vmu-tools 0.1.3

A set of tools for Dreamcast VMU icon

VMU Tools

This python project is designed to be a fully loaded suite of VMU tools for the dreamcast.

Features

• Read and extract data from .VMS and .VMI files
• Generate icons from ICONDATA and VMS files
• Generate VMI files from VMS
• Read and manipulate VMU dumps files
• Extract and upload savegames from VMU dump files

Example

import vmut

#Load .VMS file
VMS = vmut.vms.load_vms("example_files/SCALIBUR.VMS")  

#Print info
print(animated_vms.info)  

#Save icon
animated_vms.image_save("animaed.gif")  

#Generate Checksum
print(animated_vms.generated_checksum())

Roadmap

• Create ICONDATA and VMS icons from PNG and JPEG
• Change VMU color
• Convert VMU dumps to and from .DCI files
• Modify VMU ICONDATA from VMU dumps
• Possibly implament a built in webserver for file transfers from Dreamcast

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Special Thanks to:

• Marcus Comstedt https://mc.pp.se/dc/
  • For providing the best documentation on the Dreamcast
• mrneo240
  • for assistance on creating ICONDATA tools
• bucanero
  • For providing a dump of usefull test files