Homebrew DPG Video Player Wanted

[Jamstruth]

I don't think I can run Moonshell as I am running a Supercard DSOne which uses a modded moonshell as its OS but the video player is, to put it lightly, rubbish. It skips half the frames, freezes all the time I don't know whether its my old DS or just the fact that its rubbish. I found a WIndows application to play the DPGs and it ran fine so the problem must be the video player.

Anyone know any good DPG players other than moonshell?

 

[xDlmaoxD]

I have a SuperCard DS ONE i and the moonshell on it is also crap,
so I use the latest one MoonShell 2.0 Stable.
It doesn't matter if you have a Super Card or not, works great.

 

[DanTheManMS]

Just install the latest version of Moonshell on your card and launch it from the SCDS menu. It seems silly to boot Moonshell from within Moonshell, but that's what you must do.

 

[Jamstruth]

Thanks I guess. It does seem odd and I thought such a thing wouldn't work but I'll do it. I'm just doing this to see if it works really.

 

[Jamstruth]

Hit a snag. Moonshell won't boot. Will paste the logbuf here.
Running on a DSPhat (from around the time of UK launch) with a Supercard DSone SDHC and a 2gb Sandisk Memory card formatted to FAT32
Something flashes up about DLDI but it dissappears before I can read it, besides I thought my supercard would patch for me.

Start log file. topsector=2117023 size=4096byte
AppName MoonShell Ver 2.01 stable
May 29 2009 22:59:05 GMT+09:00
ARM RVCT3.1 [Build 794]
__current pc=0x02001398 sp=0x02803ea8
DLDI: active_interface= 0x02098ae0, ID= SCDS, Name= SuperCard DS (Slot-1).
active_interface->ul_Features= 0x23.
Shell_FAT_fopen_Data=/MOONSHL2/VERSION.DAT
Shell_FAT_fopen_Data=/MOONSHL2/MOONSHL2.DAT
FAT2: Disabled 64k cluster mode. Start fast mode.
pDTCMEND=0x02800ddc, pMTCMEND=0x028028c0. MTCM size=6884byte.
Start FPGA Initializer.
Can not found ROMEO2 cartridge on GBA slot.
mainloop.
Boot from NDS card.
extmem_Init: Not found extend memory cartridge.
extmem: Extention memory was not found.
Setup default code page is '007'.
Loaded font for your language.
pTextPool used.15kbyte remain.2704kbyte
Succeeded memory optimization.
Language materials count= 382
CreateBurstList.
This file is old version setting. load default.
Get RTC data from ARM7.
4,4,4,4,Initialize random seed.
ResumeDataSectorIndex=2120591.
Check current path. [/]
finded. [/]
Set NextProc.
Found ExtLink file. (0) [IPK.NDS]
Found ExtLink file. (1) [NESNES~1.NDS]
Skin file check failed.
Set default skin.
Not found alias skin file '/MOONSHL2/def_007.skn'.
Skin file size: 399116byte.
DStack:0 Pos:64, Used:4996, Total:12580.
Start event loop...
[JDS__~01]
Entry clusters: 0, Actual clusters:111.
A size that the directory entry shows and an actual size of the file are different.

proc_chkdsk_body.h:92 chkdsk_DuplicateCluster_ShowFatalError: #16401: Error found in checking duplicate cluster.

Application halted !!
Please refer [/moonshl2/logbuf.txt]

 

[DanTheManMS]

I personally have never used Moonshell 2.0 but I've heard it's rather picky with filesystems and possible filesystem corruption. Try installing 1.71 instead and see if you can get that running, and then worry about 2.0.

 

[Jamstruth]

Is v1.71 on GBATemp or will I have to look elsewhere?

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Your problem with moonshell 2, is common.
Just reformat your card (remember to back everything up) and then copy back.
Alternatively, try defragmenting the microSD. Worked for me once, but took an hour to complete.

 

[fgghjjkll]

no. DONT defrag your microsd card.
its dangerous...or so i heard.
cuts down the lifespan of your micro sd card.

 

[koji2009]

That it does... Backup your files and then do a format and put your files back on. That defrags your SD card without constantly writing to sectors.

Defrag is bad because it uses the disc itself to hold all the temporary bits and peices as it reshuffles the files... Instead of the format method which only takes 1 write (quick format doesn't change any bits and therefore isn't damaging and then rewriting the files) it literally could write over a sector a hundred times or more greatly reducing the amount of times they can be used.