EMS Flasher GUI for OSX

Just a GUI for OSX made in Python 2.7 for the ems-flasher CLI application.

Dependencies

First of all, an EMS 64M USB Cart and a USB cable are required (duh).
You can't believe it but the cart needs to be connected to the computer via USB cable.
A compiled version of ems-flasher is required in order for the GUI to make the necessary read/write functions to the cart.

It also uses the Python package installed with Xcode.
So, before running all the packages installations, you need to have Xcode and the CLI Tools installed.

This code uses wxPython to display the windows and the dialogs in this app.
It uses py2app to create the application on OSX.

To make ems-flasher works, you need to have libusb installed.
You can install it via Homebrew:

brew install libusb

For a precompiled libusb package, you can get it there.

Download

If you just want to get the app, Download it here.
It has also a compiled ems-flasher included.

Installation & Build

• With Homewbrew installed, write this in Terminal:
  

brew install wxpython

It will install the wxWidgets libraries and wxPython.

• Install py2app.
• Download the repository by launching the git command:
  

git clone git@github.com:zeroerrequattro/ems-flasher-gui.git

• In the ems-flasher-gui folder, run the installation script:
  

python setup.py py2app

In the dist folder you'll find the app.

Usage

Before using this GUI you need to load the EMS Flasher. Click on the "Load EMS" button and you're good to go:)
Using this GUI is quite easy (well, the meaning of making a GUI is to make things easy).
Just push the buttons to read/write ROMs and .sav files into the cart.
You can also drag and drop the files to automatically set the .gb/.sav file in order to be written.

Known Issues

• On El Capitan (OSX 10.11.2), When you launch the py2app command it gives error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted. To resolve it, follow these steps.
• The packaged App is awfully heavy (~70Mb) for what it does. to make it work without py2app, just launch the main script with Python:
  

python ems-flasher-gui.py

• The Packaged app in the download URL doesn't work on OSX versions prior to 10.11, it puts an error.
• After pressing one of the button, the app seems to be stuck and not responding. Have patience, the software is working.
• This GUI is meant to save/write one ROM from/to bank.

To Do

• Add multiple ROM writing on single bank.
• Add the errors that ems-flasher throws.

Maybe someday I'll get rid of ems-flasher too, having all included in a single software.

But not today.