Revildaron · Oct 15, 2020

Actually i really like using your redshift option it really help to balance screen temp. other patch i barely use but this is only my suggestion if remove other patch will the space will be enough or make other build separately but only have redshift and rtcom like suggestion on your poll.

placebo_yue · Oct 15, 2020

Hello everyone, it's been forever since i last installed and tried this, i see y'all talking about an un-start thingy with start+select during boot but that makes half my screens black, i suppose i'm using an older version that doesn't have that functionality or something, so which one is the latest stable release i can try?
Also i've seen 800px being discussed, maybe i should wait for that release if it's nearby?

Rahkeesh · Oct 15, 2020

A working/sane 800px is not near, according to Sono. More like a dead end with no obvious path forward.

placebo_yue · Oct 15, 2020

Rahkeesh said:
A working/sane 800px is not near, according to Sono. More like a dead end with no obvious path forward.

well i can do without it. But i think there's been some developments since the last version i installed. It had a handful of image filtering options + a widescreen. I've read about bilinear filtering, about pixel perfect and whatnot around here. Just checking how much im missing out, not that i'm eagerly waiting for any particular feature. I'm pretty content with playing DS and GBA in widescreen

Sono · Oct 15, 2020

Revildaron said:
Actually i really like using your redshift option it really help to balance screen temp. other patch i barely use but this is only my suggestion if remove other patch will the space will be enough or make other build separately but only have redshift and rtcom like suggestion on your poll.

Now that I think about it, I could remove 1/4 of the data, so I could fit in the second screen's curves.

placebo_yue said:
Hello everyone, it's been forever since i last installed and tried this, i see y'all talking about an un-start thingy with start+select during boot but that makes half my screens black, i suppose i'm using an older version that doesn't have that functionality or something, so which one is the latest stable release i can try?
Also i've seen 800px being discussed, maybe i should wait for that release if it's nearby?

That also happens when you try just pressing START during boot if you have the GPU patch enabled. Due to how the GPU + widescreen patch works, it's not possible to use unstretched mode without disabling both patches, sorry!

Rahkeesh said:
A working/sane 800px is not near, according to Sono. More like a dead end with no obvious path forward.

Yeah.

Don't remember if I have mentioned this yet or not, but Nintendo use 3 recognizabe graphics libraries all around the code, hence the sheer impossibility of this patch.

The first graphics library is DMPGL, used to init the GPU and LCD. Don't know if it's used past initialization.
The second one is Ninty's low-level "nngx" driver. This is used extensively in the code.
The 3rd one is raw GPU commands hardcoded in the binary. It just happens to be that this ends up drawing the DS screens to the LCD. They - for some reason - made a custom driver for drawing 2 textured quads! So stupid and so annoying -_-

Homebrew TWPatcher - DS(i) mode screen filters and patches

Are you interested in a complete replacement of TwlBg which includes all patches?

Yes, I don't care how broken it will be!

No, I don't want to use even more broken stuff

Yes, but only in GBA mode, because I play DSi exclusives

No, because I only use DS and DSi mode

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