Homebrew GBARunner2

[-N3oK-]

Hi, I'm new here. I'm trying to run GBArunner 3 since GBArunner2 has many sound issues, specially with pokemon games.

I did everything mentioned, but the Twilight menu still launches GBArunner2. Any tips?
I'm running Twilight menu under Unlaunch 2.0

Also how can I know my Twilight menu version?

Thanks

 

[RocketRobz]

Hi, I'm new here. I'm trying to run GBArunner 3 since GBArunner2 has many sound issues, specially with pokemon games.

I did everything mentioned, but the Twilight menu still launches GBArunner2. Any tips?

Make sure "GBARunner3.nds" is in "sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/".
If it's already there, then your TWLMenu++ is out of date, and you'll need to update.

 

[-N3oK-]

Make sure "GBARunner3.nds" is in "sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/".
If it's already there, then your TWLMenu++ is out of date, and you'll need to update.

Thank you for the quick response.

The file is already there, so maybe its the TWLMenu++ version. How do I update it having Unlaunch installed?

 

[RocketRobz]

Thank you for the quick response.

The file is already there, so maybe its the TWLMenu++ version. How do I update it having Unlaunch installed?

This page links the update guide: https://github.com/DS-Homebrew/TWiLightMenu/releases/tag/v27.5.2

 

[1nitiate]

Thank you for the quick response.

The file is already there, so maybe its the TWLMenu++ version. How do I update it having Unlaunch installed?

You just replace the files on your SD card with the updated files from the twilight menu++ GitHub.

 

[EdwardTheWatzo]

Thank you for the quick response.

The file is already there, so maybe its the TWLMenu++ version. How do I update it having Unlaunch installed?

It could be you not having GBARunner 3 toggled on. You can do this by going sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/settings.ini and under [SRLOADER] put
GBARUNNER3_TEST = 1

 

[MidwesternWizard]

Hey there! I'm following the earlier posted GBARunner 3 compilation guide along and I'm a little confused here. What are we using devkitPro for within the tutorial? Are there specific libraries being used in compilation or something?

I don't have quite an understanding of what it is due to the lack of information on the GitHub page. If there's a wiki or something explained, then please point me there! Thanks a ton

Edit: THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS! I apologize, I got confused as nothing was clicking until some trial-and-error. This all makes sense!

 

[-N3oK-]

Made it!

The thing is that most of by GBA games are not running with GBA Runner now. To mention some; Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Liquid Crystal or The Legend of Zelda. They get stuck after the Gameboy intro.

Am I missing anything?
Copied the config files and everything is on its place.

Post automatically merged: Jul 16, 2024

Also I wanted to know if GBA Runner has RTC, because Pokemon Liquid Crystal time is stuck at 22:105.

Thanks!

 

[DSoryu]

Made it!

The thing is that most of by GBA games are not running with GBA Runner now. To mention some; Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Liquid Crystal or The Legend of Zelda. They get stuck after the Gameboy intro.

Am I missing anything?
Copied the config files and everything is on its place.

Post automatically merged: Jul 16, 2024

Also I wanted to know if GBA Runner has RTC, because Pokemon Liquid Crystal time is stuck at 22:105.

Thanks!

Make sure that you're using the hicode branch, Emerald and romhacks based on Emerald need that to run. You mean "The Legend of Zelda" from the NES Classic Edition series? Because those are not supported.

Also RTC hasn't been implemented yet.

Post automatically merged: Jul 16, 2024

Hey there, recently I've been playing quite a lot of GBA games on my DSi, and while most of them work without issues, there's one specific romhack that refuses to work with it right now for me, I originally posted the details on the Twilight Menu thread, but I'll post it here as well:

Going to check this later, this seems to need additional patches to properly work

 

[-N3oK-]

Make sure that you're using the hicode branch, Emerald and romhacks based on Emerald need that to run. You mean "The Legend of Zelda" from the NES Classic Edition series? Because those are not supported.

Also RTC hasn't been implemented yet.

Post automatically merged: Jul 16, 2024

Going to check this later, this seems to need additional patches to properly work

Thanks for the info. I will wait for the RTC implementation.

What do you mean by hicode branch? I'm not much into hacking.

 

[devlman127]

So GBArunner 3 is still in development, right? Github page hasn't been updated in 3 months which is worrisome
2 is still good for most games, right?

 

[RocketRobz]

So GBArunner 3 is still in development, right? Github page hasn't been updated in 3 months which is worrisome

Gericom (the developer) is just taking a break.

2 is still good for most games, right?

If you use a DSi, yeah.

 

[devlman127]

Can I report nonfunctioning games to the GBARunner3 issue tracker or are only devs who know what they're doing allowed to?

 

[RocketRobz]

Can I report nonfunctioning games to the GBARunner3 issue tracker or are only devs who know what they're doing allowed to?

You can, but there's plenty of known issues, that chances are it'll get fixed in the future.
What issue are you having?

 

[devlman127]

You can, but there's plenty of known issues, that chances are it'll get fixed in the future.
What issue are you having?

SRW J (specifically the English translation patch) just white screens upon boot
Other white screen problems on the issue tracker seem to be hicode problems which seem to need individual patching
Combine that with the general nicheness of an english patch of a SRW game, I'm not sure it would (though I'd be pleasantly surprised otherwise)

 

[Peeteris]

It's not possib;e to get Hicode GBARunner3, because download for it is expired: https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner3/actions/runs/8774508226
Is it still available somewhere?

 

[Deleted member 702243]

It's not possib;e to get Hicode GBARunner3, because download for it is expired: https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner3/actions/runs/8774508226
Is it still available somewhere?

I had a build before that combined the new dsi sd driver (up to date with main branch) with the hicode one, but I don't have it anymore, and I don't know how I did it back then because it doesnt work when I try to merge them now. so all I have is regular hicode:

 

[devlman127]

I had a build before that combined the new dsi sd driver (up to date with main branch) with the hicode one, but I don't have it anymore, and I don't know how I did it back then because it doesnt work when I try to merge them now. so all I have is regular hicode:

You know what doesn't have this issue? Releases. is it that hard to just mark it as alpha and tell anyone with issues that support isn't guaranteed?
Shame this doesn't fix my issue with SRW J, hope it helps out the other guy at least.

 

[DSoryu]

You know what doesn't have this issue? Releases. is it that hard to just mark it as alpha and tell anyone with issues that support isn't guaranteed?
Shame this doesn't fix my issue with SRW J, hope it helps out the other guy at least.

SRW J doesn't work because it has hicode in an "unreachable" address and is hard to fix without a patch, which may be added later. I think Gericom left some comments back when I reported the issue.

Also, any GBARunner3 build will be an alpha, because it hasn't even met its first beta release yet anyway.

 

[FanNintendo]

When I ran GBA it took me to GBARunner 2 and the screen has 1x black border around outer the game screen i tried to get it in full screen. There is no I can do about it? Also how do I exit GBARunner 2 back to Twilight Menu ++ instead of press Home button??