Homebrew The MenuDO FAQ

[Multiskin]

I was able to obtain 0.70a or something (the one right before it is redistributable) before everything vanished off the face of the internet.

i think i got that one right in some folder here ^^

 

[mrtofu]

..

 

[Multiskin]

sigh. I tried saving in Pokemon HeartGold, save file got corrupted. This happened after I installed menudo.

nooo my pokemons

thats the main reason why i don't play pokemon anymore, everytime i got to the final gym or the league my save got deleted or corrupted, even the backup is bugged, this happens with all the pokemons games for ds with all firmwares and stuff o.O the other games are fine, just pokemon isn't

 

[trigao]

this will be updated further, i mean every retrogamefan and wood updates, the files of generic and other versions gone be updated?

 

[avenir]

so, i can distribute xenofile v0.70d1.101105 + source?
Under the same term as DeSmuME, you may do anything... It is what is written in law (GPL). Anyway you should consider why there are no xenofile distro.

sigh. I tried saving in Pokemon HeartGold, save file got corrupted. This happened after I installed menudo.

nooo my pokemons

meh, I never had such issue... What donor did you use?

QUOTE(trigao @ Feb 2 2011, 12:33 PM)

this will be updated further, i mean every retrogamefan and wood updates, the files of generic and other versions gone be updated?

Possibly wood version won't be updated.
But you can still extract loaders from Official woodr4 release.

 

[Hatchetball]

If it could load ROMs it would be useful but it can't.
Do you have a release date of a version for MenuDO that will be of any use to anyone?
At it's current state it might as well just be a .nds that we can load from our OS that works...

 

[redact]

i was under the impression there was a well-documented faq thread for menudo already...
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=112088

kidding

 

[jurassicplayer]

If it could load ROMs it would be useful but it can't.
Do you have a release date of a version for MenuDO that will be of any use to anyone?
At it's current state it might as well just be a .nds that we can load from our OS that works...

...it uses donors to load ROMs o.0?

 

[Skyline969]

If it could load ROMs it would be useful but it can't.
Do you have a release date of a version for MenuDO that will be of any use to anyone?
At it's current state it might as well just be a .nds that we can load from our OS that works...

...it uses donors to load ROMs o.0?

MENUdo isn't a ROM loader, so it will never be able to load ROMs directly... that's not what it's made for. At one time it was supposed to, but you try and code a ROM loader like that. It's not easy. However, like jurrasicplayer stated it uses donors (sort of like an instruction forwarding system to an external loader to tell it what ROM to load) to load ROMs. Stating that this has no use is kind of extreme though, don't you think? It has plenty of uses, clearly you haven't tried using it enough.

 

[xyrophile]

MENUdo isn't a ROM loader, so it will never be able to load ROMs directly...

well, technically it does have a loader for homebrew, but i'm just being pedantic

it's kind of neat to poke around the source, there are clear provisions in it for a future commercial rom loader that never came to pass.

 

[Sleepyz]

For people with ROM Loading problems through YSMenu on TTDS: Guide

 

[trigao]

so, i can distribute xenofile v0.70d1.101105 + source?
Under the same term as DeSmuME, you may do anything... It is what is written in law (GPL). Anyway you should consider why there are no xenofile distro.

sigh. I tried saving in Pokemon HeartGold, save file got corrupted. This happened after I installed menudo.

nooo my pokemons

meh, I never had such issue... What donor did you use?

QUOTE(trigao @ Feb 2 2011, 12:33 PM)

this will be updated further, i mean every retrogamefan and wood updates, the files of generic and other versions gone be updated?

Possibly wood version won't be updated.
But you can still extract loaders from Official woodr4 release.

huum... nice.... but... how extract loaders from woodr4 and how make then like r4loadersdhc??

can you help me? =/

 

[jurassicplayer]

Possibly wood version won't be updated.
But you can still extract loaders from Official woodr4 release.

huum... nice.... but... how extract loaders from woodr4 and how make then like r4loadersdhc??
can you help me? =/

You have to use the extractor that will never be released in order to get the loader.

 

[player594]

I still can't get homebrew or roms to load on ysmenu for r4 sdhc. I get two black screens.

 

[The Catboy]

I still can't get homebrew or roms to load on ysmenu for r4 sdhc. I get two black screens.

Did you make sure the nds.ini is for YSmenu and not for AKAIO?
As well make sure it points to the proper boot location?

