The Official NDS Homebrew Thread

[yuckle26]

i have had my m3 lite chinese version (as purchased from shop here in hong kong) and its a very nice unit. loving the way it fits in so nicely. saves working well... although i didn't know what i was doing at first as i hadn't put the saves in the correct location but nice unit indeed.

Hi, I wonder if you could help

Like you, yesterday I purchased a Chinese version of the M3 cart

Everything is working fine apart from the save games.

I had a quick look on the net and people was saying I needed to create a folder on the mini sd card called NDSSAVE, I did this but nothing is been written into there.

When I start up the DS I can see the last game I was playing with some alert type Chinese text below it

If I start the game again it picks up where I had saved it

If I start another game it wipes out the previous save

I was under the assumption that it had an auto save facility, but I have a sneaky feeling the chap who I got it off had been messing with the setting options which are all in Chinese

I need help before I throw it out of the window, it is driving me nuts

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, or could someone send me an image of what the settings should look like, as I cannot read Chinese

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help

Yuckle26

[fukachu]

Hi, I wonder if you could help

Like you, yesterday I purchased a Chinese version of the M3 cart

Everything is working fine apart from the save games.

I had a quick look on the net and people was saying I needed to create a folder on the mini sd card called NDSSAVE, I did this but nothing is been written into there.

When I start up the DS I can see the last game I was playing with some alert type Chinese text below it

If I start the game again it picks up where I had saved it

If I start another game it wipes out the previous save

I was under the assumption that it had an auto save facility, but I have a sneaky feeling the chap who I got it off had been messing with the setting options which are all in Chinese

I need help before I throw it out of the window, it is driving me nuts

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, or could someone send me an image of what the settings should look like, as I cannot read Chinese

Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help

Yuckle26

ok.. well the problem is an easy one.. it is a little confusing to start using the m3 lite if you don't read any instructions or follow things correctly.. it tool me a few moments to get things working. here is waht you do.

In the game manager software that you run in windows you have to windows. on the left is navigation and on the right is the contents of the location you have navigated to.

first plug in your sd micro card and select the new removable drive that represents the sd micro card from the left side of the game manager. then on your right side if your card is new and clean (you should start again anyway) it should be blank of files.

now at this stage you can click the write ds button, use the pop-up window to navigate to the location of the ds rom on your hard drive and then after a short loading time it will ask you to select the settings you want. i always just choose the reset option but some games need specific options checked. once it has finished writing the file it will have automatically created the NDSSAVE folder on your sd card and placed the save file within this. now when you boot up the m3 menu and select the game you should have no troubles with the save game.

[yuckle26]

ok.. well the problem is an easy one.. it is a little confusing to start using the m3 lite if you don't read any instructions or follow things correctly.. it tool me a few moments to get things working. here is waht you do.

In the game manager software that you run in windows you have to windows. on the left is navigation and on the right is the contents of the location you have navigated to.

first plug in your sd micro card and select the new removable drive that represents the sd micro card from the left side of the game manager. then on your right side if your card is new and clean (you should start again anyway) it should be blank of files.

now at this stage you can click the write ds button, use the pop-up window to navigate to the location of the ds rom on your hard drive and then after a short loading time it will ask you to select the settings you want. i always just choose the reset option but some games need specific options checked. once it has finished writing the file it will have automatically created the NDSSAVE folder on your sd card and placed the save file within this. now when you boot up the m3 menu and select the game you should have no troubles with the save game.

Fantastic, It works a treat

I cannot believe I missed putting the save files into the folder on the sd card

Once again many thanks for all of your help, and next time I will try and read a few more instructions in my rush to get things working

[Linky]

How about a sticky on this thread? I have found it to be very informative :D

[Menge]

yeh. this thread is definetly top notch :)

and to add another reason for my post: ScummVM-DS is being updated to 0.9.2 (currently in beta 2).

[Chanser]

Dragonminded has stopped making DSOrganize, partly because he got sick of some irc op.

http://dragonminded.blogspot.com/

[Danrarbc]

Dragonminded has stopped making DSOrganize, partly because he got sick of some irc op.

http://dragonminded.blogspot.com/

Dammit. He was a good one. Hopefully he cools off and starts realizing it doesn't matter what other people think and do. If he likes coding homebrew he should keep doing it, he's really good.

[Ji@nBing]

Hey everyone. Been a while since I've posted in here. I've been really busy with work and simply don't have the time/energy to keep the thread up to date anymore.

I don't have any big news, but there is a cool new homebrew release that I thought some of you may be interested in. It's called Comic Book DS, and it's a comic book viewer for the DS (in case you somehow couldn't tell by the name :rolleyes: ). I haven't tested this myself, but by all reports it works very well. Looks like a very well put together peice of software :yes:

Screens:

[DomG]

There's a web browser being worked on called Okiwi. There isn't much to show at the moment, but hopefully it'll pan out and be quite good.

[Ji@nBing]

SnezziDS (SNES Emu) has been updated a couple of weeks ago with all kinds of fixes. Chrono Trigger now works!!

PIXIL is being ported as a front end for DSLinux. No usable release yet and no word on when it will be ready, but it looks like it will actually make DSLinux usable :p

DSBlue is a remote desktop, organizer, and Wifi sniffer app. Nice GUI.

