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G6 Lite Review

Started by DeVS, July 12, 2006, 12:31:14 PM

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bitblt

Thanks for that review DeVS.

Altor

How is the homebrew compatibility?  Linux runs, but how about beup, Picodrive, DS2Win, DSOrganize, and other DS/GBA homebrew?  There's a special version of moonshell for G6, right?  Is it updated like the normal one?

Thanks

Scor

At the moment my hosting does not support php5, as soon as does I will upload a new part of my NDS webpage that will include compatibility lists (Homebrew).

NT

Quote from: "Scor"I can safely say it does :).
At the moment I have only tried the .nds build.
The software even gives it the correct icon at boot.
I will add this to my review (tomorrow when I can take a better picture).
[ig]http://scdev.org/forum/images/uploaded/1153863795_g6lite_dslinux.jpg[/img]
Sorry about the bad picture but I had to show it ran.

Well, I finally got my G6 Lite and put dslinux on it.  I read that dslinux can now pull your wifi settings out of the DS firmware.  That's cool.  The problem is that it doesn't do this and connect to my router by default.  That means I have to edit the rc.conf file, but for whatever reason dslinux can't write properly to the G6 SRAM.  Are there any hacks to make this work or is dslinux wifi w/ the G6 a no-go?

Scor

You are using the .nds build?
As far as I know (I don't use it) it doesn't support sram writing (you could make your own build though).
You could try (I think it works, via the patcher software same as scummvm.ds.gba, read my review for details) the .ds.gba build which does save to sram.

NT

Quote from: "Scor"You are using the .nds build?
As far as I know (I don't use it) it doesn't support sram writing (you could make your own build though).
You could try (I think it works, via the patcher software same as scummvm.ds.gba, read my review for details) the .ds.gba build which does save to sram.

Yeah, I got the ds.gba version, renamed it to .nds and passed it through the G6 patcher software.  I got an error 2 or something when I tried to write to /sram.

NT

Ok, I figured out how to write to the G6 SRAM, but now I can't do the one thing I need with dslinux - the wifi.  I can connect to my router and play via WFC, but dslinux can't connect using my firmware WFC settings.  Ugh.