DISCLAIMER

* It's up to you whether you want to do this or not, I'm not responsible for damage*





This is a guide on how to forward *basically have a shortcut on the home menu to the game* Anti-piracy and dpad patch at the same time.

Possible issues you may have experienced:

-A white box with no title with a text showing up telling you to turn off the console

-Patching the game in the first place

-And some others may be solved as well *I ran out of possible issues*

1. Get the game
   
   
2. Download: the dpad patch:

Download Delta Patcher:

Download the forwarder:

Download DS-Scene tool: *your
virus detector might go off*

3. Duplicate your game *this will be important for later*

4. Open DS-Scene tool and put one of your games in and AP-patch it

5. Open Delta Patcher choose your AP-patched game and the right xdelta patch *depending on the game region you
have, it either end with ...eu.xdelta or us.xdelta*

IMPORTANT TURN OFF *checksum validation*

6. Take the now dpad and Anti-piracy patched game to wherever you wanna store them on your SD

7. Put the game you copied earlier *without any patches* in the same directory

8. Run the forwarder and put in the vanilla game *no patches* and select auto-set rom directory

8. Press on the game and edit the directory, by copying your patched game's name *with the .nds*

This will lead to the creation of the cia without being corrupted by the ap patch

9. Put the file on your sd card and install it with FBI.



In case you encounter any sorts of issues fell free to comment or contact me via private message me at u/0BYK0

I had to remove all links becaus im a newbie if you find yourself unable to find these file, go over to my reddit the links will be there u/0BYK0

*The programs I asked you to download weren't created by me*

Troubleshooting:

If that happens, you didn't link the rom properly.
So here is it again.
Hit right click on the patches game and to crtl + V in the forwarder.

 

[Razor1993]

Thanks to this post, I finaly found out that there is a fricking DPad Patch for the DS Zelda Games
Thanks

 

[OrGoN3]

Thanks to this post, I finaly found out that there is a fricking DPad Patch for the DS Zelda Games
Thanks

They've existed basically since day 1. Nothing new.

 

[Sleeprage]

If anyone wants to do this for me and send me a link or PM I'd appreciate it I've been trying but can't seem to get it to work.

 

[Ibykl]

If anyone wants to do this for me and send me a link or PM I'd appreciate it I've been trying but can't seem to get it to work.

Do you know what part you cant can't get to work?

 

[Raman1246]

Thanks man, never knew the dpad patch existed

 

[DaFixer]

Nice guide, a dpad patch for this game is so nice.

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Thanks man, never knew the dpad patch existed

There are more:
http://www.romhacking.net/?page=hacks&platform=23&category=5&perpage=20&startpage=3

 

[KaioAzevedo]

Well, i used this and worked

Its basically the two patchs in one. Its running in my 3ds.

 

[CMDreamer]

Well, i used this and worked

Its basically the two patchs in one. Its running in my 3ds.

Any special patching requirements? Like a specific ROM Rev for it to work?

EDIT:

Tried three diferent game versions (Revisions) and none worked with the file you provided.

Please, when sharing this type of content, try being as much descriptive as you can about patch file requirements.

 

[Sypherone]

As i know the AP patch is not necassary anymore, as Twilightmenu by nds_ bootstrap will patch it automatically.

I allplied once the dpad-patch on the game in another thread. Check this Thread -> Zelda Spirit Tracks + dpad patch

I can confirm, patching a EU rom for D-Pad support and playing it with them in Twilightmenu++ works.
Downloaded the files from the github source, added the mentioned required sources, also the rom without AP patch and ran the compile.bat from commandline.

Path for required sources:
Folder/unpack/input.nds
Folder/Folder/unpack/ndstool.exe
Folder/blz.exe
Folder/armpips.exe

Run in commandline.\compile.bat