Homebrew MoonShell 2.10 Stable Child Zwai Edition Fixed Setup.exe

[animex2k9]

Can't seems to install the moonshell using the setup.exe, so I've fixed the setup.exe to install properly.

Why now? I'm bored and don't have anything to do right now, so I've fixed the setup.exe for this Moonshell 2.10 version.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2HH7HGSN

 

[Mantis41]

If you are board you could try getting child zwai loading comercial ROMs via a forwarder loader and autorun feature on the acekard.

 

[twiztidsinz]

If you are board you could try getting child zwai loading comercial ROMs via a forwarder loader and autorun feature on the acekard.

Taiju's inilink...
I should change my title to "Keeper of Taiju's Files"


Or ask Normmatt to update this: http://normmatt.com/ak/M2Loader_v1.0.rar

 

[CannonFoddr]

If you are board you could try getting child zwai loading comercial ROMs via a forwarder loader and autorun feature on the acekard.

Taiju's inilink...
I should change my title to "Keeper of Taiju's Files"

Although you're the 'keeper' - you can't be the 'distributor' though, since Taiju won't let you (hence why my 'MAIO' got canned - as I 'lost' permission for using the loader)

 

[Mantis41]

Although you're the 'keeper' - you can't be the 'distributor' though, since Taiju won't let you (hence why my 'MAIO' got canned - as I 'lost' permission for using the loader)
That is why I was hoping a smart person could write another loader that doesn't require Taiju's work. The other problem is that moonshell needs to be patched so it will see comercial roms. With MAIO we were using a patched version of 2.1, If the loaders were used on a standard version I don't think it will work. I have the patched 2.1 version working fine with Taiju's inilink and the latest akAIO. I have never managed to get child zwai working.

Anyone brave enough to ask Normmatt to update his loader? I might try and hex edit it, changing instances of fat1: to fat0: and see if that works.

Edit: Taiju has said personal use is ok he just doesn't want the files distributed.
QUOTE(Xenon++ @ Nov 17 2010, 08:21 AM) no you can keep it! just unredistributable.

 

[twiztidsinz]

That is why I was hoping a smart person could write another loader that doesn't require Taiju's work. The other problem is that moonshell needs to be patched so it will see comercial roms. With MAIO we were using a patched version of 2.1,2.10b9

QUOTE(Mantis41 @ Mar 18 2011, 09:19 AM) I might try and hex edit it, changing instances of fat1: to fat0: and see if that works.

Doesn't work.. It just gives white screens (with fat0: and fat1.
I think the loader is for AKAIO 1.5.1.

 

[Mantis41]

I give up. I am just fumbling around without really knowing what I am doing nor am I getting anywhere apart from f'ing up my existing set up.

My goal is to try and get commercial ROMs to run from akAIO but be called or forwarded from moonshell 2.1 Child Zwai edition. This probably goes against the wishes of the author of moonshell who most probably doesn't want ROMs running from moonshell anyway. Strictly speaking it is still akAIO that is running the ROMs, moonshell is just requesting akAIO when a ROM is selected. I guess if the author of Moonshell is dead set against piracy then I can still see this being an issue. You would think emulators would also come under this category running pirated ROMs from moonshell but who knows, it's all a grey area.

Anyway back to my attempts at getting this working:

I was thinking that if we replace Tajiu's loaders with Normmatt's then we can resurrect MAIO while still respecting Taiju's wishes to keep his work buried. Unfortunately, I do not know exactly how all of these loaders work and fumbling around isn't getting me anywhere. The extlink folder has nds.inilink.nds and nds.mshl2wrap.nds as well as .ini files for both of these. I am not even sure how much of the extlink folder was Taiju's work and how much was other peoples. Re-naming nds.inilink.nds to _vh.inilink.nds and _hn.inilink.nds to get it working with the latest akaio was my only contribution and I discovered that by accident so I’m about as useful as tits on a bull when it comes to all of this.

As far as getting child zwai working, I have not idea what was done to 2.1 to make it work much less attempt to patch the child zwai version.

So rant over, if no one has anything else to offer I guess I will just stick to my own version of 2.1b9 running ROMs. At least it still works with akAIO 1.8.6a

 

[twiztidsinz]

I'm not sure how responsive Normmatt would be to updating his loader, but I think it's not updated because of 'security' (AKAIO on AceKard only) reasons.