The creator of Moonshell is at it again with his release of a Wifi voice chat client, WifiVoiceChat 1.4. I haven't use it myself, but by all accounts it works pretty good.

[Ji@nBing]

I've ported my LE5 Moonshell skin over to the M3 firmware and used Vista icons. Enjoy.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DU8AM401

[Ji@nBing]

:blush: Oops. The slashes were the wrong way in that version. Yoo used to the net :p . Here is the fixed version...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4GZQJ0P0

[null.]

nice skin, going to use it when I get my M3Lite back (replacement was shipped at the end of last week).

Also looking forward trying DSBlue and WiFiChat program! :)

[Ji@nBing]

:) Thanks a lot. Loving the M3 menu compared to the plain old SC menu.

Anyway, I finished the black version. Now I don't know what version to use :p

Download for both: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2QGFEFSV

[Bei337]

The SNES emulator isn't working for me. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if it's because of Supercard Lite.

[Ji@nBing]

What ROM are you trying to run? At this point, it has limited compatibility. Alos, try the latest version just released. You can get it here.

To use, simply drop the .smc ROM file on the snezzi.exe and copy the resulting .nds file to your card. For Supercard, you may have to rename the .gba file to .nds and use that one.

When using, hold L+R+Select and hit up or down to cycle through background and text display modes.

[Ji@nBing]

The M3 team has announced the "Pro" version of the M3 Lite, Mini , and SD. The "Pro" version is the same as the Perfect version, but with no GBA support. For those of you that don't need GBA backups, this is your chance to get an M3 for signifigantly cheaper. Word is the price for the M3 Lite is about half of the Perfect versions. $42USD rather than $80USD for the Perfect version.

Also big news is the new FAT Lib for homebrew developers. Hopefully this will mean better homebrew support for the M3 and G6 :yes: .

'The attachment is package & information of M3 Lite pro .

We will release the M3 mini pro / M3 SD pro next week & we will release the

M3 Lite pro around 2 weeks later .

The price of M3 pro is much lower than the M3 perfect .

It can play amlost all the NDS games like M3 Perfect , the only

difference is that it just can't play the GBA roms over 32M .

By the way we have made the new G6/M3 FAT Lib for the developers .'

Source

[null.]

:) Thanks a lot. Loving the M3 menu compared to the plain old SC menu.

Anyway, I finished the black version. Now I don't know what version to use :p

Download for both: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2QGFEFSV

You're welcome :) though now I can decide which one to use :p

I presume you just put the file (BACKING.LE5) into the "BACKING" folder on microSD card? Yup, just read the readme file :p lol

Going to use them now, my M3Lite Perfect replacement came today :D going to try it now! :D

[Bei337]

What ROM are you trying to run? At this point, it has limited compatibility. Alos, try the latest version just released. You can get it here.

To use, simply drop the .smc ROM file on the snezzi.exe and copy the resulting .nds file to your card. For Supercard, you may have to rename the .gba file to .nds and use that one.

When using, hold L+R+Select and hit up or down to cycle through background and text display modes.

I'm trying Chrono Triggers.

What do you mean by "For Supercard, you may have to rename the .gba file to .nds and use that one. "

Where is the .gba file? You mean I have to rename the .nds to .gba?

It doesn't matter though. I tried both the generated .nds file and the renamed .gba file. The .nds file gives me 2 black screens, and .gba freezes after the Game Boy Nintendo logo.

Ok I somehow got it working by cycling through the back ground and text. But none of the modes is working very well... I guess a patch would fix it, and I hope somebody makes a patch for this wonderful game.

Edited October 14, 2006 by SlightDust

[Ji@nBing]

Yeah, it's not perfect, but it's "pretty good". You can get it so all the graphics show perfectly, but then there is no text. Make it so you can read the text, and there are some small graphical problems. I usually just have it so the backgrounds are perfect, and then change when there is text.

Just getting the game running is a huge acheivement as it has to emulate not only the SNES, but a special chip that was in that game. Luckily the developer seems very dedicated to getting it to run perfect though and each release of his emu sees signifigant improvements.

I'm still waiting on a perfectly running Mortal Kombat 2 though :p

[Linky]

Hi all,

I live in Singapore and am wondering whether I should purchase an M3 Lite from Winsunx or Divineo. I am not concerned about higher shipping costs right now.

I'm really paranoid about using my credit card online. Is Divineo trustable? Do they have a Verisign signature or something? Thanks, I'm just taking the extra precaution ;)

Thanks in advance,

Pochii

[Linky]

Sorry, I couldn't edit my above post, but Divineo doesn't have very good resell ratings? Has that changed?

[rollercoaster79]

I'm new to this. I'm getting my daughter a ds lite for her bday. What is the best product to use to be able to play downloaded games for ds and gba and movies? What do I need to buy? Is their an american version of it? Where can I buy it? Can this product play music etc... Please let me know.

Chris

[Danrarbc]

Nice to see you're setting a good example for your daughter.

[rollercoaster79]

Nice to see you're setting a good example for your daughter.

What do you mean by this?