Homebrew [RELEASE] CtrBootManager/CtrBootManager9

[Hayleia]

Luma is one answer. Autoboot emunand is in the options for Christ's sake! Luma works perfectly fine with gba/nds games. Again, that's just 1 of the options. Menuhax has been obsolete for a while now, and frankly causes more trouble than it's ever been worth.

Another option is to use a flash cart. Any cheap cart can do all NDS stuff without issue. Moderately priced carts throw in GBA and SNES as well. DSTwo Plus has even more compatibility and enhancements for gba and snes (although it's expensive and chews through battery life).

You did not get it. GBA VC games always boot to sysNAND when exited, even if they were started from emuNAND. Luma purposely ignores the option "autoboot emuNAND" in that very case in order to save your progress in your GBA game. So of course a9lh/b9s is faster than menuhax for "normal boots" to emuNAND. But when exiting a GBA VC game, having menuhax on sysNAND *in addition to a9lh* is a faster option than manually rebooting.

 

[GothicIII]

Luma is one answer. Autoboot emunand is in the options for Christ's sake! Luma works perfectly fine with gba/nds games. Again, that's just 1 of the options. Menuhax has been obsolete for a while now, and frankly causes more trouble than it's ever been worth.

Another option is to use a flash cart. Any cheap cart can do all NDS stuff without issue. Moderately priced carts throw in GBA and SNES as well. DSTwo Plus has even more compatibility and enhancements for gba and snes (although it's expensive and chews through battery life).

No1: You didnt understand the problem. E.g. I am using Luma

No2: Ever played Golden Sun 2? This is a real bad programmed gba game. Worse programmed than the first one but pretty much the best rpg for gba. Using whatever emulator (btw. I have a dstwo which has a gba coprocessor builtin) the game lags, is choppy overall and you have huge frameskip in battles+it crashes sometimes. A vc-injection works wonders.

 

[urherenow]

No1: You didnt understand the problem. E.g. I am using Luma

No2: Ever played Golden Sun 2? This is a real bad programmed gba game. Worse programmed than the first one but pretty much the best rpg for gba. Using whatever emulator (btw. I have a dstwo which has a gba coprocessor builtin) the game lags, is choppy overall and you have huge frameskip in battles+it crashes sometimes. A vc-injection works wonders.

dstwoplus takes care of that. I own both.

 

[GothicIII]

dstwoplus takes care of that. I own both.

There is no difference between a dstwo and dstwoplus. Dstwoplus just has a circuit <strike>and switch</strike> for simulating a gateway card. Otherwise they are identical.
How in the world does dstwoplus takes care of that? O.o

 

[urherenow]

There is no difference between a dstwo and dstwoplus.

You have no idea what you're talking about. DStwo+ has a higher clock speed, for one.

Second (and DIRECTLY ON ITS HOME PAGE)

"Compared to the DSTWO, DSTWO PLUS has 4x the Flash and 2x the CPLD power."

Regardless of how or why, I'm telling you I have both models and what I said is true.

 

[chronoss]

New version 2.4.0 is available!
https://github.com/OperationNT414C/CtrBootManager/releases/tag/2.4.0

Support for FIRM files loading and "CtrBootManager9.firm" included in the package.

Thanks but how to install it in my O3DS with SigHax installed ?

 

[chronoss]

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[KumpelKuerbis]

Thanks but how to install it in my O3DS with SigHax installed ?

I want to know that too ^^

 

[Dracari]

Thanks but how to install it in my O3DS with SigHax installed ?

I want to know that too ^^

it's just copy your luma boot.firm elsewhere or rename it to anything.firm and place this in the root of yoru SD and rename it boot.firm

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

it's just copy your luma boot.firm elsewhere or rename it to anything.firm and place this in the root of yoru SD and rename it boot.firm

okay, thanks

to uninstall it i just have to replace the bootmanager firm file with the luma one, right ?

 

[Dracari]

okay, thanks

to uninstall it i just have to replace the bootmanager firm file with the luma one, right ?

replace it and rename luma's to anything.firm this is just a Bootmanager NOT a CFW, you still need luma.

after that Add it's entry to a9lh.cfg by editing the config or manually by goig file browse -> WhatEverYouNameLuma.firm and press x to add to menu

 

[OperationNT]

Anyway to get this working from CTRNAND?

Currently, it doesn't manage CTRNAND. I think if you put it as "boot.firm" on CTRNAND, the best you could get is that, if you inserted an SD card, it will behave like if it is started from SD card (and read/write its config on the SD card). If you didn't insert any SD card, it would crash (black screen).

I will try to see if I can add CTRNAND management on next releases (first step would be a "File Browser" which can read CTRNAND content and start ".firm" files from it).

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

replace it and rename luma's to anything.firm this is just a Bootmanager NOT a CFW, you still need luma.

after that Add it's entry to a9lh.cfg by editing the config or manually by goig file browse -> WhatEverYouNameLuma.firm and press x to add to menu

nice it works

thanks for helping ^^

 

[Dracari]

nice it works

thanks for helping ^^

Np if you added it manually from file browse you can Edit the a9lh.cfg in godmode9 or on your PC to what ever you want as adding to list defaults to FileName.

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

Np if you added it manually from file browse you can Edit the a9lh.cfg in godmode9 or on your PC to what ever you want as adding to list defaults to FileName.

I have a question, does the bootmanager interfere with the luma reboot patches? because I read that in another thread and i wanted to know if thats true

 

[Dracari]

I have a question, does the bootmanager interfere with the luma reboot patches? because I read that in another thread and i wanted to know if thats true

it Did and kinda still does in a way, it prevents a smooth transition out of SD management/System Settings but thats it these days

every time you exist SD Management/System settings it dumps you to this then booting luma continues (you wind up rebooting twice exiting SD management, then system settinsg to Home Menu)

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

it Did and kinda still does in a way, it prevents a smooth transition out of SD management/System Settings but thats it these days

so no bigger problem using it? or should i use the luma chainloader ?

 

[Dracari]

so no bigger problem using it?

no before when you had to hardcode path patch it it was a real issue but for A9LH days there was just defining where luma resides now it doesnt need it at all and re-read my post abive i edite dit befoer i saw you reply thats all it ends up interfeering in any way.

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

no before when you had to hardcode path patch it it was a real issue but for A9LH days there was just defining where luma resides now it doesnt need it at all and re-read my post abive i edite dit befoer i saw you reply thats all it ends up interfeering in any way.

okay thanks ^^

 

[KumpelKuerbis]

no before when you had to hardcode path patch it it was a real issue but for A9LH days there was just defining where luma resides now it doesnt need it at all and re-read my post abive i edite dit befoer i saw you reply thats all it ends up interfeering in any way.

is it normal that luma3ds Reboot the console when exiting system settings if not using bootmanager ?

(i removed bootctr9 atm and it still Reboots after exiting system settings, or does it do this anyway ?)