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For those who may not have noticed that the main EZManager thread has been updated...

A new EZManager has been posted. Whats new



I have "briefly" tested homebrew. Which means I grabbed one homebrew app that I had floating on my HD, copied it (zipped only it seems) to the NOR side of the cart, which wrote perfectly well.

The new NDS OS didnt "see" the file in the NOR memory and I was unable to access the file. Plugging the cart back into the linker caused EZManager 2.09 to crash, and crash each subsequent load.

Time to erase the cart and try again.

Edit:

Homebrew needs to be in the .ds.gba format. I have only tested precompiled .ds.gba files, and none where prepending a .gba header to a .ds file. Feel free to test this and let me know how it goes.

Since my NOR memory is almost completely broken, I won't be testing much homebrew.

Nice... finally the NOR side is getting used. Did you have to format it each time you wrote something new?

Finally. Homebrew. Shocked...

Well, cannot test it now, can you use more than one app or is it a single one like in the old days?

Sweet... its like they read my mind. This is definetly my most wanted feature.. testing soon

yes.. nesDS and snesDS work great!! NICE!

As I said, my NOR memory is virtually useless. Only a few meg is accessible before EZManager locks up and stops working.

So I only tried one game / app and then formatted the NOR memory before trying another.

The biggest issue is that all the files are named the same.

They're all called : EZ3-Name.gba. I have not tried renaming a file just yet, so I can't comment on whether that works or not. However, if it does, then we should be able to get more than one homebrew file on there at a time, if not, then we're stuck with only one.

heres what I added...

nesDS
sudoku (homebrew game)
snesDS

and here is what the list looks like on my ds..

EZ3-Name.gba
nesDS
Sudoku.gba

where EZ3-Name is actually nesDS
and nesDS is actually sudoku
and sudoku is actually snesDS

so apparently it calls the first file EZ3-name by default, and then goes from there. Its confusing but they do all function properly.

hallelujah!

Don't get your hopes up too fast, it's not all brilliant. Files need to be in the .ds.gba format which is a pain in the arse. Heck the GBA header should be attached to .ds files if not already present. This would save plenty of issues.

A lot of DS homebrew is delived in the .ds format. Some come in the .ds.gba format too, however I've only succeeded in getting one app to run so far.

Lastly, the fix for EZManager 2.09 Final is online in the main download thread.