Guitar Hero: On Tour peripheral lends a hand to homebrew painting app
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Jun 29th 2008 at 1:30PM }
We know there are probably one too many prerequisites for you to find this story truly interesting -- but if you're one of those rare DS Lite owners who recently purchased Guitar Hero: On Tour, and is also into homebrew applications for the handheld, and also fancies themselves a modern day Botticelli, then there's a new homebrew painting application with some surprising peripheral functionality that the four of you should really consider picking up.
The app in question is BassAceGold's UAPaint (v1.02), which allows the use of the On Tour guitar grip buttons for easily accessible short cuts to important tools, streamlining the digital painting process. It's a really sleek setup -- unfortunately, we're not entirely convinced that DS doodlers really need faster, more powerful methods of etching poorly-rendered genitalia into their luminescent screens.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RichChap @ Jun 29th 2008 1:54PM
If I get GH:OT I'll download the app. Sounds cool. I really just wish nintendo would go make a new handheld already with a bigger screen, I'm so tired of having to squint and zoom in when doodling phallic pictures on my DS.
offday @ Jun 29th 2008 2:02PM
Nintendo isn't going to create a whole new handheld just to accommodate you and your homebrew doodling.
RichChap @ Jun 29th 2008 3:13PM
Of course not, but when they do make a new handheld, a bigger touch screen is on my wish list.
Tiptup300 @ Jun 29th 2008 2:33PM
Wow, this actually would be great for a lot of ds games.
Brian @ Jun 29th 2008 2:48PM
This is just the beginning!
I hope to see a homebrew version of guitar hero soon.
chispito @ Jun 29th 2008 3:12PM
It would really only help if you were sketching in portrait. When you hold the DS in landscape, you have pretty convenient access to the D-pad/ABXY and the L/R buttons, depending on whether you are a righty or lefty.
Demosthenes @ Jun 29th 2008 5:15PM
Im a DS Phat owner that bought GH:OT thank you very much.
Geist @ Jun 29th 2008 5:49PM
How well does it fit? I'm a little worried about having it feel really awkward due to the Phat's larger size. Any problems?