Homebrew DS(i) Mode hacking progress thread

[MSearles]

I apologize for posting this here, but if someone could please answer this for me. Is this the flash card that everyone recommends to purchase in terms of the best for playing DS roms on an N3DS XL? I want to purchase a flashcart ASAP, but want to make sure I'm purchasing the right one first. http://www.modchipsdirect.com/r4i-3ds-r4ds-wood.html

 

[bahamut920]

This is the one I see recommended around here the most, and the one I'm considering buying for my 3DS.

 

[MSearles]

This is the one I see recommended around here the most, and the one I'm considering buying for my 3DS.

That's the same one I linked to. Although where I purchased it from, it costs $2.00 more but ships from New York instead of outside of the U.S.A.

 

[Ranomez]

That's the same one I linked to. Although where I purchased it from, it costs $2.00 more but ships from New York instead of outside of the U.S.A.

I have the non-rts version of that in my DSi XL and many games with protection randomly freeze while playing, some of them have AP cheats that allow them to work but some of them you actually need to AP patch the rom yourself to make it work (note: even if you edit the cheat list to add the correct AP cheat for a specific game some still don't work unless you patch the rom, also all my roms are self dumps).
In my 3DS XL I have an ace3ds+ (that does not work on the final firmware version for the DSi) and that does not have that happening.

 

[Daddy Horror]

i have a r4 sdhc upgrade and it works great just wish there was a hack for full top screen,but worked great out of the box on my a9 hacked new 3ds

 

[hippy dave]

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That's a good one.

 

[bahamut920]

just wish there was a hack for full top screen

Ew, no thanks. That would stretch DS games beyond what I consider playable.

 

[Pikm]

i have a r4 sdhc upgrade and it works great just wish there was a hack for full top screen,but worked great out of the box on my a9 hacked new 3ds

Yeah, and AFAIK it's the cheapest compatible with forwarders besides the DSTT.

 

[Osakasan]

Yeah, and AFAIK it's the cheapest compatible with forwarders besides the DSTT.

Wait. You mean the original DSTT!?

 

[I_AM_L_FORCE]

Wait. You mean the original DSTT!?

It works with forwarders and is my main cart

 

[Rodrigo Barros]

The quake ds ports(1 and 2) are playable at the moment? As far as i know they were homebrew but i didn't have the time to test them yet

 

[metroid maniac]

The quake ds ports(1 and 2) are playable at the moment? As far as i know they were homebrew but i didn't have the time to test them yet

Quake 2 requires a slot 2 cart containing at least 16MB of RAM to run. That sums with the original DS's 4MB for 20MB of RAM.
Even if you were to modify it to be aware of the DSi's additional memory space, that's only 16MB available.
However I did see this...
https://github.com/ahezard/wood3ds/commits/master

32MB accessible on 3DS DSI mode instead of 16MB
64 MB accessible on 3DS ? :-)
WTF : 128 MB accessible on 3DS in DSI mode?

So, perhaps more memory is available?

Quake 1 on the other hand doesn't require extra RAM so it may work out of the box. If you really want I could give it a shot.

Both games are open source though. Rather than trying to patch DLDI support into it with all the associated caveats it may be better to write SD support directly.

 

[Fazana]

Quake 1 has already been ported to 3DS, with n3ds support.

Not sure about 2, don't think so.

 

[ahezard]

Quake 2 requires a slot 2 cart containing at least 16MB of RAM to run. That sums with the original DS's 4MB for 20MB of RAM.
Even if you were to modify it to be aware of the DSi's additional memory space, that's only 16MB available.
However I did see this...
https://github.com/ahezard/wood3ds/commits/master

So, perhaps more memory is available?

Quake 1 on the other hand doesn't require extra RAM so it may work out of the box. If you really want I could give it a shot.

Both games are open source though. Rather than trying to patch DLDI support into it with all the associated caveats it may be better to write SD support directly.

No, sadly only 16mb is available. I had the impression that more was available but it was due to an improper memory test code. There may be a way in twl_firm to unlock more though but it is not my priority right now.

 

[Deleted User]

Since page 76, there's been a lot of new pages 0.0

 

[9thSage]

Unfortunately I'm back to report (for compatibilitiy's sake) that NetHack DS seems kind of unstable. On a longer play session, it tends to freeze eventually. Haven't had a chance to test anything else out yet.

 

[metroid maniac]

No, sadly only 16mb is available. I had the impression that more was available but it was due to an improper memory test code. There may be a way in twl_firm to unlock more though but it is not my priority right now.

Even with just the DSi's 16MB of memory, that's an extra 12MB to play with.
Perhaps it can be used for a cache? If disk I/O is the major bottleneck then a cache may be useful.
But then that's something to worry about at a much later stage.

 

[Rodrigo Barros]

Quake 1 has already been ported to 3DS, with n3ds support.

Not sure about 2, don't think so.

Yeah, ctrQuake works on o3ds too. It's fantastic. Was hoping that there was a way to play quake2

 

[JuanmaHL]

DS(i) Offtopic hacking progress thread

 

[BurningDesire]

I've been away from this thread for awhile it seems haha. So from the looks of it we will soon be able to run ds/dsi games without a fashcart! I never thought I see the day