| HOW
TO START
1.
First of all,
get Pogoshell 1.2 from the DOWNLOAD
SECTION
or from Herg's
Site
(the author of Pogoshell 1.2)
2.
Unpack the
.zip into your favourite directory, that's what you will find
inside:
the first thing I suggest you to do is to copy/paste the root
directory as a backup. Since most of the customizations are done
to that DIR it may be useful to have a fresh root to start all over
in case you did something wrong.
3.
Open the root
directory
this
is what you will see on you GBA screen , in this directory you can
create new folders , as many as you like, to sort Nes roms, sound
files, images, games.
WHAT
ARE THOSE DIRECTORIES?
.plugins : this directory obviously
contain plugins , you can remove those you don't need.
.saves
: to import savefiles put the .sav files here (this is
explained better in the Manage
Saves
section)
.shell : don't touch this directory! it contains
files nedded to run pogoshell.
Examples : this dir contains
some examples of Pogoshell capabilities, but it has no real use...
so you can delete it for more space on the card.
fonts :
as the name says this directory contains fonts you can use in Pogoshell,
if you need space you can delete it, since the fixed font is in
.shell folder too.
file keyb.dat : you can delete this
file as well, it's only used in old text adventures with the Frotz
Plugin (read more here)
4.
Start customizating
your Pogoshell!
Put GBA roms in the root folder or
create a directory called GBA GAMES and put them in there...
it's the same.
Roms must be in .gba or .bin format.
ZIP FILES WON'T WORK. To save some space read the Tools
section, expecially the romtrunc paragraph.
This is how you
directory will look like before flashing on the cart:
5.
Flashing
Once
you are happy of the files you put into the root go back
one step in the Pogoshell 1.2 folder and double click the
file CREATE.BAT , this batch will "pack" all the
root folder into one single file called ROM.BIN .
This is the file that will be flashed on your cart.
Now you
can use your favourite program to flash your cart, for example Little
Writer, or Flash 2 Advance writer, simply select the rom.bin file
, and it's done!
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