http://www.cryptosystem.org Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:32:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you haven't noticed by now, other commitments have reduced the time I have to work on projects like PicoDriveDS. My original intent was just to show that DS was capable of Genesis emulation at >1fps (and learn a bit about the DS hardware in the process of porting), and ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2008/08/picodriveds-status-update/ I'm aware that FluBBa and pepsiman have already written BIOS dumpers, but neither of these work well with modern carts (i.e. Slot-1 carts), and no source was available. So I whipped up my own ARM7/ARM9 BIOS dumper that should work on any cart supported by DLDI: [http://www.cryptosystem.org/projects/nds/biosdumper/](http://www.cryptosystem.org/projects/nds/biosdumper/) Thanks to Martin Korth for ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2007/02/libfatdldi-enabled-ds-bios-dumper/ PicoDriveDS 0.1.7 is up! Changes: * Updated for DKA r20 and latest libnds. * Switched to libfat with [DLDI](http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/) support. * Fixed bug where select key must be released quickly in order to go back to file selection menu. * Appended ROM check now only happens ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2007/02/picodriveds-017/ With Slot-1 DS flash carts, you sometimes want to boot a GBA cart in Slot-2. There's probably something already out there for this, but I couldn't find one so I made a small and simple [GBA mode switcher](http://www.cryptosystem.org/projects/nds/gbaswitch.nds). It uses the setting you've selected in your DS firmware to determine ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2007/01/simple-gba-mode-switcher/ I've decided to go ahead and post my entry to [the Second Annual Drunken Coders Christmas Game Competition](http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo/compo.htm). I started working on it pretty late, so it's not as polished as I would like, but I think it's still enjoyable.   [Grab it here](http://www.cryptosystem.org/projects/nds/dc2006/). http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2007/01/2006-christmas-coding-compo-entry/ PicoDriveDS 0.1.6 is up! Changes: * Added Max Media Dock FAT support (thanks chishm/Bonic) * Added EZ4 FAT support (thanks cory1492/Rudolph) * Reduced memory usage, 3MB ROMs should work again * Added EXPERIMENTAL support for using the additional RAM on SuperCard SD carts to load ROMs ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/11/picodriveds-016/ PicoDriveDS 0.1.5 is up! Changes: * Added support for appended ROMs. This should allow users with carts not supported by gba_nds_fat to use PicoDriveDS. Simply append a ROM to the PicoDriveDS binary, and it will run it (on *nix systems this can be done with "cat romname.ext >> ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/08/picodriveds-015/ PicoDriveDS 0.1.4 is up! This is mostly a minor bugfix/enhancement release while I continue work on the new renderer. Changes: * Fixed bug where R could scroll past end of file list * Switched to unified builds, now one build should work for all SD/CF carts ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/06/picodriveds-014/ PicoDriveDS 0.1.3 is up! Changes: * Added long filename support * Added support for going up a directory by pressing B * Added support for skipping ahead/back 5 files at a time with R/L * Added automatic save/load SRAM support Files are the same place as before ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/06/picodriveds-013/ Since my last post about PicoDriveDS, 0.1.2 has been released. Changes: * Switched from Cyclone 0.0080 to Reesy's Cyclone 0.0084 * Switched from software scaling to hardware scaling * Added three scale modes: Stretch, Aspect, and 1:1 * Cycle through scale modes with L * ... http://www.cryptosystem.org/archives/2006/06/picodriveds-012/