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MoonShell v1.41 (stable) (for Nintendo DS) by Moonlight
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MoonShell v1.41 (stable) Full package (uncompressed size 20.4 MB) updated: 2006/09/13
Download (7-Zip file) 9.56 MB
Includes also:
* Video encoding tools (DPGTools v1.1 - Multilanguage)
* Readme files: English, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
MD5 checksum: eb60e9a6a03f4a68ce77071a7475637f

Download older versions:
MoonShell v1.3 (stable) Full package with G6 support ... updated: 2006/07/02
Download (7-Zip file) 8.39 MB

Plug-ins: Enhanced MID playback, GS playback, GM playback

Version 1.41 (stable) Readme files for Translating 2006/09/13 Download Translation help is appreciated!
Complete translations: English, Finnish, French, Italian, Spanish
Notes
Please update German, Russian, Swedish (old versions are included).

Release notes:
Version 1.41 (stable) 2006/09/08
for Drivers
- Ewin2/MicroSD driver was supported.
- M3Lite/MicroSD driver was supported.
- SuperCard/MicroSD driver was supported.
- NinjaDS/SD driver was supported.
for Basic functions
- The bug with the character lost in font CP1250/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 was corrected.
Version 1.4 (stable) 2006/09/01
for Plugins
- ScrollType item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. It is for a full-page scrolling.
- SelectDisplay item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. For select the top and bottom.
- Interpolation item was added to [ImagePlugin] section of global.ini. for the supplementation with the expansion reduction.
- The GSM codec support of the DPG video was removed.
- The DPG video does '2x over sampling' by the MP2 codec.
- The DPG1 format was supported for a higher frame rate.
Jpeg plugin:
- The ProgressiveJpeg item was added to jpegaccu.ini.
MOD/MIDI/SPC/NSF/GBS plugin:
- Change sampling rate to 32768Hz. The over sampling was invalidated.
MIDI plugin:
- Linear interpolation when 16bitPCM sound font is used.
SPC plugin:
- The LPF characteristic was corrected.
for Drivers
- New M3 Professional driver was supported.
- SuperCard/MicroSD driver was supported.
- A detailed adaptor name was added to output ROM file name.
- The bug that had failed in automatic detection of the enhancing memory built into M3CF/SD was corrected.
for Basic functions
- return from the folder when B button was pushed.
- Resume function was supported. Please refer to resume.txt for details.
- The bookmark function was added. Please refer 'misc/Bookmark/Bookmark.txt'.
- The resume and the bookmark can be used with EXFS (for FlashCart mode).
- A petit-noise was reduced a little.
- When the volume was adjusted to less than 100%, the hardware mixer was used.
- WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS power off.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini.
- When 'StartupSound=2' (automatic playing when booting) was specified for the System section of global.ini, a small bug concerning order was corrected.
Version 1.4 beta 8 2006/08/29
- The DPG1 format was supported for a higher frame rate.
Version 1.4 beta 7 2006/08/28
- MOD/MIDI/SPC/NSF/GBS plugin: Change sampling rate to 32768Hz. The over sampling was invalidated.
- MIDI plugin: Linear interpolation when 16bitPCM sound font is used.
- SPC plugin: The LPF characteristic was corrected.
- Interpolation item was added to [ImagePlugin] section of global.ini. for the supplementation with the expansion reduction.
- The bug that had failed in automatic detection of the enhancing memory built into M3CF/SD was corrected.
Version 1.4 final beta 1 2006/08/24
- New M3 Professional driver was supported.
- SuperCard/MicroSD driver was supported.
- A detailed adaptor name was added to output ROM file name.
- Return from the folder when B button was pushed.
- Resume function was supported. Please refer to resume.txt for details.
- The bookmark function was added. Please refer 'misc/Bookmark/Bookmark.txt'.
- The resume and the bookmark can be used with EXFS (for FlashCart mode).
- A petit-noise was reduced a little.
- When the volume was adjusted to less than 100%, the hardware mixer was used.
- The GSM codec support of the DPG video was removed.
- The DPG video does '2x over sampling' by the MP2 codec.
- ScrollType item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. It is for a full-page scrolling.
- SelectDisplay item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. For select the top and bottom.
- WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS power off.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini.
- When 'StartupSound=2' (automatic playing when booting) was specified for the System section of global.ini, a small bug concerning order was corrected.
- JpegPlugin: The ProgressiveJpeg item was added to jpegaccu.ini.
Version 1.4 beta 5 2006/08/21
- A petit-noise was reduced a little.
- When the volume was adjusted to less than 100%, the hardware mixer was used.
- The GSM codec support of the DPG video was removed.
- The DPG video does '2x over sampling' by the MP2 codec.
- I wish to express my gratitude for Xtreme that translates '/misc/Bookmark/Bookmark.txt' into English.
Version 1.4 beta 4 2006/08/19
- The bookmark function was added. Please refer 'misc/Bookmark/Bookmark.txt'
Version 1.4 beta 3 2006/08/13
- Resume: Possible to write resume in M3SD.
- Resume: The position is not preserved with DPG/GMV/AudioPlugin. Always becomes a restart from the head.
- Resume: The bug that the expansion rate doesn't restore by ImagePlugin is corrected.
- Resume: The file cursor was restored.
Version 1.4 beta 2 2006/08/13
- Resume function was supported. Please refer to resume.txt for details.
Version 1.4 beta 1 2006/08/11
- New M3 Professional driver was supported.
- SuperCard MicroSD driver was added for test.
- A detailed adaptor name was added to output ROM file name.
- Return from the folder when B button was pushed.
- CP932-3 (Fixed JPN font) was added.
- ScrollType item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. It is for a full-page scrolling.
- SelectDisplay item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. For select the top and bottom.
- WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS POWER OFF.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini.

