Homebrew BAGPlug (SCDS2 Entry)

[BassAceGold]

alright! with your help..got CATSFC working fine in BAGPLUG but I cant seem to get covers to display for SNES .sfc's.

I have the cover directory set as
[sfc]
#path to folder with covers
folder = /_bagui/covers/SNES
#image type
type = png

one I have in a SNES folder in the root is "Contra III - The Alien Wars (USA).sfc"

the image for this game is called "Contra III - The Alien Wars (USA).png" and is located in folder, "
/_bagui/covers/SNES

when I renamed the .png to ".sfc.png" it froze my card everytime the ROM was highlighted..i'm getting there though!

say..could I also create an arg file for GBA games?..or too soon

and what about these custom icons?...I got the pack for them at filetrip..how do I use them though

The image name should have .sfc.png extension, and if the image is too large of a resolution, then it will take a while to load. So you may have to resize images to fit within the 256x192 nds screen resolution.

You can create an arg file for any file type, whether or not the programs for each file type can load the file you selected is independent of BAGPlug. The Supercard GBA emulator cannot load files passed to it, but you can at least launch the emulator by running a game in BAGPlug with the arg file.

Custom Icons from manual.txt:

[Custom icons]
-uses 32 x 32 bitmap or png files
-must be named the same as the file with and in the same directory OR they can be placed in a directory as defined
in the current skin.ini under "Custom_Icon_Folder".

eg:
BAGSFC.plg - the file you want to have a custom icon
BAGSFC.plg.png/BAGSFC.plg.bmp- the icon file

 

[Mikesahhh]

When scrolling through bagplug its fast and smooth apart from scrolling in the folder where all my ds roms are in, then its quite sluggish im using gamecovers for these but when im scrolling in my folder full of snes or nes games which also use gamecovers its not sluggish at all
any reason it would be slower in the ds one compared to the snes folder? theres a lot more games in the ds folder dunno if that would make a differance

 

[BassAceGold]

When scrolling through bagplug its fast and smooth apart from scrolling in the folder where all my ds roms are in, then its quite sluggish im using gamecovers for these but when im scrolling in my folder full of snes or nes games which also use gamecovers its not sluggish at all
any reason it would be slower in the ds one compared to the snes folder? theres a lot more games in the ds folder dunno if that would make a differance

For nds games, each icon is read from each rom. Since BAGPlug was compiled with an older version of the SDK fat library, it's fopen routine for reading is stupidly slow. Snes games have a default icon that is cached ahead of time, so its just a simple reference being passed rather than reading new data as they come on screen.

 

[MushGuy]

Looks good, I will try it.
Can you show all of the cheat name line and also all of the cheat description line?
This is the worst flaw with the DSTWO menu to me.

Strongly agree with this. I remember that CycloDS was able to show the cheat descriptions properly. Why can't DSTWO?

 

[2ndApex]

For nds games, each icon is read from each rom. Since BAGPlug was compiled with an older version of the SDK fat library, it's fopen routine for reading is stupidly slow. Snes games have a default icon that is cached ahead of time, so its just a simple reference being passed rather than reading new data as they come on screen.

Could you continue to update Bagplug, hopefully with homebrew reset one day?

 

[BassAceGold]

Could you continue to update Bagplug, hopefully with homebrew reset one day?

I cannot update BAGPlug anymore. I've changed too much in my libraries to make compiling BAGPlug possible without a lot of work. I'd rather put all that time and effort into the new menu I am creating. As for homebrew reset, homebrew menu should have it automatically[what BAGPlug uses for booting nds file], but I haven't been able to compile it with the most recent tool chains since I also have supercard plugin loading which uses outdated code.

 

[VatoLoco]

With the new GameYob emulator and the imminent release of TempGBA, here's some cover packs I trimmed/cropped/sized and such for BAGplug. I cant rmmbr where the GBA originals came from (got 'em outta my Wii covers pack for postLoader). The GB and GBC originals are from mastershoes Covers Collections for Emu's thread, which fyi has some good file renaming app links.
These are by no means complete, and there are duplicates and missing covers for sure. But hey, it's better than a kick in the butt.

Gameboy Covers

Gameboy Color Covers

GBA Covers

 

[Boriar]

Thanks for the covers pack

 

[VatoLoco]

Thanks for the covers pack

no prob=)
now i need to try to find a more complete GBC boxart pack. its only got around 88 covers atm.

 

[mike1]

is there any way to set up arguments for iplayer to load .avi files from bagplug?

 

[BassAceGold]

is there any way to set up arguments for iplayer to load .avi files from bagplug?

iplayer does not support loading from args. So unless the Supercard team releases the source for it, there won't be any way.

 

[mike1]

that's what I thought thanks

 

[mike1]

is there a way i can launch this from dstwo menu as a plug?

 

[BassAceGold]

is there a way i can launch this from dstwo menu as a plug?

Same way as any other plugin, make an ini file and icon for it and move the .plg file into the _dstwoplug folder or whatever it is. You won't be able to launch files with it if you run it as a plugin with the default Supercard plugin menu since it requires its own DSTwo.nds binary to do so rather than the Supercard's plugin menu.

 

[mike1]

Same way as any other plugin, make an ini file and icon for it and move the .plg file into the _dstwoplug folder or whatever it is. You won't be able to launch files with it if you run it as a plugin with the default Supercard plugin menu since it requires its own DSTwo.nds binary to do so rather than the Supercard's plugin menu.

thanks for the help I ended up finding the favorites and hiding files made this way simpler to use for my daughter so no need to load it that way thanks for a really cool menu

 

[nathancnc]

Part 2 of the NDS covers has a broken link...

 

[mike1]

here are some Atari 2600 covers I cleaned up for wiiflow resized for bagplug if someone wants them 487 covers in the .zip file http://www.mediafire.com/?s0h156ib62cgr

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

How do you load NDS ROMs straight from BAGplug? It keeps going to the EOS instead.

 

[VatoLoco]

Sounds like your _bagui/ext/nds.arg is set up to go to EOS.

try (use a text editor) a nds.arg like this to launch games:

Internal:
"$INTERNAL$"//file path
[$PRGMPATH$]//arguments are separated by commas
;

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

Mine says

Internal:
"$INTERNAL$"//file path
[$PRGMPATH$]//arguments are separated by commas
;

EOS 1.11:
"/_dstwo/DSGAME.nds"//file path
[$PRGMPATH$]//arguments are separated by commas
-EOSSETTINGS
;

What do I do? Put the path for one of the games?