#107950 - daninski - Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:00 am
i'm put my home brewing on hold of late because as a non pc owner there's not that much i can do with moomshell patcher. is it supported at all by anyone now? *wishes i'd kept my supercard sd*
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#107958 - MaHe - Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:10 pm
Hmm, it hasn't improved very much. The hard way is using Virtual PC to patch your homebrew ...
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#107960 - Sektor - Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:38 pm
libfat works on SC Lite without any patching but it doesn't support directory listing and it's relatively new, so it's not widely used.
What exactly does the patcher do? I ran frodoDS.nds through the patcher and it only changed 39 bytes. It should be pretty easy to recreate the patcher in Java or python. I'll leave that job to someone who actually owns a SC Lite and microSD card.
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#108289 - daninski - Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:46 pm
ooh it gets worse. i need a pc to use the firmware update. :'(
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#108350 - josath - Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:22 pm
| daninski wrote: |
| ooh it gets worse. i need a pc to use the firmware update. :'( |
I don't think so...I'm pretty sure you just put the firmware file on your SD card and then run it.
#108359 - daninski - Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:29 am
there is just a set-up.exe file it looks like now, with a .bin file too. there's no .scu file unfortunately.
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#108361 - felix123 - Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:58 am
Isn't the .bin file the upgrade firmware?
#108372 - AnalogMan - Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:44 am
Yes, it is. BIN files are complete Supercard updates. SCU files are upgrades to the existing firmware.
#108430 - daninski - Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:13 pm
well, damn me backwards with a wooden spoon! you're right! still, i think i'm going to have to sell it and get something bigger that will definitely work with my mac. like a printer.
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#108512 - KoshNi - Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:38 pm
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| libfat works on SC Lite |
Really ? Where to find this working version ?
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#108601 - felix123 - Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:50 am
#108630 - tepples - Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:11 pm
So in other words, we need to wait until devkitPro r20 (that is, apparently indefinitely) for decent SC Lite support in programs that use opendir().
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#108633 - Lick - Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:19 pm
There is this one build that seems to have reading and writing on SCLite. Still no directory functions though.
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#108701 - KoshNi - Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:01 am
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| Still no directory functions though. |
Yes, I have already read about it in the 10 pages libfat thread... But what does it mean exactly ? Because, for now, what I think is a way to go over the problem easily is to use a "software FAT" : a file which contains the file listings of all directories (kinda Linux' ls -r dump file) and which you update when you need it ! Of course you can't make new directories (if I correctly understood what the problem is) but does it really matter ? Use the PC to do it then update the software FAT !
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| So in other words, we need to wait until devkitPro r20 (that is, apparently indefinitely) for decent SC Lite support in programs that use opendir(). |
Don't be so pessimistic. Paypal-donate instead... :)
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#108710 - Lick - Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:30 pm
That's a neat idea. One could even write an NDS application, that utilizes another fatlib to create the "directory file" then use libcartreset to return to the bootmenu. This way, it doesn't have to be done on the PC.
Bright! But what fileformat would the "directory file" be?
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#108712 - KoshNi - Sat Nov 11, 2006 3:54 pm
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| what fileformat would the "directory file" be? |
name | directory | size | creation_date | modification_date | owner (...)
It's up to you and your needs ! Personnaly I don't feel like "creating a standard" or this kinda things, I just want to be able to read and write data an application of mine would have created. Thus I only need to create a blank file --"I haven't created anything yet"-- and add to it after each new created file --"today I have written this file"-- so I can use this history to know what is (supposed to be !) stored.
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#108723 - tepples - Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:10 pm
| KoshNi wrote: |
| Don't be so pessimistic. Paypal-donate instead... :) |
Pessimism comes from 3 months of silence on the front page of devkitpro.org despite my donation.
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#108726 - KoshNi - Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:18 pm
There's no release date planned ? Maybe it means current devkitPro is sufficiently mature ?
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#108729 - Sausage Boy - Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:22 pm
Last time I checked, both devkitPro and libfat were open source project. You are perfectly free to make directory listing work any time you want tepples.
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#108733 - tepples - Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:28 pm
I would, but how long would it take to go from 0 to enough knowledge about MS-FAT to be able to hack the code without destroying my CF cards?
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#108737 - Sausage Boy - Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:08 pm
If you're dedicated enough, you could probably put together some hack in a week or two, I'd imagine.
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