Homebrew Coverflow DS (New project)

[spinal_cord]

Well i looked back a few pages but could not find a similar problem and the search button didn't help much but I can't seem to load commercial backups using the YSMenu loader, whenever i try, it just boots to YSMenu rather than loading the ROM.
YSMenu boots everything fine.
To be honest i think my YSMenu may be slightly out of date but DSCovered is definitely not up to date.

The root of my SDHC card is so messy i can't remember what has been renamed what but i do believe i have the following files:
Dscovered.nds => ttmenu.dat for auto-boot
YSMenu.nds => Ysmenu.nds
ttdldi.dat
ttmenu.sys
ttpatch.dat

Any ideas?

You need ysmenu.ini in the root of your card (and ONLY the root).

 

[mayhem366]

Already had it in the root and also found it in the TTMenu folder, deleted it from there and tried again but still no luck.

I'll have a go at re-formatting the card and starting again from scratch.


EDIT: Got it working now but soft reset seems to hang with the TTMenu icon for loading on the top screen.

Double EDIT: Introduction of old files (minus all firmware related files) has broke it again, back to the original problem. May it be the folder structure of my roms? (sd:/_Roms_/DS/)

 

[Xenon++]

If you really have no luck, you can try my extlink wrapper...

 

[mayhem366]

I have it all working now, seems like the folder name was the problem, I did name it like that originally so that it would appear at the top of the list always but i've had to change it now but that is no biggie really.
What an excellent program it is though spinal, you should nbe proud

 

[spinal_cord]

I have it all working now, seems like the folder name was the problem, I did name it like that originally so that it would appear at the top of the list always but i've had to change it now but that is no biggie really.
What an excellent program it is though spinal, you should nbe proud

So was it the _ part of the folder name that was causing the problem? I noticed a similar problem when using an emulator, _DSCovered didn't work, but !DSCovered did.

 

[Xenon++]

What? In my env underscore is OK...

 

[env]

^ whats with my name?

 

[obito]

I dunno why.. but I always get problems with this thing.. .-.


So I'm trying to using the woodmod... I got the akmenu4 file and the rpg file, put it on the root of my card. Then I renamed the akmenu4 to akmenu. Next i got the d_system file, and put the akmenu4 file on the root of my card. I imported covers, and blah blah..


But when I turn it on, it says DS_MENU is missing...

o.0 Generally when something says _DS_MENU.dat is missing, that means A) You are using an R4 original/sd clone if you can use wood and B) You don't know too much about the R4's setup. (Thus I'll help you out xD)
_DS_MENU.DAT is the first file that will be loaded and is an encrypted .nds file. So, you have to choose what you want as your initial firmware (the one that loads up first) which could be any firmware/homebrew provided it is a working .nds file. Then you need to encrypt it using a tool like 'R4denc' to encrypt the .nds file and then rename it to _DS_MENU.dat. Apart from that, the rest is hopefully easy to figure out (since the rest of it is just placing it on your card and making sure the reference paths are correct).

I don't get how this helps..

The setup guide says I need xenon's modded wood firmware.. when I downloaded it instead of getting a DS_MENU nds file, I got an AKMENU4 one..

I put the akmenu4 file and rpg folder on to the root of my card..

then the guide said rename akmenu4 to akmenu. So I did.


Then I got the other akmenu4 file from dscovered and put it on the root of my card.


Then when I turn it on, It says DS MENU is missing. When I never had a ds_menu file in the first place...

I know the original wood R4 firmware has one... but I'm lost..

Sorry for pretty much repeating what I said in the last post..

 

[jurassicplayer]

Grab R4denc from the downloads section (I think it is there, otherwise google brings it up quickly enough), drag and drop your current akmenu4.nds onto the 'enc' one and then the thing that pops out in the same place as the original file will be akmenu4.nds.dat which you rename to _DS_MENU.DAT...After that, try it out (you could dldi patch the akmenu4.nds before encrypting it just to be safe).

 

[obito]

Grab R4denc from the downloads section (I think it is there, otherwise google brings it up quickly enough), drag and drop your current akmenu4.nds onto the 'enc' one and then the thing that pops out in the same place as the original file will be akmenu4.nds.dat which you rename to _DS_MENU.DAT...After that, try it out (you could dldi patch the akmenu4.nds before encrypting it just to be safe).

thanks for giving a simpler answer for my nub brain =D. I've never used an R4 before... (obviously...)