You can find the nds.ini in the donors folder of the _menudo folder

 

[Gh0sti]

wait why cant this work on a sdhc sd card for DS2? i dont get it

 

[Hatchetball]

If it could load ROMs it would be useful but it can't.
Do you have a release date of a version for MenuDO that will be of any use to anyone?
At it's current state it might as well just be a .nds that we can load from our OS that works...

...it uses donors to load ROMs o.0?

MENUdo isn't a ROM loader, so it will never be able to load ROMs directly... that's not what it's made for. At one time it was supposed to, but you try and code a ROM loader like that. It's not easy. However, like jurrasicplayer stated it uses donors (sort of like an instruction forwarding system to an external loader to tell it what ROM to load) to load ROMs. Stating that this has no use is kind of extreme though, don't you think? It has plenty of uses, clearly you haven't tried using it enough.

zomfg a calculator! That's not worth making this a main OS... -.-
It needs to just be packing into a rom and used game-style. It's not worthy of being a OS

If it wasn't made to run ROMS, it shouldn't have been made at all. Who the hell wants to use this crap as a OS and NOT play games? Really? That's pretty retarded. "I know what I'll do today, I'll type numbers on a calculator for 4 hours... who needs games?" (idgaf bout donors, it should have been made to LOAD ROMs to be called a "OS" - it does not - so this needs to be a .nds file that can be ran from a actual OS, ya know, that thing you CAN play games from >.>)
80% of the features don't work and the 20% that do are completely useless.
Props to the guy who wasted his time making this so-called "OS" but really, he could have made it do something other than suck, not work, not load ROMs, and waste peoples time.

When it actually does something, I'll change my opinion - but until then. This is failware.

 

[SifJar]

zomfg a calculator! That's not worth making this a main OS... -.-
It needs to just be packing into a rom and used game-style. It's not worthy of being a OS

If it wasn't made to run ROMS, it shouldn't have been made at all. Who the hell wants to use this crap as a OS and NOT play games? Really? That's pretty retarded. "I know what I'll do today, I'll type numbers on a calculator for 4 hours... who needs games?" (idgaf bout donors, it should have been made to LOAD ROMs to be called a "OS" - it does not - so this needs to be a .nds file that can be ran from a actual OS, ya know, that thing you CAN play games from >.>)
80% of the features don't work and the 20% that do are completely useless.
Props to the guy who wasted his time making this so-called "OS" but really, he could have made it do something other than suck, not work, not load ROMs, and waste peoples time.

When it actually does something, I'll change my opinion - but until then. This is failware.

Don't be such a moron. It is an AMAZING piece of homebrew, which CAN already be loaded as a .NDS file from any loader. The purpose is not as a ROM loader, but a all round homebrew tool and HOMEBREW loader.

And it CAN load ROMs as you have been told, via donors. It makes NO DIFFERENCE whether ROM loading is built in or via a "donor", in fact, this way is better as it means that it uses your card's official (or best) ROM loader, meaning that the latest games are likely to work with the fixes in your card's latest official loaders.

You are an absolute moron if you cannot see what is plainly in front of you. It CAN load ROMs on most cards, just the ROM loading code is in an external file. Guess what? In several firmwares (e.g. AKAIO), the loaders are external files anyway. No difference.

And your statistics for working/non working features are very inaccurate. The vast majority of features (mExplore, Doodle, Music Player, loading homebrew, loading ROMs, theming, autobooting other homebrew etc.) DO work, mostly perfectly, some a little buggy.

If you don't want to use it, stay out of this thread and ignore menuDO. Nobody here cares if you use it or not. But please do not insult the time spent by a developer working on ANY piece of code. Clearly a large number of people DO find this useful, this thread and the other menuDO thread are filled with approving comments. Don't try to make your opinion seem like fact.

 

[Keram]

If you believe that for an OS rom loading is the only thing that matters, then you have a very limited perspective.

Having the possibility to change the loader easily is actually a real advantage here.
You get an OS with a lot of functions, capability to look really nice and use whatever loader you want to use, as long as it is working on your module. You don't have to stick with the OS that usually operates on the loader, especially if menuDO is capable of more than the original OS, yet you can use the loading capabilites. I think thats pretty useful.

But I guess if you only use the DS to play then menuDO is of course not necessary to be used, your loaders original OS will do the job as well. There is no need for a possibly better looking OS that could have more functionality

 

[Halo-101]

Hii guys i have a problem i get the r4 version of menudo from the attatched link and add it onto my original version r4 and i only get the loading... screen ive tried on 3 sd cards but whenever i put wood r4 on it loads like normal can anybody help me please? thnx.


http://menudo.yolasite.com/resources/menud...ns/12311/r4.zip