Best Way to Optimize Flipnotes

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    NovaDelta• 2023-05-01 17:30:16 (7747551)

    wow okay, this video plus J0w03L's comments probably somewhat explain why trying to manually hex edit a flipnote using HxD was so difficult

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    J0w03L• 2022-10-31 03:21:55 (7632071)

    If you have more black chunks than white chunks on a frame, you can actually save space sometimed by inverting black and white colors on your flipnote and then swapping the paper color to black.

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    J0w03L• 2022-10-31 03:18:05 (7632070)

    paper color to black instead of actually drawing any pixels.
    You'll notice that both flipnotes look identical, but the size of the first flipnote is larger than the second

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    J0w03L• 2022-10-31 03:16:27 (7632069)

    does not have any pixels, there will again be no pixel data stored and you simply move on to reading the next chunk.
    To better demonstrate, try creating a flipnote with a frame of all black pixels. Now create another flipnote that looks the same, but this time just swap the

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    J0w03L• 2022-10-31 03:13:40 (7632068)

    Compression goes by line and then by each 8 pixels on each line.
    If a line has no pixels, no pixel data will be stored and thus saves space.
    Otherwise, the line is split up into 32 chunks of 8 pixels. Each chunk has a flag to say if that chunk contains any pixels, and if it

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    Cutestpets• 2022-04-13 19:24:44 (7550084)
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    • 2022-04-12 18:59:25 (7549904)

    You are the wizard of flipnotes. Amazing how I'm still learning new methods til this day.

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    BATMAN• 2022-04-01 14:46:35 (7546833)
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    DC• 2022-03-11 23:11:03 (7541557)
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    Sudomemo User• 2022-03-04 18:39:06 (7539926)

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