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DS-Homebrew / TWiLightMenu

DSi Menu replacement for DS/DSi/3DS/2DS
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/
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Support for EZ-Flash Parallel #2371

Open jamieshaw opened 8 months ago

jamieshaw commented 8 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Nope. New feature/enchancement.

Describe the solution you'd like Support for booting from the new EZ-Flash Parallel flashcard, which I believe is a R4iLS clone.

Describe alternatives you've considered Nothing at present, have bought to replace existing no-name R4 clone.

Additional context Requires EZ-Flash Parallel hardware for development/debugging, but is now available on AliExpress with English kernel available on ezflash.cn

lifehackerhansol commented 8 months ago

It already supports it... is what I would have said, but I had to remove it soon after because nds-bootstrap on EZ-Flash is corrupting saves.

So I suppose this can be open until said corruption is fixed somehow.

jamieshaw commented 8 months ago

It already supports it... is what I would have said, but I had to remove it soon after because nds-bootstrap on EZ-Flash is corrupting saves.

So I suppose this can be open until said corruption is fixed somehow.

I assumed as much but didn't have the stones to attempt renaming the R4iLs files to see what happens in fear or borking the card 😅

Would rather wait until someone gives me the thumbs up with, as you mention, tweaks for appropriate support.

lifehackerhansol commented 8 months ago

The R4iLS is completely different from the EZ-Flash, it wouldn't have worked anyway.

li-fstz commented 8 months ago

It already supports it... is what I would have said, but I had to remove it soon after because nds-bootstrap on EZ-Flash is corrupting saves.

So I suppose this can be open until said corruption is fixed somehow.

I only use BOOT.nds on EZ-Flash Parallel, it's work, is that may cause the saves issus?

lifehackerhansol commented 8 months ago

EZ-Flash's stock driver has issues that break homebrew compatibility in some cases (it doesn't handle memory-unaligned writes), and this is known to break nds-bootstrap (like games don't even boot. Several people reported the same thing.)

So I wrote my own driver that fixes that issue, but now it's corrupting saves. Trying to figure out what exactly is causing said corruption is proving to be quite annoying, though.

DroidlyMobile commented 4 months ago

You have to manually boot TWilight Menu with the EZ Flash cards right now there's a guide on YouTube by mobile gaming that shows this and I haven't had issues with mine just sucks no autoboot yet.

Dipstick8462 commented 4 months ago

any updates? im new to all of this srry

RocketRobz commented 4 months ago

any updates? im new to all of this srry

No updates, sadly. Likely difficult to write a DLDI driver that properly works around the corruption issues.