RexiMemo brings Flipnote creation, sharing and community into one service. Make animations in the browser or use Flipnote Studio on a Nintendo DSi, then share work through creator profiles, channels and the same connected community. Alongside DSi compatibility, RexiMemo offers a web editor, flexible publishing, collaboration, custom Creator's Rooms and tools for bringing supported older Flipnotes into your account. After a long wait, eligible original Flipnote Hatena uploads can now be recovered as native PPM files that can be viewed on a DSi.
RexiMemo is a Flipnote creation and community platform for both original Nintendo DSi hardware and the web. Flipnote Studio connects to RexiMemo for familiar console features such as Creator's Rooms, channels, browsing, posting and downloading. On the web, creators can use the browser-based Flipnote Editor, explore work and manage their account.
A single account connects your creator profile and activity across both clients. Publish Flipnotes publicly, privately or by unlisted link, schedule a Premiere, find creators, collaborate, exchange Colour Stars, comment, customise your Creator's Room and manage notifications. Community contests run when open.
Flipnote Studio was designed around a network service that no longer exists. The application, its file formats and the culture around it are still worth using and preserving. RexiMemo keeps original hardware useful while giving creators a place to make, share and discover Flipnotes on the web too.
The service supports native .ppm Flipnotes and the limits of the DSi's original application, while adding modern account features, browser creation tools and ways to manage and share work. Native Flipnote files and modern web playback are both part of the same service.
Connect Flipnote Studio to browse, post and download Flipnotes, visit Creator's Rooms and use familiar console flows. RexiMemo supports the legacy routes, image formats and native PPM files that the DSi expects.
Create Flipnotes in the browser, then browse, search and watch work across profiles and channels. Web accounts also support follows, favourites, comments, notifications, passkeys and API access.
Your profile and Flipnotes belong to the same RexiMemo community whether you create on a DSi or the web. Privacy controls, collaboration and Creator's Room customisation add options beyond the original console flows.
Flipnote Studio was built to contact Nintendo/Hatena-era network locations, so RexiMemo uses DNS and server-side compatibility routing to direct supported requests to RexiMemo instead. The console still runs the original Flipnote Studio application; RexiMemo provides the community service on the other side.
- ConnectThe DSi uses RexiMemo-compatible DNS settings so Flipnote Studio reaches the replacement service.
- TranslateRexiMemo answers with the legacy URLs, menus, images and page formats that the original application understands.
- ShareFlipnotes and community activity become available through both the DSi experience and RexiMemo's modern website.
Some networks block custom DNS. RexiMemo also maintains the open-source reximemoDNS helper for networks where the normal setup is restricted.
Draw and animate with Flipnote-style tools, layers, pages, audio and image import, all in your browser. A linked Primary Console is needed for PPM export or preparing the finished Flipnote for upload.
Connect Flipnote Studio to browse, post and download Flipnotes. Web-assisted uploads add modern title, channel, visibility and Premiere options while the Flipnote itself is sent from your DSi.
Post publicly, share an unlisted link, keep a Flipnote private or schedule a Premiere. Your Creator's Room keeps your own private and unlisted work organised.
Follow creators, comment, favourite Flipnotes, exchange reusable Colour Stars and collaborate. Community contests are available when a contest is running.
After a long wait, RexiMemo can recover eligible original Flipnote Hatena uploads from surviving DSi Library archive captures as native .ppm files. Download them and view them in Flipnote Studio on a Nintendo DSi. Archive coverage is incomplete, so not every Hatena upload is recoverable.
Customise your Creator's Room, manage Tickets in your inventory, identify music with Song Finder and connect Discord for optional private notifications.
RexiMemo is a Flipnote creation and community platform. It combines support for the original Flipnote Studio experience with a modern website for creating, publishing, discovering and managing Flipnotes. Creators can use either client, or both, with one account.
That means you can make a Flipnote in the browser, post from a DSi, set who can see each upload, build a customised Creator's Room, collaborate with other creators and migrate supported work from older services. The exact tools differ by device, but they lead back to the same creator community.
Use the DSi client, create a Flipnote in your browser or explore what other creators have made.
