Why does it seem much less popular than Wii homebrew? Perhaps the ease and freeness of using Twilight Hack rather than buying a flashcart is the reason. Perhaps people also care more about experimenting with Wii's higher specs, higher screen resolution, and more "fun to program for" controls. Or perhaps homebrew users just aren't fond of doing it portably.
Anyways, how many people here have touched DS homebrew at all? How many of you would consider it if a DSi equivalent to the Twilight Hack were to be made? For the few who actually have used it, can you name some apps you like?
I have an M3 Perfect (slot-2) flashcart, with passcard, so I can run either DS or GBA mode stuffs. Some notable homebrews I've tried include:
- Moonshell: Some video playing, with specifically converted videos created by a computer program called BatchDPG. It plays music too. The video quality isn't all that great because of its encoding system, though, but that does allow it to run faster and smoother on DS hardware.
- ClIRC: I just found it today, an IRC client on DS that doesn't completely suck. Of course, keyboard is really important for chats and the touch screen can never make up for it, but for what the DS is capable of, this is a nice thing to have as a portable IRC client. DSOrganize was the best DS IRC client I've heard of until today and its keyboard falsely records nearly all attempted keystrokes from me.
- CaveStoryDS: Of course still only in tech demo stages, but at that, it's pretty nice. I'm surprised how well it works with resolution reduced from the PC version's 320x240 to the DS's 256x192.
- DS2Win: Extremely glitchy at best, but it's a remote desktop application to control and watch a Windows PC using the DS, over Wi-Fi.
- Colors: Image drawing. Being on DS, it's self-explanitory.
- Sand: Based off the falling sand game flash that is fun to play with when extremely bored, works pretty well
- Goomba: Gameboy/Color emulator. Only truly good emulator I've tried on DS, considering technical limitations of DS and its screen resolution prevent any console games from displaying and running properly. Actually, I believe this is a Gameboy Advance app, but it runs off the same cart for me.
Basically there's not really much, unless you have lots of spare time away from a computer and want to still be able to do a number of things portably, in which case they're a little useful. Things like DSLinux are absolutely not worth it, being only a shell console.
I considered it, but flashcarts are so expensive...
I was under the impression that DS homebrew was more popular than Wii homebrew.
Anyway, I have an R4DS, but I'm beginning to wish I'd bought a different brand, because I have an EZ Flash 3 in 1 that works fine as a RAM expansion and rumble pack, but fails to work for what I actually bought it for; playing GBA games. I've googled and tried every solution I've found, but nothing works. Later on, I found out that the R4 brand ended a while ago and that the cheap $10 R4's are most likely clones of the real deal selling under the R4 brand name, because otherwise, people wouldn't buy them.
I use--
LameBoy - GBC emulator for DS
Jenesis - Genesis emulator for DS
VNDS - It's a program that plays ported visual novels
Moonshell - Came on the R4. I've converted many Youtube Poops into .dpg files so I can show them to friends at school.
If a DSi equivalent to the Twilight Hack were to be made, I'd have to buy a DSi first.
I know someone that has an R4DS, but when I tried it on my DS, it didn't work. Are some DS firmwares not supported or was my DS just being stupid?
Anyone know a good DS pdf reader? ands doesn't work with my M3DS real.
Quote from: Lotos on May 23, 2009, 07:40:38 AM
ands doesn't work with my M3DS real.
I believe you have to patch apps like that (any app that accesses the SD card's contents at all for opening a file) for your specific flashcart model.
Search google for DLDI patcher, it should give you something.
Quote from: Bluaki on May 27, 2009, 01:42:49 PM
I believe you have to patch apps like that (any app that accesses the SD card's contents at all for opening a file) for your specific flashcart model.
Search google for DLDI patcher, it should give you something.
Don't most card these days auto-patch that kind of stuff?
Quote from: Rayquarian on May 27, 2009, 04:17:16 PM
Don't most card these days auto-patch that kind of stuff?
The card itself? I doubt it.
If you use a game manager computer program thing (M3 game manager, or whatever) instead of drag-and-drop copying the homebrew rom with Windows Explorer, that may patch it.