Title Screen Bug 0.4.3

[Local-Toaster-Dealer]

intro works but it's slow as heck and when i skip it this happens it just shows me samus's model and when i touch anything i can hear the menu sound effects but i can't see the menu only samus's model

[MysteriousAeon]

Thanks for the report. This looks similar to the older compute-renderer failures we were debugging, but I don't want to assume it's the same bug yet.

Could you provide:

• your exact GPU model
• your Windows version

Also, please try one quick comparison from the extracted v0.4.3 folder.

Open CMD in the game folder and run:

set NDS_3D_RENDERER=soft && nds_runner.exe "bios" --interactive --rom "Metroid Prime Hunters.nds" --config "game.toml" --freebios --generated-firmware --boot direct

The important result is just:

• does the title screen/menu render normally with the software renderer?
• or do you still get the same Samus-only screen with menu sounds?

If software rendering fixes the missing menu, that will narrow this to the GPU/compute presentation path. If it happens there too, I'll look at the shared presentation/title-screen path instead.

No logs or additional testing are needed yet.

[Local-Toaster-Dealer]

i tried doing what you said about the command with powershell and it gave me this error i opened powershell in the game folder fyi At line:1 char:26

• set NDS_3D_RENDERER=soft && nds_runner.exe "bios" --interactive --rom ...

•                      ~~
  

The token '&&' is not a valid statement separator in this version.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidEndOfLine
as for my gpu and windows version here is a screenshoot of my specs,i also use windows 10 ltsc

[MysteriousAeon]

Thanks, that helps. The command I gave was for CMD, so the PowerShell error is just a shell syntax issue.

Your system is:

• AMD A4-3310MX
• Radeon HD 6480G
• 4 GB RAM
• Windows 10 LTSC

Since you're already in PowerShell in the game folder, please run these two lines instead:

$env:NDS_3D_RENDERER="soft"
.\nds_runner.exe "bios" --interactive --rom "Metroid Prime Hunters.nds" --config "game.toml" --freebios --generated-firmware --boot direct

Then just let me know:

• does the title screen/menu render normally now?
• or do you still only see Samus while the menu sounds are audible?

The software renderer will probably be slow on this hardware, so performance is not important for this test. I only need to know whether the missing menu itself is fixed.

[Local-Toaster-Dealer]

problem still persists and here is the result of the command you gave me for powershell [wifi_net] Winsock initialized (WSAStartup 2.2) before boot()
[network] disabled (--network off): no host networking backend will be attached
[gpu3d] renderer policy: auto (preferred: OpenGL 4.3 compute)
[gpu3d] threaded soft renderer: on
[bios] FREEBIOS (opt-in, no dumps): arm9 4096 bytes SHA-1 b85d6afdbf65d87c9ab11d4e7fb5ecfd6192ccf8, arm7 16384 bytes SHA-1 eaab9b21610978f05a0eb14a9c8ff345698f56a2
[identity] persisted MAC 00:09:BF:FB:30:C8 from bios/generated-identity.bin
[firmware] GENERATED image (opt-in, no dump), 131072 bytes, SHA-1 f0a48ae72189f6d1632ca7ac3928eafd355626b9
[load] freebios arm9: 4096 bytes, SHA-1 ok
[load] freebios arm7: 16384 bytes, SHA-1 ok
refusing to start: cartridge image is missing or truncated

[mstan]

@MysteriousAeon Thanks for checking into this! I suspect there could be a regression introduced into some of the ndsrecomp engine work I've been working on. I'd appreciate your support in continuing debugging this, but I'll also take up a workstream to see what I can find on my end as well.

[MysteriousAeon]

Sure, I'll keep helping narrow this down.

One important detail from the last test: the software-renderer run did not actually reach the title screen. The direct runner stopped earlier with:

refusing to start: cartridge image is missing or truncated

So we still do not have a valid soft-vs-compute comparison yet.

@Local-Toaster-Dealer, since you are using PowerShell in the game folder, please run:

Get-ChildItem -File *.nds

Then paste the output here.

Once I know the exact ROM filename in your folder, I'll give you one corrected software-renderer command. No other testing is needed yet.

[Local-Toaster-Dealer]

Directory: C:\Users\Ahmad Ashraf Alsaed\Downloads\MetroidPrimeHuntersRecomp-windows-x64-v0.4.3

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

---

-a---- 12/24/1996 10:32 PM 67108864 Metroid Prime - Hunters (USA).nds

here ya go bud