Super Mario 64 DS VC patcher for improved controls (full analogue movement and camera rotation with right analogue stick)
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Kinda unrelated, but started looking into the widescreen patch. I got lost when I needed to hex edit and whatnot, and was a little disappointed I couldn't proceed.
But then I found this tool
https://github.com/phacoxcll/VCNDSLayout/releases/tag/alpha-2
So I stretched the screen so there was less unused space on the gamepad. For now, that's fine with me.
...But now all the virtual console menus are in Spanish? Which, I don't know if I did something when editing the Strings.json... But it's not a dealbreaker.
But then I found this tool
https://github.com/phacoxcll/VCNDSLayout/releases/tag/alpha-2
So I stretched the screen so there was less unused space on the gamepad. For now, that's fine with me.
...But now all the virtual console menus are in Spanish? Which, I don't know if I did something when editing the Strings.json... But it's not a dealbreaker.
I just sucess putting the resolution x2 on Kingdom hearts nds games that i injected myself and i wonder if its possible to map the buttons too ?
Thank you very much for this guide! it was really helpful.Will try to put together a more granular, step-by-step process. This guide will specifically assume you have the USA version, because that's what I have and I've already offered as much as I can for the Europe release.
Requirements
Installed to your Wii U
- official Super Mario 64 DS (USA) Virtual Console release
it doesn't need to be legitimately purchased, but it cannot be an injection- some manner of CFW
Mocha, Haxchi, Tiramisu, whatever floats your boatAdded to wiiu/apps on your SD card
- LRFLEW's AM64DS Patcher
- Laf111's WiiUFtpServer
not ftpiiu_everywhere!Installed on your PC
- an FTP client
FileZilla is a popular choice- a text editor
Notepad is fine, but if you do a lot of technical editing like this you may want to consider something like Notepad++- a hex editor
Maël Hörz's HxD is a popular choice on Windows and the one I normally useDirections
- Set up all the requirements. Have Super Mario 64 DS installed on your Wii U, download the patcher and FTP server above and place them on your Wii U's SD card in the wiiu/apps folder with your other Wii U homebrew apps. Have your Wii U running a custom firmware. Make sure you have an FTP client and a hex editor on your PC.
- Open the Homebrew Launcher on your Wii U and run LRFLEW's AM64DS patcher. Once it has scanned your system and found Super Mario 64 DS, confirm that you want to apply the patch.
- Return to the Homebrew Launcher and run Laf111's WiiUFtpServer.
- In your PC's FTP client, connect to the Wii U and navigate to storage_usb/usr/title/00050000/101C3400/content/0010
Remember, this is for the USA release. For Japan, it's 101C3300 and Europe is 101C3500, but I'm not going to be covering those versions any further. Leave your FTP client running, you'll need it again soon.- Download configuration_cafe.json and rom.zip.
- Using your text editor of choice, open configuration_cafe.json and manually edit the layout to accommodate your top screen being 16:9 instead of 4:3. This is kind of complicated and will require you to do some math. For reference, here's the layout I use:
Code:"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_1_NAME" }, { "screen": [ { "source": "upper", "rotation": 0, "size": "1024 576", "target": "tv", "position": "0 72" }, { "source": "lower", "rotation": 0, "size": "256 192", "target": "tv", "position": "1024 456" }, { "source": "lower", "rotation": 0, "size": "512 384", "target": "drc", "position": "171 48" } ],Result:
View attachment 291542
The layout you use is up to you. You may not want this specific layout, and you may not want to do it in LAYOUT_1 either. Modify the "size" and "position" values for each screen until you have what you want in the layout position you want. The "size" is how big the screen should be, the "target" is whether it's on the TV or GamePad, and the "position" is where on the screen you want the top left of the DS screen to be. The resolution of DS Virtual Console is 1280 by 720, so that's as high as you should go.
I'm not going to walk you through every possible layout, but here's another one some people might want:Code:"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_1_NAME" }, { "screen": [ { "source": "upper", "rotation": 0, "size": "1280 720", "target": "tv", "position": "0 0" }, { "source": "lower", "rotation": 0, "size": "640 480", "target": "drc", "position": "107 0" } ],Result:
This one fills the entire TV with the top screen and a 4:3 area of the GamePad with the bottom screen. You have multiple layouts, so you can configure both of these in different layout slots if you like.- Open rom.zip and copy WUP-N-DASE.srl out of the zip and into the parent folder (where your configuration_cafe.json and rom.zip are).
