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.
Contents at a Glance
Get Started
some sites offering info and downloads
- 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.
Great DS Stuff on Amazon
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
Feedback and suggestions
Feel free to drop some feedback.
And if you think there's something missing on this lens, let me know.
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- RameshNL RameshNL Jun 19, 2009 @ 3:04 am
- Great post. I have rated it with 5 stars. I will check this lens out later again!
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Good luck with your lens!
Greetings.
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- Warcraft3 Warcraft3 May 21, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
- You might want to put something on here about the dangers of running homebrew too... some applications are made to break your ds :(
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- Mar1anneC Mar1anneC Oct 1, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
- Very interesting, I am going to check this stuff out.
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- conor conor Sep 25, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
- hello my name is conor i am 10 years old i want to make up my own game plese help
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- iLove iLove May 10, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
- Great lens you have. well done.
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