Hacking AKAIO 1.1r2 Released

[DaMummy]

let me get the beta as well smiths, ill gladly do some testing as well

 

[Smiths]

Running GBA games: Not working. It seems to write the save to PSRAM, but doesn't boot the game.

Yeah, my bad. in debugging my 3in1 card apparently I never uncommented the loading routines :S
i believe i fixed that after the beta release.

now without a good 3in1 and a broken DS Lite (as in broken into pieces... stupid touch screen ribbon cable), i'm on a DS Phat only (and loving it!), you can't really expect support for 3in1 from Norm or myself unfortunately. Before I could at least test loading onto a 3in1. now, i'll kinda port over code if gelu does anything major.

unfortunately, norm and i are working on more things and we're both not really "complete" with what we've modified so we can't do any beta releases, sorry.

 

[cory1492]

Normatt, smiths, whomever else added code and fixed shoddy mess ups in the original source: bloody nice work

Not sure if it's been mentioned, definitely not important - pressing select to show a shorter list and launching something never seems to remember that I want a shorter list the next boot.

Everything else I tried is working just great, in fact R4 sees retirement today here due to AIO (even over the now dated sakura.) Many thanks

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

What R4? Are you talking about the R4DS or something else?

 

[cory1492]

What R4? Are you talking about the R4DS or something else?

I have a stack of cards here IOwnAndPwnU, and until today (AK2 showed up this morning) R4 (the chinese one I got and converted to english shortly after the switch pads were removed) was the slot filler when I wasn't working on anything. It says "R4 Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS)" on the front, and is pretty much the only R4 I know of unless you start looking around in the trash for clones.

 

[logical thinker]

Smiths, just to make sure, did you receive my reply of the message "AKAIO beta" (sent 2008.08.06)?

About the 3in1 support, I really like to have the feature available, but I don't use it. I prefer GBA ExpLoader. I like its simple interface and I like to choose where each ROM goes (NOR, PSRAM...).

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

What R4? Are you talking about the R4DS or something else?

I have a stack of cards here IOwnAndPwnU, and until today (AK2 showed up this morning) R4 (the chinese one I got and converted to english shortly after the switch pads were removed) was the slot filler when I wasn't working on anything. It says "R4 Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS)" on the front, and is pretty much the only R4 I know of unless you start looking around in the trash for clones.

I know what the R4 is but you mentioned "retirement" so then I got a little confused.

 

[cory1492]

Smiths/Normatt: Ran across another issue, just so you know I did get the drunken beta that was posted and that is what I am using today. Have either of you worked on/fixed the slot2 "passme" code at all? I can't get it to boot my EZ4 in DS mode, if you like I can supply some code that I know works for it and works well for some problematic old ds.gba that exist (but has never worked on M3 perfect for an unknown reason.) Lust LMK and I'll point you at it.

I know what the R4 is but you mentioned "retirement" so then I got a little confused.

eh? whats confusing you about "in fact R4 sees retirement today here due to AIO"; it's been retired to the junk drawer if you must know.

 

[Takoru]

Running GBA games: Not working. It seems to write the save to PSRAM, but doesn't boot the game.

Yeah, my bad. in debugging my 3in1 card apparently I never uncommented the loading routines :S
i believe i fixed that after the beta release.

now without a good 3in1 and a broken DS Lite (as in broken into pieces... stupid touch screen ribbon cable), i'm on a DS Phat only (and loving it!), you can't really expect support for 3in1 from Norm or myself unfortunately. Before I could at least test loading onto a 3in1. now, i'll kinda port over code if gelu does anything major.

unfortunately, norm and i are working on more things and we're both not really "complete" with what we've modified so we can't do any beta releases, sorry.

Hu? It's possible to start GBA Games for me, without Gba ExpLoader and the EZ Flash 3 in 1.
I just set NOR to always, started a gba rom, waited until the nor was deleted, set the nor back to normal and every game worked with my psram, lol.
I just played: Zelda - Minish Cap, Pokemon - Shiny. Both are working with saving.

 

[Smiths]

Smiths/Normatt: Ran across another issue, just so you know I did get the drunken beta that was posted and that is what I am using today. Have either of you worked on/fixed the slot2 "passme" code at all? I can't get it to boot my EZ4 in DS mode, if you like I can supply some code that I know works for it and works well for some problematic old ds.gba that exist (but has never worked on M3 perfect for an unknown reason.) Lust LMK and I'll point you at it.

