Hey folks - not sure if this is a known issue or if it’s even caused by TW patcher, but I’m using Twilight Menu ++ with the patcher and for some reason on top screen when using the DS(I) theme, the time and date is really janky in the game selector menu. Any thoughts?
Hey there, thanks for the response! The text for the time and date in the TWiLight Menu++ DS(i) menu seems to be super blurry/missing pixels to the point of being illegible, while the rest of the menu looks fine.
I suppose that this may be an issue with the theme itself and not the patcher as it seems to occur whether using widescreen or not, as I only noticed after updating to a newer version of Twilight Menu++. Thanks for any help or insight!
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I suppose that this may be an issue with the theme itself and not the patcher as it seems to occur whether using widescreen or not, as I only noticed after updating to a newer version of Twilight Menu++. Thanks for any help or insight!
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I think that's caused by GPU scaling. I only seen it on the Twilight Menu but not on any game so, not really sure what's the cause.
A problem that actually appears while running game is a edge-mixing effect on the first and last horizontal pixels. It is very obvious in scenes with black backgrounds.
The issue is caused by outdated skin files, please delete the dark skin in "sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/dsimenu/themes/".
Hey, thanks! This clued me in to the fact that you had a "darker" skin out there and I'm now using that one with no issues.
Really appreciate the responses folks!
Hey! I seem to be having some issues with getting the filters to stick? Everything was working fine until I removed the sysmodule file to get rid of widescreen, and now I can't seem to select any filter, like when I hit A on a filter, it won't give a little star next to it showing it's been selected, selecting things in the patch menu seems to work though, any advice? I already tried reinstalling twilight and twpatch
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Scratch that, should be fine now, I guess can still apply filters hitting start without selecting them? Though I remember being able to select them before
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Hey! I seem to be having some issues with getting the filters to stick? Everything was working fine until I removed the sysmodule file to get rid of widescreen, and now I can't seem to select any filter, like when I hit A on a filter, it won't give a little star next to it showing it's been selected, selecting things in the patch menu seems to work though, any advice? I already tried reinstalling twilight and twpatch
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Scratch that, should be fine now, I guess can still apply filters hitting start without selecting them? Though I remember being able to select them before
The star only applies in patches (Y+B). For filters there is only the arrow, which instantly works.
You must apply all patches by START in the filter selection screen.
Oh... there has been, I just went full goldfish, and completely forgot I did anything...
I figured I can split GBA and DS(i) scale filters instead of trying to combine the two into some janky file format, so if I don't forget again, I'll cobble together a build which can copypaste a raw scale filter into the binary.
As for the website, I keep forgetting "how to understand" scale matrixes, so I've never implemented a scale matrix generator.
But nothing prevents me from making a separate website which can render manually entered scale matrixes, and also export them to files.
And perhaps also a website where you can combine these files into one, like some sort of file manager.
Can't promise any website, but the custom matrix loading code is basically "complete", I just didn't document the file format yet, and didn't enable it either, as having to swap between a single file is tedious.
I might be blind, but is there any readme or documentation somewhere?
I used TWPatcher for the first time today and it seems to me that all information is scattered in this thread across the 120+ pages?
If not for this post, I would have never figured out how to actually enable the patch(es)
Well, that's embarrassing... you're right, I think I have once erased the *old* instructions, and never made new ones.
I have subconsciously replied the same to people asking how to use TWPatch, but I was never called out for not including them in the first post, so thank you!
There was one reply I think I worded really well, I'll have to dig that up from the page history... Hopefully I won't forget...
Enabling widescreen patch does stretch 320 to 400 without any scaling afterwards?
As in, internal prescale (all these filters, incl. orig nintendo one) does 256x192 to 320x240 but it seems like after enabling widescreen it does additional very pixely 320 to 400 scaling? Is it possible to have smooth scaling in widescreen?
Seems like only gpu scaling helps with this.
EDIT: Another question - is there way fowarder to respect TWiLight Menu++ settings for aspect ratio or is there two forwarders that I can use separately? atm I'm using the one with "sd:/_nds/ntr-forwarder/" path
As in, internal prescale (all these filters, incl. orig nintendo one) does 256x192 to 320x240 but it seems like after enabling widescreen it does additional very pixely 320 to 400 scaling? Is it possible to have smooth scaling in widescreen?
Seems like only gpu scaling helps with this.
EDIT: Another question - is there way fowarder to respect TWiLight Menu++ settings for aspect ratio or is there two forwarders that I can use separately? atm I'm using the one with "sd:/_nds/ntr-forwarder/" path
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DS(i) games always render at 256x192, and GBA games always render at 240x160 with no way to change that, so scaling artifacts will always happen due to missing pixels.
For widescreen (non-GPU) upscaling, the X scaler is changed to "identity" due to not enough code space to include a widescreen matrix, so that's why it looks so pixelated.
As for GPU widescreen, there should be no artifacts, as it takes the original non-scaled image, and upscales it with only the GPU, nothing else.
I can't answer the TWiLightMenu++ question, someone else will have to.
Sorry for my newb question! Are you saying that 800x240 mode in mGBA is just as good as AGB_FIRm and open_agb rendering? Also, I still don't quite understand how to use the filters for gba. Like, I know you can start TWPatch holding Y to get to the GBA filters settings. But how do you enable the filters and which program uses them, open_agb_firm?
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When you say GBA mode, how are you running gba games specifcially?
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Just curious, what config are you using?
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