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Menu Display Check Tool for Nintendo 3DS Networked RIDs

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Package Content
  3. Notes
  4. Advance Preparations
  5. How to Update Title Information
  6. How to Run the Tool
  7. Verification Methods
  8. Errors
  9. Checking Videos (North America Only)
  10. Known Bugs
  11. Revision History

1 Introduction

This package contains a tool for checking whether or not the content recorded in the RID demo's ROM information file will display correctly on the Nintendo 3DS networked RID Menu.
Using it, you can change the name of the triMeta.xml file output by the macros in the RID demo ROM information file to TR_000000.xml, and check the screen display in a development environment.

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2 Package Content

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3 Notes

Only use this tool to check how title information is displayed on the RID Menu of Nintendo 3DS networked RIDs.
This tool is not for debugging behavior.

If there are any abnormalities in the SD Card data, the program may hang.
Currently there is no way to fix this. If a hang occurs, redo the checks from the beginning.

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4 Advance Preparations

The following preparations are required before using this tool.

  1. Prepare an SD Card.
  2. Place a folder entitled SDImagesCIS directly beneath the SD Card's root folder.
  3. Replace the applicable files with the development title's .xml files, refer to 5 How to Update Title Information.
    If you are using banner files (.ban) or package images (.pac1), rename and replace those as well.
  4. Insert the SD Card into a development system.
    Warning: Since a log will be output, you must ensure the SD Card is not write-protected.
  5. Write the ROM (.cci file) for the corresponding market to a FLASH card.

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5 How to Update Title Information

The following sample files are contained within the SDImageCIS folder.
Replace with each development title file as necessary. Rename them and perform the necessary executions and checks.
TR_000000.xml Title Meta-information (xml)
TR_000000.ban Banner File (bnr)
TR_000000.cd Content Descriptor Image (jpeg) (Only used for North American version)
TR_000000.mof1 Movie File (moflex) (Only Used for North American version)
TR_000000.pac1 Package Image (jpeg)
TR_000000.rel Related Software Image (jpeg)


  Warning: Do not alter the following files:

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6 How to Run the Tool

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7 Verification Methods

When you launch the RID Menu, the following menu will be displayed.

In order to check whether or not the title information and images are displaying correctly, select Nintendo Recommended (おすすめソフト for the Japanese version). Then, from the title list screen, select your title.

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8 Errors

If there are problems with the XML file, an error will be displayed on the lower screen of the Nintendo 3DS during boot-up. Example: ERROR_PACKAGEMANAGER_XML
In this case, a log file (cis_log.txt) is output to the SD Card's root folder.
Below are common errors.

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9 Checking Videos (North America Only)

With this tool, you can play back video files as though they were playing on an RID, and check for any issues with playback (such as sound skipping).
If any problems with playback occur while using this tool, you must make fixes to the video files appropriately to remove them.

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10 Known Bugs

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11 Revision History