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Last edited by Xtreme on Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:45 pm; edited 37 times in total

Nice to see new drivers for the non-gbamp users, everything else seems minor, but this continues to be an amazing piece of homebrew.
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no g6 lite support yet ?
or the

Quote:

- New M3 Professional driver was supported.

is for the g6 ?
the

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- SuperCard MicroSD driver was added for test.

is for the supercard lite ?
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Does this make use of the SClite's high-speed slot?

(Moved from 1.3 post to keep things tidy. I thought we had a Delete option here?)

Wow, the 1.4 beta has lots of nice little improvements :)

The Setup program is finally becoming worthwhile, as it can give previews of clock plugins.
There seems to be a shutdown sound now. Not quite right, as it only plays if I shut down by closing the lid, and I don't have that option turned on. Can software detect when someone presses the Power button?
I'm guessing not, but it would be great if it's possible. (I'm thinking that if it was possible, official software would put up a giant message and make an angry noise if it's saving when someone presses the power button, but nothing does).

Still a bit complicated, though.
Skin.ini seems to have disappeared entirely, so people looking to make skins will probably have to keep the file from an older version handy.
Having to run through Setup doesn't seem right.
Would be great to have the plugins and things immediately accessible instead of hidden within that file.

The new movie encoder is excellent!

And a random question:
How does the clock plugin "AnalogDot" work?
I thought the clock plugin system was too limited to do fancy animated elements like those falling dots.
I think it would be really cool to have a more fancy analog clock, so does anyone know where I can get the source to that one?
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I mailed to G6 development team about G6 flashcards I/O library and they replied this:

Quote:

Thanks for your support .
We know that there are many people waiting the Lib of G6 now .
It is sure that we will make the Lib of G6 .
But we are very busy now .
There are many problem , we need to fix it urgently .

It is no news that they are busy.. maybe he means those saving/cart corrupting bugs? I have begged the lib for several months and they are always too busy. I think Nintendo will publish new portable console before they will release it (so sad).

Now Moonlight posted new text on his blog about G6 flashcart after my mail.. I have no idea if it does anything to do with my mail. Very bad English translation of Japanese by Google. I can not understand, bummer.

Oh, and:
Moonlight did it again, Progressive JPEGs are now supported! Wohoo!
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first. what is progressive jpeg? second. im still using moonshell 1.0, i know there have been 40 versions since, as i keep up with it. is there any improvement in mp3 playback in 1.4 compared to 1.0??? also what other major improvements have been made that makes 1.4 worth getting. and yes i have been through the version history logs. the majority of it i dont even understand. also is the new DPGTools Ver 1.1 beta2 any better than the 1.0 version. once again i read the version history but stuff like

"CP932-3 (Fixed JPN font) was added.
ScrollType item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. It is for a full-page scrolling.
SelectDisplay item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. For select the top and bottom.
WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS POWER OFF.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini."

i mean... what does that even mean? anyway, thanks for any positive input.

seam

seam wrote:

first. what is progressive jpeg?

Progressive JPEG is a JPEG image with the low frequency components (blurred image) stored first and the higher frequency components (detail) stored later.
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seam wrote:

first. what is progressive jpeg?

What is Progressive JPEG ?

Quote:

second. im still using moonshell 1.0, i know there have been 40 versions since, as i keep up with it. is there any improvement in mp3 playback in 1.4 compared to 1.0??? also what other major improvements have been made that makes 1.4 worth getting. and yes i have been through the version history logs.

Better MP3 play?, I'm not sure. Better video playback?, yes.
If you only need MP3 playback of MoonShell then you can stick with that oldie.. but if you need anything more, then download the latest MoonShell as (almost) all the others are improved.

Quote:

the majority of it i dont even understand. also is the new DPGTools Ver 1.1 beta2 any better than the 1.0 version. once again i read the version history but stuff like

"CP932-3 (Fixed JPN font) was added.
ScrollType item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. It is for a full-page scrolling.
SelectDisplay item was added to [TextPlugin] section of global.ini. For select the top and bottom.
WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS POWER OFF.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini."

i mean... what does that even mean? anyway, thanks for any positive input.

seam

New DPGTools v1.1 has nicer interface + drag&drop + better support for media files (several bug fixes I assume). It is Like Nero Burning Rom vs. Nero Express

WhenPanelClose (2 = Play shell/shutdown.mp3 and DS POWER OFF.) item was added to [System] section of global.ini.
** When you close the DS shell -> MoonShell plays shell/shutdown.mp3 -> DS power goes off **
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Better video playback?, yes.

can u elaborate? also will it play stuff ive encoded for moonshell 1.0?

seam wrote:

Xtreme wrote:

Better video playback?, yes.

can u elaborate? also will it play stuff ive encoded for moonshell 1.0?

Stuff encoded to 1.0 works. MoonShell uses ARM7 processor for Audio playback and ARM9 for Video. Audio/Video sync has been fixed/optimized several times. I'm not sure if there have been added new video filtering levels (check it out).
Also other video playback improvements that I can not remember, anyone?
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Quote:

G6?Don't you think? [e]?
Me before the kana which is age. It is wasted, the [tsu] [te] thought [tsu] [chi] [ya] [u].
However F2A or G6 the private memory built-in type [tsu] [te], you cannot say well, ?small capacity super high-speed random access leaving necessary GBA/NDS image that way in real time, the expensive device in order to start directly? feeling does. It is long.

