Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
‘Device sound:’ box enter the path to a MIDI or MFi file by clicking on the folder icon. If the
file is of the right format it should be heard when using either ‘Control > Test Movie’ or the
‘Standalone Flash Lite Player’.
When using ‘Test Movie’ the compiler sends compilation information to the ‘Output’ window.
If a sound is successfully embedded then you should see an SWFS045 message as shown in
Figure 19.4.
Figure 19.4 Flash Lite compilation messages
It should be noted that the 505i phones only support the Mfi sound format, which are saved
as files with the ‘mld’ extension. http://smaf-yamaha.com/what/other.html provides a tool that
allows you to create mld files from an mp3 or wav file. As is the nature of the Internet this page is
likely to have moved so if this is the case do a search for ‘mld authoring tools’ to find the current
best ones.
Testing content using the i-mode HTML Simulator
One of the quickest ways to test your games that target mobile devices is to use the i-mode HTML
Simulator. This can be downloaded from https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/imode_sim/dl.html.
Unfortunately this page was only available in Japanese at the time of writing; however, if it is
available when you are downloading then Figure 19.5 shows what to enter and which button to
press. The details shown are found at the bottom of the page.
Figure 19.5 Downloading the i-mode HTML Simulator from the Japanese website
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