Edit: Oh noes.. I forgot all about DLDI patching too.. Man, starting with an acekard makes you a noob.

EDIT: i did everything and still the same error

 

[jurassicplayer]

EDIT: i did everything and still the same error

Even if you got something inbetween completely wrong, it should at worst be hanging on the 'Loading...' screen. Are you sure you put the _DS_MENU.DAT in the root of the mSD?

 

[spinal_cord]

I dunno why.. but I always get problems with this thing.. .-.


So I'm trying to using the woodmod... I got the akmenu4 file and the rpg file, put it on the root of my card. Then I renamed the akmenu4 to akmenu. Next i got the d_system file, and put the akmenu4 file on the root of my card. I imported covers, and blah blah..


But when I turn it on, it says DS_MENU is missing...

o.0 Generally when something says _DS_MENU.dat is missing, that means A) You are using an R4 original/sd clone if you can use wood and B) You don't know too much about the R4's setup. (Thus I'll help you out xD)
_DS_MENU.DAT is the first file that will be loaded and is an encrypted .nds file. So, you have to choose what you want as your initial firmware (the one that loads up first) which could be any firmware/homebrew provided it is a working .nds file. Then you need to encrypt it using a tool like 'R4denc' to encrypt the .nds file and then rename it to _DS_MENU.dat. Apart from that, the rest is hopefully easy to figure out (since the rest of it is just placing it on your card and making sure the reference paths are correct).

I don't get how this helps..

The setup guide says I need xenon's modded wood firmware.. when I downloaded it instead of getting a DS_MENU nds file, I got an AKMENU4 one..

I put the akmenu4 file and rpg folder on to the root of my card..

then the guide said rename akmenu4 to akmenu. So I did.


Then I got the other akmenu4 file from dscovered and put it on the root of my card.


Then when I turn it on, It says DS MENU is missing. When I never had a ds_menu file in the first place...

I know the original wood R4 firmware has one... but I'm lost..

Sorry for pretty much repeating what I said in the last post..

Look in the DS folder of the DSCovered download, there is a file names _DS_MENU.DAT, copy that to the root of your card. You don't need the akmenu4.nds from DSCovered if you have an original R4.

 

[Xenon++]

Well, this is not the best time to ask, but why don't you search ysmenu.ini path? I asked so many times but you haven't answered. So this time please answer.

 

[spinal_cord]

Well, this is not the best time to ask, but why don't you search ysmenu.ini path? I asked so many times but you haven't answered. So this time please answer.

I guess I can do that, I'll add it to the list for the next update

 

[Gh0sti]

so spinal code can you make this coverflow work on the dstwo??

 

[alidsl]

I don't think there is a DStwo loader yet

 

[spinal_cord]

so spinal code can you make this coverflow work on the dstwo??

The homebrew loader doesn't seem to work on the DSTwo, I keep getting white screens. DSCovered would be unable to load a DSTwo loader even if there was one

I don't know about the latest version of HBMenu, but the version I'm using (very old) doesn't work.

 

[ThePowerOutage]

I have r4 III with 3.11 firmware installed.I have YSmenu and DScovered installed along with moonshell 2.5 stable. I have use DScovered R4.nds and Dscovered.nds and nearly every loader but I cant seem to get it to work. The DScovered R4.nds loads but no covers/games come up. Dscovered.nds also loads and shows 2 unknown games. Niether work with any loader. Can anybody help? Please

 

[Xenon++]

so spinal code can you make this coverflow work on the dstwo??

The homebrew loader doesn't seem to work on the DSTwo, I keep getting white screens. DSCovered would be unable to load a DSTwo loader even if there was one

I don't know about the latest version of HBMenu, but the version I'm using (very old) doesn't work.

Well if there is a ROM loader plz tell me. I'll investigate all of three loader engine(Rudolph's, MSHL1.71+2.00 hybrid, and bootlib)

 

[Xenon++]

OK, it is reported my cyrrent mshl2tools_r30.7z/bootlib/bootloader/boot.bin works fine on DSTWO.
But before updating bootlib make sure you externalize bootlib