Create Custom Firefox And Thunderbird Installations
Silence of the foxes is a lightweight software program that can be used to create custom Firefox installations. Custom installations refers to a Firefox setup that can install custom preferences, extensions, plugins and bookmarks whenever it is installed. This can be very useful for various purposes including distribution of a custom Firefox installation to multiple computer systems.
The portable software program will unpack a Firefox setup file to the local computer system. The user then needs to add extensions, bookmarks, plugins and preferences to the paths the installation has been extracted to and pack everything in the end to create a new custom Firefox installation.
It is possible to create a custom Firefox or Thunderbird installation with the software program.
A Firefox or Thunderbird setup file needs to be specified in the next step. These files can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.
Firefox add-ons have to be downloaded and placed into the relevant project directory so that they are installed whenever the custom Firefox version is installed on a computer system.
A click on copy my files and then pack will create the custom Firefox or Thunderbird installation file. This file contains all plugins, extensions, bookmarks and search plugins which will be installed during the custom Firefox setup.
You can download the program to create custom Firefox and Thunderbird setups from the MSFN forum.
Update: The program does not seem to be available anymore. The link has been removed. Firefox users can download and run Firefox Addon Maker instead which can create custom Firefox installations from existing Firefox profiles, or independently.
The extension supports the current stable version of Firefox, the beta version and the last version. It can copy all preferences, extensions and themes from an existing profile into the installer so that these become available on the target system as well.
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I recently played through Chrono Trigger (a few times) on DraStic myself, and I know exactly what parts you’re referring to. :)
Also, for extra credit.
DraStic’s .dsv files are essentially raw .sav files, but with a few bytes of DeSmuME-specific data appended to the end (specifically so that this procedure outlined by Ashwin will work). On the other hand MelonDS (my preferred DS emulator on PC) cannot interpret this DeSmuME-specific data, and will need to be stripped out by a hex editor. In this case, you need to use a hex editor to strip it out. Open the file, find this at the very end:
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raw sav by exclu
ding this DeSmuM
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r:…………..
……….|-DESM
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…remove it, and save. Now you have a save file that you can import into any DS emulator that supports raw .sav files (presumably DeSmuME as well, though I have not tried).
Thanks for that.
MelonDS is pretty good too. There is a new QT version in the works.
https://twitter.com/Arisotura/status/1255059225371435011
This worked from DraStic to MelonDS Android as well!
DraStic seems smoother for the time being, but it’s nice to know you can transfer anytime.
Nice tip foolishgrunt.
Off topic but does anyone know the best way to play the original Majora’s Mask on Win10? Best emulator for it I guess?
Project64 https://www.pj64-emu.com/. Pretty straightforward to use. Enable the N64 plugin.
You could try Mupen64, it’s good too.
There are some pretty good texture packs that you can install to make the graphics look better.
http://www.emutalk.net/threads/56677-Majora-s-Mask-N64HD-Project
Just FYI, the 3DS remake which has some QoL improvements, runs flawlessly on Citra.
Thanks Ashwin
I don’t have those options ‘Import Backup Memory”
I have desmume 0.9.11 x64 on Linux
Thanks for the info. I was playing a game called “Last window: secret of Cape West” (which wasn’t released where i live) and at one point there’s a puzzle that makes a rather weird usage of the DS’s hardware sensors, which i needed to test on a real DS.
To convert a Drastic save file into a usable save file for the DSTwo cartridge, you just need to shave off the extra bytes with a command like:
dd bs=1024 count=256 if=”input.dsv” of=”output.sav”
…for a 256Kb save file. This should work on any Unix system, ie. Linux (including Android itself) BSD, MacOS etc. For winblows, well….
Haven’t (yet) tested the reverse operation, but i’d presume if simply copying the file saved on the DSTwo back to the Drastic dir on my phone doesn’t work, i’d just need to re-append the extra few bytes at the end.
Transferring the file from Desmume to Drastic doesn’t seem to work for me. I have a DSV and a NDS file with the same name in the backup folder from Drastic on my phone. But when I boot up the game in Drastic it just starts a new game. Anyone an idea what I could be doing wrong?
Try changing the save file to .dsv instead of .sav, worked for me.
ok i try the drastic to desmume method with pokemon mystery dungeon explolers of sky and it doesnt work for me for some reason i just get new game option X_X
Same