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Introducing LeapPad Photo Slide, a simple application that's function is tragically overlooked by the official LeapPad software. 

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This dictates the amount of time each photo is shown for in seconds and is set to 15 by default.

You will still need to Toggle Main_App[on] to prevent the LeapPad from sleeping, you can do this in LeapPad Manager > Developer Tools. 

NOTE: If the LeapPad gets switched off, it will not boot normally with Main_App[on], connect via USB and toggle Main_App[off].

You COULD in theory create a symlink to '/LF/Bulk/ProgramFiles/DEAK-0x90000000/loader.swf' and use FTP to place it in /Flags/Main_App, then your LeapPad will boot straight into Photo Slide (Until you delete the /Flags/Main_App again)

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I have only included sample Track 1.mp3 due to MP3 filesize and Cover JPGs 1-10 due to laziness

Enjoy!

A growing selection of Free LeapPad Flash Game Packages, prepackaged and ready to be installed with the LeapPad Manager.
Packages are tested against a LeapPad 3 and meet my 'Minimum Requirements of Playability'. (Found a Bug?) 

None of these packages are endorsed or supported by LeapFrog, as a result Gameplay and Quality may be lower than Retail standards.

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Some games just LOOK boring...

But they don't have to look so drab:

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In reality all I've changed here is the following:

• Inserted Background image.
  
• Inserted SF Slapstick "Dora" Font.
  
• Rephrased text labels to be more specific.
  

So, let's see how we'd do that, First Open Dora.swf in FFDec.

Adding Images.
To locate the frame that contains the Start Menu, I'm going to find a start menu button and check it's dependent frames.
Luckily, this SWF only has 2 DefineButton objects so it's easy enough to keep track of which is which and where they will be placed in the game.

Ah Frame 56, Such a drab and dreary place..
As you can see, there will only be 4 Objects placed on this frame: 2 Buttons, and 2 Text labels. 
The green backdrop is actually solid Background Colour, which can be changed in the "Others>Backgroud Colour" Section.

Notice, DEPTH, an object with depth:1 is covered by an object with depth:2 and so forth.. This button needs to be raised as we'll need to use Depth:1 for our background image.

• Right Click "PlaceObject2 (476)"> Raw Edit
  
• Find the Depth property 
  
• change it's value to 2
  

The Frame won't change in it's appearance but if you have done it correctly both buttons will still be visible once we've finished adding our background image, let's do that now.

• Scroll up to the Shapes section and Right Click Shapes> Add Tag> DefineShape2Tag, your new blank Shape will be at the bottom of the Shapes section, in this case it's DefineShape2(480)
  
• Right Click DefineShape2(480)> Replace and Update Bounds... Choose your desired Background Image and it will be imported as DefineShape2(480). (I would export one of the other large background images, erase the image and keep the canvas size for my background, that way I don't have to deal with resolution and scaling.)
  

Next to add a new PlaceObject2 tag to Frame 56 (or earlier frames if there are loading screens before the menu)
Right Click> Frame 56> Add Tag>PlaceObject2Tag... Your new blank PlaceObject2 Tag will be at the bottom of frame 56. 
It doesn't contain ANY information right now so it doesn't actually place a visible object yet. But it's there..
Right Click "PlaceObject2 ()" > Raw Edit

• placeFlagHasCharacter=TRUE
  
• depth=1
  
• characterID=480
  

And just like that, your background image should be visible. If you find you've lost the button for Part 1, check if you changed the DEPTH=2 and also check Frame 56> PlaceObject2 (476) as I've had PlaceObject tags disappear when I Add a new Tag sometimes.

Changing Texts.

Changing text is easy, usually each DefineText(#) will already contain the text it will display on screen, so simply scroll through the texts until you find the string you wish to change and change it. If you're adding length to the string you may need to increase the "xmax" so all text is displayed.(If multiline = 1 you may need to increase "ymax" also)

Some DefineText tags are dynamic, they usually have a variablename property, if you Search (Ctrl+F) for the variablename, you will find any occasion it is referenced or set and you can change what text is shown that way.

On occasion (Neopets) you will find a game that retrieves it's text(s) from another service (E.G: for Translations) these games will mostly display: blank text areas, NaN, undefined etc.. and simply editing the DefineText Tag isn't enough as they are set again during runtime.

I generally delete the scripts>lang, scripts>translator and scripts>core>lang

This will prevent 9/10 text(s) from being rewritten at runtime, then its just a case of working out what each text area SHOULD say and editing each DefineText tag to match(You can find out which DefineText is placed on a given frame by pausing FFDec and mouse over the DefineText, its ID is displayed in the status bar overhead.

Inserting a font is very straightforward, but to optimize you SWF and save space, you only need to add the characters you're going to use, Example the title logo will only need the few characters that make up the name, menu's can get away with as few characters as g,o,b,a,c,k,n,e,x,t.

Most games will already do something like this, they may contain 1 full font((including varying symbols) especially if they have text input boxes), but for the 2 or 3 fancy fonts, they'll only have the few characters that are in use, we can add more if we already have the same font installed on our system, simply type the characters you want to add (Be CaSe SeNsIbLe.), specify Bold, Italics, etc. and click Ok.

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To add a new font, Right Click Fonts> Add Tag> DefineFont2. Your new blank font is at the bottom of the Font section, Add your characters just as we did above, note you CAN mix fonts.. Lets say you want these numbers with those capital letters on a times new roman base...

 

You can do that too just add the characters from one font, then select the other font from the drop down and add the rest.

See changing text was easy, well as easy as the programmer makes it.

Now I took it at face value, when I read from 2 different sources that the LeapPad Supports flash up to ActionScript 2.0 and hadn't really looked much more into it, as there are thousands of games written in AS2, until today when I didn't realise the game I had loaded was written in AS3.

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Freerider 2 and the way it showed me the way, upon loading Freerider on the LeapPad I noticed half of the left menu was off screen, all of the right menu was inaccessible BUT the D-PAD was already mapped perfectly.

So I broke out JPEXs FFDec and had a look to see if I could change anything, first I noticed these empty black bars on the menus which were caused by simply skipping menu entries, I moved them up so they run sequentially. 

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But as I scrolled through the code I noticed something about scaling:


Now I'm not an idiot but even a programmer can see that's EXACTLY what we're looking for, it doesn't matter if the screen is too big or too small, if this setting is present we can possibly make a HUGE difference.  I didn't know the correct constant to use so I looked it up over at help.adobe and that presented me with 3 alternatives:

• EXACT_FIT : String = "exactFit"
  

[static] Specifies that the entire application be visible in the specified area without trying to preserve the original aspect ratio.

• NO_BORDER : String = "noBorder"
  

[static] Specifies that the entire application fill the specified area, without distortion but possibly with some cropping, while maintaining the original aspect ratio of the application.

• SHOW_ALL : String = "showAll"
  

[static] Specifies that the entire application be visible in the specified area without distortion while maintaining the original aspect ratio of the application.

NO_SCALE : String = "noScale"
[static] Specifies that the size of the application be fixed, so that it remains unchanged even as the size of the player window changes.

I went with exactFit for this one as when I tried it with showAll the screen had vertical borders pushing the menus into the middle of the screen, I think it looks great, gets a bit weird if you're doing flips you can see the rider stretch width-ways slightly as he rotates but an absolute classic of a game, barely workable with the LeapPad touchscreen so I've pre-pasted the code for Halfpipe into the Load Map textbox so you don't have to draw your own track and balls if you don't want to.

Enjoy!