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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. 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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  2. 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/

  3. 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.

  4. 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.