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Other than emulators can anyone point me to a homebrew game for ds, iPhone or psp that doesn't suck or is a port?

Shameless self-promotion here, but my action-adventure game Anguna, while a bit short, doesn't, in my opinion, suck. It's available for DS and GBA.

Other decent DS homebrew includes:
Twin Isles
A touch of war
Crocodingus in Cube Island
Tales of Dagur

Of course, none of these are commercial quality, but they're fun.

I agree, I was hoping for a list of quality games. Here's some of my favorites for GBA and DS:

GBA:

• Blast Arena Advance
• Elements Of Darkness
• Clem the Retarded Elf
• Anguna (disclaimer: I wrote this one)

DS:

• Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp
• Twin Isles
• A touch of war
• Video games hero(guitar hero clone)
• AngunaDS (again, disclaimer, I wrote this)

Now I just need to see if I can find my list of quality homebrew NES and Dreamcast games....

The Nintendo DS is homebrew heaven. There are dozens of mod chips for the DS. And many, many forums and libraries for homebrew applications. There's several development wiki's and some must have applications.

This is not a tool for piracy. If they want to stop piracy, they need to stop the people who are dumping roms. And you won't find tools to dump roms quite so easily. Attacking the companies that make legitimate devices lazy and anti-customer.

The Nintendo DS is homebrew heaven. There are dozens of mod chips for the DS. And many, many forums and libraries for homebrew applications. There's several development wiki's and some must have applications.

This is not a tool for piracy. If they want to stop piracy, they need to stop the people who are dumping roms. And you won't find tools to dump roms quite so easily. Attacking the companies that make legitimate devices lazy and anti-customer.

As a big fan of the potential of the Nintendo DS, I want to point out the possibilities of developing for handheld consoles. In terms of functionality, the current handheld generation, i.e. the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP aren't far behind, if not even ahead of, cellphones and PDAs. They both have nice big screens and WLAN, which opens up a broad range of possibilities for homebrew software. For example, for the DS there is an e-Mail program, web browsers, internet radio clients, ssh (in DSLinux) and much more. The PSP has a fast CPU and a powerful graphics chip, while the DS two screens one of which is a touchscreen, so it encourages experimentation with novel user interfaces. Both consoles can deal with removable media: The PSP uses the Memory Stick while for the DS there are adapters for Compact Flash and (mini|micro)SD cards. The SDKs are both unofficial, but freely available and actively maintained. Both homebrew scenes are worth checking out, since they have produced a lot of great software, which is not only games. I admit that getting into development is a bit hard at first, but the coolness factor of having your own apps and games running on a games console is just worth it :)

Some links:
Devkitpro (Compiler toolchains and SDKs for DS, PSP and others)
Dev-Scene (DS homebrew news and homebrew database)
DSLinux

Pictoblog (one of my projects)
My DS coding blog

Cheers!
Tob

As a big fan of the potential of the Nintendo DS, I want to point out the possibilities of developing for handheld consoles. In terms of functionality, the current handheld generation, i.e. the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP aren't far behind, if not even ahead of, cellphones and PDAs. They both have nice big screens and WLAN, which opens up a broad range of possibilities for homebrew software. For example, for the DS there is an e-Mail program, web browsers, internet radio clients, ssh (in DSLinux) and much more. The PSP has a fast CPU and a powerful graphics chip, while the DS two screens one of which is a touchscreen, so it encourages experimentation with novel user interfaces. Both consoles can deal with removable media: The PSP uses the Memory Stick while for the DS there are adapters for Compact Flash and (mini|micro)SD cards. The SDKs are both unofficial, but freely available and actively maintained. Both homebrew scenes are worth checking out, since they have produced a lot of great software, which is not only games. I admit that getting into development is a bit hard at first, but the coolness factor of having your own apps and games running on a games console is just worth it :)

Some links:
Devkitpro (Compiler toolchains and SDKs for DS, PSP and others)
Dev-Scene (DS homebrew news and homebrew database)
DSLinux

Pictoblog (one of my projects)
My DS coding blog

Cheers!
Tob

As a big fan of the potential of the Nintendo DS, I want to point out the possibilities of developing for handheld consoles. In terms of functionality, the current handheld generation, i.e. the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP aren't far behind, if not even ahead of, cellphones and PDAs. They both have nice big screens and WLAN, which opens up a broad range of possibilities for homebrew software. For example, for the DS there is an e-Mail program, web browsers, internet radio clients, ssh (in DSLinux) and much more. The PSP has a fast CPU and a powerful graphics chip, while the DS two screens one of which is a touchscreen, so it encourages experimentation with novel user interfaces. Both consoles can deal with removable media: The PSP uses the Memory Stick while for the DS there are adapters for Compact Flash and (mini|micro)SD cards. The SDKs are both unofficial, but freely available and actively maintained. Both homebrew scenes are worth checking out, since they have produced a lot of great software, which is not only games. I admit that getting into development is a bit hard at first, but the coolness factor of having your own apps and games running on a games console is just worth it :)

Some links:
Devkitpro (Compiler toolchains and SDKs for DS, PSP and others)
Dev-Scene (DS homebrew news and homebrew database)
DSLinux

Pictoblog (one of my projects)
My DS coding blog

Cheers!
Tob

I wouldn't say he's entirely averse to multicore developement on machines with crazy memory architectures. Didn't the blurb just mention releasing a game for the Nintendo DS?

The Nintendo DS community is a loud and wonderful beast. In the last few months... We've had DSDoom, DSLinux and Dev-Scene. natrium42 is a brillant developer and this is an interesting piece of hack but.. wouldn't be have been a better idea to post the bigger picture (for some reason all my submittions keep getting denied.)

From TFA:

Nintendo machines are traditionally hard for established companies to get a foothold on, let alone students.

Well, I'm a student, too, and I'm working on the port of Linux to the DS. And no, we do not have an official development kit. We use gcc and tools supplied by the homebrew community.

And there are countless others who are developing games and other applications, too. I'd say most of them are students. See here

Another difference to what TFA describes and the homebrew scene is that the homebrew scene is largely open source.

Since the team couldn't actually get hold of a DS development kit, Metalheads was made on a PC using a Wacom tablet in place of a touchscreen.

Doh. They obviously haven't informed themselves well before writing the game. They could have written it for real hardware and tested it on real hardware. See here