Hacking m3sakura is almost here!

[AXYPB]

Most of my videos are animations under 30 minutes, so I can afford to use lower bitrates than the default. The only way to know for sure is to experiment. When I still had my 1GB Kingston, I had to use even lower bitrates around 192 and I still got decent quality from that (although those were from an older version of BatchDPG). As for the number of passes, I recommend 2-pass encoding for low bitrates, but I find that I can do without the second pass when I use a better bitrate about 210. Again, it's all down to your own preferences, source videos and experimentation.

Additionally, I use the Lanczos resizer in all of my encodings.

 

[visitor000]

About slow seeking in DGP files:

Seeking on DPG2-DPG3 files is much faster in Sakura than in Moonshell 171+1 - I've tried same video files in both players and Sakura is winner here.

DPG2 and DPG3 files have index for fast seeking. DPG1 does not have index, so it will be very slow on any player: Sakura, Moonshell etc. So, if seeking is very slow maybe you are trying DGP1 file?

 

[FlyRider]

Yeah, maybe, but how do I know if its a dpg1 file? They're all named .dpg, right?

 

[chaotic_geo]

The hype has certainly died for me... I haven't picked my DS up for a while now.

 

[LUGiA]

Any news on Offical release lots of games are start to not work on sakura

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Whats up chaotic_geo? I haven't played a lot of games, but last few days, I'm developing/designing a skin, and I'm all about Sakura..I even feel like I haven't seen all that is to be seen about this GUI..
However, I don't think my "hype" about NDS will ever die (I mean, I still get all warmed up about GB Pocket sometimes, so I guess I'm a Nintendo handheld freak)

 

[prism1029]

Any news on Offical release lots of games are start to not work on sakura

Is that a question? Cause all of my games work.

 

[thedicemaster]

several homebrews give only white screens, and summon nights stops at either white or black screens.

 

[gangsterboi]

Why is everyone making such a big fuss? It's only a hack, not even an official release be grateful for what you have got. I can't even use sakura (damb g6).

Just wait a little bit the official sakura is released next week.

 

[LUGiA]

Just wait a little bit the official sakura is released next week.

Has that been confirmed

Games like The Hulk & summons night are not working

 

[11gardir]

Also, a lot of homebrew isn't working.

 

[Japhle]

Is it possible to add accessories into the thing so that when I press accessories, then I can access other files from there?

 

[gangsterboi]

Densetsu received an email from m3 sakura saying it would be released sometime next week.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Is it possible to add accessories into the thing so that when I press accessories, then I can access other files from there?

Yes, it is possible, just add whatever program/game you want into SYSTEM->m3sakura->launch...here you'll find all accessories that are pre-defined to be there (ImageViewer, CheckDisk, MoonShell and Morning timer), you can delete them and/or add whatever you want, but I'm not sure if GBA games will run from there..

 

[mercenary96]

Summon Night starts when you extract both games [japanese (Summon Night Twin Edge - Seireitachi no Kyoumei)) and english version] with dslazy and copy over the english data folder into the japanese one. There are some glitches in the menu and naming your character is still with japanese fonts but the game starts. Strange that the old m3/g6 firmware can run completely new games and m3 sakura seems to just accept games which are somehow included in the firmware code. I don' really know how to edit the arm7 file in the game, because maybe this would be enough to make the game fully playable under m3 sakura. ( or also the header.bin ? )



Deutschlaaand 2:0 xD

 

[visitor000]

Yeah, maybe, but how do I know if its a dpg1 file? They're all named .dpg, right?

Yeah, they all named .dpg

If you have dpgtools on your PC (part of moonshell 171) you could open that file with dpgshow.exe or dpginfo.exe, they will show the version of PDG format.
Unfortunately, Sakura's player shows limited info about video clip and does not show DPG version...

 

[reelproductions]

any one now how to encode to DPG with a mac. all the files i got in my video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzR5QJXvSr8 ) i got from dpghost.com

 

[nori2nori]

Please let me apologize to you for not working patches for ext files.
I rechecked the code, so you may use "M3 Sakura" in any language versions of M3 REAL card by using following patches.
Search and replace all of the following code on startnds.ext?and startgba.ext files.

Search with: 08 40 2D E9 00 30 A0 E3 00 30 8D E5 CD 00 A0 E3
Replace to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1 00 30 8D E5 CD 00 A0 E3

Search with: 08 40 2D E9 B1 00 A0 E3 00 10 A0 E3 01 00 80 E2
Replace to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1 00 10 A0 E3 01 00 80 E2

Search with: 08 40 2D E9 00 30 A0 E3 00 30 8D E5 00 20 A0 E3
Replace to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1 00 30 8D E5 00 20 A0 E3

Search with: 08 40 2D E9 02 30 A0 E3 00 30 8D E5 01 30 A0 E1
Replace to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1 00 30 8D E5 01 30 A0 E1

Search with: 08 40 2D E9 AA 00 A0 E3 00 10 A0 E3 01 00 80 E2
Replace to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1 00 10 A0 E3 01 00 80 E2

You need to change all matched codes when the code would be matched multiple times in the files.

Enjoy!

 

[daisun]

So if we hexedit the two files we will be able to run the M3 sakura obtained from the official site but still in japanese? If so would applying an english theme change the interface language?

 

[nori2nori]

So if we hexedit the two files we will be able to run the M3 sakura obtained from the official site but still in japanese? If so would applying an english theme change the interface language?

If you use the official M3 sakura on the M3 Real of the versions other than Japanese, you need following patch to the g6dsload.jp file.

Address 0000C9EC:
Change from: 04 40 2D E5 08 D0 4D E2
Change to: A4 00 A0 E3 1E FF 2F E1

However, you should understand you can't run any commercial version's nds and gba games on the the M3 sakura obtained from the official site, bacause the official sakura doesn't have the function for the game play because of Japanese legal right regulation. If you want play the commercial version's games on the M3 sakura, you need get the X versions firmware or the full english version set here.