OPEN_AGB_FIRM discussion thread

So, the obvious question is, will this offer any particular advantages over the standard agb_firm in the future?

 

This is pretty amazing actually. I tried looking at this myself but my programming skills are limited to cobol, c# and fortran. I’m pretty blown away at this. It’ll definitely be convenient. Thank you!

 

how to use?

 

Dude, this is sick!

 

Since it's a .firm file, I'm guessing you have to run it from the Luma chainloader, like gm9.

That raises an interesting question: do you think you can enable chainloading from ntrboot, so it can be run from a 3DS with stock firmware?

 

Very cool, nice work!

Side note, there was a chainloader you could compile as .cia to reboot into a .firm payload from the home menu. It might be compatible with this .firm if someone had time to try it out :
New link: https://github.com/Ordim3n/That-Shortcut-Thingy (old link was deprecated).

Edit: You can download a .cia/.3dsx shortcut from here.

 

This is great can't wait to see just how good it gets. So far I have tried two games using the test build. Metal Slug GBA runs with no issues and Super Mario Bros Classic loads but no button presses are recognised.

Edit just tried Dr Mario and Puzzle League both work perfectly.

 

Nice to see this has a discussion thread now.( Was gonna make one myself but you beat me to it lol)

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Also it will eventually have a settings menu with cheats and the like. Also it has access to the arm9 AND arm11 cpus. Afaik stock agb_firm does not have access to the arm11

 

You hadn't specified that anywhere in the first post. It seems as if you're just stealing credit from profil2000.

 

Yep the below in the OPs original post makes it sound like it was him who developed it.

If you happen to stumble over another bug, please open an issue in the official open_agb_firm repo on GitHub or contact me via other platforms.


The above needs removed and credit to the actual dev needs to be added to the first post.

 

How to use:

NOTE: IF YOU WERE USING A DIFFERENT EMULATOR/LOADER BEFORE, IT IS MANDATORY TO MAKE A BACKUP OF ALL OF YOUR SAVES, THIS IS STILL AN ALPHA AND COULD BREAK PREVIOUS SAVE DATA, IT IS RECOMENDED TO TEST/USE IT WITH NEWLY CREATED SAVE FILES.

For Luma users:

1. Place open_agb_firm.firm inside /luma/payloads folder on your SD card using the procedure of your preference, I recommend an ftp server as the file is very light to transfer.
2. Place your GBA roms inside your SD card, it is recomended to create a folder named "GBA" for those but you can place them anywhere of your choice.
3. Power off your 3DS, then power it on while holding the START button.
4. A menu should appear and one of the available options should be "open_agb_firm", select it pressing the A button.
5. You should be promted with a file browser, look up for your GBA files to load and see the magic.
6. To load a different rom, you need to power off your 3DS, then repeat steps 3 to 5.
7. As stated, any issue that happens should be opened on this project Github page.

For fastboot3DS users:

1. Place your "open_agb_firm.firm" file inside of your SD card in any directory of your choice, if you use other payloads, is recomended to use the same directory.
2. Power off your 3DS, then power it on while holding the HOME button.
3. Fastboot 3DS should show up, select the "Boot Setup" option.
4. Select any empty slot of your choice.
5. Press the A button on the "Select [slot X] firm", a file browser will show up, then look up for your "open_agb_firm.firm" file on your SD card.
6. [MANDATORY] Press the A button on the "Set [Slot X] keycombo" option.
7. Follow the instructions on the top screen, then exit when done.
   
8. Power off your 3DS, then power it on while holding the keycombo you configured in the previous step.
9. You should be promted with a file browser, look up for your GBA files to load and see the magic.
10. To load a different rom, repeat step 8.
11. As stated, any issue that happens should be opened on this project Github page.

Also, is very important to know that profi200 is asking for help on this project:

So if you want to contribute the door is completely open

 

Impressive and awesome, but totally needs that patch to show the GBA boot logo

 

Yep I don't know why but playing GBA games without seeing the boot logo just doesn't feel right

 

It is dissabled by default but you can re-enable it by editing the source code option, then rebuild the .firm as it is currently hardcoded. It is planned to be toggleable in the future accordig to previous coments on github.

 

Although not requiring CIA forwarders is a nice feature... Being compatible with them is certainly important if it ever becomes a true replacement for AGB_FIRM, part of the charm of using a 3DS is precisely having so many systems right in the native home menu.

 

Oh well then no buts, just impressive and awesome