Moonshell v.1.5 & DPGTools v.1.2 out

[HugeCock]

I normally don't use these features but I am giving a friend one of my kits. What's the best way to use Moonshell 1.5 on a G6 or M3? Curious about the extend version...I'm assuming that's only updatable by M3 or G6 team therefore I would just have to run this version like it says it the readme....correct?

 

[Firon]

Hey Firon, what's the difference between DPG/DPG2?

And awesome job on updating BatchDPG to 1.2, I really love it.

DPG2 is SLIGHTLY less compressible (you probably won't notice), but it has near instant seeking, and no longer shows a bunch of garbage whenever you fast forward/rewind.

And thanks.

 

[Phrostay]

Wow is it just me or does the new 1.5 version sound better when playing back mp3s & movie files? or maybe I just converted my files properly this time. I was listening on my Sennheiser HD 212Pro headphones

 

[Firon]

You don't convert MP3s to use with Moonshell, and DPGs do sound better, better than Extend, that is.

It's been like that since 1.4 or something.

 

[HugeCock]

I'm running the setup file now...anybody know why there is no G6 option? (My other cards are full)

 

[Firon]

Because there is no G6 support. The one built into the G6 was done by the G6 team themselves.

 

[yee]

Only DPGTools can convert to DPG2 currently right?

So are you saying with DPGTools and DPG2, it's better than BatchDPG and normal DPG?

 

[Firon]

No. With DPGTools, you get fast seeking, but awful video and audio quality.

Stick to BatchDPG.


I was thinking, if the Resume function for music is writing to your SD card every 5 seconds, then you'll end up with an astronomical amount of writes to your card after a few hours. It's a very easy way to kill your SD card. What was Infantile thinking? He needs to make it write to SRAM instead, though this would require him either creating the save file for each device, or requiring users to run it through the GM/patcher for the card.

 

[[M]artin]

Could someone help a very confused member out? I have a Supercard Lite and on my MicroSD card is the old version of Moonshell. That was pretty simple, only one folder, drag and dropped it onto the MicroSD and Moonshell worked. This new version however has more folders and files then I can count in it's download. I need to know if I have to delete the old version of my MicroSD first, and also what folders I actually need to run this new version of Moonshell (I think most of the files are plugins?).

Also, what's that custom clock plugin thingy? Sounds cool!

 

[hobotent]

ok im new to this, but I have an Ezflash IV (regular/minisd version) and i would like to put this on my flash cart..
now i understand i have to put some sort of EXFS version on it?

but isn't exfs for flashcarts with built in memory?

if so, why did i get an error (when moonshell starts up) the first time when i used the ez4 file option?
and if i did it right the first time (^), why do the recomended settings for batchdpg not work properly? for me the videos work flawlessly for 1 or 2 mins, then have the video lag more and more and more as time goes by. seems like noone but me has this problem.

i am so confused

 

[FAST6191]

Building moonshell for the EZ4 (sub in a few other blatant options and it will do for other carts too).
You have two options
build an EXFS version and include the EZ4 read/write options or add it in as a directory and some files
EXFS version
advantages: one file is all that is needed
disadvantages: slightly bigger than the other way meaning a couple more seconds will taken loading
You will have to bust out a hex editor to change options.
Other way
advantages: smaller file
easier to change options

The methods EXFS is a bit more complex so here goes
grab moonshell and extract it, in the first directory there will be a setup.exe run this.
Under select setup target drive choose EXFS for flashcart.
Choose your options (fonts etc) and finally hit setup
in the same directory there will appear some new files and a batch file, leave it all alone for now unless you want to tweak the global.ini.

Run setup.exe again and choose target drive (I made mine C:\ but whatever you need)
This time check the cards you need to support as well as the options you want.
Hit setup and some files will appear on the root of whatever drive you set it to.
You can copy these files to your memory card and have it work or you can take the .bin file it creates (for the EZ4 will be called something like _BOOT_MP_EZSD_EZ-Flash4_SD.nds.bin ) and replace the _BOOT_MP.nds in the moonshell folder with this one (naturally you are going to want to rename it to _BOOT_MP.nds) run the batch file and a new file will appear about 2.5 megs in size, burn this to your cart (if on the EZ4 use the nds.gba one).

 

[canvasch]

i'm just waiting for dpgtools to get better video/audio quality.... till then i'll stick with batchdpg.... i can deal with the slow seeking....

 

[HugeCock]

Just curious....whats the differences with Moonshell 1.5 and the version included on my M3? Thanks in advance