Hi everyone. I have been working on a few things for the DSpico for the last weeks and I
wanted to share them here.
Pico Launcher Enhanced is my fork of Pico Launcher. It keeps everything the
original does and adds:
The last release was mostly bug fixes. The worst one: the favorites filter could come up
completely empty. Marks were looked up by the game internal code first, so on a renamed
rom the top screen found the heart but the browser filter, which only sees file names,
could not, and the game just vanished from the list. A user reported it and sent me his
gamedata.json, that file is what let me find it. Saving is also atomic now, before that a
power loss in the middle could leave you with an empty file and no favorites at all.
Install is the same as the original, rename LAUNCHER.nds to _picoboot.nds in the root of your
SD card. Your existing gamedata.json carries over.
https://github.com/rasalopa/pico-launcher-enhanced
PicoDex is a browser tool for the SD card. No install and no backend, you open the
card and it manages covers, folder icons and file associations. It also tells you which
Pico Loader release your card is running, and warns you when the files in _pico did not
all come from the same one, which happens if you update by copying only the files you
think changed. And for a retail nds game it shows what the loader will do at boot, if an
anti piracy fix matches your exact rom revision, the save type and size, and any game
patch. Chromium only sorry (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera).
https://rasalopa.github.io/picodex/
The board LEDs, the DSpico board has two status leds that the firmware leaves
dark. I made a firmware fork that uses them, blue for SD card activity and red when the
firmware cannot start an SD transfer it needs, which are the places where it already
freezes with no visible sign. Here it is reading, and then saving:
This one needs compiling the firmware yourself, so I also sent it upstream as a pull
request with the feature behind a build flag that is off by default. If it gets merged
it would be there for everyone without a custom build.
https://github.com/LNH-team/dspico-firmware/pull/26
Everything is open source. Thanks to the LNH team for the DSpico and for making all of
this possible in the first place. If something is broken or you want something, issues
are the fastest way to reach me.
wanted to share them here.
Pico Launcher Enhanced is my fork of Pico Launcher. It keeps everything the
original does and adds:
- Favorites (press X) and completed marks (hold X), with filters in the app bar
- Play time, launch count and last played date per game
- A recently played panel and a statistics screen (START)
- Game deletion from the launcher, with confirmation
- Brightness control for the DS Lite backlight
- Per folder background music, and night variants for theme backgrounds
- Game count of the current folder on the top screen, and random launch with SELECT
The last release was mostly bug fixes. The worst one: the favorites filter could come up
completely empty. Marks were looked up by the game internal code first, so on a renamed
rom the top screen found the heart but the browser filter, which only sees file names,
could not, and the game just vanished from the list. A user reported it and sent me his
gamedata.json, that file is what let me find it. Saving is also atomic now, before that a
power loss in the middle could leave you with an empty file and no favorites at all.
Install is the same as the original, rename LAUNCHER.nds to _picoboot.nds in the root of your
SD card. Your existing gamedata.json carries over.
https://github.com/rasalopa/pico-launcher-enhanced
PicoDex is a browser tool for the SD card. No install and no backend, you open the
card and it manages covers, folder icons and file associations. It also tells you which
Pico Loader release your card is running, and warns you when the files in _pico did not
all come from the same one, which happens if you update by copying only the files you
think changed. And for a retail nds game it shows what the loader will do at boot, if an
anti piracy fix matches your exact rom revision, the save type and size, and any game
patch. Chromium only sorry (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera).
https://rasalopa.github.io/picodex/
The board LEDs, the DSpico board has two status leds that the firmware leaves
dark. I made a firmware fork that uses them, blue for SD card activity and red when the
firmware cannot start an SD transfer it needs, which are the places where it already
freezes with no visible sign. Here it is reading, and then saving:
This one needs compiling the firmware yourself, so I also sent it upstream as a pull
request with the feature behind a build flag that is off by default. If it gets merged
it would be there for everyone without a custom build.
https://github.com/LNH-team/dspico-firmware/pull/26
Everything is open source. Thanks to the LNH team for the DSpico and for making all of
this possible in the first place. If something is broken or you want something, issues
are the fastest way to reach me.