- Open WUP-N-DASE.srl with your hex editor. In case you couldn't tell, this is the Super Mario 64 DS ROM.
- Navigate to 0x6664 in the ROM. In HxD, you can just press Ctrl+G and type in 6664 then hit Enter to jump to this location. Write the following data into that location:
Code:01 00 00 00 30 D0 00 02 72 1C 00 00 01 00 00 80 3C B9 0B 02 55 15 00 00 72 1C 00 00 01 00 00 80 90 C4 10 01 55 15 00 00 72 1C 00 00In HxD, you can press Ctrl+B (not V! or right click and select "Paste write" to overwrite this data. You must not "insert" the data (paste normally) or your ROM will just completely stop working. It should look roughly like this when you're done:
View attachment 291542- Save your modified ROM and then copy it back into rom.zip, replacing the old one.
- Back in your FTP client, upload your modified configuration_cafe.json and rom.zip back to where you downloaded them from (storage_usb/usr/title/00050000/101C3400/content/0010). Again, replace the versions that are already there.
- Return to the Wii U Menu by exiting WiiUFtpServer and the Homebrew Launcher.
- Launch your Super Mario 64 DS Virtual Console title. Reset the game from the ZR menu and select one of your custom widescreen layouts.
- Play Super Mario 64 DS with analog controls in widescreen.
I noticed that some the instructions for editing the configuration_cafe.json are a bit unclear. There are 10 different layouts you can edit. After a bit of digging with VCNDSLayout Editor I found that VCM_LAYOUT_9_EXPLANATION is the default layout with the top screen on the TV and the bottom on the Wii U Game Pad. Lining up with the explanation in the virtual console menu.
Here is the configuration I used to full screen the TV and the Wii U Game pad.
JSON:
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_9_EXPLANATION"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "1280 720",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "854 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "0 0"
}
],Something else I messed with is the pixel art upscaler
JSON:
"Display": {
"PixelArtUpscaler": 4,
"Brightness": 80
},
Can something like this be implemented to Rayman DS? I realize the game didn’t receive an official VC release, though.
For widescreen configuration: if you want every setup to have proper widescreen, copy the following into your configuration_cafe.json file.
Code:
{
"configuration": {
"layouts": {
"layout": [
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 144",
"target": "tv",
"position": "512 130"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 192",
"target": "tv",
"position": "512 381"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 144",
"target": "drc",
"position": "299 40"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 192",
"target": "drc",
"position": "299 283"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_1_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/nds1st_31p_tv.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/nds1st_31p.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_1_NAME"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "1024 576",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 72"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 192",
"target": "tv",
"position": "1024 456"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "683 384",
"target": "drc",
"position": "0 48"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "171 128",
"target": "drc",
"position": "683 304"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_2_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_2_NAME"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "1024 576",
"target": "tv",
"position": "256 72"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "256 192",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 456"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "683 384",
"target": "drc",
"position": "171 48"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "171 128",
"target": "drc",
"position": "0 304"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_3_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_3_NAME"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "394 222",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 27"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "886 665",
"target": "tv",
"position": "394 27"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "263 148",
"target": "drc",
"position": "0 18"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "591 444",
"target": "drc",
"position": "263 18"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_4_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_4_NAME"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "394 222",
"target": "tv",
"position": "886 27"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "886 665",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 27"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "263 148",
"target": "drc",
"position": "591 18"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "591 444",
"target": "drc",
"position": "0 18"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_5_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_5_NAME"
},
{
"pad_rotation": 90,
"drc_rotation": 90,
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "565 318",
"target": "tv",
"position": "357 11"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "424 318",
"target": "tv",
"position": "428 391"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "270 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "511 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "360 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "28 0"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_6_NAME",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_6_EXPLANATION"
},
{
"pad_rotation": 270,
"drc_rotation": 270,
