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spinal

I'm going to start coding a game!
4th April 2008

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Anyone who knows me, knows I am a big fan of Bill & Ted, so I'm doing a platform games about them.

spinal

Spinal Media Player 1.0
23rd February 2008

Here it is, what I like to call version 1.0.
I have made the converter look nice, and fixed a couple of bugs in the player. The best part being, you can now set the quality to 2 for both full and wide movies! if you want to set it to 1, I wont stop you, b*snip*

spinal

DSMovie player update
15th January 2008

So far, I'm getting 20 fps with this by lowering the video resolution to 256x128, this is done by cropping, rather than stretching, most of my test clips have been in widescreen anyway, but I'll think of something better later.
I now have the thing playin*snip*

spinal

NDS movie format...
5th January 2008

I have started working (initially on a movie converter) on the emc movie format for use with palib on the nds. I want to get my head around the format, and what better way to do that, than to code a converter for it and create a .emc for myself.
Currently*snip*

spinal

Wifi dongle dead :(
30th December 2007

I might not be online for hours at a time over the next few days, my nintendo wifi dongle has just died, so if argos is open womorrow, I'm off to buy a grmuine wifi router. I have very little installed on my pc, and only use it to serve the interned to my *snip*

spinal

latest menu news...
24th December 2007

I am working on an update for my menu, so far I have working, .gif (16colour) replacement icons for folder, back, txt, mp3 and nds file types, also 'quick' folders, pressing L and R will cycle through 3 preset folders, set in the .ini file. Also some short*snip*

spinal

DS flash cart dying...
23rd December 2007

For the past few months my flash card has been an R6Gold from neoflash, I got hold of a beta version of the card as a competition prize. It is a microSD based card with motion sensing capabilities, I would defiantly recommend these for DS homebrewers and i*snip*

spinal

Need advice on menu controls.
18th December 2007

If anyone here does not know, I'm coding a loverly loader menu for the DS. At the moment its working just fine, but I'm planning a couple more features for it and I need some advice on the controls.
Currently in the .ini file the user can set the default *snip*

spinal

Dead DS!!!!!
14th December 2007

How the hell can this happen to two coders on the same forum?! My DS is now broke :( it will not switch on, nor will it charge. I will be opening it up in the morning, I hope it is just one of the two main fuses blown, ill bridge them one at a time to see *snip*

spinal

eBook DS
20th November 2007

I have decided to make a decent go at finishing my txt reader. To make it a 'proper' release it is going to need some decent features, preferably to make it better than other ebook readers for the DS.
One thing I don't see happening is using TrueType fon*snip*

spinal

Simple DS text reader
13th November 2007

I have started a text reader for the DS, I hope yo eventually integrate it into my menu when it gets to a usable stage.
So far it reads text from a file one character at a time, and currently removes multiple line breaks ignoring single ones to wrap the t*snip*

spinal

latest project news
10th November 2007

nds menu

spinal

Menu needs an icon!
21st October 2007

OK, as my menu is coming closer to being releasable(again), I'm starting to get bored with the icon I have chose for it. so, I'm suggesting a sort of mini competition between you guys.
I would like you to create me a new icon for my program.
Rules -
1*snip*

spinal

I'm recoding my menu...
15th October 2007

Thats right, that cool looking menu I made for the DS doesn't always work (load things) so I'm re doing it. Mostly I'm thinking there are memory issues, but I don't know anything about DS hardware, nor do I know what Chishm's dldi loader does or how it doe*snip*

spinal

Menu 1.1
14th October 2007

Changes since menu 1.0
Background images are now changable, just place top.gif and bottom.gif in /menu_skin/
B pressed to exit a folder
Up/Down to skip the folder list (moves menu to where the files start)

spinal

Menu 1.0
11th October 2007

Here it is, with folders and everything.
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Menu 1.0
I can't guarantee it will work on everyones card, but it works on mine.
I have added detection of GBAMP and the use of its internal loader as the loader I'm using has stopped working on it*snip*

spinal

Homebrew Loader .01
1st October 2007

I have started over with the homebrew menu. I could not find the bug that was causing the sprites to mess up, so I started again. This time I started with the file list, rather than the gfx.
Currently, the menu is just that, a text list of filenames that *snip*

spinal

Homebrew Loader
8th September 2007

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I have recently started a small project. This time it's a loader menu for the nintendo DS. Currently it can launch homebrew applications and games from a GBAMP (GameBoy Advance Media Player) but I hope to eventually get a DLDI based loader w*snip*

spinal

Website finished!
28th August 2007

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Thats right, my girlfriend has just finished my website. Please feel free to have a look around and download my crap.
I recommend the C64 screensaver.
Tell me what you guys think.

spinal

Dead xbox 360 lives!
19th August 2007

Well, sort of.
A few weeks ago, a friend's 360 died so he got a new one. He then kindly gave me his old dead one! Why Microsoft released such a buggy system is beyond me. Anyway the problem with this particular one, was that if kept freezing after about 5*snip*

spinal

NDS Icon viewer (for nds)
12th August 2007

I finally got the icon viewer to work. It uses a sprite for the icon and normal text for the file info.
just drop it on your dldi compatible card with some .nds files in the root.
Press up or down to change the file your looking at.
(Linkage)

spinal

NDS icon...
8th August 2007

I have just managed to read the icon from a .nds file ON a DS! It will one day be used in some sort of homebrew loader. It doesn't tdo much yet, it loads the palette to the screens 8bit palette, then pixels the icon onto the screen.
My next step is to use*snip*

spinal

DiagnoSe (NDS app) updated a lot
23rd July 2007

I have just updated DiagnoSe and added some peoples suggestions.
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For more info go here. Don't worry, you don't need to sign up to download it, there is a link on the page.
All comments welcome.

spinal

DiagnoSe - Released
21st June 2007

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DiagnoSe, my homebrew DS tester is now released. you can get it at www.neoflash.com without signing up to the site.
Please tell me what you think.

spinal

I HATE windows!!!11111
15th June 2007

I am currently trying to install some hardware (a gba cart reader/writer) for use with my DS homebrew. But guess what! Windows has decided that the driver for it 'does not contain information about your hardware' It's the same driver i have always used for*snip*
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