DsOS has a calculator, a fractal screensaver, an option to adjust the brightness, an ability to play MP3s and unzip zip files. [Thanks to ThemePark for the description]

Discussion: http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=5182.0

http://aurelio.mannara.googlepages.com/

NitroTracker is a FastTracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS. If you didn’t understand that, you might want to read up on trackers. For starters, NitroTracker is a versatile tool for creating music – everywhere! It supports the popular XM file format that is used by many PC trackers and that can be played on many PC audio players such as Winamp or XMMS.

With NitroTracker, you can carry your XMs around in your DS and compose whenever and wherever you feel like it. “Tracking on a handheld console? Sounds like a pain in the ass.” You might say. But because of the touchscreen and stylus of the DS, it’s quite easy. You can compose your melodies using an on-screen keyboard, directly edit your patterns by making selections, copying and pasting – all with the stylus. And that’s not where it ends: If you don’t have any samples at hand, make your own with the DS’s microphone. You can even replace the samples in existing songs with your own recorded ones. There are many possibilities already and there will be even more.

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

http://nitrotracker.tobw.net/

ChiSaw updated his fun tool Baukasten. It allows to place different shaped forms on the DS screen.

New in this version:

– Delete objects
– Change the size of objects
– Added sound
– Added guide
– Added menu
– Added reset

Discussion: http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=5174.0

http://www.chisaw.de.vu/

Gungnir learned how to use the PAlib library with the Nintendo DS and presents us his output after three days of coding.

It’s a clone of Breakout / Arkanoid featuring 40 levels. As you can guess three days are not enough to write a proper game, so it does not feature highscore, pause mode or save game – also the ball lacks proper angle behavior.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=5166.0

Hillbilly is working on an application similar to DragonMinded’s DSorganize.

Head over to Hillbilly’s webpage for more information.

http://www.hillbilly-palib.blogspot.com/

This is an unofficial build of the Win2DS client and server, both the client and server have been updated.

Thanks to Mooney ( http://www.1emulation.com ) for the news!

http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28068

keda released a new homebrew puzzle game for Nintendo DS called Xplosion Time.

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_homebrew-xplosion-time-1-0_1053131

A port of id softwares Quake 1 to the Nintendo DS. The main goal of this project is to drastically reduce the memory requiremments needed to play quake on the DS.

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15668

Changes:

added sprite rendering
fixed shaky weapon model
fixed some crashes on loading save games and on finales
added double tap support for the touch screen – it is a bindable key named “dstap”. double tapping the screen when selecting a key in the controls menu can be used for binding it to a command.
the entity light levels should be more accurate now.

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

Rokoban is a 3D Sokoban game for Nintendo DS.

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15774

The impression screenshot is taken from the Windows version.

http://zalods.blogspot.com/

DS Visual Novel Reader is a visual novel reader for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

* bugfix: variables weren’t being initialized in some cases.

http://digital-haze.net/vnds.php