Thumb arm9 card read patches

[ahezard]

In order to make some game works, this is needed.

eg: Diddy Kong racing needs this.

[RocketRobz]

Known games that have thumb card functions (Total: 20):

• Diddy Kong Racing
• Fossil Fighters
• Fossil Fighters: Champions
• Geometry Wars Galaxies
• Glory Days 2
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
• Kingdom Hearts: Re:Coded (working on latest commit)
• Kirby: Canvas Curse/Power Paintbrush
• Kirby: Mass Attack
• Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• Lock's Quest
• Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals
• Pokemon Black 2/White 2 (working on latest commit)
• SEGA Superstars Tennis
• Spider-Man 3
• Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing
• Star Fox Command
• Girls Mode (JAP)/Style Savvy (USA)/Style Boutique (EUR)
• Transformers Decepticons (true?) (v1.1 works)
• Touch the Dead

[RinMaru]

will this fix Dementium 2?

[piratesephiroth]

it will fix the games that show the red X error on the initial loading screen

[RinMaru]

ah. I wonder whats wrong with Dementium 2. you can start a new game and save but you cant load

[piratesephiroth]

Ill see if I can fix it. EDIT: yeah Dementium fixed

[ahezard]

Lock's Quest is a confirmed thumb game

[Stack3r]

Can someone check if touch the dead is thumb? It did boot to a black screen before but recently it goes to the red X, just wanted to confirm

[ahezard]

red X is thumb

[ahezard]

5265 - Lufia - Curse of the Sinistrals (USA) is thumb as well

[dubbz82]

Lufia doesn't show the red X at boot which is why I presumed there was something else going on with it.

[ahezard]

the red X for lufia is shown on the latest nightly release

[DarthVitrial]

Could this be the reason Ace Attorney Investigations 2 doesn’t open, or is that for a different reason?

[RinMaru]

Spiderman 3 Sega Superstar's Tennis

[dubbz82]

Geometry Wars Galaxies

[RinMaru]

Spiderman Shattered Dimensions

[RosalinaFan573]

the unreleased game Gauntlet requires THUMB

[RocketRobz]

We have our first thumb game working, as Pokemon Black 2/White 2 now works as of 9b74efb and 65007a8!

[ZahrasTV]

Robz8 , the Pokemons Black 2 and White 2 , open here , but, after you put a name in a caracter , the game frozen in black screen , and if you no go to new game , and go to option and back , frozen in White Screen, i test here.

[Kalanyr]

Have you tried with an AP patched ROM ? eg I know that Pokemon Black needs AP patches to function correctly in the late game, as the ability to battle gets disabled at some point otherwise (it works on a new game on Route 1 but doesn't on an old game in Opelucid City I had).

Edit - Actually I'll test this now.

Edit 2 - This may be harder than I though as my games are AUS copies and finding the AP patches for AUS games / logic underlying the U / E patches at this point to transfer is hard.

Edit 3 - Or it may turn out the patches are all exactly the same for U / E / AUS and the only thing thwarting me was the checksum mismatch.

[Kalanyr]

Interestingly enough it works for me Unpatched but I get the result mentioned above using a patched ROM. It may just be a coincidence though and it's got a chance of failing I'll do a few more trials to verify.

Edit - No. It definitely seems to be the case that the unAP patched version works and the AP patched version doesn't.

Edit2 - The unpatched version does have issues (No Exp Gain, and it crashed when I entered the Pokemon menu and left).

Edit3 - No, my AP Patching was fine. I've dug up my old Dump from the NDS days and checked it as well. The Non-AP patched version works through the first battle (though no XP) , the AP Patched versions (which I know worked on a Flashcart) does not., it freezes where the 3D should start.

[Kalanyr]

To Summaize: Clean ROM dumps work but the AP is still active (so no Exp is earned) and there's still some instability that may lead to crashes (which may also be AP).

Properly AP patched roms for DS Flash Carts do not work , they break after the Appearance / Name section where the 3D engine would initialize.

Edit- This was as of https://github.com/ahezard/nds-bootstrap/commit/65007a8a0c93d76cb6ecc16b8a8bc641d4a8d014 , I see there's been another update in the last few minutes I'll retest with it in the morning (for realz now)

[RocketRobz]

Closed, since they're now implemented.

[RinMaru]

Kirby: Canvas Curse/Power Paintbrush (works latest commit) SEGA Superstars Tennis (Save Data Read Error) Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing (Save Data Read Error) SpiderMan 3 (Red X does not boot) Star Fox Command (White Screen) Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Works Latest commit, needs cart out of slot)

[RocketRobz]

The ones that show "Save Data Read Error" currently need a donor cart to save. For SEGA Superstars Tennis however, it works without a cart.

[RinMaru]

well damn I guess donor roms for those still need to be worked on?

[RocketRobz]

We're not bringing back donor ROMs. Thumb save redirection is planned.

[RinMaru]

whats up with some games having issues starting when a cart is inserted? I keep a game in there to keep dust out

[ahezard]

RinMaru, this is due to #254 , not yet implemented. We are working on it.

[RinMaru]

ok I was just curious ^^