https://github.com/jaames/playnote-studio

An unofficial Flipnote Studio animation player for the Playdate console!
https://github.com/jaames/playnote-studio

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An unofficial Flipnote Studio animation player for the Playdate console!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jaames/playnote-studio
• Owner: jaames
• Created: 2021-09-23T14:53:27.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-25T10:20:15.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-27T16:40:59.687Z (24 days ago)
• Topics: flipnote, flipnotestudio, nintendo, nintendo-ds, playdate
• Language: Lua
• Homepage: https://playnote.studio
• Size: 60.4 MB
• Stars: 95
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md

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• awesome-playdate - Playnote Studio - An unofficial Flipnote Studio animation player for the Playdate. (Open Source Playdate Games & Example Code / Fonts)

README

        




  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](https://twitter.com/Kekeflipnote), [ぺきら (Pekira)](https://twitter.com/pekira1227), [MrJohn](https://flipnot.es/9F990EE00074AC4D), [bokeh f/2 (who cares)](https://www.instagram.com/gsupnet_), [Bee](https://beeyt.carrd.co), [Melaina King (Akemi)](https://www.instagram.com\/akemixes), and [Scarecrow](https://flipnot.es/5907142059918D1F)

- 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](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaames/playnote-studio/main/assets/movie_homescreen.gif)


Home menu

![playback](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaames/playnote-studio/main/assets/movie_playback.gif)


Flipnote playback

![frame-by-frame playback](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaames/playnote-studio/main/assets/movie_frames.gif)


Flipnote frame-by-frame seeking

![language settings](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaames/playnote-studio/main/assets/movie_lang.gif)


Language settings

![dither settings](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaames/playnote-studio/main/assets/movie_dither.gif)


Dithering settings

## Special Thanks

- All of the Flipnote artists who kindly granted me permission to include some of their works as sample notes:

  - [Kéké](https://twitter.com/Kekeflipnote)

  - [MrJohn](https://flipnot.es/9F990EE00074AC4D)

  - [bokeh f/2 (who cares)](https://www.instagram.com/gsupnet_)

  - [ぺきら (Pekira)](https://twitter.com/pekira1227),

  - [Bee](https://beeyt.carrd.co)

  - [Melaina King (Akemi)](https://www.instagram.com\/akemixes)

  - [Scarecrow](https://flipnot.es/5907142059918D1F)

- [Simon](https://github.com/simontime) 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](https://github.com/thejsa) and [Ezekiel](https://github.com/Stary2001) for additional C tips

- Rob and Austin from [Sudomemo](https://www.sudomemo.net/) for helping me reach out to various Flipnote artists, and for the cross-promo

- [Matt](https://github.com/gingerbeardman) 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:

- **Lua or web code, UI design elements, image assets or the 3d playdate model** - [James](https://github.com/jaames)

- **C Flipnote parser** - [Simon](https://github.com/simontime) and [James](https://github.com/jaames)

- **Sound Effects** - [Talon Stradley](NewtonsDarkRoom.com)

- **Credits Beat** - [madwurmz](https://www.colorslive.com/artist/madwurmz.com)

- **Flipnote Studio screenshots** - [Austin](https://twitter.com/AustinSudomemo), [Rob](https://sudomemo.net)

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!