Homebrew DS(i) Mode hacking progress thread

[ultramario1998]

9hrs, 9doors, 9persons: white screen
DQM Rocket Slime: white screen
Game Center CX 2: gets past white screen, stays on black screen
Osu! Takatae! Ouendan! 2: same as GCCX2
PMD Sky: white screen

VNDS (homebrew): bluescreen libfat failure something to do with DLDI patching

 

[hacksn5s4]

this does not redirect saves which is why alot of games won't boot so try games that don't have saves

 

[DontShootUp]

Trying to find games that don't save at all, but it seems like even ones you wouldnt think about at least save high scores.

Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits - Boots, Glitchy intro screen, lets you input your name, white screen.
Arkanoid DS: Black Screen lol
Atari Greatest Hits Vol 1 - Black Screen
Zoo Keeper: Black Screen
Meteos: White Screen
Bomberman: White Screen
Ivy The Kiwi: White Screen

I give up until the next release

Strange... I cannot boot anything at all, perhaps I am missing something because everytime I try to load something it says that an error has ocurred and need to power down the system...

Use FBI to navigate to SD>nds>twloader>cia and install the TWLNAND side.cia inside.

 

[YugamiSekai]

My Japanese Coach: White Screen after DS logo

 

[eldavo2090]

Wario Ware: Touched! (U) Working - Some Lag
Super Mario 64 DS (U) White Screen
New Super Mario Bros. (U) White Screen
Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice (U) White Screen

 

[WeedZ]

Obviously this thing doesn't work. There's no point in any testing until more work has been done to it.

 

[SeanStar555]

Bomberman works.

 

[capito27]

i tried mario kart ds with decrypted arm9 from every file explorer, still white screen

 

[DontShootUp]

Bomberman works.

Awesome! Wouldn't boot for me.

 

[Bedel]

Obviously this thing doesn't work. There's no point in any testing until more work has been done to it.

Well it does work for some games, and that info could be usefull for devs

 

[WeedZ]

Well it does work for some games, and that info could be usefull for devs

He already knows what's wrong with it. He said there's a read loop and only early games would work. The build was to play with, not for everyone to make a compatability list of all 'failed to run' games, which was already expected.

 

[CakeLancelot]

Advanced Wars Dual Strike - Game loads, then shows 'Data load error.'
Kirby Super Star Ultra - White Screen
Pokemon Ranger - White Screen

 

[hacksn5s4]

this is like a prerelease will the proper release have better game compatibility

 

[Apache Thunder]

FYI people, most games require that you decompress arm9 (can be done using EveryFileExplorer) and repacking the rom using the decompressed arm9 binary and using that with bootstrap. Bootstrap doesn't yet handle arm9 compression so you have to do this manually. I use dslazy to repack the NDS file after replacing the arm9.bin with the one from EveryFileExplorer.

Two games I personally tested as working is Golden Eye Rogue Agent and Bomberman DS.

However Golden Eye hangs at a specific spot in the first level. Probably save related. Bomberman seems to occasionaly hang just after the new save cutscene. but if you get past it, it seems fully playable with little in the way of bugs.

Save redirection is not implemented yet, so for the few games that do work, don't expect to save your games.

 

[SeanStar555]

this is like a prerelease will the proper release have better game compatibility

This isn't even a prerelease. Not even an alpha build provided by the devs yet (I compiled and uploaded it myself). When the devs do release, I'm sure game compatibility will be much better..

 

[WeedZ]

FYI people, most games require that you decompress arm9 (can be done using EveryFileExplorer) and repacking the rom using the decompressed arm9 binary and using that with bootstrap. Bootstrap doesn't yet handle arm9 compression so you have to do this manually. I use dslazy to repack the NDS file after replacing the arm9.bin with the one from EveryFileExplorer.

Two games I personally tested as working is Golden Eye Rogue Agent and Bomberman DS.

However Golden Eye hangs at a specific spot in the first level. Probably save related. Bomberman seems to occasionaly hang just after the new save cutscene. but if you get past it, it seems fully playable with little in the way of bugs.

Save redirection is not implemented yet, so for the few games that do work, don't expect to save your games.

Bro, I thought you sold your 3ds

 

[BlastXDX]

Is there supposed to be no sound? (Sorry if this was previously answered, I just got to trying this out.)

 

[KunoichiZ]

Is there supposed to be no sound? (Sorry if this was previously answered, I just got to trying this out.)

Sounds requires using the Homebrew application DspDump at least once, iirc.

 

[BlastXDX]

Sounds requires using the Homebrew application DspDump at least once, iirc.

Gotcha, thanks for the quick answer.

 

[hacksn5s4]

why do little games wotk and some do whats causing it