HWOS(2) is a simple operating system for flash carts of the kind. It only boots homebrew unfortunatly. HWOS has a few appliactions included with it like RSS reader and online wikipedia reader. More applications are to come at later dates.

HWOS is pronounced ‘h-wos’. Sort of like the way stewie puts emphesis on the h in cool whip. HWOS stands for Hello World Operating System.

Major Features:
Quick Boot – boot the last game you played.
Homebrew Browser – Browse your homebrew files from your “Homebrew” folder
Fav’s – Play your favorite homebrew that you choose in the homebrew browser
Mediaplayer – Starts the “mediaplayer.nds” found in the apps folder. Simply put your favorite media player in the apps folder and call it “mediaplayer.nds”
Slot-2 – Start Slot-2. For GBA games and the like.
RSS – Read RSS feeds online, save articles, favorite them.
Wiki – Online Wikipedia reader. Save articles, search articles, read’em, favorite them.
Downloader – Download homebrew directly to your DS! They will be placed in the “Homebrew” folder
Update – Update the OS to a more recent version if avaliable.

Minor Features:
Wifi Signal Status when using wifi
Battery Status
Time and Date
Custom MP3 for background menu music – called music.mp3 in the settings folder. Must be 64kbit sample rate. must be called “music.mp3”
Custom background – Use a gif of your choice located in the settings folder. must be called “wallpaper.gif”
Light adjustment – works on any DS

Pre-Installation!
Step1: Back-Up your micro-sd card!
Step2: Make a new folder on the root of the card called “Homebrew”
Step3: Put homebrew into the “Homebrew” folder.
Step4: Do the the following for what is suited to you to use with the below instructions.

Installation for Regular Users
Take the HWOS folder and put it on the root of your cart. Thats it. Make sure everything copies over though. Then navigate to it and boot “HW_OS2.nds” from inside the folder. If for some reason the updater fails or it no longer works, just use “RecoveryMode.nds” to update it again.

Installation for R4 Users
Do the same thing as you would for regular users, but this time copy the “bootme.nds” and “bootme.txt” to the root of the card and boot that.

Installation for R4 Users with autoboot OS feature
Do the same as you would for R4 users, but this time take the “_DS_MENU.DAT” and copy it to the root of the card. This will over ride your old one so make a back up.

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Kukulcan has updated his game “Search Eye DS”. Find various objects in 70 pictures, with three different game modes!

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Control your starclock and reach the exit of each the level. During the game waves will appear, avoid them at any cost!

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Glubies Planet is an action/reflexion game on Nintendo DS. Glubies are little and cute creatures, but they are so stupid!

You have to guide some Glubies through several levels with the help of a couple of items and solve some of the puzzles needed to reach the goal.

Changes:

– Added menu to keep placed items after retrying a level
– Added stats screen when the player win a level
– Added intro splash screen for NEO Compo Spring 2009
– Enhanced stylus detection when objects and Glubies rotate

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Anime Jo All-Star Kirifuda Taisen (Anime Girls All-Star Trump Battle) is a card game based on Top Trumps. Battle your way through eight opponents to victory in this simple but memory-testing card game. Featuring character art and music from over 12 anime series, including Lucky Star, Code Geass, Gundam, Evangelion and Macross Frontier. Features two game modes and Rumble Pak support.

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This game brings a rather unique twist to platform gaming… Time travel. In this game, you must help future versions of yourself collect all of the objects and return to the phone booth without touching another version of yourself.
You get only two lives, one as Bill the second as Ted.

Note, the buttons on the floor will open a door ONLY while you stand on it, you must wait to become the next version of yourself to pass through it.

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Valhalla Ds is a port of Valhalla classics Episode 1 – The Crypt. It was originally released on the Amiga in ’94 and remade for PC later. It was the first digital speech adventure game to come out, and was ground breaking at the time.

Unfortunately, there is no save system in place, but the episode isn’t too long. As long as you’re careful you should have no problems finishing with no save.

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DSision [di-iszh-uh n] (named by Jayenkai) is a replacment firmware for Nintendo DS flash carts. At the time of creation, most flash cart firmwares presented the user with a fairly simple, menu system, usually just a list of filenames on the screen.

DSision aimed to remedy this, by creating a nice looking, easy to use interface for loading homebrew programs on the DS.

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SutraDS is an adaptation of KamaSutra of Vatsyayana representing sexual positions.

If you are offended by such material, please do NOT visit this link. This news item is not illustrated for a good reason.

Thanks to the author cid2mizard himself for the news information.

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Mario Paint Composer DS is an indirect remake of the music composer tool found in the Super Nintendo game “Mario Paint” with a few new adaptations.

Changes:

-tweaked stylus locations for note placement
-amplified pig sound
-added ledger bars
-amplified heart sound
-added turtle shell sound
-updated text font
-tempo control icons enlarged
-added Delete Page to Select button
-tweaked note sign controls (makes it easier to place a continuous line of sharp or flat notes)
-fixed a filebrowser bug
-increased max tempo
-Dynamic Tempos (can set an individual tempo per page)
-added insert blank page to Start button
-fixed brief graphical glitches on page switching
-fixed tunings of mushroom notes
-tweaked the page slider
-re-arranged the song information displayed & removed tempo due to dynamic tempo
-fixed game icon transparency
-fixed last note detection for looping

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