Acekard R.P.G. loader 4.01 released & Open Source!

[THeLL]

Why is Gbatemp hyping the RPG Acekard so much? They constantly control the news and frontpage here @ gbatemp and the news about it has subjective terms in it that shouldn't be in a newspost....

 

[Emu]

I feel kinda weird seeing all these people with multiple slot-1s wanting this new one.. Like.. I have my R4 and that's good for me. Why would I want another one? Each one gets better with each release.

 

[go185]

Why is Gbatemp hyping the RPG Acekard so much? They constantly control the news and frontpage here @ gbatemp and the news about it has subjective terms in it that shouldn't be in a newspost....

Whenever a new flashcart gets released, there is always news articles on the front page about it (INCLUDING the R4, to make the R4 fanboys happy)

 

[Raisingod]

Somebody said that the code is bad, but it isn't that bad IMO. I've seen worse. It would pretty maintainable though it would require quite a while to review all of it.

The english comments aren't all that bad, and there wasn't many dirty looking hacks or workarounds from what i saw. (I didn't check all of it though)

The bad things are : there were some commented-out code, without any comment of why it was commented-out... Also some Chinese comments were in it. And the methods were not the best choice of naming, a lot of the methods gave me no idea what it does. Which isn't good.

It shouldn't be the hardest code to maintain. Moonshell is way larger when it comes to the code anyway.

It got some dodgy parts but not that bad ( already managed to understand alot of the GUI mechanisem and its quite nice) also it isn't a bad code its just that it isn't commented and got some bad C++ habits ( declartion everywhere makes it hard to keep track).But I guess this is what you ger when a non open-source compeney releases the code ( I did say the first community project is commenting)


Anyway thanks AceKard team for the source

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P.S I have a theoraticly semi working Moonshell button for the GUI ( haven't got an AceKard to test it) which could be used as a shortcut mechanisem basics

 

[mastertop101]

I don't really understand what you're trying to say in your first quote, but the second one has alot of misconsumptions, in my opinion. The card itself may not have everything you want, but you can add it and add it on there within seconds. Pay? Who would pay for a custom firmware? 99.9% of people would do it for the fame they'd get from it, not to earn money. Hell, if me and Savant get working, I can put alot of things that I've wanted on a flashcart, onto an Acekard in a few minutes.

In a few minutes... riiiiiiiiiiiiight

 

[Raisingod]

I don't really understand what you're trying to say in your first quote, but the second one has alot of misconsumptions, in my opinion. The card itself may not have everything you want, but you can add it and add it on there within seconds. Pay? Who would pay for a custom firmware? 99.9% of people would do it for the fame they'd get from it, not to earn money. Hell, if me and Savant get working, I can put alot of things that I've wanted on a flashcart, onto an Acekard in a few minutes.

In a few minutes... riiiiiiiiiiiiight

Why being so skeptical, there are some really nifty things that can be done in a matter of minutes (providing a good programmer is writing it) . If you have looked into the source code you would have known that there are some really helpful procedures in there

 

[shaunj66]

I feel kinda weird seeing all these people with multiple slot-1s wanting this new one.. Like.. I have my R4 and that's good for me. Why would I want another one? Each one gets better with each release.

We get accused of being biased towards every flash cart at the time they come out... naturally there is more news about new flash carts and thus they take up a lot of frontpage time... There's nothing seedy about it.

 

[hollabackitsobi]

Ok. 2 games out of 1200+ is DEFINITELY minimal compatibility issues, no matter how you look at it. What do you want to be said, that the R4 is utter garbage and should be burned and destroyed because Worms 2 and Deltora Quest don't work without a patch, when there's no way to fix the Acekards download play and soft reset issues like that? Get real.

 

[KINGOFNOOBS]

Ok. 2 games out of 1200+ is DEFINITELY minimal compatibility issues, no matter how you look at it. What do you want to be said, that the R4 is utter garbage and should be burned and destroyed because Worms 2 and Deltora Quest don't work without a patch, when there's no way to fix the Acekards download play and soft reset issues like that? Get real.

2 Games? More like 20. Then again, most of these games suck so eh.

 

[zi70410]

yea

 

[hollabackitsobi]

Really, 20? I had no idea. The only game I heard about was Worms 2 Open Warfare. Doesn't really matter to me though, as I just sold my R4 and will get a Cyclo as soon as RealHotStuff ships out there 10/1 batch.

 

[OSW]

The whole arm7 fix thing is what has let R4 down for me. Perfect compatability without manual patching should be a given, but R4 is behind the times.

BUT BACK ON TOPIC AS PharaohsVizier WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS!
no more R4 talk!

I'm probably getting my acekard this week or next, i'll post my impressions then too.

 

[stop_loading]

R4 patches game on the fly, there will be more incompatibilities

 

[go185]

Just purchased my RPG from bamboogaming!

 

[iwakura]

Well according to the clean rom patcher, so does AceKardRPG.

which games does it need to patch on the fly?

 

[Alastair]

seeing that you own a cycloDS, where do you think that belongs in the rankings, alastair? I'm just curious.

Where do you think? Number one.

I read everything I could find about the available cartridges and purchased based on what DS flash cart. plays DS games the best. If that makes me ignorant, I'm sorry

but I will never accept from anyone that a card with inferior compatibility (R4/ARPG) is better.

I didn't get my CycloDS because I heard that it had as wonderful support for download play as the other options.

 

[Seraph]

I read everything I could find about the available cartridges and purchased based on what DS flash cart. plays DS games the best. If that makes me ignorant, I'm sorry

but I will never accept from anyone that a card with inferior compatibility (R4/ARPG) is better.

I didn't get my CycloDS because I heard that it had as wonderful support for download play as the other options.Â

Huh? Doesn't the RPG have 100% capatiblity too? And also you don't have to buy a specific SD card for problematic games.(same goes for G6 Real) So the problems with the RPG that keep it from being the best cart are the features that haven't been added yet.

 

[Alastair]

Huh? Doesn't the RPG have 100% capatiblity too? And also you don't have to buy a specific SD card for problematic games.(same goes for G6 Real) So the problems with the RPG that keep it from being the best cart are the features that haven't been added yet.

If you only play single-player, yes. Download play is important for people that have friends with DSs though and fromw hat I heard, D.P. with the RPG is a joke.

The SD card problem is a bit disconcerting (although I only thought it happened with Portrait of Ruin on the CycloDS), true, I agree but it's not hard to get the right SD card.

As for the things that keep the RPG from being the best: You're absolutely right. The same goes for every single cart. out there: if only they had the features to make them the best, they WOULD be the best!

 

[ViRGE]

Well according to the clean rom patcher, so does AceKardRPG.

Every last card that has been made does, every card that will be made in the future will too. It's the result of using flash memory, it's slower than the ROM memory Nintendo is using and that's all there is to it. A well designed card will implement a patching method that can be very effective, but there will always be the possibility of a game not working on a card if it's throwing something the patcher can't handle.

 

[recover]

If you don't prepatch the rom (modifying the actual file), of course the cards will have to do it on the fly (in memory when you run the rom).