uLaunchELF Documentation Project

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Originally Posted by gravelhead44

Looks reall great dragon. Nice work.

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Thanks man, I was also trying to find a free .html to .pdf maker, but haven't been able to yet. With the new CSS layout, it is a lot easier to modify the document colors and layout. The only thing I haven't done yet was to put back in all the italics, which is easy enough to do.

I was also thinking of re-writing this to have three main parts, one for the average user, one for the advanced user, and a third for developers (suggestion taken from 'MonkY'). I made it pretty simple looking because I was trying to keep the file size down, using as little images as possible cause I first want to know what direction I should be taking this from the others.

I also wanted to know who put in all the content? I wasn't sure if it was HyperSonic, everyone here, or just stuff taken directly from E P and dlanor. :confused:

BTW how did you take the screenshots with launchelf??

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Originally Posted by gravelhead44

BTW how did you take the screenshots with launchelf??

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The images I used in the new document weren't actually screen shots. I completely recreated the entire uLE interface in Photoshop just so it would be small in size and as clear as possible. Although, I do have a program that I use to take screen shots with my PS2 connected directly to my PC through the graphics card. It does a pretty good job, which you can check out in the attached image below. You can tell it's a screen shot from the shady lines at the top of the image. The program is called iuVCR, great program for taking snap shots and recording short videos.

--EDIT: I also included a screen shot from Soul Calibur III so you can see how well it captures images from a game.

I also just realized I can make the current images in this documentation a lot clearer (which I will include in the next release), because right now the text in the resized images is hard to read (which is why I linked them to a larger image). I would like to know the exact font uLE uses so I can make it almost identical, even though I came pretty close using the Fixedsys font.

I also think a great thing to include in this documentation is a FAQ section. This would eliminate a lot of the questions new users ask up front. I was thinking of re-writing parts of this documentation (starting with the mcPaste function), but I first wanted to get some feedback from HyperSonic since he started this documentation in the first place.

nice one ps2dragon.. im not claming ownership of the documentation, its a community thing... we can improve the documentation together for everyone.

your html conversion looks great btw :)

Ok, I decided to use the version scheme from the original documentation.

New Updates:
- Added highlighting of specific terms (dark blue), files/locations/commands (light blue), locations (green), and actions (red)
- Fixed resized images so text is readable
- Removed redundant images (light bulb and globe)
- Added controller button icons
- Did a complete spell check and fixed up some small formatting issues
- Added mcPaste to the documentation (from information dlanor provided me previously)
- Added myself to the Acknowledgements section

Question: is there any purpose in continuing to upload the MHT file? Is anyone using it?

@ps2dragon:
Hi there. Nice work. Your Pics look better than the original.;)
I just made some test-records with my DVD-recorder and took some screenshots from DVD. Have a look and let me know if you want some more, just in case you want to have the original-look in your doc.

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Originally Posted by Jones23

@ps2dragon:
Hi there. Nice work. Your Pics look better than the original.;)
I just made some test-records with my DVD-recorder and took some screenshots from DVD. Have a look and let me know if you want some more, just in case you want to have the original-look in your doc.

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Don't know why this pic looks so bad in my browser. It was fine in corel draw.

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Thanks for the offer Jones23, but I already have the ability to capture real screen shots with iuVCR (hence my post yesterday to gravelhead44 in post #33). As I said in that post, I decided to recreate the interface in photoshop so the images would be smaller in filesize and look more clear. Also, if your wondering why my recreation of the images is a little brighter then an actual screen shot, that's because uLE shows up brighter on the TV, making it appear brighter then the screen shots you take, at least it does on my TV anyway.

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Originally Posted by HypERSoniC

nice one ps2dragon.. im not claming ownership of the documentation, its a community thing... we can improve the documentation together for everyone.

your html conversion looks great btw :)

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Thanks Hyper, did you see my post #31? I was asking who wrote the bulk of this documentation, because I wanted to get your opinion if it was you. There have been a lot of improvements to uLE and I don't know what's missing or changed/updated. If you don't have the time, can anyone here please help me go through this document and tell me what is incorrect and needs updating?

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Originally Posted by MaPomme

With the 3.43-44-45 version of LaunchElf, the 1.1 version of the doc can lead the user to big mistakes, in the "memory saves copy" and in the "launchelf.cnf file format" sections.

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I believe I corrected the memory card save section by adding mcPaste now, if not please let me know. Can someone please elaborate what MaPomme meant about the "launchelf.cnf file format" section?