Can't get Stella DS and NesDS working....

MAD2X · February 05, 2006, 02:05:53 AM

I'm having issues running emus with my supercard, I can run some homebrew apps, but not all of them, sometimes the screen turns white or the emu says no roms found, I have the same issue with Stella DS and NesDS I cant get them working, can someone upload/link to a working supercardsd version of both those emus? It would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Koji · February 05, 2006, 09:35:19 AM

NESDS with the latest version, you don't build the roms. Simply grab the NESDS.bin and rename it to NESDS.nds and put it and any NES roms you want onto your SD card.

acky · February 05, 2006, 10:06:05 AM

StellaDS recently added chism's FAT drivers, which unfortunately are not for SD (as far as I know).

MAD2X · February 05, 2006, 08:35:57 PM

Ok, I thought the new stella would of worked on SD, I hope they add sd support sometime. As for NesDS that's exacly what I did but it just cant find the roms for some reason, do they need to be zipped or something?

Koji · February 05, 2006, 09:38:51 PM

Quote from: "MAD2X"Ok, I thought the new stella would of worked on SD, I hope they add sd support sometime. As for NesDS that's exacly what I did but it just cant find the roms for some reason, do they need to be zipped or something?

There isn't zip support yet. They have to be unzipped... that's really the only thing... Do you see your directories? Or do you only get a blank file?

MAD2X · February 05, 2006, 10:54:54 PM

Quote from: "Koji"
There isn't zip support yet. They have to be unzipped... that's really the only thing... Do you see your directories? Or do you only get a blank file?

I have all my nes roms unzipped in a folder called Nes Games. I tried putting the nesds.nds in the root of my sd and I also tried putting it in my nes folder.

I always get two black screens with a "no roms found" message (I dont remember if those are the exact words...) on the bottom screen. I tried touching the screen and tried every buttons to get to a menu but nothing happends it just hangs there. I tried redownloading the .zip a couple of times and swaped the one on my sd and I always have the same results.

Thanks for helping Koji!

Koji · February 05, 2006, 11:25:34 PM

That's really weird... whenever I load up NESDS it not only brings up the directories, it somehow knows which DIR has all my NES roms and opens it so I have a nice list I can scroll down....

MAD2X · February 06, 2006, 12:33:28 AM

Yeah I dont understand why it just wont work. I really dont like the pocketnes that comes with the supercard. I wish I could get NesDS to work!

rickbdman · February 06, 2006, 12:09:12 PM

Try renaming your "NES Games" folder to just "NES", I'm not sure if it makes a difference but that was in the instructions I read, and works just fine for me.

MAD2X · February 06, 2006, 02:20:19 PM

Quote from: "rickbdman"Try renaming your "NES Games" folder to just "NES", I'm not sure if it makes a difference but that was in the instructions I read, and works just fine for me.

Thanks for the input, but that didnt help either, still get no roms found message.

Koji · February 06, 2006, 03:39:20 PM

Have you tried asking on the NESDS forum at pocketheaven.com?

MAD2X · February 06, 2006, 05:37:17 PM

no I didnt know about that place, I'll try that thanks.

MAD2X · February 08, 2006, 02:41:52 AM

OK i got help on poketheaven forums. I didnt know I had to compile it first with nesds.exe. I tried compiling it without roms and when I loaded it I had the same ass error, cant find roms. SO I compiled it with all my roms and now it works fine all the roms are there. It's odd how I cant get it to work with my roms just in a folder on my SD. I dont really care though, I deleted my folder and I'm just gonna use NESDS from now on, the full screen and scaling is a must, even if you cant save... yet.