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Hardware > Homemade E-Reader Dotcodes

#102720 - Kirby - Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:13 pm

Hello. I'm making The Kirby Revolution, a Kirby GBA game, and I had a great idea. I wanted to add minigames to my game. I also had an E-Reader. One day I was sitting down... doing nothing... then it came.

Do you know my idea yet? If not, here's a clue: It involves a set a Kirby Training Cards I had printed out the day before.

Yes... You get it now? No? OK. Here it is:

Why not make a minigame called "Kirby Trading Card Center". It would have spaces for collecting Kirby cards (and maybe even adding a card game with your collected cards). How do you get cards? Simple. I sell my Kirby cards, but with special dotcodes on them. These dotcodes, when scanned, would connect to The Kirby Revolution, and activate the card in the game.

There are some problems with this though:

    First of all, I can't even do Multiboot with a normal GBA, so I would have NO idea how to connect to a GBA from an E-Reader!

    Second, I've downloaded the code from the "Hello World" example from http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/, and tried to compile it. It worked fine... until it got up to encode the actual data. Apparently, Firefly deleted the nedcenc.exe file, because I searched the whole web (well, actually, about five minutes worth) and couldn't find it.


Does anybody know how to solve these problems? (especially the second one). I've heard that you can download a special E-Reader version of VBA, but it can't even scan a .raw file!

Please help me with this. I think the card game is a good idea, and really would like to implement it.
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#102856 - PhoenixSoft - Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:59 pm

Selling Kirby cards? It's bad enough that you are infringing on Ninty's licenses, but you're also trying to make money from it. I can't see you getting a warm reception here, since we try to avoid stepping on Ninty's legal toes as much as we can.

#102873 - zzo38computer - Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:55 pm

PhoenixSoft wrote:
Selling Kirby cards? It's bad enough that you are infringing on Ninty's licenses, but you're also trying to make money from it. I can't see you getting a warm reception here, since we try to avoid stepping on Ninty's legal toes as much as we can.


These are some good reasons not to do it, another reason is that E-reader is no longer current (It doesn't work on NDS!)

You could publish some things for free on a web site just to see if it work
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#102909 - Kirby - Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:01 pm

I don' t mean ACTUALLY selling them... it's hard to explain...

It's more of a personal value... selling them... as a last resort, and with a licence. I didn't actually plan on selling them.
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Knock-knock.
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Kirby.
Kirby-who?
I told you! Kirby!

#102922 - brennan - Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:15 am

zzo38computer wrote:
PhoenixSoft wrote:
Selling Kirby cards? It's bad enough that you are infringing on Ninty's licenses, but you're also trying to make money from it. I can't see you getting a warm reception here, since we try to avoid stepping on Ninty's legal toes as much as we can.


These are some good reasons not to do it, another reason is that E-reader is no longer current (It doesn't work on NDS!)


Yes, it does. For a DS phat, just take it apart and remove that little stub. On the DS lite, just plug and play.
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