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DS Misc > How to use Image Viewer v0.6 with G6 Lite Flashcard ?

#115977 - reikadono - Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:18 pm

Hello, I'm new to the GBADev forums, sorry to ask something in my first post. =/

I've been trying to run the Image Viewer homebrew with my G6 Lite for quite sometime, but with no success. I already tried to patch the .nds file with the G6 DLDI file provided, but still nothing.
If anyone did run this homebrew successfully with the G6 Lite, please could you explain the process, what to do?
Also, I don't know how to use this DLDI files, all I did was make the G6 .nds file with the MakeNDSRom.exe and used the generated .nds file to patch with the corresponded G6 DLDI file, I also tried to use the .nds directly (not patched with DLDI), but with no success.
Do I need to use the U-Disk Manager with Do Fat R/W to run Image Viewer, or I just need to copy direcly to my G6 device ? I am adding the files (IPK and NDS) in the root folder of G6.

Please, if anyone could help me with this, I would be very gratefull.
Thank you.

#115982 - Firon - Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:57 pm

All you need to do is run makendsrom.exe, then copy imgview06_G6FL_G6 Flash.nds -directly- to your G6
You may want to try patching that generated nds with this DLDI, http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/downloads/g6fl.dldi

#115991 - reikadono - Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:34 pm

Thanks for the answer, Firon. =)
I already tried using the DLDI from this page before, but still no success.
Is there anything else I should do after copying the .nds file into the G6 ? Like, create a directory, or the .INI file, or the .IPK file, anything else ?
Your flashcard is G6 too ?

Thank you.

Edit:
Ah! One thing else, when I try to run the .nds, I just get a Black screen and nothing happens. =/

#115997 - Firon - Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:24 am

You need to copy the IPK files as well. I'm not sure if you need to copy the .ini
I've never actually used ImageViewer myself.

It's not normal that you get a black screen, though. Does the G6 have any option to boot a ROM as homebrew, or something?

#115998 - reikadono - Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:39 am

Firon wrote:
You need to copy the IPK files as well. I'm not sure if you need to copy the .ini
I've never actually used ImageViewer myself.

It's not normal that you get a black screen, though. Does the G6 have any option to boot a ROM as homebrew, or something?


No, the G6 doesn't have any homebrew option that I know of, all the others homebrews I used, I just copied it directly into the flashcard and them worked fine.
Thought so, I copied the coverted image IPK file with the .nds, I think it should have shown the thumbnails of the IPKs, but I just get this black screen. =/
I tried more than 4 kinds of IPK, but with the same result. Maybe it really doesn't work with the G6 Lite. >.<

#116055 - Puyo - Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:55 pm

Run it through ndstool to create ds.gba, then rename it to nds. Optionally you can probably launch it from My card menu selecting Add header.

#116056 - reikadono - Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:30 pm

Puyo wrote:
Run it through ndstool to create ds.gba, then rename it to nds. Optionally you can probably launch it from My card menu selecting Add header.


Sorry, but I don't have any idea of how to convert the .nds file to a .gba file with ndstool, could you give me a hand?
I tried searching for some kind of tutorial on Google and on gbadev also, but couldn't find anything usefull. =/
If you could do this for me, you can find the Image Viewer homebrew on this page:
http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/2007/01/image_viewer_ver06.shtml

Thank you.

EDIT:

I tried converting the .nds file to .ds.gba with dsbuild, but now I just get a white screen. =/