Hacking Nintendont

[JoostinOnline]

Any word on the official GCN controller adaptor working?

Why do people keep asking this? It's a stupid question. The adapter isn't even out yet! I suppose next you'll be asking if Nintendont will be compatible with the next Nintendo console.

Edit: Sorry I was rude, I'm just tired of a question that nobody can answer.

 

[pedro702]

theres still 2 days for americans to get the adpter until then we cant say yes or no.

 

[jamen]

I have a question about the 'checking fs' hang, why does the filesystem need to be checked? and can a prompt be added after a timeout for continuing without something returned after x seconds?

 

[pedrobarca]

Wild guess: The adapter won't work. At least it won't from the start. I read somewhere in another thread it is not HID. Also it does not work in Wii mode. Therefore don't see why it should magically work with nintendont. But I guess with some hard work it should be possible to make it work.

Anyway, FIX recommended the WiiU Pro controller and I think I'll get one soon. The missing analog shoulder buttons aren't a big deal for me.

 

[sonictopfan]

Just want to confirm some stuff, I gave SADX a test and got the crashes in Chao Race and the Chao Transporter(the tool for renaming, deleting and sending chao to a GBA), to me it froze upon entering either, the third time around it didn't freeze immediately, instead it froze while I was selecting a race. Anyway it's not a kernel crash because the music still plays and the exit combo works.
The final thing I want to say is that I never got a crash with Native Control on, so it looks like it's related to that or something.

Slightly unrelated, I just noticed this is one of the games devo has slowdowns with, noticed it in the Speed Highway stage, motion is all jerky and in nintendont it is smooth.

Wow nice find, I need to check that out, do you think you can check Sonic Riders too if you have that game?

 

[JoostinOnline]

Wild guess: The adapter won't work. At least it won't from the start. I read somewhere in another thread it is not HID. Also it does not work in Wii mode. Therefore don't see why it should magically work with nintendont. But I guess with some hard work it should be possible to make it work.

We don't know jack about it, since it's not out.

 

[pedrobarca]

I have a question about the 'checking fs' hang, why does the filesystem need to be checked? and can a prompt be added after a timeout for continuing without something returned after x seconds?

I played around with different USB devices and was able to reproduce this bug that nintendont randomly gets stuck while checking FS. It seems that nintendont is hanging in exactly this line:

https://code.google.com/p/nintendon-t/source/browse/trunk/kernel/main.c#123

which means that it is stuck in the function f_open, which is a function of FatFS. This probably means your device isn't compatible with FatFS. I have a few USB devices which have this problem, but most of my devices work fine. So the best solution is to try another device. However, if you ALWAYS stuck on checking FS, then probably your filesystem is wrong and you have to reformat your drive. If someone feels terribly boring he could try to find the line in which f_open gets stuck, the source of FatFS is open. But I don't think this is fixed easy.

Since it is stuck, I don't think there's a way to return to HBC after a certain time. Might be wrong though.

 

[EthralSSB]

We don't know jack about it, since it's not out.

There are a few YouTubers that have it so if someone got a hold of one of them or something we could find out. Ex. GameXplain

 

[JoostinOnline]

There are a few YouTubers that have it so if someone got a hold of one of them or something we could find out. Ex. GameXplain

Not until we (as in the dev team) can actually use one.

 

[memeboy420]

Try this, i've formatted my drive with Mini Partition Tool and put the whole disk as a Primary Partition and i setted as ACTIVE and then choosed FAT32 and 32KB Cluster :3 now it works super nice! DDD

Thank you. How do I make it a primary partition exactly though? I have mini partition tool but im not sure how to make it primary partition

 

[BARKSTAR]

Hi Joostin/Howard,

I do not know who to ask directly about this but I wrote a post earlier today on page 920 (Post #18398) regarding a conflict with hard drives when using Nintendont. Any ideas what may be causing this to happen at all?

Thanks.

 

[rylandd]

Another "stuck in checking fs..." troubleshooter here.

In this case I'm fairly sure it's not the format of my drive, because the drive already works 100% with DIOS MIOS, which, if I'm not mistaken, also requires FAT32 with 32kb clusters.

I'm looking to switch over to Nintendont for its higher compatibility, esp. with memory card emulation.

My HDD is a Western Digital MyPassport 750GB USB 2.0/3.0

 

[Adeka]

Another "stuck in checking fs..." troubleshooter here.

In this case I'm fairly sure it's not the format of my drive, because the drive already works 100% with DIOS MIOS, which, if I'm not mistaken, also requires FAT32 with 32kb clusters.

I'm looking to switch over to Nintendont for its higher compatibility, esp. with memory card emulation.

My HDD is a Western Digital MyPassport 750GB USB 2.0/3.0

Here is a quote from Howard

One of the common errors people ask for help with is "checking file system..." it isnt an actual error. it is just what it was trying to do. We dont get back an error. It actually dosent come back at all.

 

[VinsCool]

I played around with different USB devices and was able to reproduce this bug that nintendont randomly gets stuck while checking FS. It seems that nintendont is hanging in exactly this line:

https://code.google.com/p/nintendon-t/source/browse/trunk/kernel/main.c#123

which means that it is stuck in the function f_open, which is a function of FatFS. This probably means your device isn't compatible with FatFS. I have a few USB devices which have this problem, but most of my devices work fine. So the best solution is to try another device. However, if you ALWAYS stuck on checking FS, then probably your filesystem is wrong and you have to reformat your drive. If someone feels terribly boring he could try to find the line in which f_open gets stuck, the source of FatFS is open. But I don't think this is fixed easy.

Since it is stuck, I don't think there's a way to return to HBC after a certain time. Might be wrong though.

That's interesthing. What about adding a timer, like 30 seconds? If the 30 seconds is exeded, then it goes back to the hbc.

 

[rylandd]

Here is a quote from Howard

One of the common errors people ask for help with is "checking file system..." it isnt an actual error. it is just what it was trying to do. We dont get back an error. It actually dosent come back at all.

So... how should I fix the problem I'm having?

 

[Adeka]

So... how should I fix the problem I'm having?

There's not much you can do about it

have to tried to launch a game with default settings?

have you formatted your drive with different sector sizes?

is your drive plugged in the correct port?

Does it happen when your using a specific controller?

 

[Rob Blou]

There are a few YouTubers that have it so if someone got a hold of one of them or something we could find out. Ex. GameXplain

Unwritten rule number 1 here is don't annoy the devs! They're doing this for free and are giving it to everybody.

 

[JoostinOnline]

That's interesthing. What about adding a timer, like 30 seconds? If the 30 seconds is exeded, then it goes back to the hbc.

That would be easy enough.

 

[VinsCool]

That would be easy enough.

You are serious or is it not that easy to do?

 

[JoostinOnline]

You are serious or is it not that easy to do?

I'm serious.