let's talk about ds homebrew, "backups," supercards, passmes etc etc

how is this working out?

how do you get the.... *shhh*roms? have yous all been playing cool japanese rhythm games????

Argh, I can't find my Supercard!

I shhh roms off bittorrent, but I wish there were a good site to download one at a time as they come out, rather than waiting for big packs weeks/months later. And yes, they are ALL cool Japanese rhythm games :)

a good site to download one at a time as they come out

It has some weird rules, but basically you go to their site, make an account, wait a bit, then make 50 non-spam replies on their stupid message board and you can do basically what you are asking. dgXXXXXXXXXemu.XXXXXXXcom

a good site to download one at a time as they come out

blackcats dash games dot net for all yr torrenting rom needs. er.. so i've heard.

i still haven't received my r4, but i've been getting games from http://nds-roms.com/

use server 2. it's faster.

i've never been able to get into black qatz because of their signup thing, or something... i forget, i only tried once a while ago.

Thanking you everyone :) Now I just have to find the bloody thing! It's about somewhere.

it works well except--

battery seems to drain fast in sleep (maybe my ds is just weird)
uh

that's it!

it rules.

Fuckin' found it!

just ordered one today; v.exciting!

what you playing these days, melton?

I'm not, actually! Just rediscovering this thing and downloading some shhhz. There's a feature in this month's Nintendo Magazine about Japanese games that haven't (and won't) come out over here, so I'm giving some of them a blast. I'd totally recommend picking it up (it's September's issue) if you've just ordered one, as I've been finding good lesser known games hard to find, with only text descriptions and Japanese info on the web. The downloads are pretty slow, but hopefully I'll at least have a couple done by the time I have to leave for work tomorrow.

I'll let you know how I get on with them, some look sort of good.

I have a question:

in the guide slutski posted above, it says you have to download the full installation package before dragging and dropping the roms... presumably that's just drivers and associated bumf... I am working off a mac and so presumably I don't need that and can just plug and play using the bundled microSD reader?

or is there equivalent mac os x 'full installation package' software?

not that I'll be dropping roms, I mean dropping linux

linux rom

I don't know about other types of these things, but with my Supercard I use OS X and just drag and drop using a micro SD reader. No software or anything.

Last night I gave Dokidoki Majo Shinpan a go, expecting some pervy teen-touching spectacle. Turns out you have to sit through a lot of boring screen tapping chat to get to that stuff, so I gave up (probably for the best).

There's one that looks a bit like Ouendan where you play a conductor for an orchestra. I'll try that one next.

i found this new site for grabbing this shit, called, err, let's say it's called d45hr0m5.com -- they just link to megaupload files for new stuff, so it's essentially unlimited HTTP DLs. pretty hot.

Nice one, ta :)

I'ma get this conductor game now. Yesterday I downloaded one called Mizuiro Blood, where you're a little ball with legs who has to write kanji in little boxes. When you fuck up he gets cut in half and blue blood spews everywhere. The first few levels were doable, but after that it got pretty bewildering.

Are there any more cutesy-yet-totally-fucking-morbid games on the DS?

seriously amazing

what other software are folk using (like note taking etc), besides the linux rom obv?

there are other games with the characters from mizuiro blood characters! I forget what they are though... i will try and find out!

okay, i guess i was thinking of Taiko Drum Master. just the same artists.

yeah, that one's great

OK, I have discovered snes emulation!

earthbound here I come

I am picross's bitch

Whoa, SNES emu? On DS? Is it any good? I may actually also play Earthbound if that's the case.

it's not brilliant and sound can be a bit crap on some games but I've had no problems with earthbound on it... anyway it's called snemuds... I have also been playing metal gear solid (gbc) using lameboy...

melton, where do you dl'd comic books for reading on yr ds?

presumably you use "comic books ds" to read them?

i am picross bitch too

what format does it take czn? CBR?

from the page:

The PC part, PictoDS, developped by Nicom00k, converts your pictures into a .cbds file (those pictures can be in a folder, a .zip, a .cbz, a .cbr, a .rar)

The DS part, ComicBookDS, developped by me, allows to display those .cbds files in a fast, pleasant and intuitive way (well, I hope;) ).

http://gnese.free.fr/NDS/ComicBookDS/?language=en

I think I'll buy a DS just so I can play Super NES games on it.

