Hacking R4 Commander V2.0

[TrolleyDave]

I really dig the proggie, it catalogs really well. I don't know what database it downloads from though because it doesn't seem to recognize 1235 Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Touch de Dokodon!. (says latest is 1212) Just some bugs/suggestions

Thanks, although I've just found a bug in the way the way I catalog the stuff with some of the newer games (a couple of the pokemon games). It downloads it's own database but I haven't had any time at all to update it, it's updated now to 1305.

1. I found one kinda bug, if you set the rom paths and then rename one of the directories, go back and try set the paths again it says paths not found and won't let you reset them.Â

I'll fix that ASAP.

2. I know this isn't a bug but why does it have to unrar/zip every single rom to catalog? Also what would be cool is if it automatically updated your catalog from your rom paths.

It has to unpack the rom at least once to be able to see whats inside the archive. It doesn't get its information from the file name, it gets it from the actual rom header.

To catalog them direct from rom paths open the classic file browser from the main window.

3. I know there's a browse microsd option but what would be cool is if it would it would autoload the catalog off the microSD and allow you to add and remove roms virtually(maybe even backing up saves while removing/adding) and press a button to complete the changes.

I see what you mean. It's not really something I was considering putting in the program, I'll look into it though.

4. It would be cool to also have a skin browser that automatically found and display skins by directory in a given path allowing them to be written to the card.

Erm, open up the SkinR4 utility using the button on the right hand side or pick Skins from the Library menu.

All of these features seem pretty much there, your coding skill surpasses mine by far. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, I'm pretty new to it all though, hence the reason it's a permanent work in progress and the occasional major bug slides into the code!

 

[TrolleyDave]

well that was quick, I put a couple of games in the build and it unzipped/trimmed and uploaded, but only the first one, the rest disappeared.

Odd, do you know which games they were and does it do it every time?

 

[TrolleyDave]

tried to open archive with rom+jpg+ a readme file in it, and your programm freezes
removed the readme file from archive and every thing works fine
please can you make your program just ignore other files then DS.jpg and DS.nds in a archive?

There must have been a corrupting in the archive or something. The program just unpacks and repacks the files when it renames them. When it comes to trimming/copying the rom to the card it just unpacks everything and ignores it all except the .NDS file.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Bump!

Might be unnecessary, but it's 1am here so me reading this thread will burst my brain. My question is, with the recent firmware update (v1.11) being released, does the rom trimmer in this program trim games correctly for the Wi-Fi functions to work?

Is R4 Commander V2.0's ROM trimmer similar to the R4's official site's ROM Trimmer?

Thanks in advance!

Yep, it's been safe trimming since before V1.00 was released!

 

[TrolleyDave]

I've updated the list to ROM 1305 and here's a pack with firmware 1.11!

http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...e.1.11.Pack.ezc

I'm really sorry for the long delay between updates, there shouldn't be any more long delays between list updates. (saying that though life will probably make it impossible to do! lol)

 

[TrolleyDave]

Minor update with minor bug fixes and additions
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- Fixed link to Scorpei’s Guide To Homebrew
- Fixed boxart numbering bug. Boxarts > 1300 weren’t showing.
- Added WWW link for GBA-TWM
- Added WWW link for NDSThemes
- Added WWW link for Nentindo (Dutch site)
- Added ability to reinitialize release list for resyncing.

Installations
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http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...V2.01.Setup.zip
http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...V2.01.Setup.rar
http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...V2.01.Setup.exe

Binary version
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http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...2.01.Binary.zip
http://www.dpgdownloads.com/trolleyguy/Com...2.01.Binary.rar

 

[Antelope]

Is anyone using this on Vista? I am. When I drop games into my library they do not get added to the library. SO, my library is empty.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Is anyone using this on Vista? I am. When I drop games into my library they do not get added to the library. SO, my library is empty.

There are others using it fine on Vista. Is it a fresh install?

 

[jamesy]

Im having problems installing the more recent roms (luminous arc, rune Factory, Madden 08 etc). Had no problems until this point. I get unable to load jpeg then the option to remove from library, which I chose no, then R4Commander hangs and become unresponsive.
Is this because I dosen't recognise roms after 1300?
Shame because it's a great program.
Drag and drop for the win!

 

[yamimg]

i am really new to this stuff what it does? and do it work with m3simply ds ?

 

[R1C3 N1NJA]

OMG THANK U !!!

 

[TrolleyDave]

Im having problems installing the more recent roms (luminous arc, rune Factory, Madden 08 etc). Had no problems until this point. I get unable to load jpeg then the option to remove from library, which I chose no, then R4Commander hangs and become unresponsive.
Is this because I dosen't recognise roms after 1300?
Shame because it's a great program.
Drag and drop for the win!

Have you downloaded the 2.01 update? That should fix the problems you're having.

 

[yamimg]

i am really new to this stuff what it does? and do it work with m3simply ds ?

can someone really answer my question

 

[R1C3 N1NJA]

when u put the roms on to ure micro sd does it trim aoutmaticlly cuzz its driving mee crazzzyyy

 

[TrolleyDave]

i am really new to this stuff what it does? and do it work with m3simply ds ?


can someone really answer my question

Yes it does, but there's no firmware packs for the M3 Simply, you'll have to replace one of the R4 firmware packs with the M3 Simply firmware.

 

[TrolleyDave]

when u put the roms on to ure micro sd does it trim aoutmaticlly cuzz its driving mee crazzzyyy

Yep.

 

[R1C3 N1NJA]

o ok then haha it took soo long to trim i went crazzy

but now its done so its time too playyyy

 

[TrolleyDave]

It used to be a little faster but on slower cards it kept pausing while Windows caught up and people kept thinking it had crashed so I slowed it down a little. It's about 10% slower than the write speed of the card.

 

[TrolleyDave]

V2.03 Released! Download either from my blog (http://blogs.moddz.com/trolleyguy/) or from the first post.

Fixes/Changes
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1) Added ability to display a background skin in the main window. Add files called “ezcbg.jpg” to put an image behind the main information part, “ezcrp.jpg” to put an image behind the buttons and “ezcbp.jpg” to put an image behind the bottom status part where the progress bars are. It doesn’t matter about the size as the program will just stretch the picture to fit, this is also non-proportional and non-centered. The build list box isn’t transparent (I’m lacking the coding skills at the moment to do it, but soon!) so you might want to use textures rather than pictures as a background.
2) Sped up the trimming, sorry folks but I broke it in the last build. Somehow I’d managed to change it from 4k write chunks to 4 byte write chunks. This build will solve all the speed problems! Trimmed Zoo Keeper direct to the MicroSD card in under 4 seconds.
3) Sped up the unarchiving process.
4) Now does recursive archive scans when adding to the library or renaming.
5) You can now enter the details for games missing from the release list when you drop an unknown game into the main window.
6) You can now tell the program to skip error messages.
7) You can now choose between the DPGDownloads and Moddz servers again.

 

[Lee79]

Thanks TrolleyDave been looking for this.

Nice Site/blog