| MoonShell | |
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| Author | Moonlight, Infantile Paralysiser |
| Type | Media players |
| Version | 2.10 Stable |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2010/08/31 |
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MoonShell is a homebrew multimedia player for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS lite, Nintendo DSi, and Nintendo 3DS. It is a well known, popular piece of Nintendo DS homebrew software, and offers a way to play videos and audio on the DS, along with other homebrew games.
Installation
- Insert your Flashcard microSD card into your PC card reader.
- Run the EXE to extract the files.
- In the extracted file is a program called Setup.exe - Run this.
- Select the drive that represents your MicroSD card and click on "Install to ...".
- In the next box select the "Open More" box if you want to install any addons/tools (e.g. dustbox/Moonmemo/extra languages/plugins).
- Click the Update button to continue. Moonshell will then install all the necessary files to your MicroSD card.
It is also recommended that after it has been installed - you should run the LanguageSelect.exe file to select the correct language. If you don't use this program - then you should run the "moonshl2.nds" file first when you've inserted your Flashcard & switched on.
- Remove your MicroSD card from your PC & insert into your Flashcard.
- Insert into your DSPhat/DSLite/DSi & switch on.
- Run either moonshl2.nds or moonshl2_directboot.nds to run.
Alternatively you just need to copy over the moonshl2 folder, moonshl2.nds and moonshl2_directboot.nds files to the root of your MicroSD Card.
User guide
Support file formats
| Music | MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV, M4A, AAC, WMA, TTA, MID, RCP, R36, FLAC. |
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| MOD | MOD, IT, MTM, S3M, XM, 669, MED, STM, AMF, GDM, ULT, UNI, ASY, IMF, OKT, STX. |
| Chiptune | SPC, NSF, GBS, HES, AY, SAP, KSS. |
| Playlist | M3U, WPL. |
| Picture | JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD. |
Also supports DPG movie files and text files.
Limitations concerning formats
| NDS | Not support commercial NDSROM files. |
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| WMA | Not support "loss-less" and "voice mode" format WMA files. |
| M4A, AAC, WMA | Not support encrypted files. |
| MID | Not support "Standard MIDI file format.2" format. |
| SPC | Tone quality is very bad. |
| Chiptune | Only the first track is performed. The FM sound chip cannot be emulated. |
| Playlist | Support encode is ANSI, S-JIS, UTF-8, CP437, CP850, CP1252. |
| Text file | Support encode is ANSI, S-JIS, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE. Auto detection only. |
Information is displayed in the file list. MP3, JPEG, BMP, PSD, DPG only.
Screen capture
The screen capture can be preserved by keeping pushing the Select button for 3 seconds or more on an arbitrary screen.
NDS stops when succeeding in preservation. Please open the made BMP file with Windows.
When the memory is insufficient, it is not possible to make it.
Misc tools
| AutoDLDIPatch | Auto DLDI patch tool for not DLDI patch firmware. |
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| DPGTools | Movie encoder. |
| DPGTools_AltVer | Movie encoder (old safe?). |
| HandWriteModelsManager | Hand write models manager for text editor. |
| ImageViewer | Album (IPK) maker. |
| JacketImageConverter | Jacket image maker. |
| MakeBGPack | Slide show bg-pack file maker. |
| MakeSplashAniForMS2 | Splash anime file maker. |
| MoonMemo | Readme of memo. |
| MoonShell2_AlternativeLoader | When failing in the start, this boot loader is used. |
| PluginsText | Plugin attached text files. |
| SetPassword | Simple boot password setting tool. |
| SkinTool | Skin maker. |
| sndeff | Sound effect converter. |
| SoundFont8bit | Low quality and small size, sound font file for software MIDI emulator. |
