Turns out, the memory was perfectly fine!

I need to double check, but I think the big Grid[] array might be having issues.

I said I was going to work on a Mini Clampett sequel this morning, so I cloned the project folder and opened it up, and then went "Hey, I bet I know what's wrong with the 3DS Engine.."

3DS Homebrew is all kinds of broke, right now, and I'm doing my nut trying to figure it out. I decided, last night, after the millionth crash of the day, that I'd instead focus on something else for the rest of the week.

Bah, humbug! After spending hours writing a lovely function, the other week, which takes .png images and chops them down to 1/16th their size, so that they work better in the 3DS's memory, it seems that the memory required to load those initial images before chopping is actually too much for the poor little 3DS to cope with. After having tried the same engine with the same images, but pre-scaled down, the whole framework is running a LOT better. This means that.. A ) I'm going to have to do al...

Yeah, I really don't have a lot of RAM to play with in the 3DS, do I!?!

It's weird how many people have flooded my Twitter Inbox offering help on how to get various emulators and pirated games to run on my 3DS. I appreciate that most people hack their 3DS for such purposes, but I'm not that guy. I'm LITERALLY only doing this for my own games!

Today's challenge.. Can't seem to get colours working. Hmm..

It works, but like I said this morning, I really need to fix the scaling quite a bit to get everything working properly. But, yeah.. Our familiar Framework Menu! Woot!

Can't seem to get a grip on the texture switching stuff. I've started a topic at GBATemp, and hopefully someone out there can figure this one out. Not sure. In the meantime, the sprite-changing is at least working in "Immediate" mode, so.. until I can fix this, that'll just have to do. The next step will be to have a play with my scaling routines. Although this one single test has a decent-enough line of text, it's not exactly the world's most readable font, and it's all ki...

Today's task will be to try and get multiple textures to work. I'm fairly sure it should be an easy task. They really can't have made it too complicated, right!?

OK, step 2 complete.. Only took about a week!!

If I toggle on the texture drawing, the three squares disappear. At this point, it could be any of the following. 1. The Loader isn't loading the images correctly. 2. The drawing routine's slightly wrong. 3. The textures aren't showing up on the back side, and my camera's pointing the wrong way. 4. I just plain don't know what the hell I'm doing!! Any of the above might be causing the issue. Today will be a day of experimentation, and a heck of a lot of luck!! (Apolog...

Three little squares..

Had a rather frustrating day of GameDev yesterday, as I struggled to get any further than the blue screen.

Although the screen is still just blue, I have at least managed to get it to now load the image data without the emulator freaking out and throwing up as many errors. The nasty looking purple error messages are gone, and all the errors that remain appear to be showing up on the examples, so I'm not "too" worried about that. Next step is figuring out why on earth the images still aren't showing up on the screen. Hmmm..

OK, today's aim is obvious. Extra Squishiness in the Bug Department!!

Success!!

I did a rather large bulk of coding, yesterday. Enough to get the top-screen on the emulator to finally change colour!

All appears to be going OK on the 3DS front, but now I need to take the loaded image data and shift it over to video-ram. And this is where things start to break down!

I can now launch, quit, relaunch, requit, re-relaunch, home, resume, sleep, resume, and quit the 3DS Framework, over and over, without it crashing!! Turns out, I had "gfxInitDefault();" occurring twice. Such is the chaos of my framework, took me bloomin' ages to find the bug.

So, the R4 3DS i Gold + (or something) turned up last night, at around 6pm, and I spent the next two and a half hours faffing about to get the Homebrew Launcher installed onto my old 3DS.

This racing game really doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Spent most of today rewriting the track converter tool.

I've been trying my best to work on the car racer thing, but after the past few days of tweaking the 3DS Homebrew stuff, the racer's certainly been neglected.

After a bit of a breakthrough, this morning, I've now got THIS displaying on the 3DS. This is potentially a good sign. Now all I have to do is code all the stuff that gets sprites and sounds loaded into memory, and then outputted from the 3DS somehow. Should be a cakewalk!!

I'm currently unsure whether I can get the framework running on 3DS at all, or at least, not in it's current condition.