How do I work Homebrew on my SD CF card?

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 09:45:31 AM

Most times When I put homebrew on my Card the game is all white, when I try to convert, most dont convert or it still plays white. My GBA and NDS commercial games play fine, but why not the homebrew? My SC CF firmwere is the newest, so is my Flashme, its ver6

memyselfandi · February 25, 2006, 10:03:00 AM

well that's because you're not supposed to use the patcher on homebrew games. That is only for commercial games. TO use homebrew you have to ... well... ok, most homebrew offers two files to download: a .nds file and a .ds.gba file. You MUST use the .ds.gba flie and rename it to .ds.nds now it should work!

mikesinclair · February 25, 2006, 10:34:02 AM

Quote from: "snakeslashro"Most times When I put homebrew on my Card the game is all white, when I try to convert, most dont convert or it still plays white. My GBA and NDS commercial games play fine, but why not the homebrew? My SC CF firmwere is the newest, so is my Flashme, its ver6

Download moonshell and in the wintools folder there will be dsbuild - Drag the homebrew file onto the dsbuild icon and that will make a new ds.gba file. put .nds onto the end of the file to change it to a nds file. Then put it on your flashcard

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 12:06:18 PM

Quote from: "memyselfandi"well that's because you're not supposed to use the patcher on homebrew games. That is only for commercial games. TO use homebrew you have to ... well... ok, most homebrew offers two files to download: a .nds file and a .ds.gba file. You MUST use the .ds.gba flie and rename it to .ds.nds now it should work!

I do that and it STILL goes in to GBA mode and freezes

m2pt5 · February 25, 2006, 12:12:25 PM

Quote from: "snakeslashro"
Quote from: "memyselfandi"well that's because you're not supposed to use the patcher on homebrew games. That is only for commercial games. TO use homebrew you have to ... well... ok, most homebrew offers two files to download: a .nds file and a .ds.gba file. You MUST use the .ds.gba flie and rename it to .ds.nds now it should work!

I do that and it STILL goes in to GBA mode and freezes

USE THE .DS.GBA AND RENAME IT FROM .GBA TO .NDS THEN IT WILL WORK!

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 01:05:50 PM

I did that.... and still It comes up as a GBA game and the gba logo comes up.. then it freezes. btw im using windows XP and even when I add .nds to a gba game.. it still stays as a gba file.

BTW I just did it.. and on my Supercard it showed up as

Supermariowar.ds.nds.gba
SnesDS.ds.nds.gba

But on my computer it reads.

Supermariowar.ds.nds
SnesDS.ds.nds So what do u want me to do <_<

richardv · February 25, 2006, 01:19:39 PM

You have hide extensions turned on in windows!
Turn it off and you'll be set

PHERK · February 25, 2006, 01:19:49 PM

Quote from: "snakeslashro"I did that.... and still It comes up as a GBA game and the gba logo comes up.. then it freezes. btw im using windows XP and even when I add .nds to a gba game.. it still stays as a gba file.

BTW I just did it.. and on my Supercard it showed up as

Supermariowar.ds.nds.gba
SnesDS.ds.nds.gba

But on my computer it reads.

Supermariowar.ds.nds
SnesDS.ds.nds So what do u want me to do <_<

Rename it to this.

Supermariowar.nds

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 01:24:55 PM

Quote from: "PHERK"
Quote from: "snakeslashro"I did that.... and still It comes up as a GBA game and the gba logo comes up.. then it freezes. btw im using windows XP and even when I add .nds to a gba game.. it still stays as a gba file.

BTW I just did it.. and on my Supercard it showed up as

Supermariowar.ds.nds.gba
SnesDS.ds.nds.gba

But on my computer it reads.

Supermariowar.ds.nds
SnesDS.ds.nds So what do u want me to do <_<
Rename it to this.

Supermariowar.nds

I did, still game up in GBA mode and froze.
This is a DS homebrew file, so it should start in DS mode right???
I named it to supermariowar.nds when the file was orignaly supermariowar.ds < but it was still a GBA type file

Im using windows XP so even if I rename it its still a gba file...

It shows up like this

Supermariowar.nds
GBA File
1,110kb

how can I convert that gba file to a nds file??

I also have a nds file of the game that I downloaded. But that dosent work either.... and this is the same with SNES DS

richardv · February 25, 2006, 01:42:14 PM

Look Above! I told you your problem!

memyselfandi · February 25, 2006, 01:44:06 PM

go to like my documents
then click tools at the top
then click folder options
then click the view tab
then scroll down untill you get to"hide extensions for known file types"
check the little box

now you can change the file extension and it WILL actually change it to
.nds

enjoy!

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 03:22:01 PM

Quote from: "memyselfandi"go to like my documents
then click tools at the top
then click folder options
then click the view tab
then scroll down untill you get to"hide extensions for known file types"
check the little box

now you can change the file extension and it WILL actually change it to
.nds

enjoy!

Cool! It worked for Supermario war! but its not working for SnesDS forsome reason...

Yautja · February 25, 2006, 05:09:16 PM

snesds you have to use the supercard version and rename the snesds.bin to snesds.nds put that on the supercard along with any snes roms you want to play (not in any folders(folders didnt show up for me))

snakeslashro · February 25, 2006, 05:54:32 PM

Quote from: "Yautja"snesds you have to use the supercard version and rename the snesds.bin to snesds.nds put that on the supercard along with any snes roms you want to play (not in any folders(folders didnt show up for me))

where do I download that version?

Yautja · February 25, 2006, 07:51:12 PM

here are (as far as i know) all of the snes ds versions get the one that says supercard next to it

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~tew/snesDS/