edo9300 / make-forwarder

Creates dsiware forwarders to nds roms in the sd card to be launched via the nds-bootstrap

Make-forwarder

Creates dsiware forwarders to nds roms in the sd card to be launched via the nds-bootstrap

Linux/Mac support

To compile the program for those platforms, download the source and run the command g++ *.cpp -o make_forwarder

Usage

Pc part

Make sure to have the template.nds file in the same folder as the executable. Drag your rom on the exe, and it will create a "title" folder. Copy the created folder in the root of your sd card.

Dsi part

When you first start the app, you'll have to set up the paths to the game and the bootstrap. If you are already using TWiLight Menu++, then the bootstrap will be in the "_nds" folder, otherwise download it from ahezard's repo. This setup is required only at the first launch, if you want to redo the setup, you can do it by keeping a pressed during the boot of the app.

Missing features

Having the possibilty to change the per-game settings of the bootstrap from the app itself. The only way for now is to manually edit the "bootsrtap.ini" file in the "data" folder of the app.

Credits

Tuxality: He has made the tool to create a valid tmd for the dsiware maketmd, which i directly included in my program. Ahezard: He has made the python script (that i ported to cpp) to fix the header of the dsiwares.

make-forwarder's Issues

Can't create forwarders with proper banners for apps with dsi (8 icon) banners

its all in the title, but if you need me to provide the binaries it produced i can do so

compilation on osx

@edo9300 thanks for the code!

at least 10.5 is a bsd is not gnu 😸

$ g++ *.cpp -o make_forwarder
...
maketmd.cpp:41:10: fatal error: 'byteswap.h' file not found
#include <byteswap.h>

this declaration in maketmd.cpp works for me and should be portable:

#ifdef _WIN32
uint32_t __bswap_32(uint32_t value) {
	return _byteswap_ulong(value);
}
#elif defined(__APPLE__)
#include <libkern/OSByteOrder.h>
//#define __bswap_16(x) OSSwapInt16(x)
#define __bswap_32(x) OSSwapInt32(x)
//#define __bswap_64(x) OSSwapInt64(x)
#else
#include "byteswap.h"
#endif	// _WIN32

Move per-game setting to sd:/private/xxx

The private folder in sdcard is created by dsi system, so all will have this folder.
Moving settings to one folder is easier to manage all config file. Cause of the titles folder has lots other dsiware installed.