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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Carrion Crow on April 19, 2009, 06:53:51 am
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This is just a survey to see how many people have hardware (i.e. the R4) capable of playing homebrew. It occured to me that it might be on level, or much greater than the RM-using nerdbase and it might be a good idea to have a go at making games for DS. Flashcarts are now very popular indeed and work on all 3 models of DS.
I've installed linux on my laptop and I've started coding more in an effort to prevent the slow meltdown of my brain into nonsensical sludge and I wondered if any of you would firstly like to own up to having a flashcart and secondly, perhaps be interested in talking about your homebrew experiences. It would also be pretty cool to have a DS project on GW at some point if enough people show interest.
Why is this posted in VG? Because the thread primarily serves as a discussion for how well homebrew DS games are accepted in this community, if at all. Posting this in IGD wouldn't yield much as I am looking for a response from people who play games, but some people interested in learning also.
Famous homebrew titles:
Portal clone on DS: http://thehealingtouch.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/theres-no-place-like-homebrew-still-alive-ds/
DSDoom http://www.dsdoom.com/
Obligatory infamous homebrew title:
Bob's Game http://www.bobsgame.com
Here are some useful links
All you need to know: http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2008/05/20/ds-fanboys-semi-ultimate-homebrew-guide/
List of homebrew games on DCEmu (brilliant site) http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/NintendoDS-HomebrewGames.php
Useful device for homebrew http://www.r4ds.cn/
Learn how to develop for DS (requires basic code knowledge) http://www.double.co.nz/nintendo_ds/index.html
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Idk, there weren't many fun homebrew games last time I checked. DooM and Quake ports were the thing I had most fun with, in terms of homebrew. They work very good!
Oh, and NES emulation too. That works pretty good, even has rewind/fastforward and all. Too bad savestates didn't work and there was some layer problem in CV3 iirc.
Though that Still Alive game doesn't look too good, at least from the vid you chose to put up. Oh, a Portal platformer? Too bad you chose a video that shows nothing but a shoddy platformer with tiny steps and no actual Portal-y content.
And man, Bob's game. I hate the commentary on his vid. Ugh.
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Haven't found an abundance of good homebrew out there.
I am working on a little DS game of my own (really just a remake of a puzzle game I made several years ago) though I started the project with little C++ experience and no DS coding experience so my code is getting increasingly hard to deal with!!
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The genesis emulator for the DS is also quite good, although the SNES emu is buggy as hell.
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Other than Colors DS homebrew is a waste of time really.
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I'll be having words with the 3 who mentioned their interest in the poll in the not too distant future.
The Broken Sword was SO GOOD on DS and looks like it could've been fairly simple to code. It would be nice to develop a point-n-click engine for DS and a maker for PC.
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Other than Colors DS homebrew is a waste of time really.
If they end up not updating it again. I'll make it over again and extend the features. DS painting apps need to constantly compete and try to outdo each other, but I'm not even seeing two of them out.
Although I hope they update, I'd much rather work on a more robust animation app for working on the DS. (Essentially a mix between EZtoon and Colors, with as much Mario Paint as I'm willing to work into the scope of the damned thing...)
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I've never played a homebrewed DS game. I can't imagine they would be very good.
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I've never played a homebrewed DS game. I can't imagine they would be very good.
Most good ones are emulators or ports of old games.
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This topic actually reminds me to get some of those ports.
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a demo of cave story DS has been released, but the second the full game is released, im PROBS interested (in this whole DS homebrew thing).
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I'm very interested in this. Thanks for all the link and the cool hombrew games. :)
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a demo of cave story DS has been released, but the second the full game is released, im PROBS interested (in this whole DS homebrew thing).
They are still working on this? I found it about it before the psp version... which finished like two years ago.
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i dont know if they ARE still working on this... but i hope they are. or someone else comes along and does it.
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My ex gf gave me a DS lite for free last night cause she doesn't use it anymore. I was pretty made up. I think it is more likely I will attempt a DS game in C with the help of PAlib graphics.
It's so much brighter. A bit harder to hold onto than the phattie but so much easier on my peepers.
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By the way, which flash carts support sdhc cards? I need more memory than my R4 can currently provide.
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By the way, which flash carts support sdhc cards? I need more memory than my R4 can currently provide.
:fogetsmile:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21577
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I've got an R4 but very few homebrew apps. I do have the Still Alive game, I have a game maker program and some geometry wars type clone. I mainly use the R4 for multimedia stuff, mainly music and that comic application.
