This was just supposed to be a new feature for the generic image tool (dithering support), but while working on that things kind of snowballed 😅
* Added dithering support to the generic image tool and the boot logo changer, when converting images to RGB565 format. This uses a Bayer 8x8 matrix, and the overall "strength" of the dither can be controlled - it defaults to what I feel is a sane value. Dithering can help reduce banding effects due to the low colour depth in RGB565.
* Made "fix" scaling mode more flexible in the generic image tool - now there's checkboxes beside the width and height dimensions - if you un-check one, the other dimension will be calculated automatically to keep the input's aspect ratio intact
* Improved downscaling quality in the generic image tool. While working on the dithering feature, I discovered the previous "gaussian resampling" downscaling method I was using introduced distortion in certain situations. I had a lot of fun playing around with possible replacements (I tried 10 new downscaling functions!), and finally settled on a hybrid function that mixes powers-of-two downscaling (with some custom mipmap style cross-blending) with Hermite interpolation. This new method is reasonably quick, gives clean results with no great distortion, and works well with alpha channels (doesn't introduce any dark fringing)
* Generic image tool now shows the dimensions of the output image
* Added a max width on the main tool page bodies, so that they don't get so wide on full-screen desktop browsers
* Fixed a few edge-case logic bugs here and there (e.g., when upscaling only a single dimensions with the generic image tool, or places where I thought I was copying objects, but was only creating references to them, etc.)
* Switched from using "var" declarations across all tool codebases to "let" or "const" instead
* Switched out the SVG alert icons to just use emoji instead
* Various other nips and tucks (fixed up my arbitrary 80-column comment wrapping on the tools that had previously just been eye-balled, fixed a few comment typos, etc.)
Updated the CFW FAQ with a more recent date. Added a basic FAQ answer about the GB300. Added links to `.ericgoldstein`'s SF2000 setup guide. Now hosting the bootloader bugfix file directly, as Discord no longer allow hotlinking to files stored on their platform. Added a link to `Dteyn`'s SF2000 projects page. Added a link to `Dteyn`'s GB300 boot logo changer tool. Added a link to `johnnyonno`'s SF2000Renamers tool. Added a note to the Save State Tool to indicate that save states created on the SF2000 will likely only ever work with MIPS devices.
There was a lot of repeated JS across all my tools (e.g., image conversion, BIOS hash checking, etc.), and so I decided to move all shared code out to its own separate library. This will improve scalability and maintainability at the cost of portability - a fair trade in my opinion.
This work also involved large-scale refactoring of all of the tools. There's no actual functional difference (all the tools should behave exactly the same), bar some UI improvements for the oldest tools as a result of moving to the same codebase used by the more recent tools.
Added some functionality to search for and strip Retroarch save state headers if they're found in the input data when converting to SF2000 format. See Javascript comments on function `stripRetroarchHeaders` for more details
Added a new tool for extracting and creating SF2000 save state files. Also added details to the main page about the save state file format, and about the mysterious arcade `.skp` files
