Tag Archives: games

Last Ninja 2: making data for objects and frames available

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Luigi Di Fraia

A few days ago after work I decided to extract graphic elements from Last Ninja 2 that are encoded with the format used by John Twiddy’s Integrator. Here’s the result: all objects in the order they appear during Armakuni’s journey, … Continue reading →

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A few more DC2N4-LC devices ready to ship

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

There are now 6 DC2N4-LC devices available for shipping.

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A few DC2N4-LC devices ready to ship

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

Although 2 were already ordered, there are now 3 DC2N4-LC devices available for grabbing. I probably won’t be assembling further devices ahead of X’2018.

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Yet another DC2N5-LC firmware update!

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

Today I made a couple of changes to the DC2N5-LC firmware that I had been thinking of for a while. These are: The monitoring mode now persists even when the datassette is stopped: users can now iteratively adjust the read … Continue reading →

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New DC2N5-LC firmware update

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

A while back John W. suggested it would be handy to have an option in DC2N5-LC’s firmware to re-init a micro SD card after it’s been pulled out to copy files to a PC and put back in afterwards. Although … Continue reading →

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Updates

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

My EasyFlash version of “Last Ninja 2” was just published to CSDb here. This release partially delivers what I had planned a while back. Furthermore, the EasyFlash loading system I wrote to put together such release was published on GitHub here. … Continue reading →

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Further DC2N5-LC firmware update

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

As I just finished some more development on the DC2N5-LC firmware, I thought to take a moment and show the latest changes. Here’s a video showing them: Thanks go to Nuno for his suggestion on the alternative format of the … Continue reading →

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Auto naming files for dumps made by DC2N3 and DC2N5-LC

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

Although DC2N5-LC incorporates what I refer to as a “filename extractor”, the files it saves to flash are still named simply “DUMPnnnn.DMP”, which is what happens in DC2N3 too. Nuno suggested a change in DC2N5-LC which consists into renaming DMP … Continue reading →

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New DC2N5-LC video!

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

Added a monitoring function to the DC2N5-LC firmware, as suggested by Nuno! Enjoy!

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New DC2N4-LC video

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Luigi Di Fraia

Here’s a video for DC2N4-LC, similar to the one I recently did for DC2N3. Enjoy!

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