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:fogetsmile:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21577
NOTE! the "R4 Ultra" is simply an R4 clone. it does support more space, and it can be configured to work with the DSi, but it's a pretty shoddy copy of an R4. a lot of games don't work on it. it might be worth it (it is only like 6 dollars afterall) if you just want to use it for homebrew, i guess. but make sure you do some research on it to see if its what you need, because it's definitely not as good as an original r4 (which is hard to find these days).
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is there a reason portal portable's video had no portals in it and in fact looked like ET for atari but with a shitty cover of a shitty song youtubed over it?
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Maybe cause i chose a bad video, here you go man -
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I love the portal song!!
~the cake is a lie~
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NOTE! the "R4 Ultra" is simply an R4 clone. it does support more space, and it can be configured to work with the DSi, but it's a pretty shoddy copy of an R4. a lot of games don't work on it. it might be worth it (it is only like 6 dollars afterall) if you just want to use it for homebrew, i guess. but make sure you do some research on it to see if its what you need, because it's definitely not as good as an original r4 (which is hard to find these days).
Yeah, I'm trying to stay away from that one. Supposedly the people who make the real R4 are extremely pissed about this clone and are threatening to brick anyone's DS that is using one of these.
Quote from Mwgamer.com
"Yesterday on July 3rd, The Team behind the R4 flash Card for the Nintendo DS announced that in a future update. They plan to brick Nintendo DS ' that are using a Clone of their popular R4 Flash card. The compnay states that they will not warn us when it will happen. They will not warrenty any bricked NDS', Anything that happens to you NDS will be at the fault of the company that sold you you're clone flash card."
Anyways, I've been reading about a card called the M3DS Real. I think I'm going to go with that.
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Jesus Mwgamer.com needs a fucking editor, there are so many problems in that quote.
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Anyways, I've been reading about a card called the M3DS Real. I think I'm going to go with that.
Most people reckon the CycloDS or the AceKard cards are the best on the market.
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Maybe cause i chose a bad video, here you go man -
wtf this looks so much better than the first video!
like they are different goddam games.
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I have an M3 Real. Works like a charm. Only problem is that it's not updated, so if a rom doesn't work, the rom itself has to be adjusted first, which usually happens soon enough.
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ahaha the people that make the R4 are angry that people are copying their product without paying for it
and the first portal video he's on a level that doesn't use any portals. has to be the worst way to show off a game based around them
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Most people reckon the CycloDS or the AceKard cards are the best on the market.
cdycloDS is pretty much the best that you can get, which is why I got an EDGE, which is a CycloDS clone that is half the price but is otherwise the same card
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Does anyone know how to fix that DQ5 rom problem on a CycloDS?
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I have a DS and a CycloDS Evolution which has been fantastic. I don't really do much with homebrew, as any homebrew I've tried has been pretty bad.
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I had a Supercard Lite then I got a Supercard DSOne. I got a DSi when it came out and was pissed to be surprised by the fact my card wasn't working.
So I got an Acekard 2i and I'm loving it. It's awesome and every game I've tried works on it (even Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin!!!)
I haven't found much in terms of good homebrew, but I'm totally interested in Bob's game. Looks like mindless fun for when I'm at work
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i have an ezflash 3 in 1 cart for slot 2 that i can't use because i have a ds phat and i don't find it worthwhile to upgrade to a lite to use it... if anybody is interested i'll sell it for 10 plus shipping....im thinking around 3 or 4 bucks. anybody interested let me know and i'll give you my email for paypal.
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i have an ezflash 3 in 1 cart for slot 2 that i can't use because i have a ds phat and i don't find it worthwhile to upgrade to a lite to use it... if anybody is interested i'll sell it for 10 plus shipping....im thinking around 3 or 4 bucks. anybody interested let me know and i'll give you my email for paypal.
You know they do make ones for Phat slot 2s. Also, if you want you could rip apart an old GBA cart and modify your EzFlash into a normal gba cart. There are tutorials on how to do it floating around the internet.
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Hey FQGamer, is that the one where you can
pirate GBA games run GBA homebrew and shit like that? If so, I'll take it off your hands!
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Hey FQGamer, is that the one where you can pirate GBA games run GBA homebrew and shit like that? If so, I'll take it off your hands!
Yeah, its for running GBA games and such off your Slot 1. Also works as a rumble pack and a ram expansion.