Hacking AKAIO 1.4.1 PROPER Released

[Bilbotorm]

2) fix the problem with the ak2i only working if the dsi firmware language is set to english. -- i have no idea what this one is about. i know norm and smiths are using the ak2i on the japanese dsi which does not have an english language setting. unless people are talking about the ability to run roms in their native language when they are booted on a dsi that is not in their native language. narin made some cheats for this, cheats that support roms that have multiple languages available.

2. The DSi must use a different whitelist depending on the selected language the AK2i and most other flashcarts use an english language rom header and thus probably wont work on any other region other than japan and english.

That's a very bad news :'(
For the brightness; i was almost sure it was not easy; but for the language; i was hoping a fix was doable

thanks for the good job; waiting for 1.5 anyway ^^

 

[Smiths]

i forget where the last dir is saved but i believe it's just a globalsetting. that can be added for GBA. I just never bothered because i was focused on the retarded saving method it was using.

 

[g.crow]

2) fix the problem with the ak2i only working if the dsi firmware language is set to english. -- i have no idea what this one is about. i know norm and smiths are using the ak2i on the japanese dsi which does not have an english language setting. unless people are talking about the ability to run roms in their native language when they are booted on a dsi that is not in their native language. narin made some cheats for this, cheats that support roms that have multiple languages available.

2. The DSi must use a different whitelist depending on the selected language the AK2i and most other flashcarts use an english language rom header and thus probably wont work on any other region other than japan and english.

That's a very bad news :'(
For the brightness; i was almost sure it was not easy; but for the language; i was hoping a fix was doable

thanks for the good job; waiting for 1.5 anyway ^^

the ez5i works very well, no matter which language is set.

to the brightness problem: its not that you cant choose the 5th level of brightness, you cant adjust brightness at all.

 

[Ethanfel]

the ez5i works very well, no matter which language is set.

to the brightness problem: its not that you cant choose the 5th level of brightness, you cant adjust brightness at all.

Push Select + Sound Vol Up/down, and you can, YES YOU CAN !

 

[skawo96]

Having problems with the latest AKAIO loader. No homebrew starts.

 

[Another World]

Having problems with the latest AKAIO loader. No homebrew starts.

hes right. some homebrew starts but fails to work (jenesisds). everything else just black screens. i updated both manually and over wifi. i wanted to test both methods to make sure it wasn't an error with the unresponsive gbatemp server.

-another world

 

[Tomy Sakazaki]

If you want to run homebrews that locks on April 3rd 2009 update, download the previous version
http://akaio.gbatemp.net/loaders/020409/ak2loader.zip AK2
And since I dunno if AK+ and AKRPG loaders share those problems:
http://akaio.gbatemp.net/loaders/020409/akloader.zip AK RPG
http://akaio.gbatemp.net/loaders/020409/akploader.zip AK+

 

[skawo96]

Update to loaders.

Notes: "Fixed #2505,#2734,#2664,#3191
Fixed Homebrew support.

 

[cory1492]

6. Who uses .ds.gba roms anymore? those were made for the ancient gba flashcarts for use with passme's.

1 word - dsheretic! =P

I remember fixing a bug specific to dsheretic.ds.gba when making gbaldr's ds.gba launcher, gbaldr should be able to start it from 3in1 just fine. If I remember right from looking at the code comments it was a matter of either not resetting some mcr/system registers or leaving DTCM alone, if there is any interest that goes beyond just using gbaldr to start dsheretic it wouldn't be very hard to re-wrap that loader into a tiny standalone .nds file.

 

[Another World]

thanks for the info cory. i gave your new update a front page post. i hope thats alright with you.

cheers,
-another world

 

[Normmatt]

6. Who uses .ds.gba roms anymore? those were made for the ancient gba flashcarts for use with passme's.

1 word - dsheretic! =P

I remember fixing a bug specific to dsheretic.ds.gba when making gbaldr's ds.gba launcher, gbaldr should be able to start it from 3in1 just fine. If I remember right from looking at the code comments it was a matter of either not resetting some mcr/system registers or leaving DTCM alone, if there is any interest that goes beyond just using gbaldr to start dsheretic it wouldn't be very hard to re-wrap that loader into a tiny standalone .nds file.

