This is an app I’ve been working on for a while off and on… and the timeline sort of goes like this:
Beginning of September, Cody thinks a good project would be to work on a FATX explorer->I start working on one->get some core **** done->re-organize my classes since they were very unorganized->got really pissed off at my extraction function since it took forever for an 808kb file, and the problem was that I wasn’t caching stuff->fix that->start working on writing functions (this is sometime in October since I do have school and did do football so I didn’t have much time for stuff)->**** gets ed->don’t work on this **** for like 2 or 3 weeks->find out there’s some more stuff that’s bad with my reading function ( I can do to speed it up)->fix that problem, continue working on writing functions->reading **** is pretty much good, decide to release a beta.
TL;DR I got lazy and procrastinated a lot.
Anyway, this **** was coded from ground up… and for this beta only has reading functions enabled since I don’t want anyone ****ing up their hard drive. I just want to see if anyone encounters any reading problems before I get really in to the writing functions and wind up ****ing everything up.
To use: RUN THIS **** AS ADMINISTRATOR. IF YOU DON’T YOUR DRIVE WILL NOT BE DETECTED. Press File->Open->Open device of your type (for drives, select drive selector, for a backup, select open backup). Carry on as your would normally.
Features so far…
- Backing up of drive
- Extracting files
- Reading files
- Reading backups/files that are a single FATX partition (such as the xlaunch.fdf file found in devkats)
- USB support added 1/13/2010
Future updates…
- USB support – Done
- NO memory unit support because no one ever used those to begin with – People actually use these still… adding
- Backing up security sector, josh sector
- Writing to individual sectors/clusters
- Reading form individual sectors/clusters
- STFS implimentation (so you can see the game name/file name of an STFS package)
- Maybe undeletion…
- Anything else that people would want
- Package creation
This app might cost something cheap like $5, or free for Horizon Diamond members, or just free all around. Still haven’t decided.
Screenshots:
Virus Scan:
http://goo.gl/KtJje
Update
Alright, there’s been a turn in development. Instead of keeping this closed-source, and having licensing and all that junk, I’ve decided I’ll just make it open-source. I figured it would be too annoying for Cheater for me to ask him every time I need to update for him to obfuscate the executable, and then to have to create a licensing system would be annoying as hell.
The code in just about every single one of the forms is really messy. Please excuse that. Also, if you use the dev build, you’re doing so at your own risk… I wrote a lot of the code in the writing quickly, and have barely tested any of it. So if you’re using a hard drive, or anything else you don’t want to get messed up on accident, please use enable beta mode by changing the bool at line 16 of the main form to true.
Here is the source code:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P9WZ0LGV
(Mirror)
And an updated executable with undeletion mode, a few bug fixes, and the manual partition mode can be found here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GRR0I964
(Mirror)
http://www.mediafire.com/?c7pyfs9y403w98b
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