As expected transfer rate of the NDS card doing, however there is no viewing, mp3 to sound, it is wasted with the device which supports the bus speed of the GBA cart?With you think, is.
About 500 tunes inserting, is, and others - the [tsu] the sink, high resolution png you throw many, [tsu] [te] faces and, CF/SD sequential access being proud at cheap bulk low speed, memory outside interchangeable there is no something, that.

It is the case that it is thought always. Because by his does not use separately, desire boils and kana says and there is no reason don't you think? the [te]. Somehow to during this month it should have been possible, the [tsu] [te] you think.
SC and M3 and G6 and the other manufacturer, well as for [majikonmeka] being closed however perhaps, the genre handle [so] - the [yu] - it is don't you think?. Already, when just a little it cooperates, it is delightful, but it is. Don't you think? certain person (translation measure (laughing))But enormously cooperative is not useful and. ([mate]

Densely - the [yu] -, you analyzing by your, after understanding, tried calling no [bo] [tsu] [te] to the arrogant [chi] coming. As for the [a] it is.

Resumption to try writing, the [tsu].

Could someone translate that to ENGLISH-english, please? :( I don't like the sound of it, considering I just sold my GBAMP in favor of a G6 Lite (since the GBAMP stuck out WAY too far on the Lite).
Thanks in advance, guys...

I think I found a bug. When I set my videos to play on the bottom screen, the bottom screen went blank as if the video was playing on the top screen. However the top screen still displays the filesystem. And sound is still playing.

MoonShell v1.4 beta 2 is out.
It has (video) resume function.

Is it video pause state resume or something else?

I have M3 miniSD and it does not work. It does modify the resume.sav, but I can't see any difference compared to earlier versions.
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Beta 3 is out:

Quote:

Version 1.4 beta 3 2006/08/13

Resume: Possible to write resume in M3SD.
Resume: The position is not preserved with DPG/GMV/AudioPlugin. Always becomes a restart from the head.
Resume: The bug that the expansion rate doesn't restore by ImagePlugin is corrected.
Resume: The file cursor was restored.

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/

EDIT:
I just got a Max Media Dock and am using the CF card from my GBAMP to try it out. I've noticed that none of the homebrew apps I have on it will launch from Moonshell directly. Some will launch and play fine from the Max Media Player app, but not from MoonShell. Has this always been the case with the Max Media Players? I know support for them is still in the early stages compared to most other flashcarts and adapters, but I was rather curious. Thanks.
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Beta 1 and 2 work fine for me, but beta 3 always quits with the error message "Critical error!! CPU HALT for safety. Check 'shell/resume.sav' or retry setup.". Pushing the start button while starting, like described in resume.sav (it's a text file) doesn't help, unfortunately. I'm using a Supercard MicroSD with a 1 GByte Toshiba MicroSD card.

I also get a strange error message when trying to watch *.dpg files encoded with the new dpgenc.exe. It says "VideoOverlaySize setting error." and completely crashes Moonshell. This happens with all the videos I've converted.

Here's what dpgenc has to say about that video after encoding:

Code:

Encode was completed.

DPGFilename=dmd-silenthill-sample.dpg
FileSize=1297188byte

beta version data
HeaderID:DPG0
TotalFrame=1450
FramePerSec=18,0000
TotalTime=80,5556sec(1,3426min)
SoundRate=32000Hz
SoundChannels=built-in mpeg1-audio-layer-2 (mp2)
AudioData=36->1297152byte
MovieData=1297188->0byte

What puzzles me is the last line: "MovieData=1297188->0byte". 0byte? Sounds like it didn't convert anything at all. This happened with all the other files I converted, too. The preview window shows the correct picture, so DPGEnc seems to be able to decode the original XviD AVI.

Help would be appreciated, thanks in advance,

-- NorQue

[EDIT]
P.S.
btw, I *did* search before I posted, but the only reference to "VideoOverlaySize setting error." I could find didn't contain a solution to this problem.
[/EDIT]

To Infantile Paralysis,

Could you incorporate alite.nds into moonshell? This would help users who want to change brightness while watching dpg movies. Thanks for reading this and giving the idea some thought.

(I didn't know where else to contact him)

jbullfrog wrote:

To Infantile Paralysis,

Could you incorporate alite.nds into moonshell? This would help users who want to change brightness while watching dpg movies. Thanks for reading this and giving the idea some thought.

(I didn't know where else to contact him)

You mean to Moonlight. :)

Incorporating is possible, but where is the source code of alite.nds ?
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Aren't there brightness settings in the global.ini file? Perhaps when Moonlight finishes his global.ini configuration tool, you'll be able to modify it from within Moonshell instead of doing it through some other text editor?
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I need help converting avi files because the process bar remains at 0% any help thx

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I need help converting avi files because the process bar remains at 0% any help thx

Use BatchDPG - http://ls5.cydonianknight.com/

I'm pretty sure that works with avi files
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Hey, has anyone tried the "moonshell reset for supercard.nds" available from the Supercard download pages?
http://eng.supercard.cn/download.htm

It looks like there's also a patcher included with the latest software and firmware download packages, but I haven't tried it yet. I wonder how it works?
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Reset sends you back to the Supercard menu.
Patcher is for sclite compatability.
Both work for moonshell as well as dsorganize.

I'm guessing you just run it like any other app and it drops you back in the SC menu?

