Hacking Acekard 2 Loader 4.08

[Diffusion]

A brand new engine of saving and reading card for Acekard2. Faster and more stable. Castlevania should be never lag on any TF cards.
Press "a" to use new engine and long press "a" for old engine.
If there's any black or white screen please disable all special functions first.
Merged all main features from bliss's firmware. Thanks to bliss.
*Improved supporting of running GBA games via expansion cards.
*Support mp3, txxt, avi, dsm, ogg, wav and so on direclty. (avi need convert first. txt support mark)
*Support AR code in dat and xml format.
*You can set uniquee settings for every single game.
*Support multi save slot for one game.
*Support automatically run after start up. You can long press b button to enter ak2's menu. Support short cut.
*Support hide files and folders. Support hide extension name.
Fixed save issue of DQ5

Download:
Official Site: http://www.acekard.com/download.php#ak2
GBAtemp: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=3062

 

[tinymonkeyt]

Support multi save slot for one game

they have save slots for the acekard 2?

 

[dewback]

Support multi save slot for one game

they have save slots for the acekard 2?

his is a Feature that was in the bliss loader. The Bliss Loader was using the release to load with more options for save slots and turning on pachs per game. This is great because the Bliss loader is a lot better but had to wait for it to be updated.

 

[Smiths]

so basically it's AKAIO-lite...

this is what they made of it.
Let's drink, Normmatt.
I got my 4 AKs out of the code in this. shoulda asked for a replacement DS Lite

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I hope this is good. Going to try out. So far looks like the AKAIO. Or .. is it?

 

[Bri]

It's not AIO. It's based on Bliss' menu, which uses a lot of the code from the previous version of AIO (I think I said that right).

Smiths, this may actually be a good sign. At least they're incorporating code from the custom firmware. Since you and Normmatt are continuing to develop your code (and Bliss isn't), it seems like they may now be open to adding some of your features to it. Maybe Normmatt's slow-motion code can be added (and then supported by the Acekard team).

It's a little funny that the default skin (black) says "Acekard RPG" on it instead of "Acekard 2" (or just "Acekard").

-Bri

 

[Takoru]

Why isn't there a version for AKRPG?
hm, who matters... AKAIO > ALL

 

[Gevexx]

It's not AIO. It's based on Bliss' menu, which uses a lot of the code from the previous version of AIO (I think I said that right).

Smiths, this may actually be a good sign. At least they're incorporating code from the custom firmware. Since you and Normmatt are continuing to develop your code (and Bliss isn't), it seems like they may now be open to adding some of your features to it. Maybe Normmatt's slow-motion code can be added (and then supported by the Acekard team).

It's a little funny that the default skin (black) says "Acekard RPG" on it instead of "Acekard 2" (or just "Acekard").

-Bri

Yeah maybe but i think that the devs are just lazy and wait until smiths code everything so that they can overtake it.

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

It's not AIO. It's based on Bliss' menu, which uses a lot of the code from the previous version of AIO (I think I said that right).

Smiths, this may actually be a good sign. At least they're incorporating code from the custom firmware. Since you and Normmatt are continuing to develop your code (and Bliss isn't), it seems like they may now be open to adding some of your features to it. Maybe Normmatt's slow-motion code can be added (and then supported by the Acekard team).

It's a little funny that the default skin (black) says "Acekard RPG" on it instead of "Acekard 2" (or just "Acekard").

-Bri

So would you say this is better than AKAIO 1.1r2 ? Or is it the same .. kinda looks like the same.

 

[Bri]

Yeah maybe but i think that the devs are just lazy and wait until smiths code everything so that they can overtake it.

Maybe, but I don't see that as a problem. I kind of prefer that they concentrate on compatibility updates in the loader. Remember that the Acekard team will also be responsible for supporting all these new features when they update the loader. It was a concern for Smiths and Normmatt that when they implement new features, they had to recode everything every time the Acekard team changed the loader. If the Acekard team incorporates features into the official loader, they take over support in future versions, taking the burden of support off of Smiths and Normmatt, allowing them to concentrate on coding new features (which is probably what they prefer to do anyway).

-Bri

 

[Bri]

It's not AIO. It's based on Bliss' menu, which uses a lot of the code from the previous version of AIO (I think I said that right).

Smiths, this may actually be a good sign. At least they're incorporating code from the custom firmware. Since you and Normmatt are continuing to develop your code (and Bliss isn't), it seems like they may now be open to adding some of your features to it. Maybe Normmatt's slow-motion code can be added (and then supported by the Acekard team).

It's a little funny that the default skin (black) says "Acekard RPG" on it instead of "Acekard 2" (or just "Acekard").

-Bri

So would you say this is better than AKAIO 1.1r2 ? Or is it the same .. kinda looks like the same.

It's probably very similar (maybe identical) to Bliss' latest menu, which is based on some of the same code that AIO is based on (both use code from AIO's predecessor, AKBBS). But AIO has had some new features since Bliss stopped development of his menu, so I'd say AIO is better. AIO is perhaps slightly less stable than the official given that Smiths and Normmatt are constantly adding new features to it.

-Bri

 

[Smiths]

Remember that the Acekard team will also be responsible for supporting all these new features when they update the loader.

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

oh yeah, that'll be the day.

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

Well, if the Official firmware still works as good/better than AKAIO, I'll keep it. Still have to test it out though.

 

[Bri]

Remember that the Acekard team will also be responsible for supporting all these new features when they update the loader.

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

oh yeah, that'll be the day.

Now that they've added the new functionality to the official menu, I don't think they have a choice. If a future version of their loader breaks something in the official menu, they'll either have to remove that functionality (which will cause a lot of problems for them) or else fix the menu code accordingly.

-Bri

 

[Takoru]

But, why isn't it possible to use it with an AKRPG? I thought it's open source... so it should get such firmwares before the AK2, lol.

 

[Normmatt]

The merged bliss' AKRPG is on the way. They are just checking over too make sure there aren't any bugs.

 

[Devante]

Seems like this one is a few weeks late when compared to AKAIO.

 

[seren]

Do you know if that release will have a similar loading engine as the AK2 4.0.8?

 

[Normmatt]

The new loading engine is only for the AK2, the AKRPG and AK+ versions of bliss' merged firmwares won't have any compatibility fixes except for the DQ5 fix i think.

 

[seren]

ok, thanks.

I don't know why they would bother releasing such a miner release