Homebrew [NDS] Yet Another nds-bootstrap Forwarder: more than 40 forwarders are now possible
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some apps require you manually set the python location, but I think that second one is yours, right? they can use the environmental setting though to find where it's located, which it seems to have done. no idea what could be wrong here though.
some things also don't run well with python 3, so I have 2.7 installed on my system as well as the latest python 3. you could try installing it, check the box again, then go through pip.etc. again to see if it's rectified.
I am hoping that @lifehackerhansol or @Pk11 have time to review this conversation and help me out some of day when they get time. I appreciate your great help my friend @godreborn
Update: I tested in my dsi Twilight menu and there was no issue with the binary and the icon jarbling up. Any ideas what might be causing it?
Update 2: So I made the new hack ROM from my own clean White 2 cartridge and I still have the issue with the ds binary and messed up icon. Any ideas? Sorry to bug again and thanks!
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The messed up icon is because it's either animated or DSi enhanced. There are a few games with broken icons because of that (Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem came up a few pages ago).
RocketRobz mentioned them in the Forwarder3DS thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/nds-forwarder-cias-for-your-home-menu.426174/
And he has fixed icons for the games that have broken icons: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/igr47pr0q5bh4p5/AAA9Dy8VOGfBLUA6KdLDSDW-a?dl=0
Forwarder3DS lets you import the fixed icon to replace the broken one when creating the CIA, but unfortunately I don't believe YANBF allows that at this time. I think there are only 6 games or so affected by this issue, so I would say use Forwarder3DS for those and use YANBF for everything else.
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Huh weird I coulda sworn I tested that lol, opened #8 to fix that. It's a simple fix since the games have working DS icons just the animated icons are broken. If you want you can probably download that updated
bannergif.py file manually and replace the one in the generator folder.Hmm... What's the full error about "can't find file [...]"? generator.py I assume? Make sure that file exists where it's looking and if not maybe try redownload and make sure you extracted everything.
If it is there, maybe try moving it so that there aren't any spaces in the file path? Dunno if it's an issue here but spaces have a habit of breaking things.
Thanks so much!
Also if it's not too much of a bother, I cant get the widescreen to work. Is there something else I have to install to get it working?
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Try replacing
sd:/_nds/ntr-forwarder/sdcard.nds with the one from this post.Also make sure you followed TWiLight Menu++'s widescreen guide without missing any steps, though you can optionally put the CXI at
sd:/_nds/ntr-forwarder/Widescreen.cxi instead.
The fault must be there. I don't have a way around it. You absolutely require a banner to be on the HOME menu.
You can present your own boxart using --boxart <boxart location>.
Also, not sure why you're using CLI. A GUI is provided, with custom boxart options.
Not really an update, but more of a PSA, since this seems to be a fairly common problem:
I've made it so that now there is a standalone program, so Python is no longer required. However, the GUI program is not adapted to this, and I genuinely have no idea how to do it myself, nothing I do in the GUI's code works. Also I'm not a JS dev and the GUI is Electron XD
So I won't be making any releases until the GUI can be fixed up. Once it does though, hopefully more brain cells can be preserved.
I've made it so that now there is a standalone program, so Python is no longer required. However, the GUI program is not adapted to this, and I genuinely have no idea how to do it myself, nothing I do in the GUI's code works. Also I'm not a JS dev and the GUI is Electron XD
So I won't be making any releases until the GUI can be fixed up. Once it does though, hopefully more brain cells can be preserved.
I kinda missed the GUI package. I just followed the usage writeup from github and I am maybe bit too used to 3DS hacking scene and doing things instructed to do on CLI. For example, all the very, VERY original A9LH installation stuff and so on. The tool does look nice so good I am aware of it for more shortcuts. Thanks for the tool!
To add, I already was having Windows Terminal open in the folder I put generator into, doing the pip upgrade and all.
Also also: Your GUI tool has installer's icon on my PC while it did not act at all like an installer, so now I am thinking someone has access to all my videogame addiction evidence. Just bit of me learned young and hard that clicking on installer packages is bad for your computer's future. Or at least your OS installation that MF will be taken back of the house and given the go at least. Well, newest one I've seen was NodeJS exe so kinda whatever.
Edit and addition also: One thing that could be nifty is to have a 3D banner maybe with DS startup sound, though this is harder than a simple 2D banner. Maybe just use the GBA virtual console as template since it is just a rectangle with screenshot of the game but that is extra work I would think someone who can and is willing to do it would do, if possible in same streamlined manner that GBA injector does. I know very well as end user with limited knowledge things that seem easy may very well never be that simple, heck, I thought that DS(i) title for the shortcuts was the only way they could be made and someone proved that understanding out of the window.
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I won't be doing a 3D banner. I have zero graphical experience, so that is far away from my skill level. I did mention in this thread that if someone is willing to get that working, feel free.
The injectors are closed source so I can't take stuff from there either. There's no open source implementation of something like this, I think. Nor a command line tool I can spawn off, and the one 3D banner creator I know of is Linux-only.
As for the icon... well the app doesn't have an icon, so it just defaulted to the default EXE icon in Windows, which most people see it as the "installer" icon, I guess. It isn't intuitive but also I can't do graphics for the life of me, I've hated it since I was little, so I doubt I can think of something creative.
I'm hoping that the next release would completely remove the need for any of what you had to do. It's taking some time because JavaScript refuses to listen to me. But I'm trying.
I just fixed the problem I installed newer python 3.10.2 and set the path in YANBF it's all good now thank you for respond as soon you have time.
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That's weird: another user was having trouble with Python 3.10.I just fixed the problem I installed newer python 3.10.2 and set the path in YANBF it's all good now thank you for respond as soon you have time.
Whatever, that requirement will be gone very soon.
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