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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Gericom

Boot from Slot-2

Open trevor403 opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

I was wondering if there is anyway to boot to DS-Lite Slot-2 without patching the rom.

It looks like this is possible in code by changing LoadGame to allow a virtual entry for Slot-2 and then copying the game into memory.

However I would like to replace the DLDI patches with native Slot-2 reads if possible to avoid copying into memory. Is this possible with GBARunner2?

trevor403 avatar May 18 '20 17:05 trevor403

I suppose that would indeed be possible. We could probably make a mode to have it read from slot2 instead of sd

Gericom avatar May 18 '20 20:05 Gericom

Okay! I will try to get more familiar with the codebase and propose a set of changes that would allow this mode, possibly as a "Boot from slot2" folder entry on DS+DS-Lite models. We can break out the proposal into a series of PRs :+1:

trevor403 avatar May 19 '20 16:05 trevor403

I won't have time to do this for the next couple weeks.

trevor403 avatar May 25 '20 04:05 trevor403

Has this mode been implemented yet? I'd love to try it

DerJason avatar Oct 31 '22 12:10 DerJason