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1. What is MCAnnihilator?
It has quite nice bad block handling, so even worn cards should
work fine after formatting (unless it's the very first block that
got screwed - because of the way mcman handles the cards when
recognizing the file system, I don't think this kind of error
could be solved in a different way than hardware block remapping).
2. Basic usage.
All the gfx has been made with PAL (640x512 framebuffer) mode
in mind, so for NTSC (640x448 framebuffer) and VGA (640x480
framebuffer), everything is downscaled to match the screen
and preserve on-screen aspect ratio (not the framebuffer pixel
ratio). This makes the app to look a little bit worse in NTSC
and VGA. One possibility would be to move the screen up and not
scale it. But that caused top and bottom to be cut off... And the
on-screen aspect ratio would change (so everything would look like
it was stretched vertically up).
The keys are pretty straightforward. Some are not that obvious,
but whenever needed, a hint is displayed to make sure the user
knows what to do.
FORMAT
It basically does what it says. The iop code will clear all the
card blocks, check the card for bad blocks (multiple times to make
sure) and save bad blocks in an array, then it will write the new
filesystem. There are two options: "Fast" and "Full". Fast should
be ok for most cases. Full makes additional bad block checks and
writes all the card pages (necessary in some cases... takes few
times as long as fast). Fast is the default (you can just leave
it... unless you're experiencing some problems).
UNFORMAT
CREATE MC IMAGE
RESTORE MC IMAGE
-------file lang.lng
#line comment
//line comment
LNG_IDENTIFIER1="String to be printed.\nNext line."
LNG_IDENTIFIER2="\nThis string starts with a newline."
LNG_IDENTIFIER3="This one contains \"quotes\" inside."
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5. Disclaimer.