Homebrew DS(i) Mode hacking progress thread

[RocketRobz]

Is this actually going to be implemented???

Anticipation just went up many %

I hope so. We'll be ditching nds-hbmenu soon.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Alright, TWLoader it is!
Now let's just wait for a dev to make it using the mock-up image as a base, 'cause I'm not that good of a dev.

We need a dev with some experience on Citro3D and libsf2 (or Cpp3DS).
Perhaps @mashers or @TheCruel.
I could do it by myself, but honestly I never used those libs.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Uhh... Cannot find the source code of DSi4DS for assets.
@spinal_cord?

 

[craftsygaming]

can i have recap of past 3 weeks?

 

[RocketRobz]

can i have recap of past 3 weeks?

We were now able to run old homebrew that only use DLDI, on the SD Card via an SD DLDI driver and patching the ARM7 in order to read the SD.
Just recently, more homebrew has been getting more support, and DLDI speed has been increased.

 

[9thSage]

dualHexen loads waaaaay way way faster now. It's also plain to see now that it runs way better due to that CPU speed boost. It didn't run great on a DS, especially if you turned high detail mode on, but it seems like what was holding it back when running via nds-bootstrap was the disk access speed. Now even with the high detail mode on it's running quite well.

*edit*
Haha, oh yeah...and by the way, that Loutima Girl DS homebrew thing works right now. I forgot to mention last time I was trying this stuff out that for some reason it's music didn't properly play for me. Does now though!

 

[Gonzalee]

quick question about the nds rom forwarders, can we use rom hacks with this?
such as say...a hack that makes all of the pokemon available in soul silver, we install the cia and use an actual cartridge. is it possible?

 

[metroid maniac]

dualHexen loads waaaaay way way faster now. It's also plain to see now that it runs way better due to that CPU speed boost. It didn't run great on a DS, especially if you turned high detail mode on, but it seems like what was holding it back when running via nds-bootstrap was the disk access speed. Now even with the high detail mode on it's running quite well.

dualHexen works natively in TWL mode, at least according to its webpage. Why are you using nds-bootstrap?

 

[9thSage]

dualHexen works natively in TWL mode, at least according to its webpage. Why are you using nds-bootstrap?

so you don't think it's useful to test compatibility with it, is what you're saying? Is there a reason I shouldn't test compatibility with it?

 

[metroid maniac]

so you don't think it's useful to test compatibility with it, is what you're saying?

I still think it's useful to test compatibility in this case, but the way you phrased your post made it seem to me like you weren't really concerned about that and just wanted to play Hexen.

 

[9thSage]

I still think it's useful to test compatibility in this case, but the way you phrased your post made it seem to me like you weren't really concerned about that and just wanted to play Hexen.

I just thought the performance increase was fun to see. I had no way to play this in DSi mode last time I tried it years ago (not to mention it was cool to see nds-bootstrap perform so much better in this version compared to a few pages back where Hexen ran rather bad...apparently because of slow disk i/o).

I figured it was useful to mention it because of this new version performing so much better.

 

[ahezard]

I just thought the performance increase was fun to see. I had no way to play this in DSi mode last time I tried it years ago (not to mention it was cool to see nds-bootstrap perform so much better in this version compared to a few pages back where Hexen ran rather bad...apparently because of slow disk i/o).

I figured it was useful to mention it because of this new version performing so much better.

Thanks this is useful indeed. And the homepage of dual hexen states "Not tested but should be Sudokuhax/iEvo DSi mode compatible. "
Personally I never suceeded to makes it works with classic sudokuhax, even by recompiling the code or porting it to latest libnds.

 

[RocketRobz]

quick question about the nds rom forwarders, can we use rom hacks with this?
such as say...a hack that makes all of the pokemon available in soul silver, we install the cia and use an actual cartridge. is it possible?

We can run ROM hacks on a flashcard, but not on an actual game cartridge.

Also, is it me, or is github.com not working? I'm getting "github.com’s server DNS address could not be found.".

 

[Gonzalee]

We can run ROM hacks on a flashcard, but not on an actual game cartridge.

Also, is it me, or is github.com not working? I'm getting "github.com’s server DNS address could not be found.".

I was getting that too earlier while trying to get freeshop

 

[daxtsu]

We can run ROM hacks on a flashcard, but not on an actual game cartridge.

Also, is it me, or is github.com not working? I'm getting "github.com’s server DNS address could not be found.".

There's a big cyberattack/DDoS going on at the moment, affecting multiple sites.

 

[Slattz]

Offtopic:

Also, is it me, or is github.com not working? I'm getting "github.com’s server DNS address could not be found.".

Working for me, there was a massive DDOS Attack on US DNS Servers earlier that brought down quite a few pages (Twitter, Spotify). That might be the problem.
Edit: Ninja'd

 

[Diego788]

View attachment 66679

It looks similar to the DSi Menu, but game covers/icons are shown in 3D at the Top screen.
The color changes depending on the favorite color set in DS Profile settings.

• Name
• Background
• "Select" border
• Left/Right arrows

For the Top screen, The L button switches between game covers and icons from the ROMs, while the bottom screen is always icons from the ROMs.

Even got a name for the ROM loader: TWLoader

What do you think?[/QUOTE]

looks very beautiful, but... can we have forwarders when this thing release? so i can have my games organized on the Activity Log UwU

 

[RocketRobz]

looks very beautiful, but... can we have forwarders when this thing release? so i can have my games organized on the Activity Log UwU

Only titles loaded in the 3DS HOME Menu will appear on the Activity Log.

 

[Diego788]

Only titles loaded in the 3DS HOME Menu will appear on the Activity Log.

oh well, but forwarders will work?

 

[RocketRobz]

oh well, but forwarders will work?

Maybe.