I also had a mostly complete game load/save UI implemented, including a live preview that shows you where you saved while picking a game to load. What is this good for? Well, I could have the game proper running on the DS’s top screen, while the bottom screen shows status icons for each robot, where the icons accurately depict the state of the robot’s bumpers and thrusters, and even what item the robot is holding at the time. I ended up implementing a pretty sophisticated system for patching the game and dynamically manipulating its world state, as well as “forking” additional copies of the running game very quickly for the purposes of having those forked-off copies render additional sprites. I never got around to posting pictures, but I actually did make significantly more progress on this project before getting distracted. It runs the original Robot Odyssey binaries, via static binary translation, and with many modifications and UI enhancements to adapt the game for the DS console. This was I guess what I’d call a “binary port”. So, way back in April, I posted the first screenshots of Robot Odyssey on the Nintendo DS. So far, it has the timeline navigation widget and a correlated list of memory transactions: It’s actually coming along okay- I took a bit of a development detour to improve it’s Mac OS support after I bought a MacBook Pro… but the next step is to add the part of it that is actually a hex dump. What time I have spent on DSi-related stuff has been on Temporal Hex Dump. This isn’t the kind of thing we can make many of (I estimate it takes about 6 hours to solder one together) but it’d be helpful for the community if more than one of these rigs existed in the world. I’ve let Bushing borrow my hardware, and he’s been working on producing a small quantity of additional RAM tracing/injecting setups. I haven’t had much time to work on the DSi lately.

Also, either I’m a totally awesome pilot, or (more likely) it’s actually pretty easy to fly. I’ve been flying it mostly in smallish spaces, so I haven’t had the guts to really see how maneuverable it is- but I’m impressed with its stability and responsiveness so far. I don’t have a huge amount of flying time on it yet, but I’ve been enjoying the Blade mSR so far.

This isn’t really a place where I would feel it appropriate to go into detail, but it would be unjust to omit given that the other things here are significantly less important. I recently joined Twitter, but I must suck at using it because none of these things ended up there. but there are several unrelated things that I feel like writing down. I guess I don’t have a complete blog entry to write on any one thing.

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