Release DraStic Nintendo DS emulator

[Exophase]

When I try and play Puzzler World, DraStic errors trying to create an initial save, but other games seem to work ok. Any ideas?

Sorry, this took a lot longer to deal with because there's actually a regression in my current code where another fix broke all the Puzzler World games. Interestingly, the same problem is in desmume, or at least all the versions I tried - they show a black screen on all Puzzler World games. But I think I worked out the problem.

It's possible to fix the game in the current version since it's a problem with the entry in appdata/DraStic/game_database.xml. You can replace it with this:

<cartridge title='Puzzler World'>

<slot1>

<rom name='rom' size='0x00800000' crc32='632be7b2' id='50565042' title='PUZZLER' />

<save name='save' size='0x4000' type='EEPROM' />

</slot1>

</cartridge>

I have gotten an error after a long play of GTA China Town wars,

I had normaly saved my game ( many times before without errors ),

after loading this game, the d-Pad Buttons won´t respond a certain ammount of time,

after I fired a weapon.

I have tried this many times, resaved the game at other places, but this bug won´t go away.

Could this be some kind of copy protection Rockstar put into this game?

You can reproduce this from a save game (as opposed to a savestate), right? If so can you include it and directions on how to do it?

This bug sounds familiar, not sure if it's something I dealt with before or not.. I'd like to release a new version but I'm still stuck dealing with implementing some stuff and debugging some other stuff.

 

[pmprog]

Sorry, this took a lot longer to deal with because there's actually a regression in my current code where another fix broke all the Puzzler World games.

No worries, thanks for taking a look. Works a treat.
There's still some graphical issues with Scrabble Interactive 2007 Edition, but I don't play that (or anything else really) all that often these days.

Thanks

 

[Kumaki]

Still wish I could find a way to transfer savegames from Pandy to DS.

I still can't cheat at the Casino.

I am all the way up to Mortamor's Castle now, and grinding up levels and vocations.

I have 13 monsters still missing from my Big Book Of Beasts.  One I know for sure I haven't yet gotten is the King Metal Slime...which is a grand royal biatch to get, anyway.

I gotta figure out what other monsters I am missing, and where to get them.

 

[ZXDunny]

I transferred my Animal Crossing saved games from my real DS+R4 to Drastic with little more than a rename. Had to go in the right place on the SD card, but that's a no-brainer.

D.

 

[levi]

Yeah, Kumaki's done the same. The trouble is transferring in the opposite direction, where I assume save format's are more problematic.

 

[Kumaki]

Yeah, Kumaki's done the same. The trouble is transferring in the opposite direction, where I assume save format's are more problematic.

Exactly.  the problem comes in transferring BACK to the DS from Drastic.

I can go from DS to Drastic with no problem.  Not so, Drastic to DS.

And I'm using an Acekard 2i - not an R4.  So what works for an R4 may not work for an Acekard 2i and vice versa.

 

[Exophase]

What's the size of the save file that the Acekard made? It might be expecting something padded.

 

[Kumaki]

I don't actually know.

 

[Exophase]

I don't actually know.

So find out. You're the one who has access to it.

 

[Kumaki]

How about tell me what size it SHOULD be?

Here's the thing...

I take the normal .sav file ff the DS Acekard.

I just change the file extension to .dsv

this does not change the size of the file.

Now, I do not know...when I save that dsv file what size that is.

I know that just changing the extension to .sav again does not work.

I know that conversion via Shunyweb does not work.

 

[PowerGod]

Just open thunar (or the file manager you use), right click on the file and choose "Properties", then write here the Size

 

[Exophase]

How about tell me what size it SHOULD be?

Because I don't know what size it should be. I already explained, I want to know if your flashcart is padding it. Why would I ask if I knew the size?

If it's expecting a bigger size than what DraStic saves that could explain why it's not working.

 

[sswam]

I don't actually know.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236/how-do-you-determine-the-size-of-a-file-in-c

 

[frefol]

I just tried this with my Acekard2i.  I played Picross DS on the Acekard and the save it creates is 512k.  Then I played the game in Drastic and it created a 256k file.  But just to test, I copied the save to the Acekard and renamed it, and it worked just fine.  It did seem to take a little longer to load up but it worked.  I then played one more level to see if the Acekard would change it back to 512k, but it did not.

 

[ekianjo]

I just tried this with my Acekard2i.  I played Picross DS on the Acekard and the save it creates is 512k.  Then I played the game in Drastic and it created a 256k file.  But just to test, I copied the save to the Acekard and renamed it, and it worked just fine.  It did seem to take a little longer to load up but it worked.  I then played one more level to see if the Acekard would change it back to 512k, but it did not.

So why doesn't it work for Kumaki ?

 

[frefol]

Maybe the game she is playing doen't like the different sizes.  I don't know what game she was trying.

 

[PowerGod]

I don't actually know.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236/how-do-you-determine-the-size-of-a-file-in-c

 

[ekianjo]

I don't actually know.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236/how-do-you-determine-the-size-of-a-file-in-c

That's why we need Judge Dredd!

 

[Kumaki]

OK, I am trying to Play Dragon Quest 6.

I don't even HAVE a save file on the Pandy at the moment.

I'm not trying to be difficult here, but I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSTATE MOVE.  So, to be honest, if someone would be kind enough to test this particular game for me, I'd really appreciate it.

I am less than 3 weeks away from a move from Pennsylvania to North Carolina....and if any of you have ever moved across-country (I have done it seven times, this will be my eighth) you have some idea of what I'm up against...and thus the source of my slight impatience with questions at the moment.

I'd just like to get something to work that doesn't cost me time, because time is right at the moment something I do not have.

 

[ekianjo]

I'd just like to get something to work that doesn't cost me time, because time is right at the moment something I do not have.

To be fair checking the file size of a file will take you 5 seconds, less than the time you took to write your answer