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Tetris DS - First Nintendo DS Homebrew Game

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 13, 2005 @08:34AM from the old-school-russian-action dept.

gbaemufan writes "Desktopman released a Tetris clone for the Nintendo DS, at the moment the only way to play it is via a passthrough device until a homebrew DS cart is released."

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Re:More of a "GBA Homebrew Plus" by Dwedit · 2005-02-13 14:22 · Score: 4, Informative

The GBA cartridge is used to hold the code. It runs the code completely in DS mode after booting it up.
Re:Out of curiosity, by mrseigen · 2005-02-14 05:17 · Score: 2, Informative

Well, so far the guys at DSDev have managed to get the DS's "Play Downloaded Game" feature to display a title and icon of their choosing. I'm not aware of the particulars, try joining the forum and going along.