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Beginners > ndsTool help

#115028 - scrawl - Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:49 am

Hi,

I've only just started dabbling in DS homebrew and have a question about using ndsTool.

At this stage, I'm simply extracting and rebuilding existing NDS files. Since there are no changes being made, should I assume both files should have identical MD5 checksums?

Currently, I get different checksums but I think it is related to the error message I'm receiving. The following is the commandline output when extracting/rebuilding dsFTP 2.4:

Code:
C:\ndstool>ndstool -x dsftp.nds -9 arm9.bin -7 arm7.bin -y9 y9.bin -y7 y7.bin -d data -y overlay -t banner.bin -h header.bin

Nintendo DS rom tool 1.31 - AugĀ  8 2006 07:57:02 by Rafael Vuijk (aka DarkFader)
[b]File 0: Size is too big. FAT offset 0x0 contains invalid data.[/b]

C:\ndstool>ndstool -c dsftp-rebuild.nds -9 arm9.bin -7 arm7.bin -y9 y9.bin -y7 y7.bin -d data -y overlay -t banner.bin -h header.bin

Nintendo DS rom tool 1.31 - AugĀ  8 2006 07:57:02 by Rafael Vuijk (aka DarkFader)

Is this normal behaviour? Any insight into the matter appreciated.

-Scrawl