Nintendo DS

[toca180]

@motorollin

I guess its not really worth getting all the home brew kit just to run it then (at the moment). I does look interesting though and (as far as I know) the PSP doesn't have Linux.  :-D  Will be very cool if the GUI can be sorted.

Thanks
Robert

[Giana]

Anyone on GP2x or GP32x ?
I had both. On GP2x, u can run a cool port of UAE.
There are also a lot of ports, homebrew games, trackers, players, mp3, avi, demos, emulators (ST, Mame, Sega, Nintendo ...). Easy to code with C/SDL or Python and now java (experimental).
No active screen nor stylus, but a cool Linux in it
A cool machine which sounds like ... the good old days ...

Giana
A1200 - 060
A1200 - 040
A600

[Debaser]

@ KThunder:

Have you held the original DS (fatboy) Its quite...er umm... husky.


@ Group:

Funny there is a thread on the DS now... I just felt compelled to start playing around with mine again. Mario Kart is so much  fun. I though Animal Crossings is really clever, but couldnt get into it...ahem unlike my wife - she wore that game out!

Supposed to finally be an MP3/Media player software comming out for the DS - commercailly - anyone know the latest on that?

[toca180]

@Debaser

Supposed to finally be an MP3/Media player software comming out for the DS - commercailly - anyone know the latest on that?

Did you mean the Play-Yan or the Max Media Dock? The Play-Yan is only avaliable in Japan at the moment (I found some on eBay though), but the other can be bought now.

Robert

[Debaser]

Toca180

Thanks for the info & links. The Max Media Dock seems like the one to go with - compact flash cost & storage capabilities. options are better than Play-Yan's SD-card capabilities.Very cool.

[toca180]

@Debaser

That's cool. I haven't used either of them, btw, so don't know how well they work.

@Group

Has anyone here used the Max Media Dock? How good it is at running home brew? Is it better than a GBA flash card reader and Max Media Luncher/Pass Me/Wifi Me?

Thanks
Robert

[AmigaHeretic]

Funny I had been thinking lately about getting a DS lite recently and after this thread I decided to do it.

I also ordered an M3 Lite with a passcard.  Hope to start programming some some homebrew stuff when I get it.  There are quite a few good guides out there including This One.  A pretty good guide to DS programming basics, setting up a compiler, as well as source code from the guide.

Looking forward to trying Opera and MSN messenger too.  I think a Scorched Tanks clone would be pretty cool.  Use the touch screen and stylus to sort of "throw" your bombs with the correct speed and angle and using the built in WiFi to have multiple players.  I was recently at a conference at a Hotel with some friends playing New Super Mario Brothers, one of the games/levels in it uses the Mircophone built into the DS as a control.  You blow very litely to make your character jump/float around.  Some other people with DSes came up to us and asked about playing together and just WiFi'd in and started playing with us.  Very cool.

Looks exciting and kinda reminds me of the Amiga days with all kinds of interesting/inovated stuff to play with for very low cost.

Haven't been this excited about a computing device since Amiga.

[motorollin]

Glad you decided to get one :-) look forward to seeing what homebrew stuff you come up with. The DS browser is really good. I'm using it to write this post :-D

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moto

[AmigaHeretic]

Ah I really want to get Opera for it, but I'm in the US and it's hard to find.


I thought this was funny... I was using IRCDS v0.3b (irc client for DS) and it crashed.  The top screen was all red and the error said "Guru Meditation"!!  How cool is that? ;-)

[raddude9]

One of my favourite amiga games from way back was settlers and that's  being ported to the DS too:

http://uk.ds.ign.com/articles/716/716686p1.html

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives/2006/07/06/the-settlers-announced-for-ds/

[toca180]

Didn't know if anyone had seen this:

DS-Xtreme

Its an all in one memory card and homebrew loader and only used the DS cart slot. Looks good, if a little pricey.

Robert

[motorollin]

The problem with the DS-Xtreme is that it doesn't have any RAM on board (unlike the M3 which has 32MB). This means no DSLinux.

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moto

[toca180]

Thats a bit of a shame. That would be my main reason to get a homebrew set up. Would yo say the M3 is the best to get? What would you get to boot the homebrew? PassMe? Max Media Launcher? No Pass?

Robert

[motorollin]

If you want to use homebrew, get the M3. If you just want to make backups of your carts and play them from a memory card, get the DS-Xtreme.

I bought a Passcard 3 with my M3 as a bundle from mrmodchips, which gets you booted to the M3. From there you can run FlashMe which lets you flash the DS firmware. Once that's done you no longer need the Passcard as the DS will boot directly to the M3 if it's there.

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moto

[toca180]

Thanks for the info. Always fancied playing around with DSLinux and other homdbrew but didnt realise they were that expensive. Guess its time to save or just use it for games (but thats not as adventurous  :-D ).

Thanks
Robert

[motorollin]

The DS itself can be bought relatively cheaply now. It's bound to drop further at Christmas too. The M3+Passcard3 is quite pricey at about £70, but you can sell the Passcard 3 later if you flash the firmware of your DS.

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moto