Hacking Custom _DS_MENU.DATs

[Sephi]

Yasu made an R4 Kernel customizer, you can download it from his site, I don't know if the has been fixed by R4 Team yet.

edit: its called r4bugfix2

Yasu DS Section (english)

 

[Rayder]

Yasu made an R4 Kernel customizer, you can download it from his site, I don't know if the has been fixed by R4 Team yet.

edit: its called r4bugfix2

Yasu DS Section (english)

Cool! Thanks for the link. It seemed to patch SOMETHING and it still booted a couple games when I used that file, so maybe it worked.

 

[Azngurl123456]

Someone help me i deleted my Ds Menu.Dat can u guys help me give it to me my msn [email protected] PLEASE Icant play it for 6 months please!!!!!

 

[Narin]

Someone help me i deleted my Ds Menu.Dat can u guys help me give it to me my msn [email protected] PLEASE Icant play it for 6 months please!!!!!

Try Google next time, their official website has it
http://www.r4ds.com/soft/24-en.htm

 

[Urza]

Made me lol.

 

[Narin]

Made me lol.

It made me faceplam

 

[Rock Raiyu]

lol revived a 3 month old topic..

 

[RetroGamer]

Since it's revived, is there a way to edit the file to make it so that the Launch Slot-2 button goes to GBA ExpLoader?

 

[mhkwong]

i think you can. i havent tried it. but if i remember right. if you hex edit it. there is a string that points the media to moonshell. so there should be a string you can edit for slot 2.

you have to:
decrypt the _DS_MENU.DAT with r4crypt by chrism
open up the decrypted file with a hex editor (i use a free one called hexedit.exe or somethings hxd.exe search google)
once you in the hexeditor... just search for the string _DS_MSHL.DAT (this is for the media button. slot 2 string should be near that string.)

 

[mhkwong]

i think you can. i havent tried it. but if i remember right. if you hex edit it. there is a string that points the media to moonshell. so there should be a string you can edit for slot 2.

you have to:
decrypt the _DS_MENU.DAT with r4crypt by chrism
open up the decrypted file with a hex editor (i use a free one called hexedit.exe or somethings hxd.exe search google)
once you in the hexeditor... just search for the string _DS_MSHL.DAT (this is for the media button. slot 2 string should be near that string.)

 

[mhkwong]

i think you can. i havent tried it. but if i remember right. if you hex edit it. there is a string that points the media to moonshell. so there should be a string you can edit for slot 2.

you have to:
decrypt the _DS_MENU.DAT with r4crypt by chrism
open up the decrypted file with a hex editor (i use a free one called hexedit.exe or somethings hxd.exe search google)
once you in the hexeditor... just search for the string _DS_MSHL.DAT (this is for the media button. slot 2 string should be near that string.)

 

[distorted.freque]

I think I'm seeing triple...

 

[Raestloz]

And you're not daydreaming my distorted.friend

And, sorry for being noob, but what can you do from decrypting DS_MENU.DAT? It looks fun

I wanna try

 

[Pyrofyr]

If not apparent already, you can edit the firmware to your desire.

In other words, something on screen annoying you? Change it.
Tired of the default 3 buttons, want one of them to do something different? Change it.

The possiblities are quite high, but you can't really add new features since the source isn't around, but just a decryption+hex editing option.

 

[Raestloz]

Well, up to that point IS apparent and I'm aware of it, what I mean is, can you do something like change position of something, or changing how the menu ctually appears, something like that

 

[mhkwong]

sorry admin or mod. remove my messages please. my browser was playing up when i was submiting.

 

[Pyrofyr]

You'd have to be good at reverse engineering and whatnot for all of that. Mostly besides strings almost everything is in 'code' which is changed significantly when packed, and therefore doesn't actually show in a 'changable' manner. If you wished to do something like that, it would take a lot more research and skill than just staring at pixels, it would take months if not years of learning how to reverse engineer and playing around with different things. It's 'possible', but not with just this.

It normally takes a team of people as long to reverse engineer something as it takes for it to be made in the first place.

 

[Raestloz]

Well, that makes it clear, thanks alot

 

[Raestloz]

This topic still alive? I just downloaded necessary files to start

 

[Sephi]

It will be alive soon after that bump :s