I don't know much about how things work, but I would think that you could have the loader be a 'generic' loader that only passes on info to AKAIO and tells it to boot the 'alternate' way. For example:
Normal Boot -> Any checks AKAIO does -> Load GUI -> await user input
Loader Boot -> Any checks AKAIO does -> Read loader info -> play game

 

[jurassicplayer]

I was thinking that if we replace Tajiu's loaders with Normmatt's then we can resurrect MAIO while still respecting Taiju's wishes to keep his work buried. Unfortunately, I do not know exactly how all of these loaders work and fumbling around isn't getting me anywhere. The extlink folder has nds.inilink.nds and nds.mshl2wrap.nds as well as .ini files for both of these. I am not even sure how much of the extlink folder was Taiju's work and how much was other peoples. Re-naming nds.inilink.nds to _vh.inilink.nds and _hn.inilink.nds to get it working with the latest akaio was my only contribution and I discovered that by accident so I’m about as useful as tits on a bull when it comes to all of this.

As far as getting child zwai working, I have not idea what was done to 2.1 to make it work much less attempt to patch the child zwai version.

Taiju made all of the extlink stuff for MAIO, as well as the alternative loader. As for what was done in 2.10b9 in order to get it to work, the same crack was applied to the overlay.dll because that was the last occurrence of the bug that was exploited in order to allow commercial ROMs to be run directly from Moonshell2, meaning that you would only need a loader to play the files. Since Child Zwai and 2.10 stable both don't have the bug anymore, there is no way to get Moonshell2 to run commercial ROMs (I believe it may be checking if the nds file has a legitimate gameID as opposed to the great "####" that most, if not all homebrew usually have) and thus Taiju's original idea that he began with was to create small homebrew forwarders that would send the correct information to the extlink.dat, thus bypassing the block that was set in place. This idea was mshl2wrap.nds and then it was later expanded to inilink.nds which can support multiple flashcarts. The reason why MAIO still works is because AKAIO hasn't changed the way it handles autobooting .nds files, and since inilink.nds is just changing the ini files to match the extlink data, there shouldn't be any problems unless the AKAIO team changes something.

As for Normmatt updating the MS2loader, there isn't much point unless someone decides to spend the time to break Moonshell2 and prevent it from checking the .nds file before it is run, otherwise it would just be a homebrew loader that uses AKAIO to load it, which can already be accomplished with inilink (that few have anyways).

 

[PokemonTrainer?]

thanks man. question does this work on acekard 2i. im scared because people have said that moonshell 2.10 can brick your acekard 2i. so please any help will be appreciated.

 

[jurassicplayer]

You bumped a fairly old thread to ask a fairly lame question. Possibly you should try using google better, or just reading about nds homebrew in general, or possibly even reading.

First is to clear up something. Unless it's something like r0mloader.nds, taihen.nds, flashme or another thing along those lines, homebrew will pretty much NEVER do jack shit to your flashcart. Either it works, it doesn't work, it halfway works, or it halfway works and fucks up every file on your microSD.
Also, if you are planning on bumping a not so recent post, at least try to read the fucking thread because if you didn't notice, the thread is talking about MS2 on an acekard ._. ...Despite the fact that there are multiple threads about moonshell2, two or so threads that are well made and pretty much specifically for any and all dealings with moonshell2 as well as an acekard/moonshell2 combination, of which you seemingly missed, I shall help you with your problem.

It works. Google tells me so. I tell me so. My DS that uses it tells me so. EVERY FUCKING PERSON THAT HAS NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR AK BRICKING BECAUSE OF MS2 TELLS ME SO. All in all, just read a little more, pay a little more attention, and remember that unless it is meant to do something bad or risky, homebrew isn't going to kill your flashcart.

 

[Another World]

that was pretty harsh for someone who is only 5 posts old.

in the time it took you to rant on him you could have provided constructive help to his inability to search and even provided for him some useful information.

one of the biggest complaints gbatemp receives from the scene is how rude our members are to new posters.

-another world

 

[Luigi2012SM64DS]

Well since this topic was bumped
thnx

 

[loco365]

thanks man. question does this work on acekard 2i. im scared because people have said that moonshell 2.10 can brick your acekard 2i. so please any help will be appreciated.

Well, no. Moonshell won't brick your DS. I've used Moonshell a few times on my AK2i and had no issues (besides making MS not start anymore >_>) at all. Moonshell is completely safe.

Besides, why would people use it if it bricked systems? Sounds pretty stupid if you ask me.

 

[miketh2005]

You have to get the (Chadrcheze Edition).

 

[jurassicplayer]

You have to get the (Chadrcheze Edition).

No you don't...unless you are gullible anyways :/