Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[NJ7]

Tak and the Power of Juju USA works perfect now with voices not skipping and repeating as they did before, 100% perfect, updating list now...
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[zerofalcon]

Thanks for the F-Zero GX fix. The new revision shows r118 dated 2012/10/17 03:46:16 instead of r160, I guess is only a typo

 

[Maxternal]

@[member='tueidj']
Just a thought for whenever you eventually have a chance to update the OP with the rev number ...
... you could also add a link to the keyboard instructions on this post
http://gbatemp.net/topic/330554-devolution-public-release/page__view__findpost__p__4418687
http://gbatemp.net/threads/devolution-public-release.330554/page-83#post-4419889

For those of you that use Wiiflow I added a devolution setup page to the wiiflowiki for wiiflow 4. Let me know if I need to correct anything.

I'm, no expert but it looks good to me. The only thing I question is it says to put the ISO files in the /games folder which works great for the sample loader but I didn't know WiiFlow could use them if they weren't in a sub folder.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Thanks for the F-Zero GX fix. The new revision shows r118 dated 2012/10/17 03:46:16 instead of r160, I guess is only a typo

Considering the meta.xml hasn't been updated since July 15th and lists the version number as "1.0" rather than as a revision, I'd say that's pretty good.

 

[picano]

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 seem to be working! Gotten past the start menu into the real game without issues.

Unfortunately, it seems those games have managed to screw up their own save files once again. I wonder if the emulated memory would fair better than the real cards or if these games just suck at saving...

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Quick question: NTFS isn't supported, correct? I'd test it myself but the only two USB drives I have that are large enough to hold GCN games already have dual partitions consisting of both NTFS and FAT32, and making backups and deleting partitions is a pain with slow USB 2.0 drives...

 

[Maxternal]

Quick question: NTFS isn't supported, correct? I'd test it myself but the only two USB drives I have that are large enough to hold GCN games already have dual partitions consisting of both NTFS and FAT32, and making backups and deleting partitions is a pain with slow USB 2.0 drives...

There was some talk about NTFS support at the beginning but it was if you were running it through something like WiiFlow, CFG or GX, etc where the loader could handle the NTFS for Devolution and just pass in the first sector or a frag list or something. I don't know if it was ever implemented or anything.

You could always just copy a game over to NTFS and see if it works from another loader as a test.

 

[zerofalcon]

Thanks for the F-Zero GX fix. The new revision shows r118 dated 2012/10/17 03:46:16 instead of r160, I guess is only a typo

Considering the meta.xml hasn't been updated since July 15th and lists the version number as "1.0" rather than as a revision, I'd say that's pretty good.

I know but I'm not saying about the meta.xml, the loader shows r118 instead of r160, it confused me for a moment but it's the latest looking at the date

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

You could always just copy a game over to NTFS and see if it works from another loader as a test.

But I never could get it working properly in the loader that I do have, even on FAT32. Either way, USB loading for GCN games isn't really that useful for me at the moment, so it's low priority for me until controller emulation gets implemented in Devolution.

 

[tueidj]

I know but I'm not saying about the meta.xml, the loader shows r118 instead of r160, it confused me for a moment but it's the latest looking at the date

That's a screw-up on my end caused by double-checking against r118 a few minutes before I made the final build, when I switched back to working with r160 main.c didn't get recompiled because it had no changes. I'll probably fix it later.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

I've just ran into something wierd... sometimes when logging with netcat for nt on TimeSplitters: Future Perfect I don't always get the entire thing, that is it sometimes cuts off around half-way through. I didn't realize this before and updated the log I posted to be one that actually shows the entire log.

I haven't a clue what could be causing such a problem, whether it's TimeSplitters, Devolution, my USB drive, my Wii's wifi, my router, or netcat for nt.

 

[tueidj]

Probably poor signal strength at the wii causing slow sending speed, if it tries to send a packet while the previous packet is still "in the air" it just gets dropped instead of queued. Doesn't really matter for this case.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

If anyone cares I threw together a "Devolution wifi logging for Windows Dummies":
http://www.mediafire.com/?583migoicdmbu6l

It's in a self-extracting archive to make sure a noob doesn't try to run it directly from the archive since it won't work that way. Note that I have no idea if it works on 64bit, but it at least works on 32bit versions of XP and Win7. And yes it's just a batch script and a readme with the program & data files hidden, but nobody had already thrown together such a thing...


I give permission (and encourage!) for anyone to link, host, and upload this package anywhere as they see fit. No permission or credit to me is needed.

 

[Etheboss]

What is wrong with the link on the 1st page?

Although personally i think it would be better tueidj linked to the post SifJar made.

http://gbatemp.net/topic/330554-devolution-public-release/page__view__findpost__p__4312185

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

Because that's not idiot proof enough for my tastes. One thing is that it's also just faster and easier for me to use this with my own testing and Devolution logging, even though I know my way around classic DOS let alone the Windows command prompt. (though I'll admit I'm not skilled with commands)

And d'oh, I completely forgot about the "> log.txt" command! I'll be adding that and updating the above link and archive accordingly.


EDIT: here's the new even-more automated version (I've updated the link in my previous post as well):
http://www.mediafire...583migoicdmbu6l

 

[fledge68]

@[member='tueidj']
Just a thought for whenever you eventually have a chance to update the OP with the rev number ...
... you could also add a link to the keyboard instructions on this post
http://gbatemp.net/t...ost__p__4418687

For those of you that use Wiiflow I added a devolution setup page to the wiiflowiki for wiiflow 4. Let me know if I need to correct anything.

I'm, no expert but it looks good to me. The only thing I question is it says to put the ISO files in the /games folder which works great for the sample loader but I didn't know WiiFlow could use them if they weren't in a sub folder.

Thanks for the heads up. Fixed, now says -
Devolution requires clean 1:1 disc images (use Cleanrip for best results). Do not convert to DiscEx or compress them. They must have a .iso file extension and be placed in the /games directory for the Devolution Sample Loader. For WiiFlow put the game.iso in a sub-folder of the /games directory and name the sub-folder the title of the game. For two disc games place the second ISO into the folder of the first and rename it to gam1.iso.

 

[Etheboss]

Because that's not idiot proof enough for my tastes. One thing is that it's also just faster and easier for me to use this with my own testing and Devolution logging, even though I know my way around classic DOS let alone the Windows command prompt. (though I'll admit I'm not skilled with commands)

And d'oh, I completely forgot about the "> log.txt" command! I'll be adding that and updating the above link and archive accordingly.


EDIT: here's the new even-more automated version (I've updated the link in my previous post as well):
http://www.mediafire...583migoicdmbu6l

Ah ok, TBH. i didnt check your "idiot proof" package yet...and i do appreciate the effort.
I was just surprised anyone needing more direction, because i personally felt it was an very easy to follow short huide and had no problem at all to set up/run netcat.

 

[Augusta]

Can anyone provide a link to r160?
It looks like the front page hasn't been updated yet

 

[SifJar]

Can anyone provide a link to r160?
It looks like the front page hasn't been updated yet

The link is always up to date, new revisions replace the old revisions on tueidj's server with the same file name. The first post just hasn't been updated with the new revision number. Clicking that link will always give you the latest version.

 

[Benze]

Metal Gear EUR is working without issues now, so does Zelda Master Quest EUR. That leaves only Crash Bandicoot not working perfectly in my collection. I posted a new log in the Compatibility List. I am looking forward to the GBA-Emulator Connection for Four Swords and Crystal Chronicles