Anyone into Nintendo DS Homebrew?

I am just now getting into the research that preceeds DS Homebrew, and am looking for people who might know something about it.

FYI: This is not a request for ROMs or any of that. I have more commercial DS games than I will ever finish playing. I am looking for original games and applications, and resources into how to develop them.

Also any information on the Nintendo SDK and how to get it, or look into pricing? I know the Wii SDK is a cool 2,000, so I figure the DS SDK is pretty approachable as well.

Thanks in advance!

I'm waiting on delivery of my R4 DS, but there seems to be a lot of good stuff out there. The DS-X team annuonced today an all in one flash card kit. http://www.divineo.cn/cgi-bin/div-cn...

For SDK check out http://www.devkitpro.org/ http://www.gbadev.org/ http://www.dsdev.org/ http://www.drunkencoders.com/

I opted for the M3 DS Simply, after reading the GBA temp review. It was supposed to arrive Saturday, but I guess DHL doesn't run on the weekends.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtop...

I downloaded DevKitARM and started looking at the drunken coders stuff. Now all I need is the time to read it thoroughly.

Have you looked into the official SDK? I am more than curious.

The M3 is a rebadged R4. They are identical hardware wise and the devteams/manufacturer are the same. I haven't looked at the official SDK as I have no coding talents, I just happen to know about those sites.

Yeah. I know the R4DS and M3 DSS are almost identical and made at the same place by the same hands, but the reason I chose the M3 is because for me it is a more logical stepping stone to the M3 DS Real that is coming out, and will support external Flash media. That is what I am really anticipating.

http://www.ds-scene.net/forum/forum....

What is there to do with a homebrewed DS? Aside from maybe NES ROMs?

So far, I have seen:

a pretty detailed organizer,
text editor/ reader
a rpg maker engine (albeit still in development),
an instant message client,
a gps (with attachment),
an independent internet browser,
and even a DS controlled *robot* (more like a wheeled platform)

and that's with only a few searches.

Card games
Age of Empires clone
A Wifi Hacking application for the DS.
A homebrew DS map application with support for custom maps. (Think Google Earth)
Atari Boxing port for the DS.
Atomix Port of the PC Puzzle game.
A clock & alarm application for the DS.
Comic book reader application for the DS.
A CPC 6128 emulator for Nintendo DS.
Deal or No Deal Game based on the popular hit TV game show of the same name.
A Z-machine & Infocom games emulator.
Homebrew camera application which allows you to send images from your PC webcam to your DS.
Port of the DOOM game engine to the DS.
Homebrew guitar fretboard learning application for the DS.
An FTP server application with boot file support. Yes you can turn your DS into a FTP server.
Weather forecast application for the DS.
Master system and game gear emulator
Commodore 64 emulator for the DS.
Hexen
IRC client application for the DS.
iPod styled mp3 player application.
All-in-one media application for the DS. (think windows media player)
A network remote control for MythTV frontends.
Port of Pythn 2.5 to the DS.
email (thunderbird/outlook)
paint
MSX2 emulator for DS.
Genesis emulator
Quake
Port of the ScummVM engine to the DS.
SNES emulator
Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for the DS.
A version of stip rock, paper, scissors for the DS.
tetris attack
A port of Warcraft
A Windows type application OS for the DS.

A port of Warcraft? Homebrewers will give us the DS RTSes that all the developers in the world won't? Impressive.

i just ordered an r4

I hadn't been following this, but now I am moments away from buying an r4 as well.

My M3 DS Simply came. The instructions are about 75% effective and the gear works.

I have loaded a fully functional Organizer, A working RTS called "A Touch of War" that is pretty fun to play, a demo of a RPG called "Tales of Dagur", a clone of Insaniquarium, and a few MP3 and videos on my DS. I have Warcraft III Tower Defense and it boots up, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to load maps so I can actually look at it playing.

I plan to put HeXeN on there, when I get my disk out. And I tempted to see if I can get the Doom DS to run mods...

The screen looks great, and the vids come in clear. The MP3's play while it is closed, and a good pair of headphones makes the sound more than worth putting them on there.

This weekend I will try my first hand at coding, and try to put a puzzle game or something together before month end.

What is Warcraft III Tower Defense?

Fedaykin98 wrote:

What is Warcraft III Tower Defense?

O_O

This ZX Spectrum emulator is AWESOME. I always knew the DS would be the _perfect_ emulation platform for the Spectrum, because it has 1:1 identical screen resolution.

What always turned me off DS Homebrew is the uber-complex instructions, the vast amount of cryptic brands and compatibility issues, and how easy it would be to buy the wrong hardware.

All I really need is the ability to run this Spectrum emulator and cram as many ROMs on the cart as I possibly can. Garrr....

EDIT: It just occurred to me that the GBA port of ELiTE was crippled due to resolution resizing. This leaves the Spectrum version of the game to be the only authentic ELiTE available on DS. Taking up almost all available Spectrum memory, that game was truly a programming feat.

Lets not forget DSLinux.

Shiho, it's drag the files onto a MicroSD card and drop. It just works.

Edwin wrote:

Shiho, it's drag the files onto a MicroSD card and drop. It just works.

VERY STEALTH EDIT: I'm going to order the all-in-one R4DS thing you linked to and hope for the best.

I never used that one as I will be recieving my R4 soon.

No one wants to tell me about this Warcraft 3 thing? necro, you're just gonna ogle me?

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I had never heard of the R4 until this thread. Recently I ordered an EZ-Flash V, and I'm just opening it now.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

No one wants to tell me about this Warcraft 3 thing? necro, you're just gonna ogle me?

Basically, Tower Defense maps are a special breed of custom maps where each player is given a single peon/peasant and gets to build towers to try to defend oncoming waves of NPCs. It's all about Defense, there's usually no offense of any kind. You get gold as you kill the oncoming waves and you can use that to repair your towers and build new ones of various types.

Yeah so its not really Warcraft, its just an imitation of a mod (and that indie Russian game like it) that greatly simplifies the gameplay of the game. Bleh.

A Touch of War is a simple RTS, with some simple function, and a slight learning curve and no magic that I have seen in the run through I gave it.

Basically, you create house to create worker to create baracks and towers or to harvest wood and gold. You usually start with a few units or buildings.

Baracks make three troops: Calvary beat Archers Beat Infantry (beat Calvary).
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Great name, and worthy little app with some great functionality like patrol paths, set unit groups, and yelling at units to put them in their place! All RTS games from now on need this functionality.

Edwin wrote:

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I know, I know, but I figured that anyone who could tell me what it is here would also include their personal impression of the thing, which counts for a lot with me. This has now come true!

Sorry, Fedaykin,.. still can't get Tower Defense running.

I did hoever find a great link for resources and compatibility tests for the M3 Simply, so it is prolly just as good for the R4.

http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/M3...

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But to play GBA games, you also need a "Slot-2" device. Any suggestions?

My R4 just came in the mail. Yay!

Edwin, you get any homebrew to run on the R4 ? According to an Internet guide, its primarily for warezing NDS games, and its incompatible with (stealth edit) a lot of homebrew.

EDIT: Yep, DSpec, the only reason why I bought the R4, fails to recognize the filesystem and the type of the media device. Yay for not doing research. Blah, I'll look for new drivers or whatnot and hope for the best...

EDIT2: Driver search failed. DLDI patching failed. It appears I am now entirely at the mercy of the author of DSpec.

I got moonshell working for playing music, videos, and viewing pictures.. Haven't had time to do anything with it since I'm in the middle of midterms.

Most of the homebrew works on the R4 so I don't know where you got that impression from.

http://wiki.scorpei.com/index.php/R4...

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