Homebrew on the Nintendo DS

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Give your DS some extra fizz with homebrew

You just bought that nice and shiny DS Lite and wonder what more it can do apart from playing games? Well, then this might be for you.

Get Started 

some sites offering info and downloads

To get you started in the homebrew scene, try some of these great sites.
Drunken Coders
Has lots of homebrew news and tutorials for programmers.
devkitPro
Home of the toolchains used to create all this wonderful homebrew.
Electrobee
electrobee : Main - NDS Adapters,NDS Memory Extenders,Flash Memory Cards,Flash Memory Readers,NDS I/O Adapters,Robot Kits,DS Motion,
DSEmulation
Nice site focusing on DS emulators - emulators that run on the DS and DS emulators running on your PC.

Games 

homebrew games

SummVM DS
A port of ScummVM to the Nintendo DS handheld console. Now you can play your favorite Lucasfilm/arts games wherever you like!
DSQuake
Believe it or not, some guys are trying to port Quake to the DS!
See the video below for proof.
DSDoom
The one game that revolutionized PC gaming - now on a DS near you!
Lemmings DS
Pretty good port of Lemmings. Features: Zoom-levels, level editor, many more
International Karate
One of the true C-64 classics now portable!
Go kick some butt!

Applications 

homebrew applications

DSLinux
DSLinux is a project that aims to port Linux to the Nintendo DS gaming console.
NitroTracker
A Fasttracker II style music creation tool. Rules big time!
DS2Key
Use your DS as a wireless gamepad or a remote control with your Windows PC ! (check out the video below)
OKIWI
a free Nintendo DS web browser

DS Homebrew Videos 

videos on youtube.com showing off DS homebrew software


DS Quake Demos


DS as SNES controller


DS Organize


Beup 0.3 MSN for the DS (OLD VERSION) {Official Video}


DSAmp


curated content from YouTube

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