And does the "patch moomshell for super card.exe" only patch a specific file name or version of moonshell to work with the SC Lite?
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DPGTools V1.1 Beta 5 is on the site now. For some reason there's English text too.

Quote:

The bug that the Movie part becomes 0 bytes was corrected.
The bug that might fail in the interruption of encode was corrected.

[edit] It still says progressive JPEG isn't supported.
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well, rewind video works much better now. unfortunately, with beta 1 and 3 there is a very annoying bug. when i rewind a video to the beginning the video get stuck in the tuch screen along with the interface. the only way of bringing it back to the top screen is restart the system. simply qutting the video help nothing.

bugmenot! wrote:

well, rewind video works much better now. unfortunately, with beta 1 and 3 there is a very annoying bug. when i rewind a video to the beginning the video get stuck in the tuch screen along with the interface. the only way of bringing it back to the top screen is restart the system. simply qutting the video help nothing.

Do you have CF or SD adapter? Is it FAT16 or FAT32? Have you tried to defragment your card (move files to pc and back to card), that solved some problems with old mshl version when I only got 66x card.
I have SD and I haven't seen that bug with beta 3. Can you repeat the bug?
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Xtreme wrote:

Do you have CF or SD adapter? Is it FAT16 or FAT32? Have you tried to defragment your card (move files to pc and back to card), that solved some problems with old mshl version when I only got 66x card.
I have SD and I haven't seen that bug with beta 3. Can you repeat the bug?

i got miniSD formated in fat32 and it got nothing on it except the video itself. the video was encoded using batchdpg. i tried couple of them. all suffer. from this bug. after rewinding the video back to the start (and i mean rewind, not starting it again or switching video) it get stuck in the lowest screen. this is weird.

hows the frame rate doing now on movie playback? is it still about 15fps?

Do the later Supercards support FAT32? I thought the Supercard CF and SD were limited to FAT16, but I don't know about the MiniSD and MicroSD (Lite) versions.
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i saw this in ds development

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I really don't get why they send me this stuff - I'm not really a programmer.

anyway - I don't know if this stuff exists already

it seems theres a file with C++ and a file with asm for each language, but I know very little about programming (I can make a simple calculator in java, and thats about it :))

Anyway...Here it is - in lots of languages :)

Leo

http://gbatmw.net/dsfiles/G6M3fatlib.rar

should this mean we will get a g6 compatible moonshell?

monkey1987 wrote:

i saw this in ds development

Quote:

I really don't get why they send me this stuff - I'm not really a programmer.

anyway - I don't know if this stuff exists already

it seems theres a file with C++ and a file with asm for each language, but I know very little about programming (I can make a simple calculator in java, and thats about it :))

Anyway...Here it is - in lots of languages :)

Leo

http://gbatmw.net/dsfiles/G6M3fatlib.rar

should this mean we will get a g6 compatible moonshell?

I hope and pray so :(

Yamishi wrote:

monkey1987 wrote:

should this mean we will get a g6 compatible moonshell?

I hope and pray so :(

Yes. ;)

Quote:

15-08-2006
Version 2 (FAT16 / FAT32)
- G6 lite is supported
- M3SDmini is supported

More about

EDIT: Link changed.
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I just tried a video and 18FPS at 192kbps was no good (stuttering, froze up once, etc) but 15FPS at 224kbps worked great and looked better too. (I have a mega-fast CF card though. :p) Only problem is I can't figure out how to enable subtitles on a .ogm. I removed -noautosub from the command line but it didn't help. Normally I'd click the icon that comes up in my system tray when one of these is playing, but with dpgenc it only appears for a split second. o_O
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Yah, 15 FPS works well.

Moonshell can pretty well sustain a full episode of The X-Files at 15 FPS and 208 video bitrate.
...I just can't hit Pause, because that seems to desyncronize it permanently.
(I suppose it's a side-effect of doing audio and video on seperate processors, and probably hard to avoid).
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Mr. Picklesworth wrote:

Yah, 15 FPS works well.

Moonshell can pretty well sustain a full episode of The X-Files at 15 FPS and 208 video bitrate.
...I just can't hit Pause, because that seems to desyncronize it permanently.
(I suppose it's a side-effect of doing audio and video on seperate processors, and probably hard to avoid).

It's easy in principle to synchronize: just have the audio CPU report the current sample position since start of file, and then have the video CPU convert the number from samples to frames and slow down or speed up decoding (or skip GOPs) as necessary.
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Well I tried every subtitle-related option in mencoder and nothing happened (except for mencoder not starting and the program hanging in some cases). I see no subtitle options in ffmpeg at all. Enabling them in the tray icon (which for some reason now stays even after dpgenc is closed) did nothing. Google found nothing. So again... how the hell do I enable subtitles? >_<
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just use BatchDPG

Whats the crack with the L&R buttons working on and off when the lid is closed?

By default, MoonShell works in a mode called "flexible" when the lid is closed: press L+R to go to the next track, or R+L to pause. This can be changed in the .ini file.
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doxtur wrote:

just use BatchDPG

I was hoping you wouldn't say that... I really don't like .Net for reasons not worth getting into. :-/
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It works really well though.
I use 15FPS, 256-384kbps for video, 128kbps 48Khz mono for audio, no desyncs or skips at all (and I can pause/fast forward without losing sync). And I got my subs burned into the file. :P

tepples wrote:

By default, MoonShell works in a mode called "flexible" when the lid is closed: press L+R to go to the next track, or R+L to pause. This can be changed in the .ini file.

cool, I'll have to have a look at that because the way it leans in my bag sometimes compromises my stream. :)

Xtreme wrote:

jbullfrog wrote:

To Infantile Paralysis,

Could you incorporate alite.nds into moonshell? This would help users who want to change brightness while watching dpg movies. Thanks for reading this and giving the idea some thought.

