The Plan 9 community is recruiting student ds developers for google summer of code 2008.

If anyone is interested you can make contact on the plan9 irc channel on freenode or through the plan9 google group. The group also has a project page found at code.google.com/p/inferno-ds/

This should be a great opportunity to combine your studies with DS homebrew.

Thanks to http://www.drunkencoders.com for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/inferno-ds/

oXo brings us this fine Nintendo DS homebrew release called DSBall.

You must guide the bouncing ball save trough the level, that’s it – if there wouldn’t be obstacles and holes 😉

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21313

nczempin made a simplistic clock for Poker tournaments. It allows you to set a time per round (in minutes), and when that time has passed, it will emit a noise (shamelessly stolen from wintermute’s libnds sound example). It can also pause/go, and change the current level, reset, and do your washing.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15158

This is a card game where you have to get rid of all your cards before the computer does.

How to play:

Each arrow defines the direction (way) of the pile : an up arrow means you have to put cards with superior value (4 then 5 then 6 …) and a down arrow inferior value (6 then 5 then 4 …)

There are 2 bonuses cards : Joker and Reverse.
The first one can be played on any card but you can only play the same color on it
The second can be played on a card of the same color and reverses the direction of the pile. Then you can only play card of the same color on it

Concerning cards number, 0 comes after 12 and 12 comes before 0

In order to play this game, you only need the stylus to drag cards. The menu works the same as the game : drag the card where you want to go.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15160

nczempin started working on converting the original “Football Manager” to the DS. Paul Robson has ported, or reverse-engineered, or remade, the original Football Manager by Kevin Toms.

The current status is:

A pre-alpha version is running. You can see some of the menu screens, and once it comes to match day, you can actually see a match.

It is not really playable (other than advancing from match to match), in fact, I have taken out quite a bit of functionality.

So you should take a look at it only if you are very curious.

I will release the source code as well, of course (it’s GPL), but I haven’t found a permanent home for it yet.

Given that it is likely that I will not keep maintaining this for a long time (it is only a “finger exercise” to get acquainted with DS homebrew), it would be nice if someone would like to take over, provide webspace, etc. Putting it on sourceforge would be a bit of an overkill IMHO.

Here’s the current binary:
http://www.files.to/get/208759/dv6w41xgxg

Any questions, suggestions etc., would best be put in this thread, or sent to me by pm.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15157

Version 0.1 of Tetra Master DS is nearly complete. Masif just got a few more bugs to work out and some sprucing up of the UI, and then he will release it to the public.

If you’re not familiar with Tetra Master, it’s the card based mini game from Final Fantasy IX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigames_of_Final_Fantasy

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15151

Can you enter the code before the the time limit reaches? Find the code and save yourself!

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21252

Bunjalloo is a web browser for the Nintendo DS. It under active development, and can already display simple pages, follow links and view images.

Changes:

Improved save-as to check mime type. Add Referer header. Add ~ to the keyboard. Add a progress bar. Add configurable language support. Translations for German and French. Thanks to Pascal Braig and dr. Friendlier configuration with no overwriting of files. Update giflib, compile jpeg library with better options for a size decrease. Add internal page links (e.g. /somepage#internal ) Add a title to the initial screen. Fix crash bug when title is empty. Fix combo box slowness.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/quirkysoft/

Pill Me is a new puzzle game for Nintendo DS.

http://www.dev-fr.org/projets/pill-me/msg23284/?topicseen#new

Discard Em All is a card game for Nintendo DS coded by t4ils.

http://www.dev-fr.org/news/(nds)-discardemall-v0-11/