Category: Nintendo DS

DSmaps is a map viewer for the Nintendo DS game console. It obtains images on-the-fly from the Google Maps ‘keyhole server’ using the Wi-Fi hardware that’s built into every DS. DSmaps came about when I was trying to think of a good project to learn DS programming and was inspired by the truly sublime mapping application on the iPod Touch. At its current stage of development, DSmaps is a very long way from even approaching that sort of standard, but it is definitely the benchmark.

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

http://dsmaps.wordpress.com/

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Raruto is game using spanish language created with the Icarus Adventure System.

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

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_Raruto-DS_960938

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POWDER is a roguelike game, which is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning.

Changes:

Before I go any farther, I have corrected the spelling of recieve in Klaskov’s description. (Rapacity)
“Adventuring can make onE hungry…” (TemporalParadox)
Items will fall down holes and be teleported by teleport traps. (Patch by Richard Quirk)
Transparent spelled properly in Options menu (Michael Brough)
Identify spell takes effect after inventory is cleared so you won’t end up with the new name of the item clipped.
Leaving the inventory by pressing the Inventory Icon will no longer consume a turn.
The classic font has two pixel corrections (Markus Maier)
You now have a choice of five different fonts, four of which have been crafted by Markus Maier. Default is one of his – a shadowed variant of the default font.
You are now prompted to enter the dimensional portal when you step on it, avoiding issues where people didn’t know they needed to climb into it.
Loading a game that was saved with a from-disk tileset when you no longer have a valid from-disk tileset will no longer crash. (Markus Maier)
If you are petrified while possessing a creature, you automatically release possession (with system shock) rather than ending the game. (wings)
Uninitialized memory caused all creatures to be very noisy after a load, allowing you to sense them with H. (Deozaan)
In memory of Nick Sabo’s lost character, there is now an Option to Collapse the dungeon. This destroys all non-quest items on the floor of levels other than your own. Debug Info has been augmented to report your total item usage. This can be used to avoid memory problems on the GBA pending an auto-collapse mode. (Nick Sabo)
50% bonus to food value when eating corpses when you have the Butchery skill (Derek Ray)
“The spear falls into the water” now has a period at the end.
When you pray your current god is reported. (Brendan)
When you load a game or gain a level as a Cultist you will receive the behaviour hint. (Beefhaze)
Description of Soul Suck spell now uses amnesic rather than amnesiac as it is an adjective, not a noun.
A new pointed medium weapon: Rapiers. (Terje Bo)
You can now choose your gender at character creation. (Bridget Farace, Irashtar)
Amnesia inflicted from soul suckers will end a few turns after the soul sucker is killed.
New skill: Disarm.
A bad pointer cast has been removed, hopefully will compile on 64 bit platforms now. (elcugo)
The free spell slots and skill slots of creatures is no longer there hit and magic dice. Instead it is a much lower number. This greatly reduces the effectiveness of polymorphing into an Iron Golem as you won’t have enough skill/spell slots to effectively use the new form.
You can no longer use teleport control to teleport into Belweir’s Library. (Derek Ray)
Created a Wish action which is useful for debugging.
Hitting up at the top of the inventory will bring you to the bottom of the previous column, and vice versa. This lets you iterate over your inventory by only hitting a single button. (Tim Allen)
[Windows]: Updated my SDL that I distribute to SDL 1.2.13 which hopefully fixes problem people have on Vista. (Zeb)

http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=release

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EminentJonFrost released his unfinished PSP LUA project “Elements”.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135109

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exvee is working on a GPS software for the Nintendo DS.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15028

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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:

Enhancements:
More visual feedback when touching links, buttons, form elements, etc.
Add a basic bookmarking feature.
Show visited links in a different colour.

Minor UI Changes:
The auto-hide menu is now manual-hide.
Online status and spinner are one icon. Reload/stop are one button.

Bugs squashed:
Stop the image URL menu from going out of bounds.
Fix crash bug caused by some URLs with “:” in them.
Page position remembered on fwd/back for touch screen scrolling too.

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

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

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DSVideo is a video player for the Nintendo DS console. An entire movie can be compressed into around 400MB.

Release notes:

We’ve released version 1.01 of DSVideo, now available from the downloads page.

This is a bug fix release for the encoder and should fix a few problems with some videos. In particular, if you have seen the error message “Unhandled input video frame rate 23.979144” or if the encoder has just frozen before printing any message at all, please retry using the new version.

In addition, the encoder can now be run with just the name of the input video file (no need to pass the output file name), and it will use the video file name with the extension ‘.dsv’.

A complete list of changes in the encoder is included in the download, in the file CHANGES. The decoder hasn’t changed in this release.

If you have any comments or feedback, please let us know in the forums!

http://dsvideo.recoil.org/

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Kukulcan fixed a bug in level 80 of his Sokoban game “New Caisse DS”.

http://fiches.dev-fr.org/project/display/20

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Kukulcan fixed a bug in level 80 of his Sokoban game “Caisse DS”.

http://fiches.dev-fr.org/project/display/17

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Kukulcan is the first one to have his PDRoms Coding Competition entry finalized. Here is a teaser screenshot:

The release will come with the final results of the competition.

For those who don’t know about the compo, may check //phpbb/viewforum.php?f=59

http://kukulcan.dev-fr.org/p3859/2008-02-14-14-kumolo.html

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