(I didn't know where else to contact him)

You mean to Moonlight. :)

Incorporating is possible, but where is the source code of alite.nds ?

I wrote a brightness demo and posted about it right here. It's really easy to use the header I wrote that encapsulates both arm9 and arm7 code. ;)
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Firon wrote:

It works really well though.
I use 15FPS, 256-384kbps for video, 128kbps 48Khz mono for audio, no desyncs or skips at all (and I can pause/fast forward without losing sync). And I got my subs burned into the file. :P

Well I'll keep it in mind but again, I'd really really prefer not to have to add .Net, especially just for one program. I don't mean to keep bugging people but I bought a 4GB CF card just so I could put movies on it, but the whole movie feature is useless to me if I can't select subtitles (or learn Japanese before the next handheld comes out). I don't have any English movies worth watching. :-/
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HyperHacker wrote:

I bought a 4GB CF card just so I could put movies on it, but the whole movie feature is useless to me if I can't select subtitles (or learn Japanese before the next handheld comes out). I don't have any English movies worth watching. :-/

umm... dubbed Japanese movies?
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umm... dubbed Japanese movies?

Those really, really, really suck.
As while they dub them they sometimes rip out story stuff, or alter it all-together.

They replace the music, and give the characters comedic voices.

This VGCats comic describes it best.
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Playing music through moonshell is quite noisy for me. Is this because its basicly comming out of the headphone out or is it a software issue?

I think it's more that the DS isn't the greatest for high-quality audio.
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I think it's more that the DS isn't the greatest for high-quality audio.

Touche.
Doesnt seem much point in making it an audio player with that in mind. Although saying that, its all Ive been using for my personal music needs recently, and I have a 40gb hard disk player.

Darn right. If you already run homebrew, a 1 GB PNY memory card from $(OFFICE_SUPPLY_STORE) is cheaper than an iPod Shuffle.

Tip: Classical music has much more dynamic range than pop music. When encoding classical music, run it through a level compressor at 2:1. This will make the quiet parts louder so that 1. the DS audio DAC's -54 dB noise floor isn't as noticeable in quiet parts, and 2. you can still hear quiet parts over ambient noise.

Tip: When encoding any music, amplify it so that it shows up at -6 dB in Replay Gain.
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There are also 4GB SD cards at the same price as CF cards. The downside is that SD cards are slower than CF cards. So CF cards are better at functionality, but they are not so portable. ;)

I wonder when some company comes with 4GByte Micro SD cards.
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JaJa wrote:

tepples wrote:

umm... dubbed Japanese movies?

Those really, really, really suck.
As while they dub them they sometimes rip out story stuff, or alter it all-together.

They replace the music, and give the characters comedic voices.

This VGCats comic describes it best.

Yeah, especially when as in this case the movie in question is Card Captor Sakura. Eugh... Worst dubs ever.

Besides, I don't have any dubbed movies.
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tepples wrote:

Darn right. If you already run homebrew, a 1 GB PNY memory card from $(OFFICE_SUPPLY_STORE) is cheaper than an iPod Shuffle.

Tip: Classical music has much more dynamic range than pop music. When encoding classical music, run it through a level compressor at 2:1. This will make the quiet parts louder so that 1. the DS audio DAC's -54 dB noise floor isn't as noticeable in quiet parts, and 2. you can still hear quiet parts over ambient noise.

Tip: When encoding any music, amplify it so that it shows up at -6 dB in Replay Gain.

I've noticed that at least some of the noise (especially in quiet sections) is due to dithering done by Moonshell (DSOrganize does it too, but not for modules). I wonder what dithering method Moonshell uses, it doesn't really sound too great.
And for that matter, what bit depth is the DS's DAC?

Nintendo DS audio output is a pair of 10-bit pulse width modulation DACs.
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Hmm... Perhaps Moonshell doesn't dither at all (maybe lack of CPU power to do so) for streamed music, since the only output I could get that sounded like it was 10-bit with no dithering at all.
Thanks for the info.

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spinal_cord wrote:

How does this bookmark thing work?

If you have the .sav files (found in the "misc/Bookmark/" folder in the new versions of MoonShell) in your Shell folder, you can save a bookmark in .txt files by pressing R and selecting a save slot. Then you can load it by pressing L.

How does MoonShell work its audio in this version?

I was reading through the past posts and I think that it originally used a port of libmodplug, then libmikmod (experimentally, but it was kept because it seemed to work great), and then it changed again?
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Hi there!

I have a problem, when I play an MP3 with Moonshell, no ID-3 Tag window opens. Is there any option in the ini i have to modify?

Thanx

chava wrote:

I have a problem, when I play an MP3 with Moonshell, no ID-3 Tag window opens. Is there any option in the ini i have to modify?

It only supports ID-3 Tag v1. It has no support for V2 so far. Try with MP3 files that has V1 ID-3 Tags.
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That's not the cause of his problem though. Even when no tags or only unsupported tags are present, it's supposed to open the dialog anyway and say "ID3v1TAG NOT FOUND"

Firon wrote:

That's not the cause of his problem though. Even when no tags or only unsupported tags are present, it's supposed to open the dialog anyway and say "ID3v1TAG NOT FOUND"

Yes, that's true.
I just tested with the latest release, final beta and it works here.

chava, does the latest release work? and may I ask what is your media?
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Hi.

