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Jim — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:42:33 +0000

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Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Lindsay

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Chandrasekhar — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:12:58 +0000

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Comment on Calling all Video Game Enthusiasts by Dean Carlson

Dean Carlson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:08:06 +0000

Hey guys,
I have taken a look at your website and videos for your projects. I must say that I have no experience with 3d, and what you are looking to do seems like some pretty intensive coding. I would like to help out in some of my spare time though. I have signed up on your forums and will be in touch.

Comment on Calling all Video Game Enthusiasts by BusDriver

BusDriver — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:25:22 +0000

Yes, please. We are working on a new game our self (iSlayer DS) but our coders (or coder, due to ones inactivity) keeps running into problems. Any help would be much appreciated. The content is already made, the problem is only the engine. Sprites, models, maps, the works.

Comment on Calling all Video Game Enthusiasts by Ghost Fang

Ghost Fang — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:48:21 +0000

Can you code for DS?

We already have the foundation for Halo for DS, would you like to help?

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Dean Carlson

Dean Carlson — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:52:19 +0000

As far as I know FAT allows for dynamic reading and writing, to and from files outside of the .nds file. Unfortunately, it appears FAT is no longer supported with the current version of PAlib as seen here (http://www.palib.info/wiki/doku.php?id=day9), and it is recommended to use EFS_Lib. There are other libraries like LibNDS, as an alternative to PAlib, that have more potential but are more complicated to learn and use (or so I hear), but I’m not sure how it handles file read/writes.

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Marta

Marta — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:30:44 +0000

thanks.
I would like to ask you: Do you know the difference between FAT and EFS?
And: It is possible with FAT to keep the files outside the .nds?

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Dean Carlson

Dean Carlson — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:52:25 +0000

Glad you got everything worked out. I agree, it is a shame that everything is out in during compilation as it could have so much more potential with dynamic file reading. However, one benefit of the file being compiled on is that it reduces the file sizes. As far as which emulator I use, I prefer DeSmuME.

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Marta

Marta — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:41:44 +0000

thanks to your post and a review of the Makefile I’m able to use it.
It’s a pity that all the data should be put during compilation.. it would be great if it can be loaded from a connection with wifi or something like that..more dynamic.
Anyway, the program runs well in the DS and in the no$gba emulator but it doesn’t work in iDeaS. Which emulator do you use?

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Dean Carlson

Dean Carlson — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:25:56 +0000

Hi Marta,
In your project folder (ex. C:/Projects/MyProject) you should make a folder called “efsroot” and put the files within that folder (ex. C:/Projects/MyProject/efsroot/data/sfx). Then when you build the project, EFSlib will put the files directly onto the .nds file. So you can directly open the file like this:
FILE* file = fopen (”data/sfx/filename”, “rb”);
You do not need to put the actual files in a directory on the DS. EFSlib handles putting the files directly integrated into your .nds file.
Hope this helps

Comment on Frustrations With Reading From a File on a DS by Marta

Marta — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:49:31 +0000

really helped because I was always getting the error initializing EFS. Thank you vey much. My problem is that I don’t know where I have to store the files in the DS. I keep getting the message: sound not found or bg not found.
It has to be in a directory called efsroot? In the emulator works that way but when I copy:

/myprogram.nds
/efsroot/data/bg
/efsroot/data/sfx

it fails.. (I’ve a PA_FatSetBasePath(”data”);)

Do you know what I’m doing wrong?