Oh christ, sorry I took so long to reply, cozen. You've answered for me, though :)

To be honest, I've not read a comic on the DS in ages! Inexplicably, I waste a lot of money on real ones. If anyone could find me a torrent or similar of Tintin comics in French I'd really, really, appreciate it. Other easy going French kids' comics would be as good. I really have no idea where to start with this sort of thing.

In other Supercard news, I'm finally going to try out that Conductor thing on the train to work. I also ssshhhed the Marvel Trading Card game, which looks wank. Touching up witches was rather awful from a pretty-much-hitting-things-at-random point of view. I must have played the thing for two hours or more and not once did I get to touch up any underage witches!

If there were more time before I have to leave today, I'd give emulation a go. Are any of you guys playing Earthbound successfully? If that works on the SNES emulators, I'm in. Also, is there an Atari ST one?

<i>In other Supercard news, I'm finally going to try out that Conductor thing on the train to work.</i>

Just to clarify - I'm not going to walk up and down the train pretending to punch tickets, though I've no doubt there's a DS game about that too.

Arf, why do I never hit that BBcode button?

okay, i guess i was thinking of Taiko Drum Master. just the same artists.

OMG, I always wanted this game! I had no idea there was a DS version, cheers for that! Will get nothing done at work today :)

SNES emulation is hit or miss really tbh (crappy sound on some ROMs and distorted images on others) but I've had no problems with earthbound or on (one of my other favourite SNES games) alien 3

lameboy ds (the gameboy and gameboy color emulator) and nesds both run perfectly though, and I have been caning mario golf (gbc)

picodriveds, megadrive emulator, is rubbish so steer clear.

haven't found an st or amiga emulator, which is annoying because mobile swos would be ideal!

also TAIKO DRUM MASTER is awesome!

mm, styxds is your friend:
http://deadketchup.kyuran.be/category/mydev/

Conductor game is excellent! It's like Ouendan except the music is relaxing and doesn't drive you mental. V. easy though - I started playing around 11 and was finished by 1 :( I assume there's a hard mode, but I've not checked that out yet.

Taiko Drum Master - wow!!! Best rhythm/action on DS tbh.

Some Origami Thing - comes up with a warning in Japanese when I start the game up. Is this copy protection?

Marvel Trading Card Game - I left my stylus @ work so didn't get to play this :(

Cheers for the emulation tips! I'll definitely sort myself out Earthbound, as I never got very far into that. Alien 3 is amazing if it's the same as the one on other consoles (megadrive etc). Did you ever play the Terminator one that was quite similar?

StyxDS is exactly what I was after. Shame it isn't full speed! I'm itching to play some Speedball 2. I wonder how it handles the ST music apps like Cubase et al. Would be pretty awesome to run that from a DS!

I got the "hardware is not compatible" error on my r4ds : /

d45hr0m5.com is dead : (

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/multi-platform-portable-gaming-entertainment-station/

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

anybody got the balls to test drive one of these and report back? Cause I'm feeling like it might be me.

awesome, I wonder why it doesn't have arcade emulators like MAME though.

so where do i get the sdk from ?

and that delightfully small thing looks a bit suspect to me.

that chinavision thing is also known as the Dingoo A320, there are reviews on youtube
apparently it works fine, but the snes & genesis emulation is supposed to be terrible
theres supposedly a better one called the GP2X coming out soon, but no idea of price yet http://gp2x.co.uk/
and if you are super rich you could get the Pandora http://www.openpandora.org/

so where do i get the sdk from ?

You mean a DS SDK? If so, you should go to DevkitPro. It includes the libnds (as well as a bunch of other stuff for PSP, GC, etc etc), and I think has HAM or some other IDE included to make life a bit easier.