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[RELEASE] Abobo's Big Adventure (Offline GUI)

14 March 2012 - 05:41 PM

ABOBO'S BIG ADVENTURE 1.4.1

(GUI/KEY MAPPER INTEGRATED VERSION)

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Here's the full changelog (I trimmed some posts to keep it centralized):

Version 1.4.1
  • I added resolution to the options so you can specify how big you want the game to be.
  • Ditched the buttons and am just drawing buttons onto the form so it doesn't look wonky in bigger resolutions.
  • The buttons ill always be on top. Even if you specify the resolution of your screen in the options.
  • For programs that don't have a command line to kill them, you can now just write Kill in the "Exit Command" space to kill the process on closing. (No need to specify anything else, it kills in code now).
  • Did a few other code optimizations. :)
Version 1.4
  • Now launches in full screen!
  • Added custom overlay.png functionality
    • Create your own to fit your machine/situation/resolution, just name it overlay.png and put it in the exe's root folder.
    • Image will be scaled to fit your screen, soit's suggested you try and get close to your monitor's resolution.
    • If you don't want to use an overlay, just take the overlay.png fie out of the root folder.
  • Integrated options for your key mapping software of choice
    • Specify your EXE or BAT file's position
    • OPTIONAL: Add command line arguments for before and after the game window launches
    • OPTIONAL: Set the key mapper to launch each time you run the game
  • Added a "DONATE" button so you can show your support to the game devs!
    • If you donate to the game designers you get "Abobo's Little Adventure" for free!
    • Unfortunately I'm broke these days, but if I can donate I'll integrate that game (or design a quick interface for it too)
  • Settings for the keymapper are saved internally now, so you set it once and the app remembers your options automagically!
  • Stepped away from using Picture Boxes and now paint the graphics directly onto the window.
    • This is way more clean and accurate than my old method (as you can see from the images above).
  • The options window got a "Read More" tab to take you to Abobo's "WTF is this game?" info page.
  • I really tweaked the display area as best as I could. :)
    • Now in addition to the viewable image being centered perfectly on the screen and a bit bigger, it fits more awesomely with the artwork.
    • If the overlay is too small/big for your setup, I'd be happy to send you a scaled copy and/or the PSD. Just ask. :)
  • I added functions to save and write the Cookie Container upon open/exit.
    • This has been deployed and tested and working fine on my machine.
    • The game settings are saved locally as a cookie container ("abobo.sav") thanks to some overrides and a little work with serialization
    • No more temp files, no more cookies to worry about. G'head, do your maintenance! :)
Consider this final, I've done all I set out to do. Enjoy my tweak on a rad flash game!

I take no credit for the game itself, or any of it's components (even the artwork is freely available)... I just made the GUI to tie it all together for my cab (their offline version is pretty "plain jane" and doesn't handle joy mapping software). Make sure you show your support for a great free game!

Requires .NET Framework 4.0 and (obviously) Flash installed to run.

Download the updated version here!

Check out Abobo on the web:
http://abobosbigadventure.com/

Official Abobo Trailer:

[RELEASE] Map File Maker 1.0.1

21 February 2012 - 09:02 AM

MAP FILE MAKER - Version 1.0.1


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As the name says, it's a program for creating and editing MAP files. Some of the features include:
  • Quickly and easily grab your files and make working (and attractive) MAP lists for your games.
    • Parses lots of files really quickly!
    • Options to remove bracketed text, replace patterns, left and right crop, capitalize titles.
    • File naming options for the most frequently used DAT naming conventions!
      Naming conventions include:
      • No-Intro
      • ADVANsCEne
      • Good Name
      • TOSEC
  • Integrates GameEx's List Coloring options.
    • Enable colorization in the right-click menu (This feature is disabled by default)
    • Import your own region colorization themes
      • Easily create your own colorization schemes in Notepad using an included XML as a template!
      • Share your themes for others to download and add to their own setups!
  • Map File Maker uses the Software Updater Framework to search for program updates!
    • Stay ahead with the latest program version!
    • Enable or disable automatic update checking in the right click menu (This feature is disabled by default)
    • Includes an option to check now for updates for users who would rather not use automatic updating.
  • Comprehensive editing tools to make your MAP creation experience moar awesome!
    • Easily add and remove rows to your MAP file.
    • Hide and show columns that you want to see. Your selection is saved for next time too!
    • Clear columns with a single click!
I touched on it up there, but let me explain briefly about importing your own color schemes. There's a few already included in the install, and I'm sure most of you can figure out how it works, but here goes anyways. :)

Basically the XML has each naming convention's regions in it. All you need to do is give your "theme" a name and add your HTML color codes for each region. There's a spot for specifying a default background color for the cell also. You can do as many or as few as you want, depending on what you need. For example: If you only use No-Intro DATs, your XML might only contain No-Intro region info. A sample of the XML looks something like this:

