New Patch Tool

[Simeon]

I have made a new React/Webassembly version of the Online Patch Tool, which mean it works in modern browsers.

Ta-da, Merry Christmas.

http://simeonpilgrim.com/nikon-patch-test/index.html

Anyways it fully works as far as I am concerned. I have patched D300, D810 firmware and a few others and they come out 100% the same as the old patch tool. So really I guess the tool needs some people to play with it and to make sure it's not crazy unusable.

To that end the code is at: https://github.com/simeonpilgrim/nikon- ... n-Patch-JS

I will accept pull requests/patches that make it less ugly etc etc.

I am keen to hear if it works for people (especially if you apply the same patch via the old tool tool and can check the files are the same) or where it doesn't work etc.

On this thread I will delete any and all posts asking for firmware patches, I want this just to be about the tool.

[Simeon]

Two known problems:
* This has been done - 2 Feb 2018
* there are no descriptions of what the patches do displayed.

[Simeon]

Update the known firmware list, All current models/version are at least known now.

[Simeon]

I have done some more testing in Chrome, IE11 and Edge. Chrome and Edge work just fine, IE11 (the saving grace of Silverlight doesn't work with the WebAssembley) so it's out of the awesome list..

I am content to works well enough, that I will switch it over later tonight.

[Simeon]

This is now live.

[coderat]

Firefox 52 supports WebAssembly. However patch tools doesn't work in it: it shows "Waiting for WebAssembley code to complete loading.... Which will not work on IE 11 and earlier." and nothing happens...

May be should allow old style patch tool for such cases and/or IE =<11 with only "old" patches.

Best regards,
coderat

[Simeon]

I'll look into FF52 to see what it's problem is, maybe how I've hooked up the "loading complete" is not FF friendly..

I was thinking of pointing to the "old" patch-tool for older clients, which makes a lot of sense, I had been thinking of auto redirecting, but a link and more words might make more sense.. good idea.

[Simeon]

Hmm, just loaded a clean install of FF52 (viahttps://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0/win64/en-US/) and it worked for me.

[coderat]

Webdeveloper Console shows "no native wasm support detected". Reading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly I found that it is disabled in ESR edition, meaning XP/Vista users can't use it directly with Firefox.

SOLUTION: in Firefox goto to about:config page, select javascript.options.wasm and change it to "true".

P.S. Simeon, perhaps it is more user friendly if web page detect it automatically and gives user a hint?
(in case you get couple of minutes to implement this. I really do not understand why Firefox made it so unfriendly )

[a1358986]

Does this remove D500 30-min too?

And if something wrong happened and went south, is going to Nikon CS the only way to fix?

Thx!