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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. Download Play! by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The DS is just begging for homebrew "Download Play" games. As I don't know a great deal about the inner workings of the system, what are the odds of the homebrew hackers coming out with a guide on how to turn your friendly neighborhood WiFi card/router into a DS "broadcast hub"?

    DS + Computer + WiFi + Skills = Homebrew game - (funky hardware * distribution hurdles)

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    Obliteracy: Words with explosions

    1. Re:Download Play! by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 4, Interesting
      There are allready hubs in Japan that allow to download demos of games (which stay on the DS as long as you don't power it off) ; or there were plans to do so.

      I think it was also featured on /.

    2. Re:Download Play! by UWC · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Those are official Nintendo hubs, though, right? Reminds me of the floppy disk writing stations Nintendo apparently had in Japan when they released the disk drive for the Famicom. I want to say that Metroid was originally a floppy exclusive title, but I don't recall.

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      Honor Among Slackers. A veri
  2. Great news. by Enjoi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I always loved best about certain consoles, is that you could develop your own games for them. Made me feel like a real-life console developer.

    That's why I loved the N64 and GBA.

    Don't copy games illigally folks, etc.

  3. I love the DS by bonch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love the DS, and I'd love to dev for it. But one thing that confuses me is Nintendo's vague stance about its future. Apparently, they plan a new Gameboy successor later this year and probably revealed at E3. However, most people don't consider the DS a "third-tier" and see it as the Gameboy successor. Not only will people get confused and upset after having already bought this system only to see new Gameboy come out, but developers will hold off on developing for the DS to wait and see what the new Gameboy will be like. Chance are they will program for the new Gameboy over the DS based on name recognition alone.

    Does anyone have any info or links that better explain Nintendo's position on the future of the DS? Was it a one-shot deal? That's unfortunate if so, because it means there won't be a large library of games for this things. Already, it's pretty meager.

  4. Boycott by Xyl3ne · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Boycott http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk (the site in the newspost). It's run by an idiot (wraggster (if you're from the Dreamcast scene you'll know him)) who tries to be the whore of every scene there is. He throws up sites for every scene just to spam them all over and make money from the banner ads the sites are loaded with. Atleast if you're going to go there, block the ads.

  5. Re:Emulator by Evangelion · · Score: 3, Interesting


    The usage of the word "pirate" for copyright infringer is centuries old.

    As early as 1755, it was used to describe people who copied books unlawfully.

    I hear that there are people out there calling people who break into computers "hackers" instead of "crackers", though. Might want to go fight that battle.

  6. Not only that by mcc · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Look at this
    The Play Yan media player, which allows music and movie playback on the GBA and DS, launched in Japan yesterday. Along with it, Nintendo opened a new section of their Play Yan site.

    For your pleasure and amusement "Garage Games" are downloadable for the device, which can be saved to a Panasonic SD card via your PC. The first game available is Insect, and a new game will be unveiled each week until the twelve games are available. Upcoming games include BAT, which is a baseball-based game. A thirteenth game is available to Japanese Club Nintendo members only.

    The download is around 650kb, and plays in a thumbnail sized area of your screen, where files are normally displayed.
    If the DS only had available in America all the things that it does in Japan, it would be just like the coolest thing ever.
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    Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
  7. Re:Emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting


    Actually, it's earlier than that. In the introduction to The True-Born Englishman (1701), Daniel DeFoe calls them Pyrates.

    Had I wrote it for the Gain of the Press, I should have been concern'd at its being Printed again and again, by Pyrates, as they call them, and Paragraph- Men: But would they but do it Justice, and print it True, according to the Copy, they are welcome to sell it for a Penny, if they please.

    But yeah, complaining about a 300-year old word is kind of childish.