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You may recall that about 7 years ago, I released a demo version of Fruit Remover for Gamecube and promised the finished game "in a year or two." Well, the game is finished, but it's now an iPhone app. You can find it over at fruitremover.com. Just thought I'd post it here to show that I have been working on something over the last 2 years. If you want a lot of a stuff to read, you can also check out the blog on that site. I've posted quite a few articles about the progress of development on the game over the last 2 years.

I've released a quick update for Multi Patch to version 1.3. This version adds support for applying and creating BSDiff patches. I've also added a 64-bit version (which requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer) since creating BSDiff patches requires a lot of memory. As usual, you can find it at the MultiPatch page.

Back in early July 2010, I quietly posted a new application called MultiPatch to the projects page. MultiPatch is an all-in-one open source IPS, UPS, PPF and XDelta patcher for Mac OS X. It can also create patches too. I posted a brief thread about it on the romhacking.net forums, and based on the feedback I received two more releases have been made since then. I consider the current release (version 1.2) to be a complete application based on my initial goals when I started it. I hope that this version can be useful for the next several years before I need to update it again, which is why I'm posting it to the main page now. You can get it from the MultiPatch page.

My Action Replay DS code editor has been updated for the first time since late 2006, it is now at version 1.1. This release is the result of some limited feedback that I got over the last 3 years. The biggest change is the removal of the Apply buttons in each window. Those buttons served two purposes: to ensure required data was entered and to push your changes back into the working code list. However, users would forget to click the Apply buttons and believed that their data wasn't being updated. So now all changes are made directly against the working code list.

Another change was the addition of an edit menu. Some users were not aware that keyboard shortcuts could be used to copy and paste text to and from the text boxes. Finally, I fixed a problem where special characters were not being exported properly. If your code names, game names, etc. contained special characters these weren't handled properly and the AR couldn't use the exported data. This release is only provided as a .JAR file because I don't think it makes sense to provide a Windows EXE any longer.

In the years since the program has been last updated, things have changed a lot. DS codes are now distributed in many different formats and there are several other programs that can read and write those. (Although some of them don't appear to handle special code types properly for the ARDS XML format.) When this program was first released, it was created to serve a purpose where no other solutions were available. There was no way to edit DS code files on a PC. A few months after its release the official AR software added this ability built in. There are still some features I could add to set this apart from other tools, but I believe that the needs in this area have been met.

You can get the new version here. I've also updated a few pages in the projects section to note that several of my ports have been discontinued. All of those pages are ports of things where more recent versions have been made available by other people. Links to these ports have been provided.

~Sappharad

I've moved the site to a new server. If you're seeing this, that means it worked.

Some of the content to the left is temporarily missing while I fix broken links, and the layout for this site needs to be updated and re-installed. I'll fix these things when I get around to it.

~ Sappharad