Hacking homebrew for r4?

[CrystalSweet]

heyyy everyone
i just got an r4 ds
so im a newbie

i dont know how to make the homebrew workk
i took the .nds file
and pasted into the micro sd
but when i select it on moonshell?
it says adaptor not found
i dont know how to get them to work.

btw, what are the programs for music and videos? and how do i make everything work?
lol im a real newbie.
thanks in advance!
i really need the help.

 

[kellyan95]

Don't use moonshell. And if you have the newest kernal, you don't need to DLDI patch it

 

[greyhound]

you just run your homebrew from the R4 menu like a game, i create separate folders for homebrew and games just to organise things a bit.

Moonshell will, however, play your music and videos that are in .dpg format. There's a converter for vids somewhere

 

[CrystalSweet]

OOOHHHH okayyy!
thank yous

so i use it from the game menu?
okay i got it

how do i convert music and vids into dvg?
so moonshell is basically a music player?

 

[lagman]

Moonshell can play .mp3 files as well as .ogg so there's not need to convert your music.

To convert videos to .dpg format I use BatchDPG.

http://ls5.citizendeleted.com/?Download

 

[greyhound]

yeah, moonshell will play your media.

Sorry, you don't need to convert music, that should just work, but videos need to be converted.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=35547 will help you with converting and stuff

 

[CrystalSweet]

OHHHH okay!
thank you both SOOO much!

 

[zeppo]

it also views images. and I see that you mentioned comic book ds in the subtitle for the thread. it is THE BEST homebrew ever if you are a mangahead like me. otherwise... not so much.

you can find the latest version at http://cbds.free.fr/Softwares/ComicBookDS/?language=en

to make .cbds files you need picto ds. it is available at http://cbds.free.fr/Softwares/PictoDS/?language=en and is a pc app. I think it's pretty self explanatory.

p.s. more fun for using mp3 files is the ipod app. It just finds all the mp3 files in your whole micro sd and lists them all. pretty unorganized, but still awesome. I forget what it's called; something like imp-ng blah blah blah. but I think it's in the download section here.

 

[jambo]

Hello well got the r4, and I think the latest kernel but having problems, running a few things

Got the cbds reader, at first it didn't work properly so I DLDI patched it then it worked, got the comics off the website (the heroes series) used pictods to convert to cbds put it in the comic reader file and.. now the cbds loads but there are no thumbnails, it sees the comics (1/20, is this to much?) and just spends a long time with this message 'opening 1/20' and nothing else happens, am I putting to many comics on it? the heroes ones seem pretty small (only 7pages each so 20= 140page comic) should be able to handle it.. ive got a 2gig card with about 300mb free..

also got the latest version of moonshell but having trouble running the movies converted in batchdpg, where do you put them on the card? the root directory? games? Ive now got it in the moonshell and cant see anything.

Can anyone help?

cheers

 

[Kellicros]

Hello well got the r4, and I think the latest kernel but having problems, running a few things

Got the cbds reader, at first it didn't work properly so I DLDI patched it then it worked, got the comics off the website (the heroes series) used pictods to convert to cbds put it in the comic reader file and.. now the cbds loads but there are no thumbnails, it sees the comics (1/20, is this to much?) and just spends a long time with this message 'opening 1/20' and nothing else happens, am I putting to many comics on it? the heroes ones seem pretty small (only 7pages each so 20= 140page comic) should be able to handle it.. ive got a 2gig card with about 300mb free..

also got the latest version of moonshell but having trouble running the movies converted in batchdpg, where do you put them on the card? the root directory? games? Ive now got it in the moonshell and cant see anything.

Can anyone help?

cheers

I haven't have a problem with CBDS on the latest firmware, I didn't patch it, it just ran.
You can put those movies anywhere you want, you can browse through and select them when you boot into moonshell.