-= What A Wonderful World =-: March 2008

Monday, March 24, 2008

Preparation for DS MoonShell Movies in DPG

NDSL is capable of playing movies with the homebrew applications developed for different types of clip formats. One of them is DPG, which is for MoonShell. Think back in previous time when I wanted to convert clips format to of different types, I used Super Convertor; it can transform among most of the common types, and most importantly, it is a freeware :) See their official website here.

However I find that the software (v2008.build.30 (Mar 22, 2008)) does not support Vista Home Premium at all. It turned my pc into a bluescreen with lots of words, and before I finished reading the first line, it reboot itself automatically. Perhaps anyone of you could share more information on this.

Since my current objective is to convert to MoonShell compatible clip format, someone actually recommended BatchDPG, a simple yet good tool for the only one type of transcoding.

BatchDPG
Image linked from CitizenDeleted-Dot-Com

To use the software, you need to install AviSynth and MS .NET 1.1 prior to the installation of BatchDPG. You can find all the links in their website here.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

DSLibris

All this while, I had been looking for an ebook reader for my NDSL with chinese encoding support. After a few attempts, I find that DSLibris is sort of what I am looking for.

PIC: EBook reading using DSLibris vertically (http://moonbooks.net)

The part that made me struggled the most is that DSLibris supports only *.xhtml and *.xht formats. I find myself not that talented in transforming my utf-8 *.txt files into xhtml with AbiWord and HTML Tidy and HTML-Kit. A little bit frustration pushed me towards to explore the manual that comes together with DSLbris in *.xht format. I notice that the structure of the content is rather easy to be implied on my *.txt files.

Let's make a simple and effective example. Say you want to have an ebook of title "Matt Is Cool", and the content of the book is as simple as "Yes we all do agree". What you need to do is,

1. Open up your notepad.
2. Key in below:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>

Matt Is Cool

</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<PRE>

Yes we all do agree

</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

3. Say if you want the ebook has the name "Bravo", click File > SaveAs, in the filename text field, type "Bravo.xht" (including both ") and click save.
4. Copy the file, i.e. Bravo.xht, to the root of your microSD memory card for your flashcard. And you're done.

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I find that it takes quite a while for DSLibris to load my ebook, which has a few hundreds of pages. It'd be good if it does not take me 10 minutes for just loading.

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You might want to check these out:
http://moonbooks.net/moonbooks/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndslibris/

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Hallo Nintendo

At last, I bought myself a real toy.

I went to Ikano again on 9th of March Sunday, visiting the gaming shop opposite the Popular bookstore. By seeing my sincerity and inner script saying "okay, you don't have to give too much discount but don't make me feel like i'm fooled", the boss is kind enough to offer me the ndsl in black at rm550. On the day, I brought back the ndsl and a black pouch at extra rm25.

My ndsl was far from being practically playable, it still needs its friends Miss Flashcard, Edge and Mr MicroSD, which I have both ordered online separately.

However, things went badly when the website I ordered Edge informed me that the card is out of stock unexpectedly, and I have to choose to either keep waiting, choose to get N5, another card from R4 family, or to get refunded. To not further waiting for the possibly long delivery, I chose to cancel the order. The procedure is rather simple, write them an email, and I saw the money in my account next day. I recommend this website (http://www.colorful-zone.com

).

Then quickly, I google crazily in internet and lowyat forum and cari forum to seek if anyone can get me the card fast and cheap. Finally, I managed to get 3 people. RM130 for just the Edge card, I received Miss Flashcard on Wednesday night with the guy sending it to me himself, whom just stayed beside my block. Thanks god.

I knew my card will either come on Thursday or Friday. God treated me good enough. Right after the Thursday conference in the morning when I got back to my seat, a colleague of mine approached, and quickly I noticed him holding a *bling *bling envelope telling that our admin wanted him to pass me the stuff.

The story ends here. NDSL, Edge and MicroSD, they live a happy life onwards, awaiting for the arrivals of their cousins Orange Clear Case and Screen Protector next week. :)

*Claps

Monday, March 3, 2008

Treasure Hunt - NDSL

I cant really describe how long I have been dreaming of getting an NDSL. In fact, it appeared to be part of a leisure conversation with someone, then all of the sudden it grew up into a burning desire that pushed me towards the NDSL hunt on last Sunday in Ikano. (Don't ask me why Ikano. Thanks.)

First I approached the shop located at level2 right opposite the Popular book store. The place looked decent, and so did the boss and his nasi lemak. NDSL + R4 + 1gb memory card + screen protector + some free downloaded games, he offered it at rm800 after discount, or rm860 for the package with m3real + 2gb memory card. I expected to pay only rm750 max for the toy. But what's funny, I almost buy from the guy despite of the price :D

After taking lunch in RedBox, I then went to another shop in Cathay, which sells only console at rm560, and he doesn't sell any flashcard. The treasure hunt came to the real end after watching a movie, when I finally decided to leave the treasure for another week, so that I can get myself calmed and do further survey.

According to them who contributed a lot in telling me all these, rm560 is kind of reasonable considering the location of the shop, in relative to rm530 for Lowyat. And of course you can definitely find much cheaper price in Lowyat, but make sure you open your eyes as wide as possible against the hidden trap.

I was targeting on m3real previously, but some told me that DSTT and EDGE load games much faster than m3. This means the choice is between either of these with each card at around rm120~rm150. There are also quite a few of the websites that they recommended to order the card from. The best solution for me is probably to purchase the console myself at the shop, and order the card online. I think I'll go for EDGE for its better user interface. Any more contribution is all welcomed.

Review for DSTT: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=69748

Review for EDGE: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=74099

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