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Tetris DS - First Nintendo DS Homebrew Game

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Xilinx??? by fdawg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see an FPGA connected via ribbon cable to the DS. How the...

    Im confused.

  2. Tetris is great by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I play it on a regular basis. Tetris, Pac Man, Tron, Xonix, Sokoban, Bourdel Dash, River Raid, Net Hack, they don't make games like this any more so it is essential to port them to new platforms so they don't get forgotten. Today sex and blood is all kids want, no wonder that the society slowly turns into a sociopathic dystopia. We need to preserve the games that stimulated intelligence instead of only lust, aggression and mindless clicking speed. This leads to a society of pornography, violence and car chases, i.e. a boring society with no higher values. Have you noticed the games on the cell phones? No Tetris, no Sokoban, no Xonix. Why is that? Anyway, kudos for the DesktopMen for making this game! I like the screenshot in this article. It looks like a time bomb! And who doesn't like a little dose of adrenaline while playing Tetris? In fact, I think I'll play some Gnometris right now (with my custom manually drawn blocks, no less!). This is the research I can fully sopport. Making games that make people more intelligent instead of wasting the open source resources on making yet another mp3 player so people could listen to Britny Spears. Bravo. The next should be Sokoban or Tron-like game.

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    1. Re:Tetris is great by SetupWeasel · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Today sex and blood is all kids want, no wonder that the society slowly turns into a sociopathic dystopia.

      It's the children's fault! Their carnal urges and hormones is ripping the very fabric of society. People would never learn to torture prisoners or "pop the coochie" without the evils of modern video games.

      If only the world were simple like tetris, where blocks fall from the sky and no one has a penis.

      Woe! Oh WOE is the world of Street Fighter II. If it weren't for such gastly abominations we might live in a crimeless world where all the restaurants are Taco Bell and every curse word is fined! CRAZY VIDEO GAME NINJA SKILLS, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?!?!?

  3. First Steps by MBCook · · Score: 3, Insightful
    These are the first steps. It's quite cool. I actually saw this about a week ago somewhere, but at that time the person could just get crud on the screen (just stuff to prove that it was working) and wasn't an actual game yet.

    Still this is very cool. When someone figures out how to get thing on through the wireless (since the DS is designed to be able to boot stuff that way) the scene will probably explode.

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  4. finally... by drkfdr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's about time the works on the DS got slashdotted. Too bad it's just a short post. It should say that Nintendo did a bad job in protecting this system. I'm in the greets because of the first working pass-through btw :) Of course I don't want to brag about it. -> http://darkfader.net/ds/

  5. Out of curiosity, by Aggrazel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What challenges are there to hack a wifi card to emulate the DS's wifi stuff (which I understand is horribly proprietary) and load code on the DS over that?

    I know it'd be kinda silly to have a portable that needs your laptop to load custom code, but it would just be interesting to use to see what you could get the system to do.

    1. Re:Out of curiosity, by mrseigen · · 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.

  6. Whoa by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's some inventive use of the bottom screen ;)

    Well, seriously, that's a good start. Nice to see some homebrew stuff on the DS.

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  7. More of a "GBA Homebrew Plus" by TheoB · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There wasn't much info in TFA or the download, but it kind of looks like the pass-through and software are GBA based, and taking advantage of DS backwards compatibility. Is there a rundown someplace of the DS-specific work that went into the project?

    1. Re:More of a "GBA Homebrew Plus" by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Informative

      The GBA cartridge is used to hold the code. It runs the code completely in DS mode after booting it up.