Robots w/Lasers

March 31, 2007

Eepinator

This is a basic EEPROM backup tool. Basically it lets you copy the save-games from your commercial game carts back and forth to your flashcart. It also supports using SRAM as storage, and if you have a gba cart in slot-2, and a flashcart in slot-1, you could copy the sram off the gba cart to your flashcart.

It has various transfer functions, basically what you see in this screenshot:

Hexdump is not implemented yet.

Download it here: eepinator.nds

UPDATE:If you’ve got only a slot-1 card, this tool may be useful to you:
savesender
It uploads your saves via WIFI to your pc, eliminating the problem slot-1 flashcard from the equation!

Filed under: Nintendo DS — davr @ 5:39 pm

March 28, 2007

Native file browse dialog in Apollo

I haven’t seen any examples on how to use the native OS browse dialogs for opening & saving files, so here’s a quick example.

Basically, the idea is to use the File (which extends FileReference) class, and pretend to upload or download files from the net, but not actually perform the action, and just grab the file’s path directly.

This app allows you to load a PNG or JPEG, apply a blur effect, then save it as a JPEG again. It requires the JPGEncoder from the AS3 corelib

Download BrowseExample.mxml (only works with Apollo, not in a browser etc)

Install BrowseExample.air
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Filed under: Apollo, Flash — davr @ 8:26 pm

March 21, 2007

Lyric Station - Apollo App

I saw this post by Marcos P. who created an app for searching for song lyrics. I took it and added a few small enhancements:

  • Download raw lyrics instead of html — saves bandwidth & time
  • Better layout — I take advantage of Flex’s layout capabilities to make the interface resizable
  • Partial match searching — If a song is not found, I call out to the search page in the lyrics wiki, and then parse the results. This allows to find songs if you don’t know the exact name, or miss a ‘the’, or to browse all songs by a certain artist

LyricStation.air — requires the Apollo Runtime Alpha 1 in order to use. AIR file also includes the source code.

Many thanks to Marcos for giving out the source! It’s a great learning experience to hack on other people’s code that they’ve already gotten started for you.

Filed under: flex, Apollo, Flash — davr @ 9:09 pm

March 17, 2007

Phidias - Replacement for Draw?

Someone has finally made a drawing app which can compete with mine!

* DLDI
* Saving & Loading to BMP
* Pencil and Brush tools
* Paint Bucket
* Blur tool
* Zooming — allows to draw an image 2x the size of the screen
* Undo/Redo
* Nice GUI

Things that it’s still missing which I had:
* Save & Load to PNG
* Save & Load to SRAM (for flashcart users, and slot-2 devices which have no DLDI)
* Slow paint fill — his just fills everything
* Nicer color picker — his makes you twiddle with R,G,B sliders

Give it a try!
Phidias

Filed under: Draw — davr @ 8:05 pm

March 8, 2007

Perry Bible Fellowship & Toothpaste For Dinner RSS Feeds

I’ve made some hand-rolled rss feeds, which display the comic images inline. Handy for reading the comics directly from your feed-reader, without having to click through to the site. (Useful if you have many comics and like to read them all at once)

http://davr.org/rss/tfd.php — Toothpaste For Dinner RSS

http://davr.org/rss/pbf.php — Perry Bible Fellowship RSS

And here are the other comics feeds already created by others, which I also subscribe to:

http://plasticboy.com/cgi-bin/doonesbury-rss.cgi - Doonesbury

http://www.ieatpaint.com/feeds/foxtrot.php - Foxtrot

http://feeds.feedburner.com/tapestrydilbert - Dilbert

http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml - XKCD

http://www.serversys852.com/tudza/vgcats.rdf.xml - VG Cats

Filed under: Uncategorized — davr @ 4:25 pm

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