DS Dictionary: Free dictionary for the Nintendo DS

[wraggster]

Mobydisk (http://mobydisk.com/softdev/software/dsdictionary/) has released a new Dictionary for the DS:


My first homebrew application for the Nintendo DS. Never be without a dictionary again!

DS Dictionary version 1 (last updated 2007/06/07)
You will need the DLDI patch tool tool and a suitable mod chip for your DS.

http://mobydisk.com/softdev/software/dsdictionary/dsdictionary_screenshot.png

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[Vrilya]

Great idea!... will definately use this :thumbup:

[turnerl]

Fantastic idea! will use this for sure good work!

[Adrenalin]

havent tried it yet, but it doesn't looks as polished as newdictsDS.

will try it though, looks like a good effort Mobydisk.

[fkhan]

havent tried it yet, but it doesn't looks as polished as newdictsDS.

will try it though, looks like a good effort Mobydisk.

Never heard of it, link plz

[TeenDev]

it's a dictinary... it doesn't need to be super polished... is 'Webster' super polished?

[redsyrup]

I'm using your app now. Thank you. I wish Ereader had this kink of functionality built into it. I just want to be able to double click on any word in page and find its def.

[eddie294]

this is a great app i use it all the time with english homework

[wiggy fuzz]

it's a dictinary... it doesn't need to be super polished... is 'Webster' super polished?

considering Webster contains words like **** and **** and not to mention ******... i'd hardly call it polished

[Da_ALC]

What are yyou people taaaaalking about. SURELY the more words they fit in the more "polished" it is... as they realised people actually want definitions for these things.

Anyway what dictionary IS this based on.. I hope you didnt write it yourself! Man imagine having that much free time, har.

I havent tried newdict, I remember a scrabble dictionary appearing is that the same one. All dictionaries should have a scrabble option, nothing like being able to cheat on the fly at boring games.

[nannys_hedgehog]

I wish Ereader had this kink of functionality built into it. I just want to be able to double click on any word in page and find its def.

Try newdicts. It does exactly what you are writing though you mustn't doubleclick, singleclick is enough to see the definition. And you can choose from hundreds of available dictionaries (STARDICT-format) ........ including a german wikipedia dump.

[Adrenalin]

Never heard of it, link plz

sorry for the massive late reply, but NewDictS is IMO the best dictionary software for DS right now.

it has support for stardict dictionaries of which there is a fair variety.

even ebook support in later versions.

http://palib.info/forum/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2991

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62670 this link is not the latest version, and not many details, but it's dcemu :)

[murgero1]

hey nice one! i might use this at school (we can have ds's out! lol)

[super happy drunk]

wait, so it doesn't have very many definitions?

[Pandonetho]

Why the hell did you necro this old thread.

[masterchief929]

lol, talk about him bringing an old thread to life, but wat do u expect, he's a happy drunk guy.

[anomalous_underdog]

its my first time seeing this. it looks cool. dictionary functionality is one of the things I want to program too.

NewDictS has this problem wherein it can only make use of dictionary files that are 4 mb or less (probably, the whole file is being squeezed in the ds main ram), and it has to be in uncompressed format.

I'll try this one out

[nannys_hedgehog]

"NewDictS has this problem wherein it can only make use of dictionary files that are 4 mb or less (probably, the whole file is being squeezed in the ds main ram)"

That remark is far from true. Otherwise I would have a DS all people are eager to get with Newdicts on it and a 1600MB wikipediadump-dictionary (german) running with it.

[anomalous_underdog]

That remark is far from true. Otherwise I would have a DS all people are eager to get with Newdicts on it and a 1600MB wikipediadump-dictionary (german) running with it.

apologies, if I mixed up the info wrong. I was only typing it out from what I could remember.

this was what I meant:
from http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62670

The files with the .dz ending must be deflated, ending with .dict (try 7zip to do that).
Attention the .idx file size is limited to something smaller than 2.5 MB.

and well, I tried it out myself. I was only able to make it work with english etymology and thesaurus dict files. I couldn't make it load up an actual dictionary that was about 11 mb in size.

or maybe we're talking about two entirely different programs that have the same name?

[nannys_hedgehog]

Your quote relies to on an older version of newdicts. Sesa intruduced the .aoi files thus getting rid of the limitations of the index files. I could actually run most of the dictionaries I tried (even wordnet).

[anomalous_underdog]

Your quote relies to on an older version of newdicts. Sesa intruduced the .aoi files thus getting rid of the limitations of the index files. I could actually run most of the dictionaries I tried (even wordnet).

damn! so where exactly can I get that new one?

edit:
so far I can see:
0.7r
0.7m
0.7p

and I heard there's a 0.7j, and an in-development 0.8 (both of which I can't find any links to download).

so among the 0.7, which one is the latest?

and does anybody know if Sesa released the source code of his work too?

[nannys_hedgehog]

Newest version of newdicts is 8pre8.
The old PALIB site is down, I updated the infos at the new palib site
http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=2991.msg18487#msg18487
At palib I included a link with the most recent version of newdicts and a collection of older versions if the newest one isn't working.

Sesa didn't release his source and will not do it until he thinks the program finished.

The best source regarding infos to newdicts is:
http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.php?tid=21913&extra=page%3D1

Sorry for highjacking this threat

[anomalous_underdog]

I see. I took a look at the source code, and I noticed that stardict's .idx files are similar to the lookup table in moby disk's dsdict file format. only that in mobydisk's implementation the "idx file" is already inside the dictionary file itself, which is in plaintext.

So it made me wonder. What was the limitation inside the old NewDictS that it had to make use of a .aoi file in the first place? How does the .aoi file solve that problem exactly (whatever it is)? The developer's thread is in Chinese, so I couldn't make much out of it.

I also noticed that the contents of a .aoi file (what does aoi stand for anyway?) is a sort of lookup table for the words inside the corresponding .idx files (and a .idx file, in turn, is a lookup table for the .dict file). I'm guessing this is for faster loading of the .idx file into memory? If that's so, does that mean all the contents of the .idx is loaded into memory?

I'm curious since in the future I'm planning on adding a dictionary lookup feature in the text editor program I'm making.

(I hope my post still counts as related to the topic in this thread)

[nannys_hedgehog]

I'm not sure if I understood it right.
My assumption:
Due to the limitations of the DS memory it was necessary to create the aoi file to have access to larger index files (idx).

For a better understanding: Sesa knows English. He is quite helpful and a very skilled coder. You can reach him via:
http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.php?tid=21913&extra=page%3D1
Use googletranslate for orientation (thats how I came to it).

[anomalous_underdog]

I'm not sure if I understood it right.
My assumption:
Due to the limitations of the DS memory it was necessary to create the aoi file to have access to larger index files (idx).

For a better understanding: Sesa knows English. He is quite helpful and a very skilled coder. You can reach him via http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1.
Use googletranslate for orientation (thats how I came to it).

Oh, I see, thanks. The url you gave returns a 404 not found error though. This forum always seem to shorten the display of long urls with a ... in the middle.

[nannys_hedgehog]

Hyperlink in #24 fixed.
Just copied it instead of using the hyperlink button.

[hileah08]

thanks alot!!!!!!! but where can i get the DLDI patch..??

[af230]

how do you download

[af230]

where is the link for the download