KnowledgeBase

This is a concise list of tips to get games running. This includes "known bugs" which users should work around themselves and not expect to be fixed any time soon.

------ Pokemon ------

• There are forums dedicated to pokemon gaming elsewhere on the web. Go there.
• Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver
  • see #SAVEANDLOAD #1345 (timing bugs accumulate; graphical corruption and freezes)
  • see #JIT #1272

------ Other games ------

• No snags, with updated desmume
• No snags, with particular settings
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - Use advanced SPU logic and synchronous sound options or else sound and music are broken #1342
  • Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Use microphone samples #1327; Finetune SoftRasterizer "Depth Comparison Threshold"

• Text rendering is poor (toggle between opengl and softrasterizer renderers to get through game or use TXT hack in > 0.9.10 versions)
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor #1191
• Other rendering is poor (toggle between opengl and softrasterizer renderers to get through game)
• #SAVEANDLOAD Runtime snags, save in-game and reload frequently (most likely all timing bugs)
  • Digimon (freezes in conversation) #1040
  • Rune Factory (timing bugs accumulate; freezes) #1249
• #TIMING Runtime snags, requires timing tweaks
  • Bowser's Inside Story - Very sensitive to timing. Try "Enable Advanced Bus-level Timing". See #1156

• #JIT Runtime snags, JIT-related (change jit/recompiler blocksize or disable jit/recompiler)
  • Warioware Touched (nonplayable(?) behavioural bugs) #1178
  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (graphical bugs) #1275
  • Final Fantasy IV (graphical bugs) #1180
  • Star Wars Revenge of The Sith (graphical bugs) #1179
  • Nintendogs (graphical bugs) #1371
  • Fossil Fighters - Champions (freezing) #1326
  • Starfy (graphical bugs) #1369
• #INCONSEQUENTIAL Inconsequential Bugs
  • New Touch Party Game (Title screen logo corrupted) #665

------ Homebrew ------

(When using 0.9.10, which is a turd, make sure you use "config > rom loading > load entirely to ram". Otherwise DLDI won't auto-patch and MPCF won't work.)

• No snags
  • DSCraft [ http://www.smealum.net/dscraft/ ] - Works fine. Use FAT version and MPCF (it's faster, and advanced users might get files to save, even).
• Snags
  • Herocat versus Univillain [ http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=58249 ] - Works fine via MPCF or GBAGAME; rom must be named uni.nds via MPCF due to hardcode in rom
  • R4 Firmware - Set Slot-1 Device R4, and specify the directory with your flash card firmware; Then load the NDS file which corresponds to the ROM contents of your flash card (we don't ship desmume with someone's copyrighted flash card roms)
• MPCF Tip - config > slot 2 > MPCF flash card device. Use path of loaded ROM, usually.