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "565 318",
"target": "tv",
"position": "357 11"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "424 318",
"target": "tv",
"position": "428 391"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "270 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "73 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "360 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "466 0"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_7_NAME",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_7_EXPLANATION"
},
{
"pad_rotation": 270,
"drc_rotation": 0,
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "392 696",
"target": "tv",
"position": "129 12"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "522 696",
"target": "tv",
"position": "694 12"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "270 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "73 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 90,
"size": "360 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "466 0"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_8_NAME",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_8_EXPLANATION"
},
{
"pad_rotation": 90,
"drc_rotation": 0,
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "392 696",
"target": "tv",
"position": "759 12"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "522 696",
"target": "tv",
"position": "64 12"
},
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "270 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "511 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 270,
"size": "360 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "28 0"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_9_NAME",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"buttons_rotation": 0,
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_9_EXPLANATION"
},
{
"screen": [
{
"source": "upper",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "1280 720",
"target": "tv",
"position": "0 0"
},
{
"source": "lower",
"rotation": 0,
"size": "640 480",
"target": "drc",
"position": "106 0"
}
],
"desc_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_10_EXPLANATION",
"background": [
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/tvback.png",
"target": "tv",
"size": "1280 720"
},
{
"position": "0 0",
"rotation": 0,
"resource": "//content_dir/assets/textures/drcback.png",
"target": "drc",
"size": "854 480"
}
],
"name_string_id": "VCM_LAYOUT_10_NAME"
}
],
"groups": [
1,
2,
2,
2,
2,
1
]
},
"3DRendering": {
"Bilinear": 1,
"RenderScale": 1
},
"Display": {
"PixelArtUpscaler": 0,
"Brightness": 100
},
"arguments": {
"fold_on_pause": false,
"fold_on_resume_fade_from_black_duration": 1000,
"fold_on_pause_timeout": 3000
}
}
}
Last edited by jwhyperactive,
Or feel free to visit the link in my signature and download the config files that can give any and every DS VC game and inject 47 different layouts to choose from (at once at that, no need to be only restricted to 10 layouts), including any widescreen layout you might want.
I just can't get this to work. I've followed Vague Rants steps several times but I end up with a black screen when booting the patched game.
This is the how my hex string looks like after inserting the new code. I didn't use CTRL-V, I pressed CTRL-B.
Is there something wrong here? I'm using an american version of the game.
This is driing me nuts. LOL
This is the how my hex string looks like after inserting the new code. I didn't use CTRL-V, I pressed CTRL-B.
Is there something wrong here? I'm using an american version of the game.
This is driing me nuts. LOL
Attachments
Are you using the official US VC version of the game or an inject of some sort? It has to be the official US VC title.
It's an official version. Not an injection. I've tried running the game before patching just to see if works and it runs fine. The issue occurs after editing the hex file. I get a black screen and nothing else. :-(
Oh, so your difficulty is in making the game proper widescreen, not applying the control patch. I recall that being a little confusing when I did it too. Its been so long since I followed that little tutorial that unfortunately i'll be of no help here, all I can say is that it's possible to make happen, but I do recall the tutorial not being perfectly clear and holding me up a bit as well before I managed to make it happen.
No sorry if i was a bit unclear. English is not my first language.
I want both the analogue control patch as well as the 16:9 patch to work. But as mentioned I can't get it to work.
I wish I could get hold of an already patched rom.zip.
No I understand, it's just that if you just want the control patch, no hex editing is required. But its the hex editing that is causing you issues. So something specifically with the widescreen patch part of this all is going incorrectly for you.
Maybe I should try out the European version. Its the same code being used right?
Are these controls available for 3DS? Specifically the L and R swapped and the Y registering as A - I can only find the circle pad patch.
I don't suppose it would be possible to use Wii U Pro Controller for this? hid to vpad is for usb only
also I cant get hid to vpad to work. I use gamecube controller with the adapter. the remap works fine in the wii u menu, but after launching sm64, the console inevitably crashes within like 30 seconds, and also there are graphical glitches in the game that dont happen when hid to vpad isnt running
also I cant get hid to vpad to work. I use gamecube controller with the adapter. the remap works fine in the wii u menu, but after launching sm64, the console inevitably crashes within like 30 seconds, and also there are graphical glitches in the game that dont happen when hid to vpad isnt running
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