FSPDS 1.0 Announcement: Flipnote Studio Player for Nintendo DS

[NotImpLife]

FSPDS is a homebrew app that allows DSi flipnotes playback on any DS console, via flashcard or custom firmware. This was a nice project to work on, and I'm happy to share it with the world.

Main features:

- can load flipnotes from any path on the SD card
- can view details like flipnote authors and date
- the player has useful features like pause/resume, auto replay, screen saver, shuffle options and previous/next navigation

Download: https://notimplementedlife.itch.io/fspds
Source code: https://github.com/NotImplementedLife/FSPDS

 

[zoogie]

Bugs/Limitations​

• Crashes on the Flipnote Lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) files.

I would consider this a feature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Very nice work! I can't wait to test this out on my 3ds.

 

[NotImpLife]

I would consider this a feature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Very nice work! I can't wait to test this out on my 3ds.

You're right! The annoying part is that you have to restart the console when the error happens
Thank you!

 

[Flame]

wow amazing. where did you get thiose flipnotes?

 

[NotImpLife]

wow amazing. where did you get thiose flipnotes?

Thanks a lot!
I shared my sources on this thread, hope it's allowed to do so: https://gbatemp.net/threads/anyone-have-any-flipnote-ppm-files.602144/#post-9648035

 

[86houdini]

Is there a way to download flipnotes from Sudomemo in bulk? I'd love to browse a bunch of them on real hardware. This would be the best place to get the Flipnotes, but having to download them one by one kind of defeats the point.

 

[NotImpLife]

Is there a way to download flipnotes from Sudomemo in bulk?

There's probably a good reason for which some flipnote share services don't allow direct access to ppm files from their web clients, providing at most the feature to download them in a converted version to a common media format. A workaround that may work is using the DSi's API urls with the correct settings instead of the http version of the site (I'm no expert in web development, but it should be something related to the stuff you have to change in the wifi settings in order to "replace" Flipnote Hatena) and list the flipnotes directly from there. However, this looks difficult to put in practice, also considering the lack of documentation on the subject (to my knowledge). It's worth to mention that doing so might conflict with the site's rules since they may want to protect/restrict the hosted content in some way or prevent any security disasters like a DDOS attack potentially caused by downloading tons of flipnote files. Sudomemo actually forbids "Access to our Flipnote services via means other than official Nintendo hardware designed to run DSiWare". Your reliable option is whether waiting for someone to post their flipnote collections on social media or some drive service, or finding a more restrictions-relaxed server (that hopefully isn't down yet) which has a "Download as PPM" option.

If there's a hole in my reasoning or someone has found a way to solve this, I'd also like to know. After all, who doesn't want a great source of flipnotes to explore?

 

[SylverReZ]

FSPDS is a homebrew app that allows DSi flipnotes playback on any DS console, via flashcard or custom firmware. This was a nice project to work on, and I'm happy to share it with the world.

Main features:

- can load flipnotes from any path on the SD card
- can view details like flipnote authors and date
- the player has useful features like pause/resume, auto replay, screen saver, shuffle options and previous/next navigation

Download: https://notimplementedlife.itch.io/fspds
Source code: https://github.com/NotImplementedLife/FSPDS

Amazing work from these people. This is better than PBSDS' flipnote player.

I would consider this a feature ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

"Not a bug, but a feature."
If it isn't broke, don't fix it.