Homebrew GBARunner2

[SummonerArthur]

Really? Does your ds turn off? That's almost impossible given that can only be done by the other processor afaik.

I've tried it today and it didnt turn off. IDK what happened yesterday, maybe my battery dried.
Also, what does The X button do? If I press it, the sound kinda repeats for a second and nothing happens.
Last but not least, I've tried a homebrew called "Kawajuke" (Kawa's Jukebox) But the emulator simply gets stuck on the GameBoy Advance screen (as when the GBA has no cartridge). Is this an emulator error or a rom issue? It runs fine on VisualBoyAdvance.

 

[RocketRobz]

I've tried it today and it didnt turn off. IDK what happened yesterday, maybe my battery dried.
Also, what does The X button do? If I press it, the sound kinda repeats for a second and nothing happens.
Last but not least, I've tried a homebrew called "Kawajuke" (Kawa's Jukebox) But the emulator simply gets stuck on the GameBoy Advance screen (as when the GBA has no cartridge). Is this an emulator error or a rom issue? It runs fine on VisualBoyAdvance.

The X button resyncs the audio.

 

[Gericom]

I've tried it today and it didnt turn off. IDK what happened yesterday, maybe my battery dried.
Also, what does The X button do? If I press it, the sound kinda repeats for a second and nothing happens.
Last but not least, I've tried a homebrew called "Kawajuke" (Kawa's Jukebox) But the emulator simply gets stuck on the GameBoy Advance screen (as when the GBA has no cartridge). Is this an emulator error or a rom issue? It runs fine on VisualBoyAdvance.

Yep, X is audio resync as Robz said. For homebrew you may need to run gbafix or whatever that's called to fix the header. You probably see a garbled graphic where the logo should be

 

[LanzoThunder]

Hi, I just updated gbarunner2 with the twilightmenu++ updater (so v8.3.0) but now all I get when I try to run gbarunner2 is a white screen on both screens.
I have a New3DSXL, any help?

 

[Alexander1970]

Hi, I just updated gbarunner2 with the twilightmenu++ updater (so v8.3.0) but now all I get when I try to run gbarunner2 is a white screen on both screens.
I have a New3DSXL, any help?

Hello.

Yes i can confirm this on DSi
Recommended is a fresh install (please backup your ROMS etc. before) with HiyaCFW Helper AND IMPORTANT that SD Card bigger than 2 GB formatted on FAT32 with STANDARD CLUSTER size !

Thank you.

 

[LanzoThunder]

Hello.

Yes i can confirm this on DSi
Recommended is a fresh install (please backup your ROMS etc. before) with HiyaCFW Helper AND IMPORTANT that SD Card bigger than 2 GB formatted on FAT32 with STANDARD CLUSTER size !

Thank you.

Thank you, it works now!

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I have the white screen problem on a o3DS and my SD card is already correctly formatted and has bios.bin in the right place. Not sure what the deal is with that.

Here's my post from the TWLMenu thread for more detail: "After updating via the updater (on o3DS) and attempting a manual update + deleting settings, GBARunner2 is stuck at white screens for me on the current version.

My SD card is already formatted correctly and I have bios.bin in the right place. I'm not sure what's up with it. I've been able to run older versions fine with the same setup, though I haven't tried in a long while since it corrupted my SD card a while ago."

 

[Alexander1970]

I have the white screen problem on a o3DS and my SD card is already correctly formatted and has bios.bin in the right place. Not sure what the deal is with that.

Here's my post from the TWLMenu thread for more detail: "After updating via the updater (on o3DS) and attempting a manual update + deleting settings, GBARunner2 is stuck at white screens for me on the current version.

My SD card is already formatted correctly and I have bios.bin in the right place. I'm not sure what's up with it. I've been able to run older versions fine with the same setup, though I haven't tried in a long while since it corrupted my SD card a while ago."

Hello.

Did you check it on format with STANDARD CLUSTER size ?

Thank you.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Hello.

Did you check it on format with STANDARD CLUSTER size ?

Thank you.

I may need your help understanding what is meant by "Standard cluster size". I have a 128GB microSD card, what exactly is standard cluster size in my case? I think I have it set to 32KB which is the default in GUIFormat, but I'm not positive about that. When I open the format menu in Windows, I see the Allocation size is set to 128KB. I can't use Windows (at least the format GUI in Windows) to format the SD card because it will try to format it to either exFAT or NTFS due to the size. GUIFormat cannot set the allocation size of the SD card to 128KB because I think that exceeds limitations of the FAT32 format.

 

[SummonerArthur]

Yep, X is audio resync as Robz said. For homebrew you may need to run gbafix or whatever that's called to fix the header. You probably see a garbled graphic where the logo should be

The logo was fine, but pressing to fix the header solved the problem somehow. Thanks!
I'll test other roms now.

 

[Alexander1970]

I may need your help understanding what is meant by "Standard cluster size". I have a 128GB microSD card, what exactly is standard cluster size in my case? I think I have it set to 32KB which is the default in GUIFormat, but I'm not positive about that. When I open the format menu in Windows, I see the Allocation size is set to 128KB. I can't use Windows (at least the format GUI in Windows) to format the SD card because it will try to format it to either exFAT or NTFS due to the size. GUIFormat cannot set the allocation size of the SD card to 128KB because I think that exceeds limitations of the FAT32 format.

Hello.

