Because I will get my M3 DS Simply in some days and I am really felt in love with all the great homebrew that was released the days. I thought it would be helpful to have a nice tool to patch this apps for my M3. Chrishm build a great way to give the homebrew developers the opportunity to distribute their apps for as many homebrew devices a possible. He released the Dynamically Linkable Disc Interface that allows people to patch new interfaces for their disc devices into existing applications, provided they were built with DLDI support. dlditool is a command-line-tool to patch the homebrew-apps with the needed device support.
I don’t like to use the terminal for every homebrew I want to test so I decided to develop a little droplet application for Mac OS that could sit in your Dock or your Finder toolbar. You drop the homebrew on it and get a list of devices to patch the homebrew for, choose one and done. You could copy the patched app to your card.
So I build an small Xcode-Applescript project. I did some applescript, compiled dlditool 1.23 as an Universal build and included it. I also included the devices patches and I done a nice icon and now here is “DLDI Drop”. Have fun!
Download: DLDI Drop 1.5.2
Screenshots Version 1.5
Changelog:
Version 1.5.2
- add device support for Datel Games n’ Music
Version 1.5.1
- small bufix for PowerPC users
Version 1.5
- add preferences
- possibility to choose a standard device that should be patched
- choose if DLDI Drop should auto quit after patching
- add nds to the know extentions
- add a nice nds file icon
- added Neo MK5 to the supported devices
Version 1.04
- add support for new devices:
- Ninjapass X9
- DS-X
Version 1.03
- add Acekard and DS-Xtreme to the supported devices
PS: I want thank Chrishm to let me included dlditool and the patches into my app.
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I have tried to patch some .nds files for my M3 Adapter (or at least i think it is the M3 Adapter) and it did not work. Neither did it work with the command line tool. It said (for all the games I tested):
Trying “/Users/X/Desktop/Castlevania – Dawn of Sorrow (U)(E)(J)/m3sd.dldi”
/Users/X/Desktop/Castlevania – Dawn of Sorrow (U)(E)(J)/[NDS]Taiko_no_Tatsujin_DS_v01[JAP][ESPALNDS.com].zip does not have a DLDI section
Do I need newer nds files? Can i convert them? Is there another trick? My Slot-2 thing is a M3 Adapter Movie Player 3 from Japan (that’s what the label says).
It used to work when i had Parallels installed and the Windows Version of that Game Manger thingy. But i cannot find the manager anymore. And I really want to use DLDI Drop instead of Parallels Desktop.
Oh i just noticed it was not a .zip but a .nds i tested. Copyed the wrong line.
@Paul You try to patch NDS Roms (Backuped original). I hope you bought it? ;-)
DLDI patching is just for homebrew apps that are written by some private indepentant developers at “home”. You could not patch backuped roms with DLDI Drop.
Thanks a lot, sweet, very Apple-like app! :-)
I just got my iTouch DS, this whole homebrew world is very discouraging. I’m an extremely patient person, but damn! Are there any plans to add support for this device? If not, I’ll probably hock it on eBay and forget about buying another.
Re: Aaron
Patch the app as “M3 DS Simply / R4 (DS)”
The iTouch is the budget version of the M3/R4 line, same company and basic hardware design.
Matt – I was aware of the M3 connection and so started out trying the M3 Adapter options. The one you suggest doesn’t seem to work, either. Everything I attempt to run just displays a solid black or white screen. Same results when I tried patching for other M3 products.
Hi Jan, thanks for this application. I am able to install and use properly, but when I load my .nds files back onto my M3 Real, the same ‘DLDI Compatible’ with a loading screen appears indefinitely.
This is the process I am following:
Load SD card onto OS X, mount drive and navigate to NDS folder
Locate .nds file I would like to patch within the NDS folder
From the NDS folder, I drag the NDS file to my docked DLDI Drop icon, the application loads, then asks for the patch type, and I select either M3 Adpater (SD) or M3 Adapter (SD) Alt. The application then quits.
I know that somewhere in there a patch is supposed to execute, but when I re-enter the SD card back into my M3 Real and boot up, the ‘DLDI Compatible’ screen still remains.
Is there some other file that needs to be installed on the DS itself?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Abid
Does this work with the Supercard DS ONE?
I found the DLDI driver for it if not, if it could be added to this app that would be amazing!
http://blog.dev-scene.com/barn.....9/scds.zip
Great program!
Keep it up!
Hi,
Can the DSlink patch be used for my DSFirecard? Or is there another patch I could use?
Let me know
Nicky
I know this might sound dumb but… Can this work with NDSTT? For some odd reason when I try to load DSOrganize I get “You haven’t patched the DSOrganize with any DLDI file. The Chishm loader requires you to have a DLDI patched DSOrganize or a dldi file in your resources directory.” I don’t know what this means though..
HELP! It does not work for me!
I’m trying to patch bunjallo for my R4DS. I have a 10.4.11 Power Pc iBook G4.
PPPPLLLLEEEAAASSSEEEE! Can someone help me or upload a patched version.
Hazamajaza | Go !
How do i patch duke nukem 3d or quake 2 homebrew?
Do i dump the whole root folder on the dock icon ?..
its a bit unclear to me as to how to go about this..
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