Hacking DSTT Firmware Mods - Anyone know how to?

[innercy]

^w00t! gonna try it now...

 

[Viettxboii]

Wow... this looks sweet.
Shame no skin support yet, but after skin support is available, but still... this is quite the nifty homebrew for the dstt.

 

[Bri]

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- Deleting File
- Sleep

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Anyone know what "Deleting File" and "Sleep" mean?

-Bri

 

[helpme]

i think there self explanatory

Deleting File - will be you can now press x to delete a file
Sleep - will be the loader now works in sleep mode

 

[dudereno]

New YSMENU English version.

File name: YSMENU0801290230e

* History
+ 2008/01/28 02:30
- Read loader from file
- Setup EZ3in1,M3 as RAM Expansion (for UBR)
- Setup EZ3in1 as Rumble Pack
QUOTE* Install
Run ttextract.exe with official TTMENU.DAT.
Copy ttdldi.dat and ttpatch.dat to TTMenu directory in microSD.
Copy custom TTMENU.DAT instead of official TTMENU.DAT

If you use non-ASCII characters (ex. Japanese),
Put files for encoding which you use to TTMenu directory.
(system.fon) system.ank system.u2l system.l2u

Put files to TTMenu directory if you want.
goomba.gba PocketNES.gba YSMenu1.bmp YSMenu2.bmp

Highlighted Bmp's are for skin support in this new version.

Rumble support is now available as an option when selecting .nds files.

This hombrew menu is making superb daily progress.

 

[rwilts]

Could you explain what the install instructions mean in English

I gave the version a go a few days ago that said to just replace the dat file with the new one. However all i got was a two blank screens and an dialog box appeared when i pressed a buton but no words.

Would like to give this new version a go but dont understand the .exe in menu etc...

 

[dudereno]

Could you explain what the install instructions mean in English

I gave the version a go a few days ago that said to just replace the dat file with the new one. However all i got was a two blank screens and an dialog box appeared when i pressed a buton but no words.

Would like to give this new version a go but dont understand the .exe in menu etc...

I'll try.

1. First things first make sure you are running the latest official OS which is TTMenu OS v1.07, 2007-12-17
2. Make a back up of your original TTMENU.DAT on your flash card so if anything goes wrong you can just overwrite the new unofficial YSMENU version.
3. Download the new YSMENU0801290230e build and unzip the files.
4. You should have three files: ttextract.exe and the new TTMENU.DAT and a text file.
5. Copy the new TTMENU.DAT to the root of your flashcard overwriting the official file.
6. Make a temp folder on your PC and copy the ttextract.exe to it. Also copy the Original Official TTMenu OS v1.07 TTMENU.DAT to the same folder and run the ttextract.exe file. This will create two new files. Copy ttdldi.dat and ttpatch.dat to TTMenu directory on your microSD.
7. Copy your skin Bmp's [YSMenu1.bmp YSMenu2.bmp] to TTMenu on your microSD. Edit: you will have to create these Bmps yourself or use/rename the default bgDown.bmp/bgUp.bmp files found in the skin/default folder.
8. Job done.

 

[reiyu]

how do you permanently turn DMA mode off? but i would like to ask you guys first what DMA mode does... i have no idea why it's checked.

 

[arsehat]

Found an expander for TTMENU.SYS TTinflate and cannot find the url in there,  although the call to the URL will still be in the menu or other associated files.

Ttinflate (2008/01/16)
LZ compression-decompression TTMENU.DAT only.

Okay, expanding, unpacking with dsbuff, poking at the arm9 with a hex editor, and repacking with dsbuff, I ended up with the following:

http://rapidshare.com/files/87726683/TTMEN...e-test.nds.html

That's basically the standard 1.07 kernel with "DSTT Loading" messages changed to "MyDS Loading" to make sure I was poking at the right things. I thought I'd found where the version number was stored (V1.07 appears at one place in the ARM9) but changing that to V6.66 in another test version made no difference to what was displayed.

You can launch that as you would any other .nds file, but the REALLY good news is that you can change the name to TTMENU.DAT and stick that straight on your card as a replacement for the standard TTMENU.DAT - although the card usually boots the compressed .DAT, it doesn't actually appear to NEED it to be compressed.

So... two questions.

1 - Anyone got any idea how and where they store the "WWW.NDSTT.COM" and "V1.07" that are displayed in the upper screen? (my guess would be graphics that are displayed over the top of everything else, but I'm not sure how to go looking for that kind of thing in there - maybe I should read through the source for the Injektor and some of the older R4 kernel hacking discussions for some pointers on looking for those kind of resources)

2 - Anyone got any ideas on how I'd go about re-compressing modified versions? Not that it seems to be necessary, but it would save a little space.

Edit: Done a little reading, I'm off to see if I can find a good tile editor to poke at things with. That "text" could be somthing as simple and nasty to find as "At these pixel locations, AND the value with FFFFFF" and that would be *really* well hidden from casual hacking - and I can't be bothered learning ARM assembly code and running arm9.bin through a disassembler just to do this...

