DS Daily: Recommend some homebrew apps

I used these the most:

VNDS - for reading Japanese visual novel games such as Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night.
ScummVM DS - Playing Monkey Island 1 & 2 on it.
Video Game Hero
Still Alive DS

Menudo (still under development though): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKX2saQHzA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyanE7Tx5fg

People only use these devices to steal off the hard work of legitimate men and women in the games industry. The case is simple. Head over to GBA Temp and you'll see that it's a hotbed of piracy. That place truly is the Somalia of the video games landscape.

Nothing against legitimate homebrew, might I add. Hell I have a guy who constantly harps on and on about community that the GP2x supposedly enjoys. But people, at their base, are liars. He, like many others, talk constantly of Mega Drive roms and nothing more. That's not homebrew, that's regular old piracy.

This site should just refrain from this sort of talk. You can't have dialogue with the overpriviliged and eternally jaded, they lack the nuance of feeling and, more often or not, they've been raised by poor parents. That's more a societal issue. Anyway, like that famous saying 'everybody thinks they have the prettiest wife,' let's not kid ourselves; the DSfanboy audience is not above this criminality.

You see how the decimated the PSP landscape is? Do you really want that dust on your hands, DSfanboy?

Pocket Physics
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Legit homebrew? Such a thing exists? What am I gonna do with all these roms of Super Mario World????
NOOOO

- I always keep ColorsDS on hand. If I forget to bring a sketchbook, it's the next closest thing to scribble in.
- Also DSReader for e-books. Alternately I'll use DSOrganise (nize?) for that as well.
- Gamewise, Powder and Still Alive.
- I would recommend Nitrotracker for those who want to create music, although you should do a little research on how to compose it beforehand.
- nesDS.

There's a clone of Tetris the Grand Master 3 on the web, a bit difficult to find for legal reasons, but one of the best homebrews on the system.

I don't own a flash cart, I'm technologically impaired and I fear that if I tried to load homebrew on my cart I would do something wrong and break my DS. ehehehe. (even with instructions, something would go wrong) I also don't know where to buy them (offline).

Some of the homebrew actually sounds very interesting, I always enjoy the coverage DSFanboy gives it. Thanks for your hard work. :)

Put my DS down a few months back, starting final year in college and there were desktop issues, but I picked it up again a few months back and I still find Animanitee the most engrossing piece of home brew.

Would love to hear about some new stuff instead of the same tired ass rants about piracy. Off topic posts should be deleted before you end up with some ass hat on a rant. Why don't they just post somewhere relevant about something that actually killed someone. Yarr

Has anyone heard anything re: status of the Cave Story or Knytt Stories DS ports? Still hotly anticipating those...

I play the PSP versions, but I am fairly certain that a lot of rogues are ported to the DS.

Nethack is awesome.

My favourite is Powder, though.

And isn't there an extreme alpha of ToME ported to handhelds, or am I just making that up?

Only a few posts in and the anti-piracy patrol steps in to damper the fun. Woo boy.

Anguna has been DS-icized recently, and is quite a good little Zelda-style game, if anyone's into that.

I'm pretty big on Lameboy and nesDS for emulators, and VGHero, POWDER, Warcraft Tower Defense, A Touch of War, and Tetris: TGM for games. Also the 2.5D FPS's (Quake, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, etc) have been ported and lack mentioning, as well as Commander Keen. I sure wish the StarCraft port didn't get C&D'd.

All homebrew is garbage. . .

All of you people who openly admit to having flash carts should stop pirating and actually buy games. . .

colors rules.
My_Life is kinda cool, as is geographica, and the SIP phone app for talking on the DS overseas.
Jenesis is a decent emu as well.

Homebrew is awesome, I openly admit to having a flashcart, how else am I gonna run linux on my DS? and I buy my games.
Anyone who dismisses an entire library of software without ever trying it is just ignorant.

All this, and no mention of OpenTyrian? ;_;

I love OpenTyrian! It is my fav, the DS needs more shmups!

