Update 1.4:
Made the GBA force hard reset when you launch a game from PSRAM.
Altered the colors a bit.
Fixed a few strings
Fixed the text for loading a game not being visible.
Fixed the blue bar on the right of the icons.
Reduced battery usage in some areas of the menus.

 

Update 1.6:
This is a biggie update

Changes and additions:
Merged Kuwanger's Pogoshell Addon for the Omega, also comes preloaded with a bunch of plugins.
Text fixes
Changed the location of the system folders, into one big folder, called SYSTEM.
Extra icons for Emulated ROMs and files that have working PogoShell plugins.

Installation:
Create a folder called SYSTEM.
Move the following folders into there.
RTS, SAVER, IMGS, CHEAT, PATCH
Also copy the PLUG folder in the zip file to the SYSTEM folder.
Install the kernel as usual.

This package comes with the following plugins:
The ModPlayer plugin (.mod)
The JPEG plugin (.jpg .jpeg)
The BMP plugin (.bmp)
SMSAdvance (.sms .gg .sg)
ZXAdvance (.z80 .sna)
PCEAdvance (.pce)
SwanAdvance (.ws .wsc)
MSXAdvance (.rom)
Wasabi (.sv)
NGPAdvance (.ngp .ngc .ngpc)

Note: MSXAdvance comes with the C-BIOS.

 

Strange. It works fine here.

 

Try this one.

 

I got nothing, I tested it and it works fine for me.

 

This is not rom dependent, I have tried several roms and the kernel locks up just before writing the rom to NOR. This happens with both Clean and With Addons. The strange thing is the NOR Flash works fine when I am using the stock kernel from the ezflash website.

Also, https://gitlab.com/Sterophonick/omega-kernel

Edit: Ok, so it turns out it's not crashing like I thought it was. I was getting confused because for whatever reason the progress indicator is not showing on the bottom of the screen like it should.

 

So, to clarify, it is NOT crashing. The progress indication text is just blank after the "Checking Save Data..." text with the left edge of the C showing.


Also, I hate to be that one guy, but I would prefer not having the psram hard reset. Would you mind telling me what needs to be changed in the source code to disable it?

 

Thanks! I hope it's possible to fix the text bug.

Edit: I was able to fix progress text "bug". It turns out you didn't compensate for the change from white text to black text with the NOR writing text. Also, the edge of the "C" is because of a difference in the width of the new font. I was able to tweak a few things and now everything looks fine. I also hid the prompt for the NOR format (when it starts) so the progress display doesn't overlap it.

 

After a lot of fiddling, I've created a new version of reset_ez4.s for the EZ Omega. The major difference is simply waiting ~5 seconds before actually doing the reset. This is important because one of the last things pocketnes, goomba, etc does is save menu settings to the SRAM, and that could lead to corruption. The solution the EZ Omega kernel does is to simply NOP out the writeconfig(), but that has the unfortunately side-effect of settings not being saved. And it still leaves users to wait the necessary time to not cause corruption.

The reason it took me so long with fiddling is because later versions of pocketnes include built in code to do resetting for Visoly, EZ, G6, and M3 carts (there might be more). So, it turns out you need to do the waiting before issuing those magic writes (AFAIK all the relevant code is in EXWRAM/IWRAM so it's not that), so I ended up having to reorder the function calls. The oddity to me most of all is that it froze. *shrug*

Anyways, here's the new binary and source. It only takes 16 more bytes to actually do the wait so it should fit with all the other patched plugins. I hope you find this useful.

Edit: Patching Goomba Paletted is also a little more complicated because it supports ez4 reset built in. So, I just overwrote the last 16 bytes before the return address in visoly's init_flashcart function since that's really otherwise pretty much a dummy function.

 

If you have the SYSTEM folder set up, yes.