RexiMemo did not start from a blank page. Its DSi compatibility work is descended from the community reverse-engineering that made replacement Flipnote Hatena servers possible. RexiMemo's open-source code is published as the RexiMemo Open Source Edition (OSE); read the RexiMemo OSE guide for details. The project also builds on legacy Hatenatools format utilities.
The current server preserves and extends concepts such as PPM/TMB parsing, UGO menus and Nintendo DSi image formats. Modern browser playback also benefits from years of Flipnote format research represented by projects such as flipnote.js. RexiMemo's newer features build on that foundation while adding its own account system, web community, moderation, migration, experiments and compatibility work.
RexiMemo is preservation-minded, but it is not intended to be a museum. The service can add features that the original Flipnote Hatena never had when they make sense for today's community, as long as those additions do not pretend to be official Nintendo/Hatena features.
That is why the project has both careful DSi compatibility work and modern-only tools. The old hardware gets an interface it can actually render; the website gets room to grow.
Meet the community beyond the Flipnote feed.
Community onlineChat with Flipnote creators, ask for help, follow service news, share work in progress, and talk directly with people using RexiMemo on real hardware and the web.
RexiMemo's service-specific application code is not itself presented as an open-source project. It does, however, directly use, bundle, build on or intentionally integrate the open-source projects below. The licence named here is a short project-level reference; the licence text shipped by each project and the exact installed version always control. This catalog covers the open-source projects RexiMemo intentionally uses in the current service, rather than every lower-level transitive package that a package manager may install underneath them.
The main programming language and runtime used by the RexiMemo server and its tooling.
The Linux server environment used to run RexiMemo. Ubuntu is assembled from many open-source projects, so there is no single licence covering every component in the distribution.
Asynchronous networking and HTTP server framework used by the DSi/web server stack.
Array processing used by Flipnote frame/audio tooling and legacy format utilities.
Image decoding, resizing, compositing and conversion used throughout thumbnails, avatars, moderation and DSi theme tooling.
Optional media conversion/export tooling. FFmpeg's effective licence depends on how a particular build is configured.
RexiMemo's open-source code for the DSi service. See the OSE guide for its scope and details.
The original open-source Flipnote Hatena replacement server on which RexiMemo's Python 3 fork is based.
PPM/TMB, UGO, NTFT and related Flipnote/DSi format utilities by pbsds and contributors, ported and maintained for RexiMemo's Python 3 environment.
Accurate browser-side Flipnote parsing and playback used for modern web viewing.
An alternative modern Flipnote playback interface available through RexiMemo's player preference.
Server-side WebAuthn implementation used for passkey registration and authentication.
Syntax highlighting used by Theme Creator's Expert CSS editor.
The optional unofficial Shazam client used by Song Finder. Shazam itself is a third-party service and is not represented here as open-source software.
RexiMemo's open-source DNS helper for networks that interfere with the normal custom-DNS setup.
Provides web glyphs for Nintendo DS/DSi private-use characters that can appear in usernames and other console-authored text. RexiMemo loads it only as a fallback when the normal site font does not contain those characters.
The upstream open-source DNS project that reximemoDNS is forked from. RexiMemo credits the original project separately rather than presenting the fork as entirely original work.
Open source does not mean affiliation. These projects are credited because RexiMemo uses or builds on their work. Their developers do not necessarily operate, sponsor, endorse or support RexiMemo.
The wider Flipnote preservation and reverse-engineering community made much of this technically possible. Credit is due to the people who documented PPM audio/video behavior, DSi image formats, UGO menus, Flipnote Studio IDs and the network behavior of the original service, as well as the developers who turned that research into reusable open-source tools.
RexiMemo also owes a great deal to the creators who continue making Flipnotes, the users who test real hardware behavior, and the moderators/community members who help keep the service usable.
RexiMemo is not affiliated with Nintendo or Hatena. Flipnote Studio is a Nintendo product, and Flipnote Hatena was operated by Hatena. RexiMemo is an independent community service designed to interoperate with compatible Flipnote Studio software and preserve a space for the community around it.
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