Homebrew Coverflow DS (New project)

[DarkMario616]

Loader for AKAIO gives me an error...temporarily unavailable...can you host it somewhere else

?

 

[Swamp7hing]

Does this work on CycloDS 1.58 anyone?

 

[Mantis41]

Thanks again Spinal. New loader is awsome, access to akmenu works brilliantly.

Can anyone help. I am trying to make a cover for akmenu.nds. so far I have come up with this.

If I could get the same picture with a completely black back ground it would be perfect. Unfortunatly I only have the image files in the Adv.EvoR skin to play with.

Cheers

 

[DarkMario616]

I photoshopped my own cover together...

Without the Ace Kard All In One:

Spoiler

With the Ace Kard All In One

Spoiler

 

[Xenon++]

so there is a m3 firmware .nds available from somewhere?

I use hacked R4iRTS MoonShell softreset. See kernelswitcher (in signature)

 

[Dark^'^Knigh]

I photoshopped my own cover together...
Without the Ace Kard All In One:

Spoiler

With the Ace Kard All In One

Spoiler

Pretty decent job there

, except "Ace Kard" should be one word Acekard.
AK is simply an abbreviation of Acekard, not a representation of two words. I know this can be considered minor, but it doesn't look right (to me, anyway).

 

[DarkMario616]

Fix'd

Spinal: What is the real resolution DScover uses for the covers? It resizes it and destroys the quality badly, but if I resized it via PS it shouldn't look as bad, right? So what is it :3? And how do I alphabetize the DS covers? There seems to be no option?..

 

[Swamp7hing]

Cyclo? Anyone?

 

[Lanulus]

Thanks again Spinal. New loader is awsome, access to akmenu works brilliantly.

Can anyone help. I am trying to make a cover for akmenu.nds. so far I have come up with this.

If I could get the same picture with a completely black back ground it would be perfect. Unfortunatly I only have the image files in the Adv.EvoR skin to play with.

Cheers

Done

Spoiler

 

[Xenon++]

Currently only r4/dstt/ak2/scds/m3real are supported. Won't there be cyclo/edge support.

 

[spinal_cord]

Currently only r4/dstt/ak2/scds/m3real are supported. Won't there be cyclo/edge support.

What are the chances of you putting together a direct DScovered -> M3 loader.nds?

 

[spinal_cord]

Spinal: What is the real resolution DScover uses for the covers? It resizes it and destroys the quality badly, but if I resized it via PS it shouldn't look as bad, right? So what is it :3? And how do I alphabetize the DS covers? There seems to be no option?..

SDcovered uses 128x115 i think, or 128x114, something like that I can't remember, I check later. Anyway, there won't be much difference in the quality once viewed on the DS as it only have 15bit colour, so not only are you reducing the colours to 256, you are reducing each values of r,g,b to 5 bit. Plus dscovery applies dithering to reduce banding etc.

 

[rockstar99]

Currently only r4/dstt/ak2/scds/m3real are supported. Won't there be cyclo/edge support.

Wait so I can load games using M3?

 

[jurassicplayer]

Currently only r4/dstt/ak2/scds/m3real are supported. Won't there be cyclo/edge support.

Wait so I can load games using M3?

That is the general idea. Just make sure you are using Xenon++'s inilink and you should be good to go xD.

-edit-
btw, atm its only commercial games, not homebrew.

 

[rockstar99]

Currently only r4/dstt/ak2/scds/m3real are supported. Won't there be cyclo/edge support.

Wait so I can load games using M3?

That is the general idea. Just make sure you are using Xenon++'s inilink and you should be good to go xD.

-edit-
btw, atm its only commercial games, not homebrew.

So if I use the kernal switcher with hacked R4i RTS then the games will autoboot and this can be set as the default firmware on my M3i Zero?

 

[Mantis41]

Spinal: What is the real resolution DScover uses for the covers? It resizes it and destroys the quality badly, but if I resized it via PS it shouldn't look as bad, right? So what is it :3? And how do I alphabetize the DS covers? There seems to be no option?..

Darkmario, I didn't think yours looked too bad re-sized. Nice Job

The other cover looks a tad graduated but still ok

 

[Xenon++]

Unfortunately you cannot use inilink as default firmware due to different DSBooter header.
So if you want to use nds.inilink.nds, you have to launch TouchPod via iniclear when you want to use TouchPod menu.

And the loading time is so long. Here is boot chain:
DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format) -> TouchPod -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
In akaio, DScovered -> akaio loader -> akaio -> ak2loader.nds

7:4. How long it takes in M3!

Anyway please note save handling is quite unstable. So unstable that I won't use inilink on M3

I had to solve some puzzles again due to save corruption. If there weren't back up I got crazy.

 

[rockstar99]

Unfortunately you cannot use inilink as default firmware due to different DSBooter header.
So if you want to use nds.inilink.nds, you have to launch TouchPod via iniclear when you want to use TouchPod menu.

And the loading time is so long. Here is boot chain:
DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format) -> TouchPod -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
In akaio, DScovered -> akaio loader -> akaio -> ak2loader.nds

7:4. How long it takes in M3!

Anyway please note save handling is quite unstable. So unstable that I won't use inilink on M3

I had to solve some puzzles again due to save corruption. If there weren't back up I got crazy.

OKay I wont use it on M3, Ill just stick with sakura

 

[Xenon++]

Well, I cannot figure out what is the actual cause of data corruption. I need testers.

If M3 releases new Kaura, I can test with it if the issue has something to do with Sakura 1.44...

>DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format) -> TouchPod -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
Well, I use another chain:
DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> mshl2wrap -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format g6dsload) -> TouchPod(menu.***) -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
The chain is longer, but here mshl2wrap fallback to internal homebrew loader, so loading homebrew is OK.

 

[spinal_cord]

Well, I cannot figure out what is the actual cause of data corruption. I need testers.

If M3 releases new Kaura, I can test with it if the issue has something to do with Sakura 1.44...

>DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format) -> TouchPod -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
Well, I use another chain:
DScovered -> general extlink wrapper -> mshl2wrap -> inilink -> TouchPod kernel switcher(MoonShell2reset) -> TouchPod.nds (sakura format g6dsload) -> TouchPod(menu.***) -> startnds(auto boot to ROM)
The chain is longer, but here mshl2wrap fallback to internal homebrew loader, so loading homebrew is OK.

That's one hell of a work around just to use DScovered on an m3

I am willing to test if you like. I have an m3i zero and a spare 2gb microsd card.