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How to replace black border of GBA games on DS with an image

Started by ph0x, July 29, 2006, 12:25:40 PM

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ph0x

thanks, glad you made it in the top5 too.

so, the big compo is over and wednesday is almost over, and no other submissions are coming..
then let's announce the winners of the border-compo (sub-compo if you will ;)

1. Scor
2. Thundrestrike
3. stefan

so everyone gets a dvd :)
e-mail me your home addresses.

thanks for your time and your comments!

Scor

Thanks for your guide and etc. :).
Btw, you should look into making a small nds app that loads the border according to the game you put in (detect the header of the GBA game, then let the user reinsert the supercard/whatever read the correct bmp from the card, reinsert the GBA card and boot it).
And of course keep the option to just choose your own border :).
PM is on the way!

Thanks for the compo in the compo :D!

Kintaro Oe82

Great work on this project - too bad you couldn't save games from the Supercard yet. =(

I've made this simple border for Zelda fans as a test border. I think it suits the game well... (maybe until you go into the dungeons)



Go ahead and use it if you like. =)

ph0x

Quote from: "Kintaro Oe82"Great work on this project - too bad you couldn't save games from the Supercard yet. =(

uhm what do you mean?

Kintaro Oe82

Sorry, I had the impression that you can't save on the GBA ROMs that you patch with this mod and play on a supercard.

Does this mean you can save the GBA games running on a supercard? How?

I've tried using a GBA rom patched by SC software and it won't run. (White screen lockup)
While using a GBA rom unpatched by SC software will run with a border but you can't save.

Thanks, and once again, great work and more power to you and all homebrew developers.

P.S.: The game I was testing with was The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.

Thundrestrike

Quote from: "ph0x"
1. Scor
2. Thundrestrike
3. stefan

everyone gets a DVD
dont worry about it, I don't need a DVD, I just wanted to help :)
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My modded DS

arcc

Little something from VG cats for metroid and final fantasy.



Scor

If you make the bordergba.exe to work (it never has for me), and make it wait for a GBA card to be inserted before booting it would be great.
Then one can load the .nds homebrew from the supercard, and just boot the SC in GBA mode (thus gaining the save state again).
Thats what I am using for bootgba.nds from HyperHacker right now (and yours if I use my GBA flashcard (with patched rom, as the .exe doesn't work).


Rion

Great program ph0x! :D
Still i have a request for you.

Gui to the rom patcher.

Something like this

Select Rom file/Rom Files:
Select Background image:
Select Output directictory:

The output file is named the same as the input gba image with the same name exept for the extension *.nds

Please  :oops:

GAA-GSG

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At last I found the way to boot all gba roms with my own border.

Now you CAN use all the features of Supercard (SC Normal Save, SC RealTime Save, SC Book, SC Cheat Code List) to all GBA roms while your own border is being appeared during game play.

Download the following package and you will see:
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/4N_6RCKvrkGOA9Y_sXl6eQFhiQkrOFF1urd0JT08ZVv6RlZsLpi6lVE2q_uCszsKiG1OmpIfegCepoe87iL0ig/Play%20whatever%20I%20want%20-%20border.7z

It contains a guide (guide.txt), a converted rom (mygame.gba) to apply your border on it and boot the GBA's mode of NDS -to use the same border with other GBA roms, also- and a ready to use "booting" border (Play whatever I want - border.nds).
Macedonia has always been Greek (Helliniki) and has always been located in Greece (Hellas). Fyrom and Turkey will never(?) be part of E.U. We live in EUROPE, not in any USA department. So it is better to obey to our continental rules.

arcc

The link isnt working now.  :(

Could someone re-upload. And thank you for finding a method to make the borders work with roms. :)

GAA-GSG

Macedonia has always been Greek (Helliniki) and has always been located in Greece (Hellas). Fyrom and Turkey will never(?) be part of E.U. We live in EUROPE, not in any USA department. So it is better to obey to our continental rules.

Rion


GAA-GSG

With http://www.4shared.com/file/3507372/7413c502/play_whatever_i_want_-_border.html you don't need to apply the border on every gba rom.

But if you would like to apply differend borders on gba roms then the only roms I have found that work with borders applied on them are the 1840-Metal Slug Advance and the 2393-Spyro Superpack (US). They should be converted with supercard and after that to be patched by runme.bat of borderds.zip.
Macedonia has always been Greek (Helliniki) and has always been located in Greece (Hellas). Fyrom and Turkey will never(?) be part of E.U. We live in EUROPE, not in any USA department. So it is better to obey to our continental rules.