How are things on the homebrew front for DS?
- Thread starter Guden Oden
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hey69 said:
Is battery life always worse or just when using the supercard?
As for batteries, there's this http://www.planetgamecube.com/reviewArt.cfm?artid=11095
if you have a newer model DS, you need super pass2 + the programmer.
you need to tell the super pass2 wich original game you have in your super pass2 thats why you program it. (never got this fare, couldnt get the programmer recognise my superpass2, thats why i paid somebody who did it for me (flashing the DS) for a small fee)
when thats done, you can execute the NDS menu and NDS applications form the menu
flashing the DS itself afterwards is very easy. you just short a litle spot underneath the baterycover with a small iron thingy (paperclip for example) and you just execute a nds exe. (firmwar file in this case)
google, there is alot of info about this.
you need to tell the super pass2 wich original game you have in your super pass2 thats why you program it. (never got this fare, couldnt get the programmer recognise my superpass2, thats why i paid somebody who did it for me (flashing the DS) for a small fee)
when thats done, you can execute the NDS menu and NDS applications form the menu
flashing the DS itself afterwards is very easy. you just short a litle spot underneath the baterycover with a small iron thingy (paperclip for example) and you just execute a nds exe. (firmwar file in this case)
google, there is alot of info about this.
Iron Tiger said:
The firmware needs to be upgraded to save the WiFi settings, though I suppose they could lock most of it. (though don't you need to short circuit the system to flash the firmware anyway?)
BTW, links to any of those things? Last I looked, I could only find GBA homebrew really. Well, I saw the graphic calc and drawing apps and crap, but none of them really worked well, though they did work. You can also download WiFi demos.
Is it just me, or is Nintendo missing a giant opportunity here? They ought to make their own NES/SNES emulator for the DS and wifi enable it, then sell ROMs from a secure download site that users can buy for a nominal (not ludicrous) fee, download wirelessly to their DS on the go - preferably able to store a bunch of in on-cartridge flash memory - and play wherever they happen to be.
It'd be perfect for everybody.
It'd be perfect for everybody.
They've already announced this feature for teh Rev, but small and secksy as that thing is, it isn't portable, thus making it a lot less useful. One might argue, perhaps Nintendo doesn't want to limit sales of new DS titles by regurgitating the entire NES/SNES catalogs, but then again, wouldn't the backwards comp feature for Rev (which adds N64 and GC games as well) cannibalize sales for that machine? 
Guden Oden said:They've already announced this feature for teh Rev, but small and secksy as that thing is, it isn't portable, thus making it a lot less useful. One might argue, perhaps Nintendo doesn't want to limit sales of new DS titles by regurgitating the entire NES/SNES catalogs, but then again, wouldn't the backwards comp feature for Rev (which adds N64 and GC games as well) cannibalize sales for that machine?
Well, there were rumours about Nintendo offering its NES/SNES backlog for DS via the virtual console of Rev. Supposedly, the DS can communicate with the Rev. So you might be lucky.
Hm, that's an interesting rumor... Didn't hear that particular one! Still, it's still a long time until Rev is released - comparatively speaking anyway. Nintendo could have had emulation up and running ages ago on the DS. I wouldn't be surprised if the 2D bits of DS isn't too far away from the SNES on a hardware level, so emulation might actually be fairly trivial, I'm not sure. Hardest part to emu would likely be the sound DSP chips, though I guess a 33MHz ARM might be able to do it... Then there's the superFX thingy as well. Not sure how well that would run, maybe Nintendo would have to source-port FX games to use the 3D hardware of the DS instead of rasterizing in software through the FX. The DS doesn't have THAT much CPU muscle after all.
Guden Oden said:
The DS has a fair amount of muscle. The GBA, with a homebrew emulator (so they had much less knowledge of the hardware than nintendo) was able to nearly perfectly emulate the snes minus sound and the special graphics chips. The DS has two cpus, its double clocked Arm7 should be able to handle the basic snes capabilities including sound, and the Arm9 could probably handle the special graphics chips.
Ah, right. I forgot the ARM7 was clocked twice as fast in the DS. Heh, yeah, I guess with that in mind it ought to work okay. Since the DS has at least the hardware sprite pushing power of the SNES as well as all the playfields and video modes, it doesn't have to emulate that stuff in software. I guess all that really remains is screen rez then... What is the DS's LCD rez? Almost all SNES games ran at 256*240, so this might possibly be a slight issue...
Also, what about homebrew on the DS Lite? People ought to have researched that by now, has Nintendo screwed around with the innards to ruin such possibilities?
Also, what about homebrew on the DS Lite? People ought to have researched that by now, has Nintendo screwed around with the innards to ruin such possibilities?