Homebrew Coverflow DS (New project)

[J8son]

no no no, no need for all of that.

1. Set ysmenu to work on your card, do not set it as the default loader.
Keep ysmenu.nds in the root of your card (and whatever files it requires in whatever place it expects to find them.

2. Use this ttmenu.dat, It's the one from my own card, it does indeed work. If you would rather create your own, just dldi patch dscoverd.nds and rename it to ttmenu.dat.

3. Run DScovery.exe select your microsd card from the drive list, tick the games you wish to see in the menu, hit the update button.

Thats it, there really shouldn't be any problems with that, I've done it a million times already.

Hmm, well I tried all of the above but still no luck. I get as far as the Coverflow menu loading but has no games in the view, just the "unknown" message at the bottom. I'm not sure what's causing this as I made sure all the files are in place on my MicroSD card before I run DScovery.exe, as this is always my last step. I'm also using your custom TTMENU.DAT file you provided Spinal.

Spinal, can you zip the contents of your SD card that you know runs (minus your DS rom files of course) and upload it so I can use that as my basis for trying to get my card to work? Maybe it will help me to compare your setup to mine, thus finding what I may be doing wrong on my part.

 

[emfletcher]

no no no, no need for all of that.

1. Set ysmenu to work on your card, do not set it as the default loader.
Keep ysmenu.nds in the root of your card (and whatever files it requires in whatever place it expects to find them.

2. Use this ttmenu.dat, It's the one from my own card, it does indeed work. If you would rather create your own, just dldi patch dscoverd.nds and rename it to ttmenu.dat.

3. Run DScovery.exe select your microsd card from the drive list, tick the games you wish to see in the menu, hit the update button.

Thats it, there really shouldn't be any problems with that, I've done it a million times already.

Hmm, well I tried all of the above but still no luck. I get as far as the Coverflow menu loading but has no games in the view, just the "unknown" message at the bottom. I'm not sure what's causing this as I made sure all the files are in place on my MicroSD card before I run DScovery.exe, as this is always my last step. I'm also using your custom TTMENU.DAT file you provided Spinal.

Spinal, can you zip the contents of your SD card that you know runs (minus your DS rom files of course) and upload it so I can use that as my basis for trying to get my card to work? Maybe it will help me to compare your setup to mine, thus finding what I may be doing wrong on my part.

I had the same problem. I tried installing it over and over again. And then I accidentally pressed one of the shoulder buttons and all the games appeared. It seems DScovered opens to your favorite games, and if you just installed it there are no favorite games. Pressing a shoulder button will bring up all of your games and from there you can add your favorites. Hope it works for you.

Now I have my games showing up but they won't launch. Launch Games just opens YSMenu. Anyone have a solution for this?

Also, does anyone know if there are any covers made for an NES emulator, YSMenu, and TTDS Menu?

 

[J8son]

I had the same problem. I tried installing it over and over again. And then I accidentally pressed one of the shoulder buttons and all the games appeared. It seems DScovered opens to your favorite games, and if you just installed it there are no favorite games. Pressing a shoulder button will bring up all of your games and from there you can add your favorites. Hope it works for you.

Now I have my games showing up but they won't launch. Launch Games just opens YSMenu. Anyone have a solution for this?

UPDATE:

emfletcher is absolutely right. My setup loads correctly but defaults to the Favorites menu. That's why I couldn't see anything and the "Unknown" message pops up at the bottom. However, when I hit the shoulder buttons it brings up the coverflow.

Unfortunately, I too can't launch the game but rather it loads the YSMenu. Is this just a bug that's still being corrected for the next release or a setup mistake on my/our part?

Thanks!

 

[spinal_cord]

If you have an SDHC card, then ysmenu currently WILL NOT AUTOLOAD THE SELECTED GAME. It only works with regular MircoSD cards. It is a side effect of the loader I'm using.

 

[Xenon++]

Ah, so why I had to give up bootlib and use ret_menu*_Gen for Link Launcher is that I used SDHC!
Now, could you look at selectloader_bl.zip/source/BootLoader/ and fix that?

#The issue that DScovered won't load ysmenu on AK2i will be fixed with my modified bootlib. That's because bootlib overwrites DO_startup with "return true;".

 

[J8son]

If you have an SDHC card, then ysmenu currently WILL NOT AUTOLOAD THE SELECTED GAME. It only works with regular MircoSD cards. It is a side effect of the loader I'm using.

Using a MicroSD card here. So what am I missing? Any chance of getting a zip file of your card setup to compare to mine?

 

[Xenon++]

Unfortunately, I too can't launch the game but rather it loads the YSMenu. Is this just a bug that's still being corrected for the next release or a setup mistake on my/our part?

You should check whether "the launched YSMenu" can launch any ROMs. (In my microSDHC fails)
And you should see YSMenu.ini AUTO_BOOT.

 

[spinal_cord]

OK, here is an example of dscovered working on ttds, I have also included ysmenu.ned in the .rar.

my root via megaupload

You will also see that ysmenu.ini is, well wrong, no idea how but it still works.

