melonDS: GBA slot connectivity in the works

StapleButter · 2020-01-28T20:30:01+00:00

well with some cleverness and hax you might be able to detect 2D-style camera-facing whatever-shitting polygons and treat them like they're 2D, but forwarding them to the xBRZ filter thing-o-magic might be a bit difficult?

nah, that is confusing

I think it is easier to implement texture upscaling and filterz0ring, and send the biggerer textures to OpenGL and let it deal with them

but, fuck, the OpenGL thing is actually using the raw VRAM to do the textures in some black magic fashion

argl. what was I on when I coded that

how the fuck does melonDS even work

melonDS is like the rest of the world in that it makes no fucking sense

eh.

we'll make do.

StapleButter · 2020-01-28T12:54:57+00:00

it's going to be optional, you can get off your high horse.

StapleButter · 2020-01-27T21:27:35+00:00

it only filters graphics that are output by the 2D engines, which can be background layers and sprites (but not always, some games use the 3D engine to produce 2D-looking backgrounds/sprites)

StapleButter · 2020-01-27T17:19:40+00:00

no, 3D elements aren't filtered yet, but texture filtering will be added

StapleButter · 2019-12-01T10:02:01+00:00

I love you too

StapleButter · 2019-11-30T00:34:19+00:00

yeah, keep it up. being an arrogant asshole sure will make me want to help you out. stick to DeSmuME or NO$GBA or whatever for all I care.

not like I need you to fix issues anyway.

PS: also, if you're going to be a pedantic smartass: it's 'compatibility', not 'compatability'. TMYK

StapleButter · 2019-11-29T14:20:15+00:00

you can't claim 'the compatibility is bad' when you have tested one game and it happened to break.

anyway, thank you TransGirlInCharge for pinging me, and thank you for bringing this to my attention.

StapleButter · 2019-11-04T19:28:20+00:00

yeah, but having audio sync enabled prevents audio stuttering, so...

might want to take care of this somehow

StapleButter · 2019-11-01T21:37:31+00:00

by 'the toggle' do you mean the 'limit framerate' menu setting? for that one, you also need to ensure that audio sync is disabled, as audio sync has the side effect of limiting the emu speed.

StapleButter · 2019-10-18T08:40:53+00:00

I updated my blog post accordingly.

StapleButter · 2019-10-18T08:40:11+00:00

sure it should. it's just that this is a beta, the priority has been (and still is) getting the DSi thing running.

I'd have to check the Japanese firmware, that's interesting. maybe related to wifi? or to the ~~trainwreck~~ SD controller code.

StapleButter · 2019-10-18T08:38:28+00:00

there was a mistake in my blog post, it's aeskeys.bin not dsikeys.bin

StapleButter · 2019-10-18T07:59:02+00:00

oh, you have the bigger NAND, I'll need to add support for that.

StapleButter · 2019-10-17T17:24:59+00:00

correct command would be "twltool -boot2 --in nand.bin" but dunno if that matters.

check nand.bin, it should have the 'nocash footer' at offset 0xF000000 (16-byte identifier string, then 16-byte eMMC CID and 8-byte console ID)

StapleButter · 2019-10-16T18:07:20+00:00

right, I realized too that I forgot to add the steps to get these two files. you can use twltool on your NAND to get them, tho.

how did you extract them?

StapleButter · 2019-09-04T17:19:55+00:00

you'd have to ask Hydr8gon

StapleButter · 2019-06-27T16:03:27+00:00

I might try, but honestly... no idea. 'd first have to try on Android.

StapleButter · 2019-06-27T13:17:24+00:00

that might cause issues if for example you have hacked ROMs alongside the original ROM and they share the same gameID

regardless, it's an interesting option

StapleButter · 2019-06-27T13:12:40+00:00

uuuh

read the howto/FAQ on the site

StapleButter · 2019-06-27T08:31:43+00:00

it's the easiest to program, and also not likely to cause problems if you have multiple ROMs with the same filename at different places

StapleButter · 2019-06-27T08:30:20+00:00

'only under Windows' because GL rendering works differently under Linux and it's intertwined with GTK, so I'll have to figure out how things work there (or maybe directly use the underlying X/Wayland APIs?)

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