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Poking at the Wii's inner workings with a soldering iron. You break it, you get to keep all of the pieces.
Re: Playing Sounds - 15 years ago
Also do not forget to check the samplerate of the decoded data, libmad for one does not resample it for you. But I think that asnd can do that.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Playing Sounds - 15 years ago
The problem is that all decoders uses channel 0. And you can't make them not do that with a simple setting, you would need to do some coding to hook them up to asnd properly.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Playing Sounds - 15 years ago
You are going to need a mixing library, asnd is the one people are recommending, and you are going to need a decoder library unless you are planing on storing the music uncompressed, there is not much choice between the decoders, there is generally only one that has been hacked up to use asnd for each encoding.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Wifi Debugging - 15 years ago
I could have sworn that someone did this before.by henke37 - Coding
Re: GX texture problem - 15 years ago
In case you want to use memalign and a nontrivial constructor (but you don't need that here), use placement new.by henke37 - Coding
Re: libmii - 15 years ago
it is a bitfield. And you can actually just use the existing struct from the wiki.by henke37 - Coding
Re: multithreading - 15 years ago
Nah, those are quite easy to make up on the spot. It's figuring out the waveforms used that is the hard part. It's just the four core ones, sine-, square-, triangle- and sawtoothwave. If you know how to how stuff on the screen, you can quickly adapt the basic principles of that to generating sound waves.by henke37 - Coding
Re: GRRLIB w/ OpenGL Compile Issue - 15 years ago
That wouldn't do squat, since this is a linking error and not a compilation error.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Web Browser - 15 years ago
Also, in later libogc versions, there is a function to launch the internet channel, if installed, to a specific url.by henke37 - Coding
Re: wait and time code - 15 years ago
Yeah, it is the same on all consoles, that have the same framerate. Guess what? Not all consoles are using 60 Hz at all times. Some games did not handle this very well. At least now we have PAL60 to solve that issue. But then again, there is games that explicitly refuse to run in PAL60, they are scared of people paying for their game and using it in another place.by henke37 - Coding
Re: wait and time code - 15 years ago
Yeah, it is fairly common to use framerate based timers in simple games. But they are only a good option if you honestly think that the framerate can be archived. And you really need to have an upper limit on the framerate, as old games exampliefies what happens otherwise, they are unplayable!by henke37 - Coding
Re: SImple Question - 15 years ago
Personally, I recommend thinking about your choice for the joystick dataformat. Not only can you get an angle, you can also get the real read x and y values. Use whatever that makes your math easy.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Making a Head-to-Head Online Game - 15 years ago
I have only one thing to add: Never forget that TCP is a stream protocol. This means that you can not assume anything about how the data is received. Buffer everything you have read until you know that you have a full logical unit of data, and don't forget that the buffer might just have more than unit of data in it. For ways to know when a logical unit of data is done, there is three mainby henke37 - Coding
Re: Newbie Question - IRQ Descriptions - 15 years ago
Start a thread with a way high priority, it will be run thanks to some timer irq. Just remember to not do a busy loop, that would stall the rest of the program.by henke37 - Coding
Re: DNS Lookup - 15 years ago
Just don't forget all the telnet protocol features while you are at it. Such as RFC 1097. The telnet protocol actually is a protocol, with some special codes that you need to support.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Threads - 15 years ago
The priority parameter decides what threads will run if more than one is in the runnable state. Only those with the highest one will run. No, those with lower priorities are never going to run. Of course, threads that isn't runnable (like waiting for I/O) doesn't count against the other threads.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Return to loader from exception crash? - 15 years ago
Just remember that the exception handler can make extremely few assumptions about the environment. It is not unlikely that the malloc memory heap has been corrupted.by henke37 - Coding
Re: devkitpro help - 15 years ago
It works by keeping track of state, receiving player actions, doing critical game logic and announcing the results.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Assert? - 15 years ago
It is part of libdb, it will trigger a break in the debugger, if any is connected. If not, it's a no op. It's pretty useful for catching errors as they are about to happen.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Assert? - 15 years ago
Don't forget the _break function and the __LINE__ and __FILE__ magic defines.by henke37 - Coding
Re: libntfs port possible? - 15 years ago
Thanks for wasting two good posts. He wants a ntfs driver ported, nothing else.by henke37 - Coding
Re: The decoder situation - 15 years ago
True, but how would you get the actual channel number? Surely you need it to do things like fading.by henke37 - Coding
Re: The decoder situation - 15 years ago
Yes it does, when you are the one actually interacting with it. When using one of the mentioned libraries, this is not the case.by henke37 - Coding
The decoder situation - 15 years ago
I might as well write it once instead of repeating it on IRC. I do not like the current situation for audio file playback. No, I do not dislike the ASND library, in fact, I like that people actually takes advantage of the available resources. The problem here is something else, things that the mixing library does not do. Yes, ASND is a mixing and output library. The problem is not with the ASNby henke37 - Coding
Re: What was the name of the effect? - 15 years ago
You mean like turning a rectangular brush with black paint around, slowly covering the picture?by henke37 - Offtopic
Re: This looks interesting.....(schematics included) - 15 years ago
Even I know that the statement about Linux is quite a big issue, it's simply not true. This looks like it's quite a lot of bogus info, not even I would do this kind of stuff. The goal of this picture is either to show that nintendo uses stock hardware (we know that the gpu is very heavily modified, integrated dsp and what not) so that scenario is not possible. The other scenario would bby henke37 - Hardware
Re: Nintendo Lan Adapter and HBC? - 15 years ago
You do know that the wii supports 3 connection profiles and pretty much all common wifi protocols, right?by henke37 - Homebrew General
Re: N00b here using the tutorials - 15 years ago
Who said that he couldn't just build his own .a file?by henke37 - Coding
Re: Saving and Loading Problem - 15 years ago
If you need to know exactly how long the string buffer needs to be, just bring out good old logarithms, log10(number)=number of digits. Just remember to account for the string terminator character too.by henke37 - Coding
Re: Syslog client - 15 years ago
I am sure that there was another IP using protocol like tcp, but with packets, and wikipedia seems to know of it.by henke37 - Coding