DescriptionComic Book DS is a program making it possible to read your Comic Books on your Nintendo DS.It can be also used as a photo or image based documents viewer. Those books can either be downloaded in the Book web page, or created thanks to PictoDS or pycbds. Different themes are available in this page. Go here to go directly to download section. Video (of the 2.0 version)ScreenshotsUser GuideThis User Guide explains the "Right Handed" mode, associated with a "Left To Right" Reading. Orientation is "Landscape". Default key configuration is used.For the "Left Handed" Mode , the "Portrait", and the "Right To Left" reading, the behaviour is almost the same but the key configuration may differ. The program starts in LIBRARY MODE
This mode displays the available comicbooks. The thumbnails can be selected using the pad or the stylus. A selected thumbnail is then displayed in overview on the other screen. To display the book in real size, you must either press the L button or click on an already selected thumbnail. The program will then switch to the OVERVIEW MODE Various information is displayed in the screen:
Thanks to the Save icon you can save the current pages number of all the comic books (if needed). Thanks to the Thumbnails icon you can switch to THUMBNAILS MODE.
This mode displays the small images 10 by 10. Those thumbnails can be selected using the pad or the stylus. A selected thumbnails is then displayed in overview on the other screen. Various information is displayed in the top part of the screen:
Thanks to the Library icon you can switch back to LIBRARY MODE. To display the next (or previous) 10 thumbnails, you can either click on the small hands or you can use the pad (while going on the right with the last image selected, or on the left with the first one selected). To display a thumbnail in real size, you must either press the L button, press the view icon or click on an already selected thumbnail. The program then switches to the OVERVIEW or DUAL SCREEN MODE
The OVERVIEW mode displays a part of the image in real size on one screen and a overview on the touch screen. Pressing again the L button will set the DUAL SCREEN MODE. This mode displays the image in real size on both screens. Pressing again the L button will set the THUMBNAILS MODE (and so on...) OVERVIEW and DUAL SCREEN MODES controls: You can move the stylus on the touch screen to change the displayed area. The pad can also be used to change the displayed area. X and Y can be used to zoom in and out. Pushing both buttons at the same time will make the image real size (or will switch back to the previous zoom). While being on the right of the image, pressing the right key will move the visible area to the bottom on the left (same behavior while going on the left, top or bottom) While being in bottom on the right, and going on the bottom or right, the next page will be displayed (the previous one is displayed while being at top left and going on the top or left)
If the icons are not displayed (in OVERVIEW and DUAL SCREEN MODES)you can click one of the corner of the touch screen and some icons will be displayed (during approximately two second). Each icon has a particular action:
Special Thanks toMollusk and his PAlib library (as those who contributed to it).Wintermute and his work on devkitpro. Chism and his DLDI FAT access. Burton Radons, and headspin for their JPEG Decompression Library. Lick and his brightness control source code. Sansanx who allowed me to present his great Comic Book La Vie de Norman. Eric Caoili and his beautiful first review of ComicBookDS at www.4colorrebellion.com. The HomebrewCast team at http://homebrewcast.com/ team and their ComicBookDS review and comments :). Alex, the omalone and puzzlemaniak game author, who made me want to start programs for the DS. Everybody who like this program, moreover the ones who wrote good things about it in their blogs or forum posts. Troubleshoots and Remarks
Download and InstallUnzip the following file in the choosen directory of your PC :This Nintendo DS program should be used with the PC program PictoDS (allowing to convert the comic bookds for ComicBookDS) or with the python pycbds script. Different themes are available in this page.
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