SNESFAN
Retro game fanatic
quick and somewhat minor development question I want to rebuid some emulator front ends already available and possibly even more in the future. First thing I want to do at a minimum is reskin picklauncher for the specific systems already available. I do like the snes and gnuboy skins, so I may go with that theme for other systems.
questions..
how do I unpack a already packed .pnd file I seen some documentation on how to pack with a script, but even the location of that seems to elude me at the moment. If someone could link to where that's at if they remember along with how to unpack would be helpful.
what i'm really really after...
Also since I haven't seen it done it's probally going to be a royal pain in the ass to do, but since the source code is available for (presumeably all) current emulators on the pandora that you could in theory go in and change the in app menu. Given the options and structure will be different. I was thinking as a more advanced project would be to replace it with what is in pcsx. I understand it would take some serious digging around in the code to find out what each option is currently doing in the existing emulator and then also finding out how it's linked in pcsx's menu then relinking the functions.
even more after that...
endstate after that is I want to rebuild a even more minimalistic minimenu for a custom flashable OS of sorts. Just a simple possibly flashy front end menu to choose between emulators similar to psp's xmb, but not so copywrite infringing. Include all the rebuilt emulators in the image on the nand and update the OS as newer versions of emulators come out.
I know it's pretty ambitious endstate project i know... However... it's what I want to do, it's what I do for my android OS roms, but I have much more experience with android than i do straight linux... so if anyone has any words of wisdom, feel free to share.. thanks!
questions..
how do I unpack a already packed .pnd file I seen some documentation on how to pack with a script, but even the location of that seems to elude me at the moment. If someone could link to where that's at if they remember along with how to unpack would be helpful.
what i'm really really after...
Also since I haven't seen it done it's probally going to be a royal pain in the ass to do, but since the source code is available for (presumeably all) current emulators on the pandora that you could in theory go in and change the in app menu. Given the options and structure will be different. I was thinking as a more advanced project would be to replace it with what is in pcsx. I understand it would take some serious digging around in the code to find out what each option is currently doing in the existing emulator and then also finding out how it's linked in pcsx's menu then relinking the functions.
even more after that...
endstate after that is I want to rebuild a even more minimalistic minimenu for a custom flashable OS of sorts. Just a simple possibly flashy front end menu to choose between emulators similar to psp's xmb, but not so copywrite infringing. Include all the rebuilt emulators in the image on the nand and update the OS as newer versions of emulators come out.
I know it's pretty ambitious endstate project i know... However... it's what I want to do, it's what I do for my android OS roms, but I have much more experience with android than i do straight linux... so if anyone has any words of wisdom, feel free to share.. thanks!
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