I had to add a manual command line for EZ4 fixing actually. It's been a long time since it's come up so unfortunately it isn't documented. Some day i'll document the random things and usage guides to the firmware... there's just so much.

EZ4 DESPISES the 3in1 check at startup. so much so that even the act of checking the slot 2 card (if an EZ4 is in it) will make the EZ4 not recognized. It doesn't do anything to the data, but it pisses off the NDS so much it doesn't load it right.

Lemme dig up the globalsettings.ini variable you have to set:

CODEEZ3in1startupcheck = 0

set that.

 

[Smiths]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, definitely not important - pressing select to show a shorter list and launching something never seems to remember that I want a shorter list the next boot.

I don't even think that's an "option" per-say. it's like a 'toggle' thing that never gets a variable assigned to it.
But recently I've been thinking that should be an option that's saved but it'd have to be saved each time you hit select. We're talking minute saving time (same as when you save any other setting in the system menu), but some people may hate it.

 

[Minox]

I had to add a manual command line for EZ4 fixing actually. It's been a long time since it's come up so unfortunately it isn't documented. Some day i'll document the random things and usage guides to the firmware... there's just so much.

EZ4 DESPISES the 3in1 check at startup. so much so that even the act of checking the slot 2 card (if an EZ4 is in it) will make the EZ4 not recognized. It doesn't do anything to the data, but it pisses off the NDS so much it doesn't load it right.

Lemme dig up the globalsettings.ini variable you have to set:

EZ3in1startupcheck = 0

set that.

Adding that line makes it run perfectly, thanks.

In DS Mode that is, Gba-mode looks like it has a layer of the Ak2 OS flickering over it.

 

[Smiths]

Adding that line makes it run perfectly, thanks.

In DS Mode that is, Gba-mode looks like it has a layer of the Ak2 OS over it.

Yeah, that's fixed in the latest code. I tried a simple 100% port over of gelu's code... turned out my previous mods I had done for slot2 loading were better for "slot2" selection in the main window.

 

[Normmatt]

Just a quick question for those who run gba games, how would you guys like a cheat engine for gba games? If enough people seems to want it i'll add it to the to do list

 

[priv8dan]

Just a quick question for those who run gba games, how would you guys like a cheat engine for gba games? If enough people seems to want it i'll add it to the to do list

I cannot express enough of my gratitude if you were to implement that into the AKIO loader!

 

[Takoru]

Just a quick question for those who run gba games, how would you guys like a cheat engine for gba games? If enough people seems to want it i'll add it to the to do list

Oh damned, that awesome feature would just have the AKAIO firmware... woah great!
I would really love it!

Plwase, Normmatt, add it!

 

[kire]

what, i thought that cheats for the gba was not possible?
If the AIO firmware had that i would finaly buy a 3-in-1. Will eventually.
thanks for the AIO and keep up the good work Smiths and Normmatt(please add if possible)!

Kire

 

[golden]

Just a quick question for those who run gba games, how would you guys like a cheat engine for gba games? If enough people seems to want it i'll add it to the to do list

Wow how hard would that be? Great idea. I too support this and would buy a 3in1 if that was implemented. Great job so far on the whole thing, man.

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

Just a quick question for those who run gba games, how would you guys like a cheat engine for gba games? If enough people seems to want it i'll add it to the to do list

I support this. (5th person)

Also, are you going to mainly do it for the EZ3in1 or would you try to make it for others such as the ewin2in1 (DSTT 2in1 GBA & Explorer, but essentially the same thing). Please try to make it for the ewin 2in1 also if possible.

 

[Takoru]

I can't copy .nds files to the NAND with this firmware, with the official firmware it's working...

It's popping up a message which says, that my sdcard is full, but there's 900mb space in nand and 200mb space in the sd card.
so, it would be nice if it could be fixed...
btw.: gba games, etc, are working with copy & paste.

Edit: This problem seems just to exit with SDHC Cards, it's not working with every of my SDHC cards, but working with every SD card I got, I'm using AKAIO 1.1 public beta.

Edit 2: The error is:

Error not enough Space:
memory allocation error