New Cube Timer for Nintendo DS

[Zarxrax]

I just tossed together a very very basic timer for nintendo ds.
I am no longer developing this, but the code is available if anyone else wants to.

Features:
- stackmat-style start/stop
- displays the last 12 times (no averages though)
- screen can be flipped
- "algorithm viewer" for helping you practice and learn your algorithms. Requires you to supply your own images

Of course the main advantage of this application is that the nintendo ds is very portable, so you can time yourself wherever you go.

In order to use this, you just need a flash cart.

Download CuTiDS v0.5: http://amvhell.com/stuff/ds/CuTiDS-0.5.zip
Code Repository: http://code.google.com/p/cutids/

[cookingfat]

I will try this right away and post back.

edit - 12 move scrambles fail. sorry

[Zarxrax]

I just started cubing about 2 weeks ago. Whats a good size? 24?

[cookingfat]

use 25, same as cct which is what I use.

It would be good if it could somehow show your times in a list. Even better an average as well, but I know nothing about programming, so I'll leave that to you.

[Zarxrax]

I've updated it to use 25.

Yea, time records are something that I'm thinking of possibly implementing, but it's difficult. And that would probably come later after I make it look a bit more pretty.

Other features I'm thinking of are an inspection time, and a "stackmat mode", where you have to hold buttons on both sides of the ds, then the timer starts when you let go.

[cookingfat]

sounds like a good project, you should continue it and let us know.

It's much better with the new scrambles too. the Ds look weird in that font though.

[panyan]

FANTASTIC, THANKS!

[36duong]

few questions before i try it,

does it calculate averages of 5 and 12?

does it store time? (i wouldn't imagine creating a .sav file would be hard)

are any other cube sizes going to be added in the new future? (eg. 2x2x2 wouldn't be hard, just make the code to use R, F and U)

I would try it, except I am currently in the United States for SFO 09, and don't have a micro sd card reader.

[Musturd]

Please continue working on it!
Maybe add a function to touch the touch-screen to start/stop the timer\
Also adding a background picture would be nice

If you need help with PAlib, I have some experience with it but not much...

[Zarxrax]

does it calculate averages of 5 and 12?
does it store time? (i wouldn't imagine creating a .sav file would be hard)

It only does what I said in the first post, so no. Simply saving times isn't necessarily hard in itself, but theres a lot of other little stuff that goes along with it. For instance, if it saves times, then you probably want to view some of the previous times as well. This requires creating some sort of interface for viewing times. Then there are questions such as how many times should it store? All times? Should it keep a database so you can look at your times from a year ago and see how you progressed? It's suddenly turned into a very complex problem.

are any other cube sizes going to be added in the new future? (eg. 2x2x2 wouldn't be hard, just make the code to use R, F and U)

I hadn't thought of it, but its a possibility. This complicates the previous issue of storing times, though.

Please continue working on it!
Maybe add a function to touch the touch-screen to start/stop the timer\
Also adding a background picture would be nice

If you need help with PAlib, I have some experience with it but not much...

I had thought of using the touch screen, but it doesn't always register a touch if you slap at the screen, which I imagine most people would do, so it's probably better to just leave the bottom screen open for selecting options and such. If you want to help, its definitely welcome, because I *suuuuck* at programming.