This is a replacement firmware for the Nintendo DS. It’s VERY minimalistic, don’t expect anything exciting. If you just want to see what it looks like without changing your firmware, run firmware.nds.

Changes:

(8/8/2007)Updated to work with newer DSes and the latest devkitARM + libnds.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~tew/hbfirmware/

DSCompress is a GZip compression front end for the Nintendo DS. It uses the latest libfat, so it should be compatible with any homebrew compatible flashcard.

Instructions
Select a file in the browser, and press A to compress.
Select a file ending in .gz in the browser, and press A to decompress.
Select a directory in the browser, and press A to enter it.
Select ‘..’ in the browser, or press B, to go up a directory.

http://voidptr.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=26&start=15

After yesterdays 0.71 release, here comes a small bugfix release.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10321

davr ported “Torlus’s KVM port to GBA” and used that as a base for getting it to work on DS. Right now, when it starts, you pick a .class file, and it will run it!

The main problems with Java on DS:
1. Interpreted languages are slower, the overhead is bad on a slower embedded platform
2. No direct memory access. Almost all of the DS hardware is interfaced by reading and writing directly to specific memory locations
3. No primitive unsigned 8-bit types. What were they thinking?

Thanks for davr himself for the news!

http://blog.davr.org/2007/08/08/java-for-nds/

Here comes a Pong game coded by Daniel. The difference with this one is that you can play with multiplayers on one DS.

http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=3795

Few hours later and another update of Ludo6431’s game Pro-SUDOKU.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10321

Ludo6431 has updated his Sudoku game Pro-SUDOKU.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10321

DSCompress is a GZip compression front end for the Nintendo DS. It uses the latest libfat, so it should be compatible with any homebrew compatible flashcard.

Instructions
Select a file in the browser, and press A to compress.
Select a file ending in .gz in the browser, and press A to decompress.
Select a directory in the browser, and press A to enter it.
Select ‘..’ in the browser, or press B, to go up a directory.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://voidptr.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=26

X-Blaster has updated his marvellous game Meteora to v0.9. You can get the release from his page.

http://meteora.lo2k.net/

kayvenm has updated his port of Descent to the NDS again.

Release notes:

It seems most errors are occurring because of the lack of memory so I’ve add some code to check that and flush some cache memory when it occurs, so there maybe some more slow downs when cache is emptied/refilled but hopefully less crashes as a result. Also, this build is more optimized compiler-wise, so frame rate should be steadier.

http://blog.dev-scene.com/kayvenm/