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DS development > Nintendo DS: Everything you need to know!

#31306 - manicdvln - Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:32 pm

Overview of the Nintendo DS:

http://www.nintendo.com/overviewds

- Micro flash sites:

North America: http://www.nintendods.com/index.jsp

Europe: http://www.nintendo-europe.com/microsite/dsteaser/


Technological demo:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/nintendogs.php

*Nintendogs is a prototype of a game that uses voice recognition (calling your pet name, doing commands, tricks), touch screen to interact with your pets, virtual surround to have better feel of the spaces and environment as well good 3d gfx and models that DS is well capable of doing and multiplayer in sharing as well as competing your pets with others in dog shows...


Nintendo DS game previews:

Video: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/nwt/dssoft/movie/dssoft.html


List of Nintendo DS games:

http://www.nintendo.com/gamelist?start=1&oord=asc&osort=title&sort=rd&cmd=&toggle=true&query=&tf=&cf=&sf=Nintendo+DS&ef=&rf=&pf=&af=&vf=&nf=

Nintendo DS Hands-On:

http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3530 (retailer site)
http://ds.ign.com/articles/564/564540p1.html?fromint=1
http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=2309


Nintendo DS Free Online Service:

Quote:
Iwata announced that the Wi-Fi protocol for Nintendo DS will provide users with a link to other players across the country or around the world. Once the service begins later this year, Nintendo DS users will be able to connect to the service wirelessly at Wi-Fi hot spots, whether they?re at home, in a hotel or at a coffee shop.


http://www.nintendowifi.com

Offical software development site:

http://www.warioworld.com/

Official non-game oriented developments:

- PDA functions for DS by Summitsoft.

http://www.gamestats.com/objects/697/697533/index.html

- Nintendo Transalator/Dictionary for DS

Quote:
According to the Gaming Age Forums, a Japanese newspaper (Sankei Shimbun) reports on a new development title by Nintendo: software which includes features such as a virtual dictionary and a touch-screen translator (English-Japanese, English-Chinese and Japanese-Chinese). According to the newspaper, various mini games and other features will be included as well.

President Iwata quotes, "Although it is practical as a dictionary, it has several functions". Iwata hopes to target this product next year for sale by junior and senior high school students. A possible US or European release weren't mentioned.

http://gba.n64europe.com/index.php?id=3003

- Nintendo's new MP3/MPEG4 player for GBA & DS

Official Japanese site: http://nintendo.co.jp/n08/avp/index.html

Quote:
The best part of MP3 playback is how much time you can get on a single battery charge. The hardware is sent into sleep mode automatically if you don't enter any control inputs for a 30 second period. While in a sleep mode state, the system still plays back MP3 files, and can do so for up to 15 hours, according to Nintendo.

http://ds.ign.com/articles/573/573999p1.html

- Nintendo DS video compression

Quote:
More recently, Actimagine has upgraded its technology, allowing a 90 minute movie to be stored on a 32MB cartridge, producing impressive audio and video quality on Nintendo portable consoles.

http://ds.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=1472

Some unofficial projects under development:

- Porting Linux OS on to the DS.

http://www.dslinux.org/

- Hacking DS roms, custom boot loaders and decryption.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewforum.php?f=18
http://members.fortunecity.com/infinityhq/dsdev/dsdev.html
http://www.darkain.com/portability.php
http://darkfader.net/ds/
http://angrycat.typepad.com/
http://zerohaven.com/ds/wiki
http://rorexrobots.com/ds/calc/

DS Fan sites:

http://www.dsnews.co.uk/
http://www.touchds.com/
http://www.dual-scene.com/index.php
http://www.nintendonow.com/
http://www.planetgamecube.com/
http://www.nintelligent.net/
http://ds.advancedmn.com/
http://bugeyeds.blogspot.com/
http://dspaparazzi.blogspot.com/


Troubleshooting/FAQ:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/ds/index.jsp


Where to buy DS online?:

http://www.lik-sang.com/ (retailer site)
http://www.videogamesplus.ca/ (retailer site)
http://www.success-hk.com/ (retailer site)

Last edited by manicdvln on Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:00 am; edited 27 times in total

#31341 - Sukanu - Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:04 am

Offical software development site:
http://www.warioworld.com/

#31347 - Darkain - Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:41 am

Pictures, Videos, Ni-Fi hacking, and more!
http://www.darkain.com/portability.php
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#31912 - benjamin - Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:32 pm

and don't forget AngryCat:

http://angrycat.typepad.com

#34090 - Stan64 - Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:44 pm

http://nintendo.co.jp/n08/avp/index.html
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#35479 - PhoenixSoft - Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:37 am

Playing Sound Files

- Download "Sox" from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sox
- Rename .bin sound files to .vox
- In command prompt, type "sox -r samplerate input.vox output.wav", obiously replacing 'samplerate', 'input' and 'output' with the relative values. For Metroid, this could be "sox -r 11000 bgmdata.vox bgmdata.wav". This will output a nice little Wav file for you :D

#36456 - CoolkcaH - Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:43 pm

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/1202/nintendo.htm

#37450 - tepples - Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:18 pm

Nintendo DS homebrew state of the art as of March 2005

Links collected by dagamer34, originally in this topic

Development tools are now available:
  • devkitARM - compiler used by homebrew GBA, GP32, and Nintendo DS developers
  • ndslib - a set of libraries, including startup code (crt0) and a linker script
  • DS project template for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, from NDSTech Wiki

Some programming tutorials have popped up:
Other documents are available:

Initial attempts at Nintendo DS emulators are available for public download. Some can run homebrew demos. None can run commercial games yet.
A way to run DS programs from the GBA slot has appeared. It involves inserting any official DS Game Pak into an adapter called PassMe and putting your DS code onto a GBA flash cart. PassMe adapters will be available for sale to the public for 20 USD including shipping in the United States. More information on PassMe is available:
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#46581 - oct0pus23 - Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:07 pm

Just wanted to add my list of bookmarks for completeness..
I'ts amazing to watch this scene grow so quickly in such a short time.

http://ndshomebrew.4t.com/

Any naming mistakes are mine
My apologies to any authors who I screwed up the details

Thanks for all your hard work!

I'm open to comments suggestions & corrections.

cheers

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#47952 - NEiM0D - Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:38 am

DSTek - Nintendo DS Technical information

http://neimod.com/dstek/

#131157 - meshounah - Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:29 pm

dsprogramming101.com is good dev tutorial to get ya started
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