SuperFW: a (beta) custom firmware for Supercard


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This is a Work-In-Progress firmware, currently in a Beta-ish state, getting closed to a stable condition. There are still bugs here and there (please report them so I can fix them :P). Use at your own risk!

The website / documentation is at https://superfw.davidgf.net/
The github source release is not there yet, I expect it will happen in the next weeks.

The current version is 0.12. Feature work is mostly complete, working on fixing bugs, testing, and some UI/translation work.
This firmware does not support supercard lite, there's no plan for support yet (don't even own one and they are hard to get these days). Donations are gladly accepted :)

Features:
- Rich nice UI
- Support for non-latin characters (ext latin, greek, cyrilic, japanese/chinese)
- FAT16/32 and exFat support (recommended for non-ascii filenames)
- Auto patching (WaitCNT, save, RTC, in-game-menu/addon) most games
- Patch engine for unknown games (automatic, yet slow, patching for all).
- Support for save management
- Direct saving (for flash/eeprom games), no more save on reboot!
- Support 128KB flash (using direct saving or ingame menu)
- In-game menu (supports reset, saving, RTC, etc).
- Cheats (using the In-game menu)
- Saving backups (saves #N last savegames)
- Flashing updates (GBA and NDS)
- Support for NDS mode, works well with TWL++ and ndsbootstrap to play NDS games.
- Minimal file management (ie. delete files)
- Multilanguage support (EN/ES/CA/IT/DE/FR/UK/RU/ZH)

Pending features / Coming up / TODO:
- Character composition (ie. for Korean support?)
- Release 1.0 on github!


Installing instructions:

Note: please backup your firmware (ie. the original fw) before flashing stuff, otherwise you won't be able to go back!

- Place two copies on your SD CARD: one named superfw.gba and the other superfw.fw
- Launch superfw.gba from whatever loader you use (ie SuperFW, SCFW, the original supercard menu...)
- Move to the info menu (using the right shoulder button) and press the combo specified at the bottom to unlock flasing
- Go back to the browser menu and locate superfw.fw file. Follow the steps to flash it.
- Reboot your GBA!

You can use an NDS to flash as well, or to unbrick your firmware if you screwed up! This tool allows to backup your firmware too. Find it here: https://github.com/davidgfnet/superfw-nds-flasher-tool/releases

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