DS Dictionary: Free dictionary for the Nintendo DS

[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/newb...?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).