Tech Suki

Welcome to MAL UPDATER - v1.92, August 24th 2008

Mal Updater a software made specially for Anime fans.

First off, let me tell you about MAL (http://www.MyAnimeList.net): This is an impressive and big Anime community where you can make your own list of the series you have watched, plan to watch, what episode you are at, set a score for each etc. You can make your own personal profile, blog, make and join clubs about anything, search the anime/manga/people database, reviews, shared Anime with other users, and a bunch of stuff. There are around 80.000 registered users at the moment. There’s so much to explain that I can’t possibly cover it all here, so better check it out yourself: http://www.myanimelist.net/

Once you have an account and made a list there, you can then start using this application: Mal Updater

This program connects to the website with your MAL user account and retrieves your Anime list. From here on there’s a lot you can do:

- Start watching some Anime in one of the supported players, and MalU will detect which Anime and episode it is, and update your MAL list automatically with the last episode you have watched. That’s right: malu will check your video players and identify the Anime and episode.
- See how many people are watching the same Anime at the same time, and open a chat window with them
- Manually sort and update your list from MalU (episode watched, score, status, etc)
- Tell MalU to search in your hard disk for the next episode of the Anime you are currently watching, or from any in your list, and launch it in your default player. You can even use a HotKey and hook a mouse button for this. There is also an option so that malu automatically launches the next episode when you close the player
- Have it automatically check TokyoTosho for torrents of new episodes for the Anime in your list, have it download and launch the .torrents automatically according to some filters, and even tell uTorrent to store each file in its own Anime folder, if you have set it for every show. You can even have it automatically discard either MKV or AVI when both versions are present.
- Check your hard disk to see which Anime have new episodes available, and how many
- Show in MSN and mIRC what you are watching, including your score, ep/eptotal and a URL to information of the Anime. You don’t need to install any extra plugins or scripts in msn or mirc for this.
- Show in mIRC what you are listening to in either winamp or Last.fm. No extra plugins/scripts either for this
- You can make your own php forum signature which shows what you are currently watching, your last updates etc..
- Batch rename your Anime files to some criteria like Fansub - Anime Name - Episode
- Send your computer system info to a mIRC channel (ok this is unrelated to Anime, but you can use this to replace any script/dlls you are currently using). It has full 64-bit support and detects more than 4GB of ram
- Easily move and rename entire folders of Anime with a batch tool.

Download:

Extra Themes:

Note for Vista users: If you are using a non-admin account, or have UAC enabled, you should install to “C:\” instead of “Program files”. This will avoid UAC popping up when you want to install themes (annoyance).

Some screenshots, click on the reduced ones for a bigger image:

Main window. Vista 32/64 is fully supported, including blurry glass window, UAC for file operations, and live thumbs. The Anime panels colors change according to mal status, airing status, playing, etc..

mIRC and MSN features in action: (MSN URLs from other people in your list are clickable with MSN9). The variables and styles for mIRC are customizable

Main menu and Anime menus.

Tray notification for scheduled updates. You can customize the time for this and also the picture through themes

Torrents window and options/filters

Special tool for renaming and sorting your Anime files and folders

Themes: You can choose from a variety of existing themes (currently 80), or even make your own. There is an easy to use themes editor. Themes support full alpha blending features, as you can see in the first screenshot.
Check our complete themes gallery here: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=13935

Help and settings wizard

There is a very detailed help manual explaining every single setting and feature (besides our own club forum where people posts with questions, feature requests etc)

The application is updated regularly, including an auto-updater which detects new updates and auto-downloads them. Amongst the upcoming features is full support for remote controls to perform various actions (play next ep etc). This will be very useful for people with Media Center pcs without keyboard/mouse

Cpu/Ram usage: being a native win32 application, it doesn’t use the bulky .net framework, thus using very little CPU and RAM: (idle, logged in with 328 anime)

Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows OS, from Win2k to Vista, 32 and 64 bit editions supported.
- Linux supported (only manual updates, through wine lib)
- .NET is NOT required
- Internet connection
- Players supported: MPC(+HC ed), MPlayer, Zoom Player, GOM Player, Real Player, Winamp, WMP, BSPlayer, VLC, The Core, KMPlayer, DivX Player, SMPlayer, JetAudio
- If you use a firewall, you might need to give it permissions to access techsuki.net (for program updates) and myanimelist.net (list retrieval and episode updates)

To get started, please register in http://www.myanimelist.net first, build your list, then join the Mal Updater club for info: http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=907