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Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-29 00:00:00
Implemented methods Open, Read and Close. The save file can be successfully read from the disk now.


Screenshot #000149


This screenshot shows the save loading screen. The names are in english even though it's the japanese version that's running, because the game seems to change the language of the game according to the data coming from the memory card (the save data used was from the american version).

This is all for this development. The next one is probably going to deal with fixing the other supported games/demos so everything can work together. Then after, we'll be working on getting the actual content of the game to work.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-28 00:00:00
Fixed the GetDir method so that the game likes it. Now, we're getting a request for opening the save file in read mode. I'll try to have the Open, Read and Close methods done tomorrow.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-27 00:00:00
Implemented the basic idea behind the GetDir function, but the game doesn't seem to like it yet. I'll keep working on that tomorrow.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-26 00:00:00
Seems like I was able to find the right memory card type number to make the program send more interesting commands to the MCSERV IOP module. It's sending "GetDir" right now, so I'll be working on implementing this command tomorrow.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-25 00:00:00
Fixed a small bug in the code generator.

I've started working on adding memory card support... The detection of the card doesn't work yet, but I'm planning to have it done tomorrow. After making that work, the rest shouldn't be too problematic.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-24 00:00:00
Completed the first version of the memory card manager.

Tomorrow, I'm going to start working on adding support for memory card reading in the emulator.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-23 00:00:00
Almost finished the export function. All that's left is to write the correct times into the exported archive and it will be complete. I'll also try to complete the delete function tomorrow. That will complete the first version of the memory card manager and we'll be able to move on to adding basic memory card IOP modules support into the emulator.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-22 00:00:00
Finished what I wanted to do in this development about the bigger icon viewport : You can zoom in/out with the mouse wheel and rotate the icon by holding the left button down and moving the cursor up and down.


Screenshot #000148


Tomorrow, I'm going to work on exporting.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-21 00:00:00
Added a prompt asking if the user wants to overwrite an existing file when importing files from a save archive.

Finished the layout of the window and added the viewport that's going to be used to render the icon.

Here's how its looking for the moment :


Screenshot #000147


Tomorrow, I'll work on the export function.

Castlevania : Yami no Juin - Improve the speed and add memory card support
Posted on 2006-07-20 00:00:00
Continued working on the memory card manager dialog. Here's what left to do:

- Make a message box appear when the save data already exists when importing.
- Add another viewport in the bottom that'll allow to rotate the icon and select which icon to display (there's 3 different ones)
- Add an option to export and delete the selected save.

More coming tomorrow.

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