Homebrew DS(i) Mode hacking progress thread
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For those wondering about DS warez:
- It requires signature patches, which we have
- It would require detecting official SDK functions, especially CARD_* CARDi_* and FS_* ones, and patch them so they jump to our custom code, for every single game
- Implement that custom code
- Fix other oddities
- It's not that simple, actually.
What's the diference between "DS injection" and an hippotetical "DS rom Loader" with his own code?
Which is more easy to get?
More than likely the former. Coding a DS ROM loader would require similar patches for the ROMs to work in DSi mode, along with the code for the ROM loading itself.
Nah you can just disable the dsi specific hardware other than the sdmmc so from the games perspective its running on a DS.
Some advances are made by force. The best ones are made by compassion. Your efforts would put an end to the black market flash card buisness! Classic gamers everywhere would honor your name!
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Btw, do you have any updates to Akaio? I'm finally putting it back to good use since the twl_frm patches LoL
Wait they don't honor me already?
Nope it doesn't even work anymore with latest toolchain and I'm too lazy to find out why (and don't feel like open sourcing it)Btw, do you have any updates to Akaio? I'm finally putting it back to good use since the twl_frm patches LoL
Naaaah. Everyone would just go "lol warez" and play their pirated games and take the actual coding for granted.
It's like memchunkhax2 and smea's crew - they detailed how it would work to the public, but left the public to be the ones to actually code it for themselves.
yeah for example the MPU exists for a reason: and some games do generate invalidate accesses, so that will be tricky.
Allocate all the ROM sectors on a sector table, then mark all used sectors, empty ones are zero. So when you fetch a byte,hword or word (ARM), you access the sector table, then if sector is not allocated, calculate the sector and use a lower level dldi call to refill the chunk with data (and sector), then is marked.
Seriously I tried by directly calculating the sector then doing a fetch trough the fatfs dldi instance, its slow as ****, the ewram is much faster in this case. And if you cache the area is even faster!
Updates?Some advances are made by force. The best ones are made by compassion. Your efforts would put an end to the black market flash card buisness! Classic gamers everywhere would honor your name!
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Btw, do you have any updates to Akaio? I'm finally putting it back to good use since the twl_frm patches LoL
Normatt is a DS programmer. He worked on AKAIO.
It literally says that right below his username. Are you blind?
Hate to say it, but Normmatt replying that same quote back to you makes more sense.
He was quite a well known dev in the DS flashcart scene. (acekard2i/AKAIO)
I love akaio...I wish the team would get together and update now that twl_frm is opened up
I've been pestering the forum here for a year or so trying to get my ak2i working on my n3ds. I'm just so happy it finally is a reality.
I've been pestering the forum here for a year or so trying to get my ak2i working on my n3ds. I'm just so happy it finally is a reality.
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Psionic Roshambo:
I think Game streaming should work like this.... Local Hardware able the run the game fine, game engine and common assets stored locally, all FMV and music and textures could be streaming+1 -
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Xdqwerty:
also @BigOnYa im making some progress on my gdevelop project, implemented various mechanics -
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BigOnYa:
Or free government supplied high speed internet be nice also. Like Obama care. Xdqwerty that's cool, its time consuming but rewarding once done or playable, to see what you've made from scratch. Animations take forever, but worth it.+1 -
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@BigOnYa,+1
and the visual aspect of the game is quite crude (the sprite that looks best is that of the protagonist just because he is a stickman with sunglasses) -
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BigOnYa:
There is a bullets behaviour you assign to your character, that makes the code easier, under "behaviours"
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Xdqwerty:
i meant that when the character is pointing to the right, the bullets spawn where they should, but when he is on the right, they move to the right but the spawn point is incorrect
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BigOnYa:
Itch.io has lots of free assets also. Under the bullets behavior tab, there is a "rotate bullets" option, can try that. Or in the code can try
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BigOnYa:
That's cool tho, I'm proud of you going back to it, not giving up. It is difficult at first to learn, but fun once you get the hang of it. I think I've watched every tutorial video there is, but I still struggle sometimes to get stuff to work right. But gotta keep trying dif things, and eventually you will get it right.+1
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