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[sr_corsario]

Save icon in nes games is still in 1.app ... not easy to find...

xD

PD:Try to change 1.app from game A to 1.app in game B. Thats the proof.

 

[lolsjoel]

Really? Where's the Save Icon in 01.app?

 

[sr_corsario]

Really? Where's the Save Icon in 01.app?

... lazy... at least test it... xD

 

[lolsjoel]

But the 01.app isn't U8. I'm not clever enough to find work arounds for stuff like that!

 

[megabug7]

And there should always be an "emanual" folder inside the output folder you make. When repacking, always repack using the folder you output to (IE: emanual_arc_out)
It has to have emanual at the root from my experience.

Everything went well - except I get error when accessing it in the channel

'Can't find arc:/emanual/startup.html'

 

[RadioShadow]

Here is the file for 00000004.app. It should work on any VC WAD and only make the 'Wii Menu' and 'Reset' buttons display, in the centre of the screen too.

The 'Operation Menu' button has been disabled (how I don't know XD).

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/7120...000004-app.html
That's interesting, I may look into that. I guess the programmers/designers just have a file for normal games, and one for VC games, and swap them.
With this mod, you can simply remove the emanual altogether. Thanks for sharing.

You can't remove the emanual from 00000005.app (well I had no luck) but you can just shove the empty emanual which will make the WAD a lot smaller. Then use the custom 00000004.app to disable the 'Operation Manual' button.


Each VC WAD will contain the 00000004.app file (I guess they will be identical) which contains the following two folders:

HomeButton2 - The graphics for the 'Reset' button and how it functions.

HomeButton3 - The graphics for the 'Operational Manual' button and how it functions.

All I did was copy the contents of the HomeButton2 folder and replaced them with the contents in the HomeButton3 folder. And then repacked the file. I was surprised that disabled the 'Operation Manual' button.

QUOTE(RadioShadow @ Jun 22 2008, 07:29 PM)

Here is the file for 00000004.app. It should work on any VC WAD and only make the 'Wii Menu' and 'Reset' buttons display, in the centre of the screen too.

The 'Operation Menu' button has been disabled (how I don't know XD).

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/7120...000004-app.html

That'll work for any system? If so, awesome! I'll be using that from now on.

It works on the SNES and NES wads. It should work on the rest as all that app contains is the functions and graphics for the 'Reset' and 'Operational Manual' button when the 'Home' button is pressed.

 

[lolsjoel]

RadioShadow - Sounds good to me. I've just packed a new NES WAD with your 04.app and will post back results when I test it out. I also replaced the emanual.arc with emanual_empty.arc to save space.

 

[neonix]

And there should always be an "emanual" folder inside the output folder you make. When repacking, always repack using the folder you output to (IE: emanual_arc_out)
It has to have emanual at the root from my experience.
Unpack the one you made and see if you get OUTPUT/emanual/all the crap in here.. Or open it up in u8pack and see if you have the emanual folder in the root of the archive.

What I do is I have
/tools/emanual/emanual/stuff here
and /tools/darchD.exe

I run "darchd -c emanual.arc emanual"


QUOTE(RadioShadow @ Jun 22 2008, 06:27 PM) Each VC WAD will contain the 00000004.app file (I guess they will be identical) which contains the following two folders:

HomeButton2 - The graphics for the 'Reset' button and how it functions.

HomeButton3 - The graphics for the 'Operational Manual' button and how it functions.

All I did was copy the contents of the HomeButton2 folder and replaced them with the contents in the HomeButton3 folder. And then repacked the file. I was surprised that disabled the 'Operation Manual' button.

Seems to me what you did was place a duplicate Reset button on top of the other one. So it'll appear just fine, but there's actually two buttons overlapping. I guess it's a fix, but did you try simpyl deleting the HomeButton3 folder?

We could check the similar archive from a wiiware WAD, and see if the structure is the same and such. But I'm pretty sure it's not in 04.app in wiiware.

 

[Skater4599]

I used the new 000004.app and replaced emanual.arc with blank one and shaved 9-10 blocks off almost all of my VC i have installed, it worked for all NES, and SNES games i didnt test genesis and neogeo but i imagine it works, the 0004.app file iteslef works in all of them but the emanual.arc is in a diff place or somthing for n64, it was completely differeent than the others, but id like to delete the manual there too, anyone know where it is?

 

[megabug7]

Unpack the one you made and see if you get OUTPUT/emanual/all the crap in here.. Or open it up in u8pack and see if you have the emanual folder in the root of the archive.

