Playing DS games on Wii U in 16:9?
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Have you seen there are new screen layouts that has been created?
Have a look to this great work:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/add-many-more-screen-layout-options-in-ds-virtual-console-games.574254/
Also this way is easy to install, maybe easier than tuning with codes that seems to be related to DS emulator and I am not sure it works on DS VC
Have a look to this great work:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/add-many-more-screen-layout-options-in-ds-virtual-console-games.574254/
Also this way is easy to install, maybe easier than tuning with codes that seems to be related to DS emulator and I am not sure it works on DS VC
Yeah I'm using that but it's not setting the actual games to 16:9. It's only stretching the screen area.
I'm talking about true 16:9 like the AR codes, but they seem to not work on Wii U.
It is possible. We have done it with the Analog Mario 64 DS patcher by hex editing the ROM. You might need to work out exactly what the cheat code is doing in order to make the edit manually.
There are lists of Action Replay codes: https://forums.desmume.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25853, https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-play-nds-games-in-hd-widescreen-16-9-21-9-32-9.538988/
But I'm suggesting you figure out what the code is actually editing in order to do it manually.
As Vague Rant points out in the thread I linked to before, many games store the aspect ratio of the view port somewhere then use that to render the correct amount of world. We are looking for the value for the DS's original 4:3 ratio:
Code:
55 15 00 00 // old value: 0x1555 = 4:3and changing it to:
Code:
72 1C 00 00 // new value: 0x1C72 = 16:9If you can't identify where this replacement needs to happen, you could just do a blanket find-and-replace, but this might break the game if it happens to use a value of hex-1555 elsewhere.
What games are you interested in? I may be able to help parse the AR codes.
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Mario Kart's code on the 'Temp thread is
Code:
520775D0 00001555
020775D0 00001C72
D2000000 00000000
by @KazoWAR
Code:
920775D0 00001555
120775D0 00001C72
D2000000 00000000
920789BC 00001555
120789BC 00001C72
D2000000 00000000
by @KazoWARThe DeSmuME forum gives
Code:
12147E04 00003D30You could also use DSATM https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/DSATM to patch the codes into the .nds without doing the hex editing yourself.
New Soup needs to work differently as it's a 2D game and we can't squash the viewport in the same way. There is a video here: with a patcher here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mrrwp92i7qq38f/nsmbws.xdelta?dl=0 to make the game run in 16:10 for the 3DS. Then you can inject that .nds and muck about with the screen layout to get the aspect ratio correct. The DeSmuMe forum has a 16:9 code
Code:
52062358 E1854804
0200DC5C E3A00EC3
0200AE48 E3A03000
0200AE4C E3A01000
02062338 E3A0C015
02062340 E0050C95
02062350 E1A00000
02062348 E1A05425
02000C00 E1844A0E
02000C04 E3A00015
02000C08 E0040490
02000C0C E1A04224
02000C10 EA02B3C6
D2000000 00000000
520D1BEC 00001555
020D1BEC 00001BFF
D2000000 00000000
520ADB30 E59F0014
020ADB2C EAFD4C33
D2000000 00000000In any case I would recommend trying to run the patched games first on DeSmuMe on your computer before sending them to the Wii U, in case what you tried causes as crash - there's no point spending time injecting and installing a game that definitely doesn't work.
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