 

[emfletcher]

If you have an SDHC card, then ysmenu currently WILL NOT AUTOLOAD THE SELECTED GAME. It only works with regular MircoSD cards. It is a side effect of the loader I'm using.

Using a MicroSD card here. So what am I missing? Any chance of getting a zip file of your card setup to compare to mine?

I finally got it working. If you are like me you have ysmenu files in their own folder. If so, ysmenu.ini was created in the root of your card. Delete that and then copy the files from your YSMenu folder to the root of your card (YSMenu.ini, ttpatch.dat, ttdldi.dat). It should work now.

Edit: My .savs don't load... Why is this thing so hard to install?

 

[J8son]

UPDATE:

Spinal, when extracting the .RAR you posted above I get the following error message:

! C:\dslite\Homebrew\system.rar: CRC failed in YSMenu.nds. The file is corrupt
! C:\dslite\Homebrew\system.rar: The file "???" header is corrupt

However, here is the steps I tried anyway:

1) OK, so I formated my MicroSD card to wipe it and start over.

2) I extracted the contents of the .RAR file posted above and copied it to the root of my MicroSD card along with a DS game.

3) I then ran DScovered.exe, selecting the game and updating the card.

Coverview loads (defaults to the Favorites menu), however, when I select the game I get the following message:

QUOTEUnable to read filename. This title is not meant to be loaded outside of DScovered.

Any thoughts?

 

[spinal_cord]

That error happens when the loader.nds can not find /loadfile.dat, which stores the filename of the game to be loaded. I cant think of any reason this should happen if you loaded the game from DScovered.
See if you have loadfile.dat in the root of your card and that it contains any data.

 

[J8son]

That error happens when the loader.nds can not find /loadfile.dat, which stores the filename of the game to be loaded. I cant think of any reason this should happen if you loaded the game from DScovered.
See if you have loadfile.dat in the root of your card and that it contains any data.

Hmm, I checked my card and I have no loadfile.dat present. I also checked the original .RAR you uploaded earlier and it is also not present there (or was not extracted because it says there was an error in the archive).

Any thoughts?

 

[_Chaz_]

Is there a video anywhere that shows how this looks when used?

Also is this, in any way, compatible with the CycloDS?

 

[jurassicplayer]

Is there a video anywhere that shows how this looks when used?

Also is this, in any way, compatible with the CycloDS?

Here is Spinal_Cord's video of Coverflow (it was on his blog):
http://www.youtube.com/v/MKhWM1nGO6I

 

[_Chaz_]

Is there a video anywhere that shows how this looks when used?

Also is this, in any way, compatible with the CycloDS?

Here is Spinal_Cord's video of Coverflow (it was on his blog):
http://www.youtube.com/v/MKhWM1nGO6I

thanks.

 

[J8son]

Next, an installation video would be awesome as I've been trying to get this app installed every night for over a week and still no luck (and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one).

It's just this is an awesome app but seems really hard to figure out how to get it up and running for beginners to hombrews / flash carts like myself.

 

[spinal_cord]

I have put together an guide for installing DScovered and uploaded it to filetrip.
I followed these instructions as I wrote them, so they should work fine for everyone else.

http://filetrip.net/f9791-Instructions-for...overed-1-0.html

It's in .rtf format, if anyone wants to convert it to html or something then feel free.

 

[geedub]

has anyone confirmed this working on R4 ? ive tried and failed a few times ! and usually im quite good at following instructions

 

[soopa]

Any word on this going to be sdhc compatible?

Looks and works great on a 2gb but I have a 16gb with over 200 games.

well at least for now I have this nice app running on the 2gb THANKS ALOT SPINAL

 

[geedub]

has anyone confirmed this working on R4 ? ive tried and failed a few times ! and usually im quite good at following instructions

just to add i have made progress , i load the DScovered.nds and the coverflow works however it crashes when i launch game ?
also i tried to name it to default.nds and it doesnt autoboot as advised on this thread somewhere by jc

also when i try to load through YSMenu.nds it says something about r4dldi.dat

This is my setup for Original R4 + YSmenu.
Just have YSmenu setup as you default firmware. Put DScovered into the root of your card as spinal_cord instructed. Patch DScovered as spinal_cord instructed on the previous page. Remember to update the card via the windows application.
Load DScovered and enjoy.
Thats how I got mine to work.

i have to say this doesnt work for me ! the bottom screen goes black and top screen is black and pixelated ( corrupt ? ) ive also read others have the same problem when applying this patch for R4

QUOTE(spinal_cord @ Jan 23 2010, 11:01 AM)

For the app to work, make sure you have the latest .net framework installed (it's coded in .net).
As for making it work on R4 cards, the R4 dldi patch that the R4 menu uses in incompatible with the loader I used.
To get around this problem, download the following tool set via megaupload apply the included dldi patch to DScovered.nds (no other files need patching) then run DLDI No-Patch.exe and apply it to DScovered.nds, this will stop the R4 menu from re-patching DScovered with the wrong dldi patch. You should now be able to load homebrew and ysmenu should also work too.