 

[rcm1]

i think the YSMENU kinda prevents the dreaded game not loading problem that is faced by some of the DSTT users.

before i install the ysmenu,i ran into that problem..again
so i decided to give the homebrew menu a shot/
strangely,the games boot up smoothly after that.

No,i did not format my microsd or "clean" it while installing the new ysmenu.

the good thing,scrolling through the menu is smooth as hell,no stuttering problems like the official version.

One problem is,how do i tweak the brightness?
It seems as the brightness level is set to the lowest.

Looking forward to the customizable skins feature.

 

[helpme]

Looking forward to the customizable skins feature.

it has skins now......

 

[sepinho]

@ GBA
Press Y to just load GBA to PSRAM in slot2

Does that mean that GBA (pre-)loading is integrated into the firmware? That'd be awesome.

But why, oh why, did Yasu put the file browser on the top screen? The one and only reason I currently prefer my TTDS to my R4 is the touchscreen-based UI. Any hope that's gonna be changed in the future?

 

[dudereno]

@ GBA
Press Y to just load GBA to PSRAM in slot2
Does that mean that GBA (pre-)loading is integrated into the firmware? That'd be awesome.

Yup. the strange thing is for me the Y button doesn't work but if i select a GBA game and press the A button then it loads perfectly. If the GBA game doesn't have a save it creates a .sav file with the same name in the same folder. This may lead to confusion if you still use rudolf's tool which saves the game in Gba/Save folder and uses a different file name taken from the GBA header info.

That being said, its fantastic to just load GBA games with one click from the menu. Its an awesome bit of coding and puts the Official OS to shame.

Btw Nice skin helpme.

 

[rcm1]

Looking forward to the customizable skins feature.

it has skins now......

got it working now

i placed the pictures at the wrong directory

 

[helpme]

its fantastic to just load GBA games with one click from the menu

i use a ez-flash 4 & rudolphs 2in1 tool but it would be nice if the dstt could use the ez-flash 4 like the ez-flash 3in1

but i just get a box saying "no flash cartridge in slot2"

 

[lenselijer]

I must say i'm very happy to have a r4ds menu look-a-like for the ttds now.

Great work yasu

 

[rwilts]

Could you explain what the install instructions mean in English

I gave the version a go a few days ago that said to just replace the dat file with the new one. However all i got was a  two blank screens and an dialog box appeared when i pressed a buton but no words.

Would like to give this new version a go but dont understand the .exe in menu etc...

I'll try.

1. First things first make sure you are running the latest official OS which is TTMenu OS v1.07, 2007-12-17
2. Make a back up of your original TTMENU.DAT on your flash card so if anything goes wrong you can just overwrite the new unofficial YSMENU version.
3. Download the new YSMENU0801290230e build and unzip the files.
4. You should have three files: ttextract.exe and the new TTMENU.DAT and a text file.
5. Copy the new TTMENU.DAT to the root of your flashcard overwriting the official file.
6. Make a temp folder on your PC and copy the ttextract.exe to it. Also copy the Original Official TTMenu OS v1.07 TTMENU.DAT to the same folder and run the ttextract.exe file. This will create two new files. Copy ttdldi.dat and ttpatch.dat to TTMenu directory on your microSD.
7. Copy your skin Bmp's [YSMenu1.bmp YSMenu2.bmp] to TTMenu on your microSD. Edit: you will have to create these Bmps yourself or use/rename the default bgDown.bmp/bgUp.bmp files found in the skin/default folder.
8. Job done.

Thanks
have followed your instructions and got it working.

Only minor point is that you need to copy the background bmp out of the default folder and put them directly into first level of TTMenu folder.

Could have been me miss reading your instructions but i see someone else mentioned the same mistake.

Anyway i much prefer this interface. Scoll from bottom straight back to top on a long list of games is very positive. Loading Opera without having to patch each time is also great.

Thanks.. cant see where any improvements will be made

 

[Bri]

So are all of the files in the original TTMENU folder still needed for this to work? If not, which can be safely deleted? I assume the "skin" folder can be removed? Anything else?

rwilts, you said you're able to run the browser without having to patch each time? How do you do that? I still have to run the GBA loader and patch it so that it will recognize the expansion pack. Is there a way around that?

-Bri

 

[rwilts]

Honest answers is dont know.

Just checked again and it just works.

I have Opera rom stored in a seperate folder within another folder called applications. In the Applications folder is also a folder called Ewin containing the GBALDR_v_1_6_en.nds file.

I navigate straight to the Opera rom , press a and i get what i can only describe as an old DOS black window with a quick set of code that does mention 'patch' somewhere and then opera loads.

 

[Bri]

When I do it, Opera loads but gives me a window that says that it cannot find the additional memory expansion. It gives me only one option, which is to close Opera. Maybe it's because I renamed my GBA loader. I wonder if the menu is actually running the loader. Is your Opera patched?

-Bri