Moonshell v1.4 (Stable) Now Available

Japanese dev MoonShell and ReinMoon.”>Infantile Paralysiser is sending his “konnichiwa” shout-outs with the latest MoonShell update. You might recall that a few days ago he released v1.4 beta 8 for his nifty multimedia app for the DS. Just how cool is it? Well, it can play DVM videofiles and MP3/NSF soundfiles. Also, you could use it to view your Jpeg/BMP/PNG pictures as well as your TXT files.

Anyway, he’s got another treat for all NDS users out there, with the release of MoonShell v1.4. As it is not in beta stage anymore, users could expect lots of bug fixes and a cartloads of improvement in this version. Want to know exactly how different this is from the other ones? Check out the changelog below. It’s lifted from the zip file itself, but if you could come up with a better translation, that would be greatly appreciated.

Download: [MoonShell v1.4 (stable)]
Download: [MoonShell v1.4 (stable) source code]

Read on for the entire changelog.

Japanese dev MoonShell and ReinMoon.”>Infantile Paralysiser is sending his “konnichiwa” shout-outs with the latest MoonShell update. You might recall that a few days ago he released v1.4 beta 8 for his nifty multimedia app for the DS. Just how cool is it? Well, it can play DVM videofiles and MP3/NSF soundfiles. Also, you could use it to view your Jpeg/BMP/PNG pictures as well as your TXT files.

Anyway, he’s got another treat for all NDS users out there, with the release of MoonShell v1.4. As it is not in beta stage anymore, users could expect lots of bug fixes and a cartloads of improvement in this version. Want to know exactly how different this is from the other ones? Check out the changelog below. It’s lifted from the zip file itself, but if you could come up with a better translation, that would be greatly appreciated:

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).
The 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.

Download: [MoonShell v1.4 (stable)]
Download: [MoonShell v1.4 (stable) source code]