nesdev.org

A few of you might have checked out my other FDSExplorer utility for dealing with FDS-images. I've now released a new "toy" for analyzing iNES-ROMs. It's pretty early in development but I still think it has a few usefull features. It can display some usual ROM-information (including CRC32/MD5 checksums), browse through the banks in HEX-view or CHR-mode etc. But perhaps the most interesting feature (I think) is the palette-mode, which scans the ROM for palettedata and allows the user to browse through them.
Palette-hackers might find this usefull with the help of a hex-editor.
The download is here (Windows only, .NET 3.5 required):
http://nes.goondocks.se

Example screenshot:


By the way, anyone knows if NesCartDB has some kind of webservice? I'd love to integrate boxscans etc in this utility if possible..

Firefox can't find the server at nes.goondocks.se.

Please try again.

I will once this is fixed:

Windows only, .NET 3.5 required

Right now I have only Mono 2.10.8.1 installed.

I've got extremly limited experience of Mono (and Linux).. Is it possible to run .NET applications in Linux (assuming you have Mono installed)? I thought Mono was working for websites only(?).

Broken link on the downloads page, both links go to FDS explorer. Still managed to download it though, since the correct filename was easily guessed.

Oh thanks, I've fixed the URL now..

I can't get on the site. And agreed, if it's not on Linux it might as well be useless to me, who's trying to make a NESDev tool set specifically for Linux outside of Nesicide. (Which is useless if you have a 64-bit computer) So...eventually!

oRBIT2002 wrote:I've got extremly limited experience of Mono (and Linux).. Is it possible to run .NET applications in Linux (assuming you have Mono installed)? I thought Mono was working for websites only(?).

Mono is an implementation of the CLR that also implements some of the .NET Framework, both the client and server sides. However, Mono is missing a lot of the calls introduced in newer versions of .NET. If you use Gtk# instead of Windows.Forms, your application is more likely to work across Linux and Windows.

3gengames wrote:Nesicide. (Which is useless if you have a 64-bit computer)

Is there a reason that one can't install the 32-bit libraries to run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit computer, especially if the goal is to develop 8-bit applications for an 8-bit computer?

3gengames wrote:Nesicide. (Which is useless if you have a 64-bit computer)

??? I've only been using it on a 64-bit linux install. (Compiled myself, though). Otherwise, on debian/ubuntu, follow the directions here: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation

oRBIT2002 wrote:By the way, anyone knows if NesCartDB has some kind of webservice? I'd love to integrate boxscans etc in this utility if possible..

I don't know of such things, but box art pictures can also be mentioned by .nes.ini file, and it might be used for other things too, so even if not connected to internet (and if it is connected to internet and such webservices do exist, it can use this format to make a local copy so that you can still load it even without access to internet).

You said this program is Windows only with .NET. Is it compatible with Mono? Is source-codes available? I am just wondering (I don't have .NET or Mono, but such things can be helpful to other people too ).

Never heard of this .nes.ini file until now..

Sources are not available. Not sure about Mono-compability since I use Windows..

oRBIT2002 wrote: By the way, anyone knows if NesCartDB has some kind of webservice? I'd love to integrate boxscans etc in this utility if possible..

Believe it or not, there already is! http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/getimage.php for usage instructions. Someone on this site integrated with their emulator some time ago. For the script to actually send image data, it requires authentication and also I need to add you as an authorized user (which I've just done).

I wanted to check out this utility, but the site is down. Will this be back up at some point?

Works for me right now...