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@J3wel, it sounds like you'd be more interested in LSMC than in pylsdj. I haven't packaged it up for distribution just yet, but when it's out, it'll be a regular app.

lsdj-sav-utils is now pylsdj, and is now documented and reasonably stable. See http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/223974/

An important note (forgive me if this is obvious): it seems that you have to force the Everdrive GB to backup its SRAM by switching to another ROM in order to retrieve it from the SD card; otherwise the .srm file you pull from the card will be empty. Took me a while to realize this.

I'm running on 10.8.5 at the moment.

@cyberic: The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/alexras/lsdj-sav-utils

I wrote a binary format I/O library, called bread, precisely because the parsing code in the original lsdj-sav-utils codebase was getting super hairy. It's also on GitHub: https://github.com/alexras/bread

I would definitely welcome pull requests, but I'd like to get an alpha release out the door first.

Yup! Thanks for your continued interest in this.

When I came back to the codebase in March, it was an absolute mess. I ended up refactoring the parsing portion of the code, which has made the whole thing a lot easier to maintain.

The basic mechanics (loading, storing, parsing) are done. Test coverage is a lot less than I'd like, but there are a handful of functional tests and they're passing.

There are a couple remaining long poles:

The binary format parsing library I'm using is kind of slow, since it's pure Python and does a ton of object creation under the hood during writes. I'm debating between speeding that library up with a patch and just writing something that does what I need; I'll probably end up doing the latter, since I really just need simple bitwise file I/O. When it can store a .savfile in under 5 seconds without running it in pypy I'll be happy.

It doesn't have a GUI yet, which I know is something that a lot of people wanted. I'm debating just making it run a web server and writing the UI in HTML/JS to save time.

Once its speed is acceptable and a basic GUI is in place, I'll need people to kick the tires and I'll start writing more thorough tests.

In short, it's pretty far along. I'd like to get it to the point where I can declare victory by the end of the year; thankfully I'll have some holiday time off to spend working on it.

I think it might be possible to stick it inside the .app's Contents/Resources directory, but it might have problems paths if it assumes that they're relative to the DefleMask binary itself. Sticking it in there and changing the binary path in the script didn't seem to work; haven't looked further than that yet.