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Nintendo DS Homebrew and Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

wraggster writes "Natrium 42 has updated his site with many more pictures of his Passthrough Device for the Nintendo DS, called the PassMe. In other DS News, Desktopman has updated His Tetris Game with a 2 player mode on one DS. Also for those interested in DS Hacking you have the DS Homebrew Reference Site and finally Darkfader the original DS Hacker."

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  1. Re:Emulator by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we possibly *not* taint the discussion of legitmate, homebrew gaming with someone that just wants to warez ROMS? Thanks.

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  2. Re:Great news. by ajlitt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, PassMe isn't really any good for copying games. All it does is insert a little code into the cartridge loading scheme that says 'Hey! Look over here!' and branches to the memory on the GBA slot. Unless you can somehow change up the app on the card you're copying to load files out of GBA-space (yes, the DS cart uses a filesystem), you're stuck writing code designed just to run in that environment.

    Which is good, since nothing puts bad light on the homebrew scene like people intending only to pirate games.