I've bought a new setup (computer, monitor, etc) from my brother yesterday. A huge upgrade from my 7 year old Desktop, lmao.

Tried installing Debian 12. Install went great, but I was getting Blackscreen everywhere immediately after the GRUB bootloader echoed some basic outputs (right before the graphics are initiated).

So as a personal note for future reference and the off chance somebody needs this.. here's how to fix it!

The issue:
Blackscreen or Very Dark Gray Screen (may flicker) after GRUB screen. Using CTRL+ALT+F2 (to switch to TTY mode) does *NOT* work (still Blackscreens)

The solution:
1. Power off. Then power on.
2. Once GRUB loads, press down on keyboard to stop it from auto-booting
3. Navigate down on keyboard to pre-select  "Advanced Options for..."  Do *NOT* press Enter. Just be hovered over it
4. Press e on your keyboard to bring up GRUB's built in editor for the Advanced Options
5. The config file to how Grub will boot Debian will be shown
6. Using the arrow keys, navigate until you see the following...
quiet
7. Change that text to now be this...
quiet nomodeset
8. Now press F10 to save and exit. This will apply the new config file for the next boot *ONLY*.
9. You should be at a screen where you can select to boot regular Debian 12 or Debian 12 in recovery mode.
10. Choose regular Debian 12
11. Debian 12 will boot but using BIOS graphics.
12. Log in as root and open a terminal, run the following commands
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install nvidia-detect
13. Once nvidia-detect has been installed, run it...
nvidia-detect
14. The program will output a list of package(s), that you will need to install. For me it was just nvidia-drivers. You may have more or different packages
15. Install all the packages that were listed!!!
16. Once all packages are installed, reboot your computer.
17. GRUB will be back to using the original/default config file and you should now see that the graphics are fixed once Debian 12 boots.

Is there a code that provides Max Collision. I mean a code where if you bump into someone, they are send flying off instantly.

This is the story of a cheat code I wanted to make, was unable to make, and the hack-y solution I came up with to get around it.

In 4P mode, I was looking for a way to jump back to the character selection screen after each race, that way in a tournament setting where the players change each race, you wouldn't need to quit to the main menu each time.  As you probably know, normal behavior is that after each race, you press "next race", and it goes to the cup selection screen assuming you want to play again with the same character/vehicle selections.

I started out by trying to figure out the instruction where that menu - the cup selection screen - is loaded after you press next race.  Using this list, I was able to find that the cup selection menu is referred to as 6E, so I went to work with some excruciating dynamic analysis, going frame by frame until I found something that was writing 6E.  Good news, I did!  8070ca50 contains stw r30, 0x0004 (r29), and r30 contains 6E after you press next race.  Furthermore, r9 = 17 when you're accessing the cup selection screen from a new match, and r9 = 5 when you're accessing it from the "Next Race" button.  So you'd think I could just write a code to use load instruction on r30 before that 6E is written, and put something like 6B (Character Select) instead, but that didn't work.  The byte gets written successfully, but the game still goes into the cup selection screen.

It was at this point that I realized, maybe I can do this without affecting game logic at all.  I'm going to be using Dolphin for the tournament anyway, so what if, instead of a cheat code, I just loaded a state when that 8070ca50, r9 == 5 breakpoint hit?  I could just use Python to watch dolphin.log, and send a hotkey to load a state that jumps to the character select screen.

So....

• NTSC-U  8070ca50
  
• PAL 0x807144f4
  
• NTSC-J 0x80713b60
  
• NTSC-K 0x8070289c
  

Not even sure if I can call myself the creator of this one, since it basically just rips the activator out of Diamond's Press Button to Reset to Title Screen and puts it at an insertion address that I found.  The cup selection screen can be accessed from a bunch of different ways.  If r9 = 5, that means the cup selection screen was accessed from pressing "Next Race" after a race.  If r9 = 17, the cup selection screen was accessed from the starting a new grand prix or versus race and selecting your character, vehicle, and drift options.  This code checks for the first scenario.  Not ported, but here it is, for NTSC-U Only:

C270CA50 00000006
93DD0004 2C090005
41820008 48000020
3D80809B 618CD508
806C0000 3D808060
618C4CD8 7D8803A6
4E800021 00000000

Source Code:

Trying to find a good insertion point for an event that doesn't really have any numbers associated with it, and isn't really triggered by anything other than normal game function - the opening "course overview" cutscene that plays at the beginning of each race.  The eventual idea is that I want to prevent the player from being able to skip this cutscene.  I'm guessing I can either nop out the function that skips it, or maybe find a way of preventing input while the scene is active.

The trouble is I'm unsure how to find the insertion point for something like this.  It's not an item, it doesn't really have to do with regular gameplay.  I tried putting a breakpoint on my controller to see if I could maybe figure out how the instruction is being executed when you skip the cutscene, but nothing I tried seemed to provide anything that made sense.  How would I go about finding the right insertion point?

Any tips greatly appreciated, thank you!

Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere, but I haven’t been able to find any documentation on this. What exactly does the “condition” box do inside Dolphin’s breakpoint menu?

Stop Time [Ro]

This code will "stop time" with a press of a button, quite literally. In other words, when this code is enabled, "everything" will "freeze", EXCEPT YOU - Items, CPUs, objects, timer,, UI animations and other elements will completely freeze/stop, EXCEPT FOR YOUR KART! You will be able to control your kart and throw stationary items while everything is frozen, since CPUs will be frozen you can abuse them by placing items in front of them or hitting or bumping them then unfreezing time, all actions done while frozen will be done after unfreezing. It is hard to explain, it is better to watch the demonstration video of the code by clicking here (poor showcase video). Press the set activator, the code will enable, press it again, the code will disable.

Unfortunately, this code is incomplete, there are elements I wanted to implement that I couldn't find or had issues and I have no more time or interest to look into these. These elements are:

Remove Voice Delay [Sponge]

Removes the delay between character voice lines and removes the limit of how many can play at once. Based on a code by Dea.

This affects both you and opponent characters. To make it only affect you, remove the second line of the code.

PAL
04864ACC 3BE0FFFF
04864ABC 60000000


NTSC-U
0486069C 3BE0FFFF
0486068C 60000000

NTSC-J
04864138 3BE0FFFF
04864128 60000000

NTSC-K
04852E8C 3BE0FFFF
04852E7C 60000000

See Bullet Bills in Online Battle [Sponge]

Allows you to see other people using bullet bills in Battle mode during online play. Not useful without some sort of bypass for the item point crash.

PAL
0458D9EC 38800000

NTSC-U
045871C8 38800000

NTSC-J
0458D36C 38800000

NTSC-K
0457BA44 38800000