Drag wrote:
tepples wrote:
I ought to implement some sorting algorithms in Python and then in 6502 asm to demonstrate Shell sort, merge sort, heapsort, and streaming heapsort.
I'm curious now, is the Power Pak's interface just a simple firmware that can be updated easily? I was thinking of possibly making a more "pretty" interface kinda like Dreamcast's, or something.
Code for menus and such is stored in the CF card ("POWERPAK" dir together with NES mappers). So yeah they can be updated easily.
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At the same time, implementing sorting on the Power Pak wouldn't be too terrible, the Power Pak is capable of writing to the memory card too, right? Why not just sort the roms once, and record the file order in a cache-file? I can't imagine your rom folders changing too drastically, too often. Even if it does, you could easily update the cache-file to add and remove files, without needing to regenerate the whole thing
Yeah I thought about caching too, should work for most purposes. PowerPak currently doesn't know how to create new files though, so an empty cache file needs to be added to the CF.
It'd probably be feasible, but no technical details about the modules have been released, so it would require a fair amount of reverse engineering. I'm not sure if it's worth it just to get sorting.
Anyway if you/others want to give a better menu a go, I can probably help with the RE part, I have most of it figured out already anyways.