<mfm_color_scheme>
  <style name="ADVANsCEne Only">
	<advanscene>
	  <australia>CC99AA</australia>
	  <china>CC9977</china>
	  <europe>66FF44</europe>
	  <france>66FF22</france>
	  <germany>FFFF55</germany>
	  <italy>6688CC</italy>
	  <japan>FFBB77</japan>
	  <korea>FFDDBB</korea>
	  <netherlands>00FFFF</netherlands>
	  <spain>CCFF00</spain>
	  <usa>33CCEE</usa>
	  <unknown>FFFFFF</unknown>
	  <background>000000</background>
	</advanscene>
  </style>
</mfm_color_Scheme>
<mfm_color_scheme></mfm_color_scheme> are the XML document root tags.
<style name="ADVANsCEne Only"> is the theme name that is displayed in the program's combobox.
<advanscene></advanscene> are the tags that determine the naming style.
<australia>CC99AA</australia> represents the region and the HTML color code to use.
They're not case sensitive. :)

Any questions or comments? Feel free to ask 'em. I also like feature requests. :)
Download it here:
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:REQUIREMENTS:
  • Windows XP or greater
  • .NET Framework 4.0
:THANKS/SHOUTS:
Major props to Tempest for his Map File Magician, which was the inspiration for this simple program. If you're looking for something that's thick with great features, I highly recommend it.
Tom @ GameEx for a great front end. If you're reading any of this, how bout some flag code blocks? The code's already in there waiting! :D
Circo @ EmuMovies for hosting all my apps and having the best collection of artwork anywhere. The awesomeness of EmuMovies can't be over-stated!

:CHANGELOG:

ChangeLog: v1.0.1 said:

  • Fixed updater not working on right click
  • Code enhancements to color importing system
  • Added code to update the updater ;)
    The new updater is really more pretty now, and if I continue to add functionality to it I suppose it's good to have an option to update it as well.
  • Squashed color refreshing bug
  • Did some code cleanup and optimization
  • OFFLINE INSTALL: Added two new color scheme files (NoInTenDo and SmEGA)
    I plan to add some more color scheme files to this. When I do I'll add a zip to my server so these can be updated as well. Currently the system is only updating the EXE and not the support files.


ChangeLog: v1.0.0 said:

  • Initial release

[RESOLVED] MAME Compiler 64 Error. :)

16 February 2012 - 10:21 PM

Why is this happening? I tried downloading the source twice in each distro. Any and all help is appreciated.
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A little LOL time for all y'allz.

12 February 2012 - 05:28 AM

Yup, I went there. Thanks Tosh.0 for this gem. ;)

The following is not work or kid friendly (but then again, is anything I put up?). ;)

[RELEASE] Last.FM Data Machine 1.0.4

29 January 2012 - 02:12 AM

Last.FM Data Machine v1.0.4

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Last.FM Data Machine by Adultery
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:ABOUT:
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Search stuff, find stuff, learn stuff, get some images, get some data. :)

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:FEATURES:
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+Search for information using the artist as a base. As long as you know the artist, you can search for either track
or album.
+Get data for a massive amount of music using either the track name or the album name.
If you don't know the album, the app will take a shot at it for you (or at least find an album it's on).
+Download album art and artist images for tagging your mp3 collection.
Click the "save" button and it saves both images album art and artist, as well as a text file with the album bio.
Album art is 300x300, and artist image varies in size.
+Get MusicBrainz ID numbers for the album you're viewing.
If you use MusicBrainz Picard, I don't have to tell you how useful this feature is. ;)
Simply click the ID number and your query will open up the MusicBrainz page.
+Links to the Last.FM pages for the album and the track.

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:VERSION HISTORY:
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v1.0.3 & v1.0.4
+Added new auto-updater to the program with a flashy new GUI, which will be standard/integrated across all my apps. ;)
+Did some internal work for authentication (LastFM User Features: Available soon!)
+Code fixes, bug squashing, minor optimizations, etc.
v1.0.2
+New program updating feature.
Now uses a new module to look for and download updates. Working on adding features to it as I go. :)
Updater window shows current version and new version info, and the user can decide to update or not.
This feature will soon be enabled and disabled by the user under "Settings" (WIP).
You can also delete the module if you don't want the program to launch it. ;)
+More code enhancements and optimizations.
+Added more XML parsing for future updates.
v1.0.1
+Added a bunch of new Last.FM data including number of listeners, links to the track and the album on Last.FM, most
popular tags, and other mp3 data.
+Added MusicBrainz lookup functionality. When used together with MusicBrainz Picard, you should have no problems
tagging your mp3s!
+New splash screen and application design.
+The save button also saves a text file with the album bio for easier mp3 tagging.
+New logging system added (this was really to test some new tricks Headkaze taught me and a complete rewrite of my
logger class, but it's still good to log stuff!)
+Added a status label to the bottom so you know what's going on and when No real functionality but thought it looked
cool. :)
+Minor tweaking to the code and a few optimizations so your searches are more accurate, and the app is a little smoother.

v1.0.0
+Initial Release.
Working on session authentication now, so you can hook your account into the Data Machine (if you have one that is). There's some cool stuff you can do if you have a Last.FM account for sure. :)

Download the latest version:
Data Machine-zip file
Data Machine-rar file