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Ok, here’s a new dscent binary with the filetst1.nds fix applied.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

Edit : It is apparently working now Thanks to “Ivan” and “navI” for testing.

It seems I didn’t upload the right version, sorry about that. Made a new zipped with a few different files to test this time.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

Again, please post results.

Ok so the last test wasn’t so good but a step in the right direction. Here’s a new one :

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

Post results, thanks.

I received some good reports after the last file tester, so I applied the hack to dscent. Nothing else is changed in this version. Post results, thanks.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

New file tester :

• now writes all data in the file filetest.log, to more easily post results
• Added a (ugly) hack to see if it can fix the problem.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

First screen shot of the touch keyboard :

New version of file tester, more information output. Please everyone having the palette.256 error, download, run and post your results. It will help me isolate the problem.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

Here’s a program I wrote to test the file on the ds itself. Will test file length, md5 checksum and a few other things. Might help towards finding the cause of the palette.256 error.

Edit : link removed, file tests are done.

Here are the new links for the files, they will now hosted here (this is the same version that was posted on the gbadev forum).

dscent-bin.zip
dscent-src.zip

I’m still working on the customizable soft key thing / touch keyboard but it’s on hold right now, I have a bunch of school stuff todo.I will also make another debug version to try and figure out the problem where it can’t find the palette.256 file.

Stay tuned.

General information to get this working

Put all files on in root directory :

dscent.nds
descent.pig
descent.hog
player.plr


The shareware files will NOT work, they vary too much from the latest registered patched version.

Known working files MD5 checksums :

descent.hog :
C792A21A30B869B1EC6D31AD64E9557E (6856701 bytes)
699B687924ECF7E880F87EEF5768BC59 (6856701 bytes)

descent.pig :
FA7E48B7B1495399AF838E31AC13B7DA (4920305 bytes)
Error messages :
“Error: Cannot open file DESCENT.TEX or DESCENT.TXB”
The descent.hog file is not in the root directory.

“Error: Can’t open palette file ”
I currently do not know what is causing this, looking into it.

If the touchscreen does not work in-game, the player.plr file is not in the root directory.