Well, it's 1.4 beta5 (i'm going to try now with the final beta). Everything else works fine. I noticed the lack of id3-tag window also on the previous version (beta4??).
I'm using Supercard SD. Don't know what the problem is...

Thanx for your help!

Did you try clearing your shell folder and 'installing' 1.4 beta5 again?

Well... it's fixed now.

I was using one "Moonshell Vista" skin I found, and I didn't realize till now that the file info window was moved out of the screen in the skin.ini file.

Thanx anyway ;)

I'm having problems with the self contained . nds version (exfs for flashcart). When I set the default folder to MPCF as I always do with every previous version of Moonshell, it boots in and freezes. When I set it to auto, it boots in, but when I select the MPCF folder, it freezes. This is the final beta. Anyone know what the problem is?

Edit: I'm using SC MiniSD.

Madrigal wrote:

I'm having problems with the self contained . nds version (exfs for flashcart). When I set the default folder to MPCF as I always do with every previous version of Moonshell, it boots in and freezes. When I set it to auto, it boots in, but when I select the MPCF folder, it freezes. This is the final beta. Anyone know what the problem is?

Edit: I'm using SC MiniSD.

i'm using sc mini too and have the same problem since moonshell 1.4 beta1. but it's a method for flashcart anyway. maybe since 1.4 sc cannot used that method anymore. so use method for sc like readme said.
- run setup
- choose your hdd drive
- choose rom image for scsd and other settings
- run setup
- in the root dir of the choosen hdd drive there are _BOOT_MP_SCSD_SuperCard_SD.nds and shell (directory). copy that to your minisd. done

does anyone know why EZ4 is not supported with 1.4 releases?

or does it work still and i'm missing something?

liddo-kun wrote:

Madrigal wrote:

I'm having problems with the self contained . nds version (exfs for flashcart). When I set the default folder to MPCF as I always do with every previous version of Moonshell, it boots in and freezes. When I set it to auto, it boots in, but when I select the MPCF folder, it freezes. This is the final beta. Anyone know what the problem is?

Edit: I'm using SC MiniSD.

i'm using sc mini too and have the same problem since moonshell 1.4 beta1. but it's a method for flashcart anyway. maybe since 1.4 sc cannot used that method anymore. so use method for sc like readme said.
- run setup
- choose your hdd drive
- choose rom image for scsd and other settings
- run setup
- in the root dir of the choosen hdd drive there are _BOOT_MP_SCSD_SuperCard_SD.nds and shell (directory). copy that to your minisd. done

Thanks a lot for the help, but I know how to do it that way. I just liked the self contained .nds file because I hate having the shell folder on my SD card. Hopefully he will re-instate that feature for the final, because I really liked it. I hate having all kids of clutter on my SD card :P

bessiebenny wrote:

does anyone know why EZ4 is not supported with 1.4 releases?

or does it work still and i'm missing something?

I think the support is not ready yet. It will be available sometime later (I believe).
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I hope there's a 1.4 version for G6 :(

Yamishi wrote:

I hope there's a 1.4 version for G6 :(

I don't think so. :( Blame on M3/G6 development team as they haven't gave the source code to support it officially (with MoonShell).

Moonlight writes in his blog that he has tried to compile code with the Trial version of ADM (the full licence costs around $5971, that is so much, not fair) without luck. He thinks that the pre compiled library is made with another version of ADM of isn't working because it's made with the full version.
*If I misunderstanded, please amend*
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beta8 and dpg tools 1.1 out
http://mdxonlinemirror.dyndns.org/resources/20060829_moonshell14beta8_and_dpgtools11.zip

DPG Tools v1.1 & MoonShell v1.4 beta 8 test:
Try out this file with the default settings.. it looks a bit pixelated.
Video test 1

What results did you guys get with the default settings? Please post some test videos (made with dpgtools v1.1), thank you.
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i've just downloaded moonshell for the first time but where are the icons in the lower screen????

Bluemercury wrote:

i've just downloaded moonshell for the first time but where are the icons in the lower screen????

You are probably confusing this Moonshell with the one the M3 team changed to embend in the M3 cartridge's firmware.

This is the original one made by Moonlight.

The M3 Team grabbed an older version of Moonshell and made some changes, added some icons, etc...

Released version 1.4

How do you change moonshells setup font to a font that is easier to read?

No workie SC MiniSD. Failed to init file system.

Can somebody explain what is going on in the final version, 1.4 stable?

Why aren't SC drivers enabled? Didn't they work fine untill now? All 3 SC drivers are grayed out when I run Setup.

Then I read all these SC support posts but I can't really understand anything.

There is also a link that has an email, do I have to send an email to that address to recieve the patch or something?

So confusing.
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Red XIII wrote:

Can somebody explain what is going on in the final version, 1.4 stable?

Why aren't SC drivers enabled? Didn't they work fine untill now? All 3 SC drivers are grayed out when I run Setup.

Then I read all these SC support posts but I can't really understand anything.

There is also a link that has an email, do I have to send an email to that address to recieve the patch or something?

So confusing.

I added the missing files. / Updated the package.
There are floating cloned SuperCard carts that are not supported with MoonShell. Please use only with REAL SuperCard.

How to identify the real one: http://eng.supercard.cn/

You need to copy the right file from the "files for SuperCard" folder to your card.
The files will be in the Setup on later releases.
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tuLL wrote:

Bluemercury wrote:

i've just downloaded moonshell for the first time but where are the icons in the lower screen????