What I do is I have
/tools/emanual/emanual/stuff here
and /tools/darchD.exe

I run "darchd -c emanual.arc emanual"

Yes! got it to work - I misunderstood about having the darchD.exe in the folder that emanual folder resides.

ie. I initially had it like

|Tools
|- 000100014c4f4c5a
|--- 00000005_app_out
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ darchD.exe
|------- emanual_arc_out
|--------------------- emanual
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ Files

So when I did the command it added the emanual_arc_out as root.

then tried this
CODE|Tools
|- 000100014c4f4c5a
|--- 00000005_app_out
|------- emanual_arc_out
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ darchD.exe
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ emanual
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ |____ Files

and it worked

You ran "darchd -c emanual.arc emanual"

This works too "darchd -c emanual emanual.arc"

My VC Game is now official looking

Very happy

 

[RadioShadow]

It's repacking the file that is the problem. What I could do is put a bunch of fake files in and that might prevent the WAD from loading it.

What I want to know is how did the Wii Home Buttons move location? I think it might have something to do with the config file. I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

 

[neonix]

Unpack the one you made and see if you get OUTPUT/emanual/all the crap in here.. Or open it up in u8pack and see if you have the emanual folder in the root of the archive.

What I do is I have
/tools/emanual/emanual/stuff here
and /tools/darchD.exe

I run "darchd -c emanual.arc emanual"

Yes! got it to work - I misunderstood about having the darchD.exe in the folder that emanual folder resides.

ie. I initially had it like

|Tools
|- 000100014c4f4c5a
|--- 00000005_app_out
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ darchD.exe
|------- emanual_arc_out
|--------------------- emanual
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ Files

So when I did the command it added the emanual_arc_out as root.

then tried this

|Tools
|- 000100014c4f4c5a
|--- 00000005_app_out
|------- emanual_arc_out
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ darchD.exe
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|____ emanual
|ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ |____ Files

and it worked

You ran "darchd -c emanual.arc emanual"

This works too "darchd -c emanual emanual.arc"

My VC Game is now official looking

Very happy

I had it backwards, sorry, it's for extracting that it's a problem.

You have to extract like so:

darchd -x emanual emanual.arc

This wont work:
CODE

darchd -x emanual.arc emanual

Now, has anybody tried anything with the actual save files? I'm not sure if trying to mess with the bin file (the one when you copy to the SD card) is the right approach, but maybe dumping the save from the wii manually like dumping a wad would get an editable file.


@RadioShadow, I think the X,Y coordinates for the buttons are specified in a file in the HomeButton2/3 folder someplace. I'm too lazy to look into it now, but I'm sure it's something like that.

 

[megabug7]

Now you mention the save file.
When you copy it to the SDRam (this is from a custom VC save), it's 4 blocks (Wii informs you that not all data could be copied).
But when you copy it back it's 1 block and the save still works.

Not sure why it does this

 

[Skater4599]

Now you mention the save file.
When you copy it to the SDRam (this is from a custom VC save), it's 4 blocks (Wii informs you that not all data could be copied).
But when you copy it back it's 1 block and the save still works.

Not sure why it does this

This is because it will not copy your "Suspend point" but your save game file is safe

 

[neonix]

Now you mention the save file.
When you copy it to the SDRam (this is from a custom VC save), it's 4 blocks (Wii informs you that not all data could be copied).
But when you copy it back it's 1 block and the save still works.

Not sure why it does this

This is because it will not copy your "Suspend point" but your save game file is safe

Yea, the VC has a built-in state save feature that only works when you press the HOME button and go back to the Wii menu. It lets you pick up from that state next time you load the game.

 

[megabug7]

Now you mention the save file.
When you copy it to the SDRam (this is from a custom VC save), it's 4 blocks (Wii informs you that not all data could be copied).
But when you copy it back it's 1 block and the save still works.

Not sure why it does this

This is because it will not copy your "Suspend point" but your save game file is safe

Yea, the VC has a built-in state save feature that only works when you press the HOME button and go back to the Wii menu. It lets you pick up from that state next time you load the game.

Oh OK

 

[lolsjoel]

I'll confirm, also, that the new 04.app does remove the Operations Guide button. Excellent!

 

[lolsjoel]

sr_corsario or other -

are you going to post more about the save icon location for NES games?

 

[megabug7]

The only tpl's I can find in the 01.app is, '64_a.tpl' and _p1.tpl' possible relating to 'arc/timg/defcursor_final'.

as for the rest.

I found these
'/shared2/menu/vc/settings.sav'
'fffvchvc24.cpp' 'emanual.arc' 'savedata.bin' 'banner.bin' '/tmp/banner.bin' 'nocopy/savework.bin'

There is also an elf c:\vcmv\vcmvtest.bin\VcmvTestN.elf

Some random stuff

koro LNK MET MARIO 3.VCI NES /LZ77 /Huf8
nocopy OK

Not sure why Mario 3 is in there as I used Kirby's Adventure

Seems to be alot of source included at the end *.c *.h etc

Anyway I hope this information is useful...

 

[neonix]

All the games from the system are referenced in a wad file. When I was changing the save text for my EarthBound wad, I found actual text for EarthBound, and DKC2 was released before it was even rated on the ESRB site. I saw a bunch of other unreleased game titles, so I'm pretty sure Nintendo has a framework to make releasing VC titles easier.