Ok,thats where may the trouble starts.I don´t use SD Cards bigger than 16 GB.When right clicking in Windows on it and choose FORMAT than select FAT32 and the Option STANDARD CLUSTER size.That worked.
Sadly i have no idea whats on 64 GB and bigger.
I don´t have such big ones,sorry.

As i posted here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...menu-replacement.472200/page-305#post-8667911

But maybe @KleinesSinchen can help you further on your 128 GB SD Card:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...menu-replacement.472200/page-305#post-8667981

Thank you.

 

[Deleted User]

I can confirm that Legend of Spyro - The eternal night have this color issues:

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And Legend of Spyro - A new Beginnig has no Text in the anticipated Fields during game:

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Thank you.

@Gericom, There is a similiar glitch in Mortal Kombat - Deadly Alliance (E) and Mortal Kombat - Tournament Edition (U).

 

[Gericom]

It seems the latest hb bootstrap is having some issues or so. I also got a white screen a couple of times, but it worked after retrying. If your sd card is not okay, it should show a proper error on screen, not a white screen. The next release will have fat16 support btw.

I've started working on custom save patches. The issue where mksc worked the first time and not anymore after saving was actually only in the cache version of gbarunner2. Caused by the weird save code of nintendo that copies code to the stack. Making save patches that completely replace those save functions made it work again. Making more save patches will thus make more games work with the cache on. The patch I made now is for FLASH_V123 and FLASH_V124. In the next version, games using those will thus not require sram patches anymore. I will have to investigate what versions there are and what the differences are (if of any significance) to add support for more games.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Hello.

Ok,thats where may the trouble starts.I don´t use SD Cards bigger than 16 GB.When right clicking in Windows on it and choose FORMAT than select FAT32 and the Option STANDARD CLUSTER size.That worked.
Sadly i have no idea whats on 64 GB and bigger.
I don´t have such big ones,sorry.

As i posted here:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...menu-replacement.472200/page-305#post-8667911

But maybe @KleinesSinchen can help you further on your 128 GB SD Card:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...menu-replacement.472200/page-305#post-8667981

Thank you.

You pointed me in the right direction. Formatting was indeed the solution. Seems like formatting with 64KB allocation size has resolved my problem fully. Thanks.

Anyone else with high capacity SD cards should probably try this solution if nothing else seems to fix your issue.

 

[DualBladedKirito]

It seems the latest hb bootstrap is having some issues or so. I also got a white screen a couple of times, but it worked after retrying. If your sd card is not okay, it should show a proper error on screen, not a white screen. The next release will have fat16 support btw.

I've started working on custom save patches. The issue where mksc worked the first time and not anymore after saving was actually only in the cache version of gbarunner2. Caused by the weird save code of nintendo that copies code to the stack. Making save patches that completely replace those save functions made it work again. Making more save patches will thus make more games work with the cache on. The patch I made now is for FLASH_V123 and FLASH_V124. In the next version, games using those will thus not require sram patches anymore. I will have to investigate what versions there are and what the differences are (if of any significance) to add support for more games.

Will the currently committed save patches mean that pokemon gen 3 games no longer need sram patches as well? As far as i remember those games use FLASH1M_V103 saves.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

You pointed me in the right direction. Formatting was indeed the solution. Seems like formatting with 64KB allocation size has resolved my problem fully. Thanks.

Anyone else with high capacity SD cards should probably try this solution if nothing else seems to fix your issue.

It is okay to format 128GB (or even larger) SDs to FAT32, 64kb cluster size for the 2/3DS systems. Some people reported slightly increased performance when using 64kb clusters instead of 32kb (faster booting).

But doing the same with 64GB SDs can lead to graphical glitches in AGB_FIRM.

Microsoft explains default cluster sizes in this article. Allocations size for exFAT is in general very big compared to other filesystems. I found this really helpful: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/140365/default-cluster-size-for-ntfs-fat-and-exfat

 

[Gericom]

Will the currently committed save patches mean that pokemon gen 3 games no longer need sram patches as well? As far as i remember those games use FLASH1M_V103 saves.

The patches are so far specifically for FLASH_V123 and FLASH_V124, but I'm gonna support more types soon. Quite a number of them may work with the same patches, I then just have to make it detect those.

 

[KoopaMaster]

Hi.
I updated my Twilight Menu ++ to last version ( I had 8.0.0 , and updated to 8.3.0 ) .
Before updating , my Mario Kart super circuit rom worked ( I played tracks ) , but now I get white screen before the Gameboy advance logo .
Any help ?

 

[Gericom]

I've also implemented support for the other 64kb flash save types and for eeprom. The graphics corruption in The legend of spyro the eternal night lead me to a stupid dma bug, which caused the upper 32 MB of rom to read from the lower 16 MB instead (wrapped), so that's fixed as well.

 

[firke_the_one]

Hey Gericom! Even tho people are saying GBARunner2 doesn't corrupt the SD card, it does (I think). I downloaded the latest one from WikiTemp and it still freezes Metroid Zero Mission and Pokemon Ruby at random times and now after it freezed after a few times, I can't play Metroid Zero Mission at all. PSA: DON'T TRY FIXING YOUR SD WITH THE WINDOWS UTILITY, IT'Ll MAKE IT WORSE! (My SD card got corrupted and wouldn't boot into main menu so I tried fixing it with windows aaaand now HiyaCFW says my launcher .tmd is too large...)