You are probably confusing this Moonshell with the one the M3 team changed to embend in the M3 cartridge's firmware.

This is the original one made by Moonlight.

The M3 Team grabbed an older version of Moonshell and made some changes, added some icons, etc...

So you cant create icons?it would be cool to have icons attached to specific folders, like music and videos....

to xtreme, thanks for the quick update on that. will give it a go

Many thanks,Xtreme.
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xtreme, works for both SC SD and SClite, thanks!

Whats the compatibility with m3lite?

Bluemercury wrote:

Whats the compatibility with m3lite?

All the M3 products are supported.
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I notice more enhancements for 1.41...
But still no mention of G6 support :(
I notice the source is available, does anyone know what would need to be modified to get G6 compatibility?
I have roughly 0% programming ability, so obviously, I'm unable to go at this alone ._.
Sorry to whine.

Yamishi wrote:

I notice more enhancements for 1.41...
But still no mention of G6 support :(
I notice the source is available, does anyone know what would need to be modified to get G6 compatibility?
I have roughly 0% programming ability, so obviously, I'm unable to go at this alone ._.
Sorry to whine.

Yes, the source is open.
G6 development team haven't gave the source to handle the G6 cart. That's the reason. All the G6 supporting versions have been compiled by G6 team and not Moonlight (the creator of MoonShell).
You can do something... mail to info @g6flash.com and ask for the latest MoonShell for G6 and also if they could provide the source code of G6 fat library to Moonlight. Some pressure for them to publish something that we need.
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Xtreme wrote:

Yamishi wrote:

I notice more enhancements for 1.41...
But still no mention of G6 support :(
I notice the source is available, does anyone know what would need to be modified to get G6 compatibility?
I have roughly 0% programming ability, so obviously, I'm unable to go at this alone ._.
Sorry to whine.

Yes, the source is open.
G6 development team haven't gave the source to handle the G6 cart. That's the reason. All the G6 supporting versions have been compiled by G6 team and not Moonlight (the creator of MoonShell).
You can do something... mail to info @g6flash.com and ask for the latest MoonShell for G6 and also if they could provide the source code of G6 fat library to Moonlight. Some pressure for them to publish something that we need.

I'll do that now. The only other way I can get Moonshell to work on the G6 (aside from the included version) is to build an EXFS version, then run the .ds.gba through the G6's ROM thingy, which makes me uncomfortable anyway :/

i get an error with 1.41 but it goes away really fast. something about loading the shell or something. Using a sclite.

heyyouguys wrote:

i get an error with 1.41 but it goes away really fast. something about loading the shell or something. Using a sclite.

Yeah, I think it does that on every system, so that if it crashes there, you get an error screen, but if it has no reason to crash, it just continues normally and skips it.

Yamishi wrote:

heyyouguys wrote:

i get an error with 1.41 but it goes away really fast. something about loading the shell or something. Using a sclite.

Yeah, I think it does that on every system, so that if it crashes there, you get an error screen, but if it has no reason to crash, it just continues normally and skips it.

that is odd. is anyone else having this issue with the new version?

I will try this out on my daughters SC SD later tonight and report back.

It might be that the error message shows up for because SC is so slow.
Don't worry about the message if it disappears. If it stays, just follow the lines of it.

EDIT: Ok, I see the error message now. Actually that error should show up on all devices when starting and then it disappears. It's a normal behavior.
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Xtreme wrote:

It might be that the error message shows up for because SC is so slow.
Don't worry about the message if it disappears. If it stays, just follow the lines of it.

EDIT: Ok, I see the error message now. Actually that error should show up on all devices when starting and then it disappears. It's a normal behavior.

Thought so ;D Thanks for the confirmation.

Also, I got an e-mail back from Danny of G6

Quote:

Hi ,
Thanks for your information & concern about our products .
We did our best to finish doing G6 /M3 lib for the developer.
But it is not suitable for all the developers .
In fact the lib we offered is similar to the lib from SC ,and their lib is also not source form.

This is completely understandable as there are several different types of flashcarts, each of which usually require a different build of moonshell due to read/write issues. T

hey need to spend more energy on revising software if supporting all Flash Cards.
But we heard that moonshell support for SC flash card has been dropped .

We don't really understand it due to I'm not a developer.
We had solicited opinions from many users.
I will discuss with our developers about related problems.

Regards
Danny

Someone care to translate that to ENGLISH-english? :p

xtreme, thanks for the edit info! great work, love the product!

Yamishi wrote:

Also, I got an e-mail back from Danny of G6

Danny wrote:

But we heard that moonshell support for SC flash card has been dropped .

Someone care to translate that to ENGLISH-english? :p

Who the h*** did mail to Danny saying that SuperCard is not supported anymore by MoonShell. That is a BIG lie.
I just mailed to Danny clear things up. ;)
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Xtreme wrote:

Yamishi wrote:

Also, I got an e-mail back from Danny of G6

Danny wrote:

But we heard that moonshell support for SC flash card has been dropped .

Someone care to translate that to ENGLISH-english? :p

Who the h*** did mail to Danny saying that SuperCard is not supported anymore by MoonShell. That is a BIG lie.
I just mailed to Danny clear things up. ;)

Lemme know if anything positive comes out of it :p

Maybe he means they no longer support Moonshell? O_o
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Yamishi wrote:

Xtreme wrote:

Yamishi wrote:

Also, I got an e-mail back from Danny of G6

Danny wrote:

But we heard that moonshell support for SC flash card has been dropped .

