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

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.

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!!

Other than Colors DS homebrew is a waste of time really.

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.

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...)

I've never played a homebrewed DS game. I can't imagine they would be very good.

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).

I'm very interested in this. Thanks for all the link and the cool hombrew games. 

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.

i dont know if they ARE still working on this... but i hope they are. or someone else comes along and does it.

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.

By the way, which flash carts support sdhc cards?  I need more memory than my R4 can currently provide.

By the way, which flash carts support sdhc cards?  I need more memory than my R4 can currently provide.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21577

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).

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?