Seeing as your more familiar with the 3in1 than I am I thought I'd shoot a question your way. Have you noticed that when the 3in1 is inserted NDS and GBA games for that matter cannot go into sleep? I know there were fixes for the GBA games but I haven't seen any fixes for NDS sleep with the 3in1 inserted. It'd be nice if there was an easy way to fix this, I haven't worked out why the 3in1 is breaking it but I suspect its the same problem that plagued the GBA sleep mode random interrupts from the 3in1 that wake the ds out of sleep mode for a second then goes back to sleep.

 

[cory1492]

thanks for the info cory. i gave your new update a front page post. i hope thats alright with you.

cheers,
-another world
It's fine, and thanks (when I saw the line in RSS I thought - what someone's stepping up to try take Rudolphs' place?) The update itself is only an overwrite for the original binary to add new hardware - it's much less 'complete' than exploader as it's pretty much strictly for NOR *.gba loading and relies on an external program (ez4client,3in1tool,gbata) to do the GBA patches.

QUOTE(Normmatt @ Apr 6 2009, 04:55 PM) Seeing as your more familiar with the 3in1 than I am I thought I'd shoot a question your way. Have you noticed that when the 3in1 is inserted NDS and GBA games for that matter cannot go into sleep? I know there were fixes for the GBA games but I haven't seen any fixes for NDS sleep with the 3in1 inserted. It'd be nice if there was an easy way to fix this, I haven't worked out why the 3in1 is breaking it but I suspect its the same problem that plagued the GBA sleep mode random interrupts from the 3in1 that wake the ds out of sleep mode for a second then goes back to sleep.

I've heard and seen of the nds browser issue with sleep, I figured the DS is cutting power to the GBA slot meaning among other things that the actel in the 3in1 would get underpowered and do erratic things - also the possibility that there are missing/bad patches on the loader side as I've seen sleep=hard reset corrected before with loader updates for other games.

As to any other DS sleep problems, I've not noticed them when the 3in1 is passive (no rumble/ram) and I do have that 3in1 in nearly all the time along with the AK2 AKAIO. Then again my lite's power switch is a little fragged as well, it has a nasty habit of turning itself on and killing the battery on days when I thought/wanted it to be charged, so it's possible I've seen it and put it off to that switch. Can you give me a more precise/repeatable situation? I'll pull apart my non-lite and set up some tests with my DMM to see whats what on the hardware side of it. Also - I've never looked for the actual code that does it, but what about card interrupts like what happens to cause a halt in the DS menu on insertions - is that also found in a retail arm7? Could it be patched to be ignored if so?

BTW: Did gelu quit on his AK 3in1 version? (edit:/ actually, as far as I can tell pretty much all of the RPG repositories are MIA)

 

[Normmatt]

Advance Wars 1 flashes the screen on and off and makes a popping noise when attempting to enter sleep mode but works fine if you take it out of sleep mode. I've not tracked down the NDS browser crash yet but I'm assuming its related.

 

[FADE5303]

Advance Wars 1 flashes the screen on and off and makes a popping noise when attempting to enter sleep mode but works fine if you take it out of sleep mode.

Same goes to Megaman Battle Network 5 DS(U and J), I haven't tested European but I think it is as well

 

[cory1492]

And they both sleep fine when 3in1 isn't in the mix? Odd... and thanks

edit:/
Normatt: that is indeed bloody odd, if I pull out the 3in1 and put it back the problem no longer occurs - even more odd is it does it with an EZV as well. What interrupts/callbacks are watched when DS is in sleep mode? To add to that, it does it with EZ4dlx as well.

Anyone know if those two titles (advance wars 1 and Megaman Battle net 5 DS) have GBA accessors/dongle/unlocks? (aka: things that unlock when you have one of the GBA titles inserted) I do beleive AWDS does have that feature.

 

[ExDee]

I'm new to AK. Is AKAIO better than the regular firmware?

 

[Another World]

I'm new to AK. Is AKAIO better than the regular firmware?

yes, and thats an honest answer. check out the akaio wiki to see what akaio does. then if you like run the official to see what that does. make up your own mind, but akaio is the better choice.

-another world

 

[Marauding]

why when i update to this all the writing disapears.pictures only??

i had this problem, just delete your globallist.bin or something

 

[ShamusHand]

Does this work with the DSi?

 

[logical thinker]

Advance Wars 1 flashes the screen on and off and makes a popping noise when attempting to enter sleep mode but works fine if you take it out of sleep mode.

Same goes to Megaman Battle Network 5 DS(U and J), I haven't tested European but I think it is as well

If I remember correctly, that also happens in 0364 - Puzzle Series Vol. 1 - Jigsaw Puzzle with Acekard RPG and R4.