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ScrollingTextDS (NDS misc)

This is a C++ class that will let you add 16-bit horizontally-scrolling text to your DS. Unlike the standard PALib text routines you can (in fact, must) work with 16-bit fonts and you can have the scroller running on top of another 16-bit image. You can even have multiple scrollers running at the same time.

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MenuDS (NDS misc)

Another new demo/app thingy. This one is a library for creating hierarchical menus on the touch screen (D-pad control works too) in C++. It’s easy to create menus with background bitmaps, add buttons and sub-menus, and have them navigate to other menus, back to the parent menu, or execute other functions (via function pointers).

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Maids and Elevators (11-04-2007) (A2600 Game)

Maids and Elevators has been udpated. You are a maid, you need to get to the top of the hotel using the stairs – and don’t get hit by the elevators!

Changes:

-rock solid 270 scanlines now
-toyed with adding the title to the top of the screen but there isn’t room and I didn’t like the way it looked. Switched gears and added copyright/level # to the bottom: Copyright will show until the first game is started, thereafter it will show what level you are on (or were on when your game ended).
-tweaked difficulty a bit. Made the elevators a hair smaller and the maid a hair faster. Also changed initial elevator speeds for Novice and Normal difficulty levels.

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