Hacking ndstrim 1.0

[Azimuth]

*update*

fixed up the layout, no need to type out path.



download

 

[recover]

Looks awesome, thanks for taking the time.

 

[Azimuth]

Looks awesome, thanks for taking the time.

no problem, thanks for writing the trimmer(I can't code in C to save my life).

*update*

I wrote a small daemon for the GUI impaired. When you place .nds files in the specified watch directory it will automatically trim them, move them to the target directory you specified and delete the old files.



download

 

[Azimuth]

I haven't worked on this for a while, I had a bit of time to update the daemon.

v1.2

-Added coloured output:
blue - file added
red - file deleted
yellow - error
white - info about trimming

-Added rar, 7z, zip support. Working on bz2 and gz support.

-An error file is created in the target dir when trimming fails.

any suggestions/complaints are welcomed.

download

 

[berdan]

The download appears broken, I get a "File Transfer Failed."

 

[matriculated]

Yeah, I get a file not found too.

Wow! 7z/Rar support AND cross playform!

 

[Azimuth]

Here's a working link

http://ndstrim.googlecode.com/files/ndstrim-1.27.tar.gz

Wndows: The daemon written in ruby should be cross platform but I haven't tested it on windows, you need to install ruby for it to work. I will try to pack it into an "executable" when I get my hands on a windows pc.

OSX: The daemon should work fine on macs since ruby is already bundled in with OSX. The gui won't since you need gtk and ruby-gnome2, which I believe are available via mac ports?

 

[GH0ST]

Better look at http://code.google.com/p/ndstrim/downloads/list now ;-)

 

[recover]

Yep, me and 4zimuth have been working a great deal on ndstrim lately

We have a pretty nice GUI and have been doing some reliability updates...
I don't know when we'll release the next stable, but it's in the works.

 

[Azimuth]

We didn't want to bring attention to it until we have perfected the trimmer but I guess a small update won't hurt.

*update*

The trimmer is now a true "3rd gen" trimmer, yay!

 

[recover]

To be honest I'm feeling uneasy about coining a new term.
The wifi detection is really only a minor improvement...

 

[Azimuth]

Actually, BrianTokyo is the one who coined it.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=55162&hl=#

 

[recover]

Ok... I still find the term a little unnecessary

but I guess I'll use it if everyone else do
We still have a bunch of features to implement, I think development is going pretty well

 

[GH0ST]

I tested a lot of trimmers in Team CyclopDS forums and i also send recently some debug messages to Brian ... but of course an open source Trimmer is the top !

Keep up the good work ;-)

 

[matriculated]

Here is a pre-compiled mac version (CLI, Universal Binary).
I'll see if I can whip up a quick Cocoa GUI later today.
And another small bug report. You should probably have a test for if the file actually exists before you try doing anything, otherwise it bombs with the error "./ndstrim: fopen() failed in file ndstrim.c, line 45.".

Hmmm. I've tried this out (specifically on Assassin's Creed and Mario and Sonic) and it it seems to over trim or something because the games don't load (white screen).

I'd love to get this to work as I wrote a OSX Python droplet that de-archives, renames, adds boxart as an icon and copies to the TF card. It'd be great to add trimming to my script.

I love CLI apps, BTW.

 

[Azimuth]

Here is a pre-compiled mac version (CLI, Universal Binary).
I'll see if I can whip up a quick Cocoa GUI later today.
And another small bug report. You should probably have a test for if the file actually exists before you try doing anything, otherwise it bombs with the error "./ndstrim: fopen() failed in file ndstrim.c, line 45.".

Hmmm. I've tried this out (specifically on Assassin's Creed and Mario and Sonic) and it it seems to over trim or something because the games don't load (white screen).

I'd love to get this to work as I wrote a OSX Python droplet that de-archives, renames, adds boxart as an icon and copies to the TF card. It'd be great to add trimming to my script.

I love CLI apps, BTW.

Here is a ruby script that I've been working on, should work perfectly well on mac OSX. Its also pretty well commented so it should be easy for you to understand (and convert it to python if you want to).

 

[matriculated]

I've just taught myself Python over the weekend (along with Bash scripting and Applescript) so I really have no idea how to do binary/bytewise file manipulation - in any language for that matter. Although this might give me incentive. This kind of stuff scares me.

Although... Ruby is standard on OSX Leopard installations so your code might work with little to no tweaking!

 

[recover]

Hmmm. I've tried this out (specifically on Assassin's Creed and Mario and Sonic) and it it seems to over trim or something because the games don't load (white screen).

Try compiling it for yourself and see it the same thing happens.
We can't say the other binary is safe since we didn't compile it, but I can't see any reason for n45800 to be that evil