That Colors app.
I don't have a tablet and I stink at dawing with a mouse and so my DS has been replacing my irl sketchbook (it's running out of pages) and I find I'm really getting the hang of using it. And I find that Otacon alarm clock very amusing.

My favorite would have to be PortalDS.
: D

I'd always keep rickroll.nds on my flash card renamed as The Best Game Ever.nds. Last year I got my friend on his own DS, in the middle of gym class. Golden.

My flash card broke recently though. But oh well, atleast I go out of my way to buy worthwhile games. *Chrono Trigger*

I'm surprised I haven't seen any love yet for ComicBookDS. It's my favorite homebrew application, although it's legality is somewhat questionable since one of the only ways to get comics to read on it is to download them off the Internet.

im all about homebrew! no illegal roms over here!

ds homebrews:
anguna - zelda style homebrew
megaetk - megaman style homebrew
aliensds - 1st person shooter, great graphics still in development. first level done.
super smash bros. rumble - still in development, currently being completely recoded so hopefully that turns out great.
whee! - spacecraft racing game, pretty freaking great!
ihalo - work in progress.. still really glitchy..
fandian - great graphics still in early development so theres not much to do besides walking around. but looks promising.

just a few.

homebrew games looks cool.
but im just afraid that it may corrupt my DS.
read alot of materials that says some homebrew games when inserted into the flash card will corrupt the DS system. true?
But i really want to try the Tetris Grand Master game.

I use all of these on a regular basis....

Apps:
Colors
Sniffbox (Happy WiFi song! Useful for finding hotspots)
DSOrganize
DSMaps
DSTwitter (though this seems to not be working now)
DSReader

Games:
Wordup
Still Alive DS
Game Melody Oratorio V1 and V2
Mario Paint Composer
Sliding O'Mania
Grow RPG
Negative Space
WordFind DS

To hell with piracy. Let pirates play the soulless games, I'll gladly take NeoDS and Powder any day. I haven't learnt the ins & outs of Faangbang (or w/e), but I'd have to say that Powder is by far the best game (to me) for the DS. Better than any commercial load of crap.

Shameless self-promotion alert!

Just released my new DS homebrew game...

SNOWRIDE DS!

It's a wintery themed, touchscreen based, high score attack style cute-em-up. :D

You can grab it from http://nyarla.gazaxian.com

Sweet, I'll have to check out the Snow game.

You know, after reading the comments today, I have seen the homebrew emulators pop up quite a bit. Even dsfanboy had a spot about the homebrew emulator neods (or the neo geo emu), and I had a question:

If I own for example, my NES games/roms, is it wrong to emulate them on another device the software wasn't originally intended for?

Like in my above example, I run nesds on my DS, and I use roms that I have bought not once, but twice! I bought the games for the original NES and then I bought them for the Gameboy Advance (you know, the GBA nes classic series).

I use the nesds emulator on my DS so I can play them all off one card, instead of trying to lug around my armfull of GBA cards.

Anyway, I'm not trying to start another flame war here.

It just confuses me where the line is between legit homebrew and illegal comes to play, because there are obvious lines and then blurry ones.

Because I have read places online that seem to indicate that we as owners of software are not entitled by the copyright laws to modify software or use it on devices it wasn't originally intended for.

I don't know if it just depends on where you live or what?

I think if you own the games, its okay to emulate them on other devices, but I don't know what Nintendo would say about it?

What about ports of pc games to ds? Is it okay as long as the code was written from the ground up? Even though it plays/looks/sounds just like the original?

Now it is clear to me playing original homebrew games are completely legit.

It is clear to me that playing commercial roms you didn't pay for is wrong.

But what about dumping your own NDS roms to a flash cart? Is that okay since you bought them? Or is some type of infringement still in effect?

Just wondering, and I realize that perhaps this isn't the place to ask. But the article brought up these questions in my mind.

homebrew developers should be given the appropriate acknowledgement for their hardwork in creating a game that everyone can enjoy. with limited resources, they are still able to produce a quality game. just dont lock yourself up in your room, if you know what i mean....
will try that tetris grand master now..