Having trouble with the demo binary?

[MajinCline]

Intro:

Some people are having trouble getting the game to boot on their flash carts. The demo app freezes up on the menu screen for some flash carts. This is not really a problem with sgstair's binary but the tool used to packages it is not completely compatible with everyone's flash cart. This binary, like flashme, is packaged with a loader that makes it work for gbamp and wifime, needing.nds, and flash carts, needing.ds.gba. It should work for everybody with a simple rename but thats not always the case. Sgstair has tried to get it working as he said in one of his posts and I believe it helped compatability a little but I still can't load it on my supercard.

 

Fixing it:

If you have trouble loading the demo the fix is quite simple. You need to get ndsmall.bin. You can get it from DarkFaders site. The run this command to prepend the loader(ndsmall.bin) to the demo:

 

Windows:

copy /b ndsmall.bin + wifi_lib_test.nds wifi_lib_test.ds.gba

*nix

cat ndsmall.bin wifi_lib_test.nds > wifi_lib_test.ds.gba

 

Going further:

If you really are a fan of sgstair's work and always want the latest test binary you can make an easy script to download it, prepend the loader, rename it(to.gba.nds for my supercard), and copy it to your compact flash. I gave up on Windows so I only have this one for my Linux computer.

 

#get wifi demo update and put it on cf 
cd /home/majincline/ 
rm -rf wifi_lib_test.nds 
rm -rf wifi_lib_test.gba.nds 
wget --no-cache http://akkit.org/dswifi/wifi_lib_test.nds 
cat ndsmall.bin wifi_lib_test.nds > wifi_lib_test.gba.nds 
cp -f wifi_lib_test.gba.nds /media/NDS