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An unofficial Flipnote animation player for the Panic Playdate | playnote.studio

Features

  • Plays any Flipnote animation file created with the DSiWare version of Flipnote Studio, just drop the files from your DSi's SD card into your Playdate's storage!
  • Optionally use the Playdate's crank to smoothly scroll through frames!
  • Comes bundled with a bunch of sample Flipnotes kindly provided by from some of the best artists in the Flipnote community, such as Kéké, ぺきら (Pekira), MrJohn, bokeh f/2 (who cares), Bee, Melaina King (Akemi), and Scarecrow
  • Available in 10 languages: English, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, and... Welsh!
  • Pretty UI with thumbnail lists, folder selection, settings screen, etc -- all accompanied by custom-made sound effects!

Demo GIFs

home screen
Home menu

playback
Flipnote playback

frame-by-frame playback
Flipnote frame-by-frame seeking

language settings
Language settings

dither settings
Dithering settings

Special Thanks

  • All of the Flipnote artists who kindly granted me permission to include some of their works as sample notes:
  • Simon for kindly letting me use his C PPM library as a base for the Flipnote decoder, and for answering my dumb C questions while I was trying to port it to the Playdate.
  • Lauren and Ezekiel for additional C tips
  • Rob and Austin from Sudomemo for helping me reach out to various Flipnote artists, and for the cross-promo
  • Matt for helping me get into to the Playdate Developer Preview

Credits & Licensing

This project is under a permissive license, however if you wish to use parts of this repo in your own project, crediting the relevant people would be appreciated:

If you wish to use any of the sample Flipnotes, you must get explicit permission from their authors.

I'd strongly prefer it if you didn't release a Flipnote player (for any platform) using the same name / branding / website without first contacting me. Thanks!