Universal Offset Porter Engine (Command Line Application)

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SnB@BWH, I'm awaiting your valuable feedback for this program

Just so you know, I will comment my feedback as soon as possible. Really busy lately. I did get a chance to try it out though... It works great! Only one error about a DLL, but it was resolved by downloading the latest version of the C++ redistributable.

SnB@BWH wrote:Just so you know, I will comment my feedback as soon as possible. Really busy lately. I did get a chance to try it out though... It works great!    Only one error about a DLL, but it was resolved by downloading the latest version of the C++ redistributable.

Thanks, I updated the README. Take your time.

Program runs very smoothly, is fast, and produces good information to tell you what you may or may not need to change in the parameters for searching to get the right result. I don't think anything needs to be changed; it works as it should.

However, could you possibly add these features to the program?

Although the program can finish with a result in less than 2 seconds, it can take a while to type out the parameters every time you open the program... Would it be possible to have hotkeys that automatically type out the parameters, and to have a "save directory" hotkey / command to save the directory you use for memory dumps, so that the next time you load up the program, you just enter a command / hotkey, and it goes through the file list, similar to using the arrow keys to print to the terminal, previously entered commands?

I think that would really be efficient and beneficial, but entirely up to you. 

SnB@BWH wrote:Program runs very smoothly, is fast, and produces good information to tell you what you may or may not need to change in the parameters for searching to get the right result. I don't think anything needs to be changed; it works as it should.

However, could you possibly add these features to the program?

Although the program can finish with a result in less than 2 seconds, it can take a while to type out the parameters every time you open the program... Would it be possible to have hotkeys that automatically type out the parameters, and to have a "save directory" hotkey / command to save the directory you use for memory dumps, so that the next time you load up the program, you just enter a command / hotkey, and it goes through the file list, similar to using the arrow keys to print to the terminal, previously entered commands?

I think that would really be efficient and beneficial, but entirely up to you. 

Thanks

You can write a batch script with the command and rerun it as you like and edit the parameters there instead of the command line.

For example put the following into a file called Port.bat in the same directory as the UniversalOffsetPorter.exe:

Code:

UniversalOffsetPorter --memory-dump "D:\Memory Dumps\[GM4E01] Mario Kart - Double Dash.raw" "D:\Memory Dumps\[GM4P01] Mario Kart - Double Dash.raw" --offset 0x3BC1C0

Yes, I changed the parameters a bit in the last version. You can specify multiple memory dumps and offsets by passing multiple values.

Now you can run the Port.bat from the command line instead of typing the parameters like this:

Code:

D:\Programs\UniversalOffsetPorter>Port.bat

Then your usability problem should be taken care of.

Awesome! Looks like you already had everything plannd out to begin with when you started coding a commandline program, instead of a GUI, like you had mentioned. It's a lot better doing it that way with basic scripts. It surely does make for usability, having scripts you can use.

Also, thanks... I just learned something new. This could be used for other commandline programs as well (creating a script). Isn't it nice when you don't have to do any extra coding to add a feature? lol

SnB@BWH wrote:Awesome!    Looks like you already had everything plannd out to begin with when you started coding a commandline program, instead of a GUI, like you had mentioned. It's a lot better doing it that way with basic scripts. It surely does make for usability, having scripts you can use.

Also, thanks... I just learned something new.   This could be used for other commandline programs as well (creating a script). Isn't it nice when you don't have to do any extra coding to add a feature?    lol

Yeah, I did a lot more planning for this. I also realized I would literally die if I made a nice and fully featured GUI for this command line tool once again and then I need to manually code saving/loading profiles while the command line literally has it built-in if you write some simple (batch) scripts. Making a GUI on top of this literally doubles or triples the effort for little gain such as a few little kids can use it easier but it's not a tool for little kids anyway.

Also, I have another neat command line tool like this for pointer searches. I'm planning to release it soon, too.

Yeah, and to me, there wouldn't be much more you could do with a GUI, anyways... It works great as a commandline tool. You're right: so much effort, not much gain. Most people who are n00bs probably wouldn't even know how to run this program, anyways. Should I create a tutorial?

I would love to see your pointer search program! Dr. Pepper's Pointer Searcher v4... I can't even find it anymore. All the links are down on Google, and in your videos. Either way, I think a commandline tool would be faster and more efficient either way. I think I may still have the program; I'll have to dig a little deeper, so I can re-upload it, if anyone would still want it.

SnB@BWH wrote:Yeah, and to me, there wouldn't be much more you could do with a GUI, anyways... It works great as a commandline tool. You're right: so much effort, not much gain. Most people who are n00bs probably wouldn't even know how to run this program, anyways. Should I create a tutorial?  

I would love to see your pointer search program!    Dr. Pepper's Pointer Searcher v4... I can't even find it anymore. All the links are down on Google, and in your videos. Either way, I think a commandline tool would be faster and more efficient either way. I think I may still have the program; I'll have to dig a little deeper, so I can re-upload it, if anyone would still want it.

Dr. Pepper's tool is so old, it used to be good back then but nowadays it's just outdated as well as not as fast as what I can make it with modern compilers/code and his tool only works for Wii pretty much while mine is universal for all systems. I already made my Universal Pointer Searcher GUI program which you can download here: https://github.com/BullyWiiPlaza/Universal-Pointer-Searcher
However, I reworked the C++ porting engine severely and it got too incompatible with the current GUI so I won't update the GUI yet but release the command line program as a stand alone.

@SnB@BWH: I updated the offset porter again with speed improvements and some minor extra features and fixes. Feel free to try using it again and provide some feedback for everything. I know you're one of the people who appreciate a porting app like this the most.

Absolutely, man! I got this idea last night that I will post in the "secret" section later on to get myself back onto my old Windows computer. The hard drive is fucked on it, at least that's what I'm thinking it is, just gave up on me, I guess.

But I think I know a way to get it working again off a USB, and no, not a bootable USB... per se, but anyways, I'll post about it later. I would really enjoy getting back onto Windows here and there to use all the old programs I've been longing to use again, including this one

I've had many ideas for doing stuff, but Chrome OS, even with Linux in the background is very limiting. I'm sure with the idea I have, either you, Seth, or even ModZ, could work on it with me. I have a tad doubt it will work, but I'm optimistic as well.

Well, I also compiled a Linux version of this application in particular, so maybe that is more likely to work. There is also Wine for running Windows applications on Linux. It should work as well for this rather simple application without GUI.

Oh, OK. That's true. I'll try it out at some point. I'll be working on that thing this weekend that I said. Been somewhat busy... more so just focused on other things. By the time I get home from work, I'm fucking exhausted. 15 km's walking to and from work, lol xD