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DS development > Existing homebrew(s) that doesn't work...

#177923 - sverx - Mon Apr 29, 2013 12:52 pm

Sometimes it happens to me to download homebrew games/apps that doesn't work on my R4/DS Lite for no apparent reason (for instance I found some here).
I then realized these homebrew are quite old, so I was wondering if there's something that changed from one moment on... I was thinking about DLDI, but also manually DLDI-patching didn't work.

Suggestions? Is it somehow possible to hack them to bring them back to life? ;)

#177924 - elhobbs - Mon Apr 29, 2013 1:22 pm

I think pre-dldi used gbfs to access data through the gba rom address space. So, I think these games do not support slot-1 cards like the R4. I think modifying the source code and recompiling is the only way to make them work.

#177925 - sverx - Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:08 pm

Well, I didn't think of trying those with a slot-2 card... let's see...