Feature Requests

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Is anyone out there interested in hacking on the NeoLinkmasta.exe code?

Does it compile with Visual Studio? If so it might be interesting.
Perhaps some kind of delta writing could be done (excuse my total ignorance regarding how flash ROMs work)? I.e. if the file already exists on the flash ROM you only write the differences. That could speed things up greatly when you work on a project and write it to the cart frequently to test modifications that you've made.

It compiles with GCC, actually. The GUI portion comes from FLTK FLUID. It's all done with free tools.

The delta writing can work in a way, but not quite how you think.

Programming Flash memory can only turn 1s to 0s. So, first you have to erase (turns it all to 1s). Then you can program the 0 bits (a byte at a time).

The memory is sectored, though. If you knew that the changes only existed in a certain sector, you could erase that sector and reprogram just that sector. The sectors aren't tiny, so homebrew games may not span many sectors. Because of this, you may not see a great speedup from this technique.