Someone care to translate that to ENGLISH-english? :p

Who the h*** did mail to Danny saying that SuperCard is not supported anymore by MoonShell. That is a BIG lie.
I just mailed to Danny clear things up. ;)

Lemme know if anything positive comes out of it :p

Danny mailed me, he said only "Thanks for your information" and nothing else. Misunderstanding solved, now the world is a bit better place to live on. :D
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Bleh. Moonshell doesn't seem to support videos encoded with the QNS flag, they decode improperly.
I wonder if there's any way to contact Infantile Paralysiser and ask if it's possible to fix...

the last version doesnt have the best results, what are the best combination?

what moonshell should i use to see the movies on the DS and what should i use for convert the movies? and with what parameters?

im triyin a lot of videos with some versions and with the batchdpg, but i dont know whats the best, i want to see the subtitles better

thanks and sorry my english

For those that use dpgtools (dpgenc) there is a new version out v1.1+1

http://mdxonlinemirror.dyndns.org/resources/20061011_dpgenc11p1.zip

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2006 October 11th
Just a little just correction.

As a single unit it does not move.

Obtaining it increased and increased and when using the [mu] [pe] [gu], it held down audio deterioration?It is it is, the intention of holding down.
When the [yu] - the [chi] [yu] - converting from the [bu], because it converts similarly, whether it becomes the different/[ku], is.

That? DL it is not possible? The money you paid, but it is,?. Still, perhaps renewal job is not ended. DL please do is from the mirror server.

I think I found a small bug. When playing SPCs the first letter of the Artist field is missing.
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ive just started using moonshell 1.4 beta 7 and 8 when it loads on the ds it says

filesyatem init
filemaxcount256
not found exfs

Im using mk3 sd

EDIT: I've also tried moonshell1.1 got hte same error

I have the same problem on EZflash 4 :\

Is it possible to install a font which supports kanji, or are the .fon files too limited for that? I installed Moonshell with the UTF-8 charset today, but the font only displays kana.

The DS firmware is 256K. The Chinese iQue DS firmware is 512K and contains all (or most?) Chinese characters. So it's possible to fit all those in ~256K, which means Kanji should be quite feasible.
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The DS firmware is 256K. The Chinese iQue DS firmware is 512K and contains all (or most?) Chinese characters. So it's possible to fit all those in ~256K, which means Kanji should be quite feasible.

I think he's talking about the Moonshell fontsystem, not the firmware font.
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Yeah, I'm just pointing out that it shouldn't be a problem fitting the Kanji characters in memory.
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Just want to notice everyone, Moonshell v1.5 has been released. With very nice improvements.

maybe im dumb or something but i read the change log and tried it out already but i cant see whats different. can some1 enlighten me?

Version 1.5 2006/12/03

Corresponded to EZ4/DSLink. I wish to express my deep gratitude to Rudolph.
'The cartridge of enhancing the memory of DS browser' can be used for the cache memory.
The resume item was added. (sound volume, reproduction mode, and NDSLite backlight brightness)
ResumeUsingWhileMusicPlaying item was added to [System] section of global.ini. The resume is preserved while performing the tune.
The DPG format was renewed. As for the DPG file made with a new encoder, seek is fast and the image doesn't fall into disorder either. Especially, it is remarkable in a long video.

Basically, it supports EZ4 and DSLink now, it can use Opera DS's RAM cart as external memory, you can shutdown and it'll remember the brightness, voluime level and playback mode (if you enable resume), and there's a new DPG2 format that supports fast seeking (which LS5 is attempting to figure out and implement in BatchDPG). dpgenc's quality still sucks though.

thanks for explaing man. btw, is there anyway to convert files to dpg using windows Me coz i noe the software only supports 2k and xp. T_T

You really should upgrade to at least Windows 2000; it's miles better than ME.

I don't think you have a choice, because I don't think there's a .NET for Windows ME (so you won't be able to use BatchDPG either).

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#98832 - Firon - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:25 pm

#98839 - emphyrian - Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:49 pm

#98848 - Lick - Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:50 pm

#99017 - HyperHacker - Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:24 am

#99036 - tepples - Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:45 am

#99083 - JaJa - Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:13 pm

#99114 - emphyrian - Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:31 pm

#99133 - MechaBouncer - Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:51 pm

#99135 - emphyrian - Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:06 pm

#99137 - tepples - Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:21 pm

#99146 - Xtreme - Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:56 pm

#99150 - HyperHacker - Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:30 pm

#99180 - Firon - Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:22 pm

#99197 - tepples - Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:50 am

#99391 - Firon - Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:23 am

#99404 - spinal_cord - Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:47 am

#99415 - mntorankusu - Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:06 pm

#99583 - MrD - Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:43 pm

#99655 - chava - Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:16 pm

#99718 - Xtreme - Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:54 pm

#99759 - Firon - Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:25 pm

#99973 - Xtreme - Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:04 am

#99974 - chava - Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:13 am

#99992 - Firon - Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:53 am

#100002 - chava - Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:23 am

#100111 - Madrigal - Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:12 am

#100129 - liddo-kun - Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:20 pm

#100269 - bessiebenny - Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:39 am

#100272 - Madrigal - Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:54 am

#100563 - Xtreme - Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:38 pm

#100565 - Yamishi - Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:48 pm

#100622 - Xtreme - Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:50 pm

#100700 - falcon!!! - Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:48 pm

#100705 - Xtreme - Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:16 pm

#100869 - Bluemercury - Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:50 am

#100950 - tuLL - Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 am

#100996 - falcon!!! - Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:19 pm