Super Card Source Code

javicoder · August 26, 2006, 08:34:32 PM

Hi,

A friend and me would like to port the Super Card patcher from Windows to Linux so people could stop using Wine and use a native compiled ELF.

Has anybody the source code of that app to download it and port it?

A theoric paper maybe would suffice.

Thanks in advance!

rorix_bladewing5 · August 26, 2006, 08:41:26 PM

The source code isn't released I think.

javicoder · August 26, 2006, 09:06:11 PM

Then the only solution seems to do reverse engeenering under Windows...

presi · August 26, 2006, 09:22:59 PM

Quote from: "javicoder"Then the only solution seems to do reverse engeenering under Windows...

But I think this would be the last option, maybe the developers of Supercard software are kind enough to provide some demo source code or at least instructions/documentation about the patching process.

fryvlc · August 26, 2006, 11:13:37 PM

Hi! i would love to be able to patch roms from linux or mac os x too... If you want i can get involved too, it would be very usefull to have some help from the developers...

presi · August 27, 2006, 12:22:17 AM

Quote from: "fryvlc"Hi! i would love to be able to patch roms from linux or mac os x too...

Of course, would be a portable command-line tool ready to run on any unix system and capable to be used on shell/batch scripts, so for example if you have a folder containing a lot of unpatched roms you can patch all them quickly.

And that's not all, as probably you know, there is a Linux port for DS: DSLinux, if we can develop the tool as compact as possible maybe we can compile and run it directly from the DS, would be really great donwload the unpatched roms from wifi to the supercard and patch them from the DS itself.

mrsaturn · August 27, 2006, 01:12:14 AM

Quote from: "presi"
Quote from: "fryvlc"Hi! i would love to be able to patch roms from linux or mac os x too...

Of course, would be a portable command-line tool ready to run on any unix system and capable to be used on shell/batch scripts, so for example if you have a folder containing a lot of unpatched roms you can patch all them quickly.

And that's not all, as probably you know, there is a Linux port for DS: DSLinux, if we can develop the tool as compact as possible maybe we can compile and run it directly from the DS, would be really great donwload the unpatched roms from wifi to the supercard and patch them from the DS itself.

The patcher requires a bit of processing power. It wouldn't make much sense to patch games on the DS.

Elfish · August 27, 2006, 08:38:49 AM

afaik the patcher runs on wine :x

Scor · August 27, 2006, 10:09:40 AM

True, but Linux rocks!
So why not have a pure Linux version rather then running it with Wine?

NorQue · August 27, 2006, 10:11:50 AM

Patching NDS ROMs to work from Supercard/M3/G6/whatever would make a great addition to Ucon64.

javicoder · August 28, 2006, 07:05:32 AM

Quote from: "Elfish"afaik the patcher runs on wine :x

The idea is to _stop_ using wine for that and use our own ELF binary, compiled for our Linux.