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DS development > Having troubles with exec()

#131309 - phlip - Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:30 am

I'm having problems getting homebrew to launch other homebrew on my card... this is an R4 in an unflashed DS Lite.

DSOrganise doesn't work, even with the special-made R4 exec_stub... httpexec doesn't work... the version of Moonshell that comes with the R4 doesn't work...
Chishm's loader just hangs, like Diddl reports in that thread... Mighty Max's loader doesn't even seem to use DLDI, so that's not going to work...

The only thing I've found that works for me is DSChannels beta5b, which isn't particularly useful as I don't think the source to that has been released... I found this (via httpexec), but that appears to be the source to beta4, which didn't work for me. Using the exec() loader from beta4 with the exec_stub files from beta5b doesn't work... I guess something's changed in the loader in that version too.

Any help would be appreciated... either some ideas about what I'm doing wrong at my end to get these various launchers working, or a link to some code that does work, so I can put it in my own project...
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#131617 - tondopie - Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:21 am

there could be something wrong with your card... I had that happen with my GBAMP once and I had to reformat it a billion times and then run chkdsk on it a trillion times. try that.
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