#44860 - Cbass182 - Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:04 am
Just wondering if there is any way to play .bin files on ds hardware...taupes is a game available for download that was done for the gbax comp...I tought it would be kinda fun to play whack-a-mole on my DS but it's a bin file and and i can't figure out how to use it on hardware, and he didn't release the arm7 and arm9.bin that would make it so i could use darkfaders ndstool...
Any suggestions?
#44869 - cory1492 - Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:53 am
can't ndstool put out where the arm7 and 9 files are and/or extract them?
check dsbuild.exe and the example makefiles, you may be able to deal out more formats from the bin.
I was able to use this snippet by itself in a makefile to change the file trial.nds (using make) to more formats, and it should handle a trial.bin in and output a trial.nds and trial.ds.gba, (or change the name of the TARGET file in this snippet):
| Code: |
TARGET := trial
export OUTPUT := trial
$(OUTPUT).ds.gba : $(OUTPUT).nds
$(OUTPUT).nds : $(OUTPUT).bin
%.ds.gba: %.nds
@echo built ... $(notdir $@)
@dsbuild $<
%.nds: %.bin
@ndstool -c $@ -9 $(TARGET).bin $(ARM7BIN) -b |
as to the correctness of this makefile, well, cutting and pasting from makefiles kinda assumes you are going to paste into a makefile, I recommend alot more knowledge of them than I have when doing this sort of thing, but in this case it (at least) worked for me...
#45083 - Cbass182 - Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:53 pm
Well...it put out the two files .nds and .ds.gba, but both gave me a white screen when trying to load them on my ds...thanks though...
#45188 - cory1492 - Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:11 pm
do you know offhand why it is just the .bin file? Im assuming it is the arm9 binary for the emulators but dont know....