Nintendo DS News
DS2x86 v0.20 (DOS emu for NDS)

DS2x86 by Patrick Aalto is a PC emulator for Nintendo DS. It’s purpose is to allow you to run old DOS games on your Nintendo DS game console. DS2x86 is a port of DSx86 port using the SuperCard DSTwo’s MIPS processor, therefor it will just run with such a card.

Changes:

– FPU support! Only in 32-bit protected mode, and not all opcodes are yet completely supported, though.
– Fixed an unaligned memory access crash in EMS function 0x57 (Aladdin)
– Built with SDK version 0.13, which hopefully helps with the audio problems in the previous version. I had not noticed I still used older SDK version.
– Compiled with flag -no-long-jumps, which makes the C code smaller & faster.

http://dsx86.patrickaalto.com/

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FlashBack DS v1.0 (NDS misc)

FlashBack DS initial release by Alekmaul, based on REminiscence engine. Original datafiles are required.

FlashbackDS

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13652&f=19 for the news.

http://www.portabledev.com/pages/ds/jeuxdev.-perso/flashback.php

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AnkRace (17-07-2011) (NDS Game)

AnkRace by Min is a water effect demo that turned into a little game in which you bet on rubber ducks. Bet on the duck you think is going to reach the finish line first. Some ducks are quicker than others and the starting position also matters.

AnkRace www.nintendomax.com

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13647&f=19 & http://gbatemp.net/t302313-ankrace and http://hive.ndshb.com/index.php/component/jdownloads/view.download/4/217 for the news.

http://minaspel.com/games/ankrace.htm

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Avoid the Bird v0.2 (NDS Game)

You take control over a slug and have to survive a bird attack. Easy? Try it!

Changes:

– better timing
– now you can not finish level when dead
– added level 3
– added “replay” button
– some little bug/glitch fixes

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13649&f=19 for the news.

http://dsgamemaker.com/dsgmforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1857

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Cards Of Incantation v0.5c (NDS Game)

“Cards Of Incantation” (previously known as WagicDS) has been updated. It’s a strategy card game for Nintendo DS by Virman.

Thanks to http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13640&f=19 for the news.

http://www.nightfoxandco.com/forum/index.php?topic=197.0

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WoopsiGfx v1.4 (NDS misc)

WoopsiGfx is a C++ 2D graphics library for the Nintendo DS, derived from the Woopsi GUI framework. It allows the developer to create and manipulate bitmaps using a comprehensive set of drawing tools. It includes an extensible font system for drawing text to bitmaps, and features support for packed monochrome and 16-bit fonts out of the box.

Changes:

– Animation::play() stops if there are no frames to play.
– Animation::getCurrentFrame() returns NULL if there are no frames.
– Animation::getCurrentBitmap() returns NULL if there are no bitmaps.
– StringIterator::moveTo() ignores attempts to move to negative indices.
– Improved use of DMA hardware.
– WoopsiString::subString() passes the correct arguments to the WoopsiString constructor.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=17342

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Woopsi v1.3 (NDS misc)

Woopsi is a Nintendo DS GUI library for rapidly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. Modelled after the AmigaOS windowing system.

You can find a complete changelog in ant512’s Blog here or directly here:

Fixes:
– Label and TextBox are more efficient when rendering text changes.
– Removed unused GLYPH_MAP_SIZE constant from fontbase.h.
– Header file in template moved into include directory.
– Animation::play() stops if there are no frames to play.
– Animation::getCurrentFrame() returns NULL if there are no frames.
– Animation::getCurrentBitmap() returns NULL if there are no bitmaps.
– Fixed memory leak when deleting SDL framebuffer.
– Removed extraneous globals from woopsifuncs.cpp.
– WoopsiString::subString() passes the correct arguments to the WoopsiString constructor.
– StringIterator::moveTo() ignores attempts to move to negative indices.
– Improved use of DMA hardware.
– Updated C# tools.
– Removed Visual Studio files.

New Features:
– Added WoopsiTimer::isRunning().
– Added SuperBitmap::setX().
– Added SuperBitmap::setY().
– Added SuperBitmap::getX().
– Added SuperBitmap::getY().
– Added FontConverter, a winforms UI for font2font.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14332&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90

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Earth Shaker DS (27-07-2011) (NDS Game)

ant512 updated his remake of “Earth Shaker“, a “Boulder Dash” like game, originally released for ZX Spectrum in 1990.

Release notes:

This version includes a few bugfixes. It will probably be the last EarthShakerDS release.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=17531&start=15

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Bang v1 (NDS Lua Game)

Bang by Dioni0396 is a simple target shooting game for Nintendo DS. Micro Lua is required to get the game work.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13637&f=19 for the news.

http://nds.scenebeta.com/noticia/bang

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ManuSO v3.5 (NDS Application)

ManuSO is a shell application with various tools and games.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13632&f=19 for the news.

http://nds.scenebeta.com/noticia/manuso

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