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Need help with DS patching, emulation and more.

Started by Six, October 30, 2005, 12:49:15 AM

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Six

I am in need of help.  I just finished flashing me DS using Wifime and the new Supercard firmware.  Everything is functioning correctly but I am at a loss how to get a few things working.  I would like to run the following:

DS Demos
So far I got Jump Superstars demo to load by patching it with the SC software but the submarine tech demo and all of the others I have tried will not load.  I am left staring at two blank white screens.

SCUMMVM software
I am confused to how SCUMMVM DS works. I followed the readme.txt file and was able to create a new "scummvm.gba" file and once I renamed the file to "scummsm.gba.nds" this allowed me to see what I assume is a boot menu however tI could not load my .zip of the Indiana Jones demo. I tried the whole scummdata.zip trick listed in the readme to no avail.  

SNES emulation
Finally SNES emulation.  I have no idea how to get these games to work with the SC.  All Flash Cart emulators seems to crash with the Supercard.

Any information that could be helpful is greatly appreciated.

Dudu.exe

1)To play demos you can run it from WMB ( Wireless mult Boot ) or appending the ndsloader.bin on it

http://ds.gcdev.com/dsfirmware/ndsloader.bin


Quotec:\copy /b ndsloader.bin+demoname.nds demo1.nds

and this final file you can use on your Supercard.



2) the games must be ziped ( with no compression ) as scummdata.zip ( Maximun size 30 MB )

then exec the builddata.bat
rename scummvm.ds.gba to Scummvm.nds and put on your SC  and play it ..

more info on Homebrew area


3) well the only SNES emulator for DS dont worth... its better to play GBA games ( Snes Advance for GBA has a better compatibility then SNESDS )

Six

I will ignore the SNES emulation for now then.  I am still having some problems with SCUMMVM and the demos but I need to spend another 15 mins or so playing around to see if I can solve the issue.

Six

Awesome, following your instructions I was able to get all of my demos loaded and working.  

Now, SCUMMVM is finally loading correctly and I can see the file in the menu but when I chose the game to play it gives me the message "ScummVM could not find any game in the specified directory!".  

Edit: After playing around a bit I have determined that ScummVM can see the folder in which the game is stored but it does not recognize the game as being there. Any clues as to why this is?

Koji

Actually, there are 2 seperate versions of SNES DS. Sound version and non-sound. non-sound version has compatibility near identical to SNESAdvance. Sound versions compatibility isn't quite as good (and really, the compatibility in general isn't very good on either version yet) but of course it plays with sound ^_^ All games I've tried that work run at or very close to 100% full speed.

Dudu.exe

Quote from: "Six"

Edit: After playing around a bit I have determined that ScummVM can see the folder in which the game is stored but it does not recognize the game as being there. Any clues as to why this is?

Maybe teh version of the tried game is not suported ...


some non english or some floopy version of some games has this problem!

Six

Bingo, right again.  I guess the version or something was bad because I downloaded a demo game which runs fine.  Thanks dudu.