DS Development Links

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[edit] General Info

Nintendo DS overview The page from Nintendo about the DS.

Nintendo Wifi The official site about online gaming with your DS.

Nintendo DS on Wikipedia Has a good overview and is up to date.

[edit] Homebrewscene

[edit] Forums

gbadev forum The forum about GBA and DS developing.

[edit] Homebrew News

Drunken Coders Drunkencoders homebrew updates.

Nintendev News about everything that has to do with DS homebrew.

NDS Updates Everything about the DS - homebrew or not.

NDS Homebrew News site and mirror for DS Homebrew.

DS Emulation News But they do not only cover emulation.

[edit] Homebrew Projects

DSLinux Porting the Linux kernel to the DS.

dswifi: Wifi for DS Homebrew Development Stephen Stairs status page about his DS TCP/IP implementation.

Wifi Tunneling Stephen Stair works on a way to tunnel non TCP/IP wifi multiplayer over the internet.

Lib Nifi Paul "TBBle" Hampson is working on a library, that allows you to communicate with your DS on linux (perhaps someday OS independent). WMB for Linux is now possible!

[edit] Homebrew Libraries

dswifi Wifi for DS Homebrew Development

gba_nds_fat FAT filesystem library for the GBA and NDS

LibFATDragon is a modified version of chishm's older fatlib.

PA_Lib A high-level library on top of libnds that makes DS development much easier.

PA_Lib's Wiki Tutorial A work in progress tutorial for PA_Lib, even includes in introduction to C.

SDL DS port A port of the SDL library to the NDS, including png loading, font rendering, mixing and much more.

PlayerAdvance.Org A lot of projects and tool for GBA, DS and PSP from this french community.

[edit] Development

[edit] Tutorials

Doublec's Tutorials Some tutorials to get you started with DS development. They are a bit out of date for the libraries they use and need some modifications.

Downtou's tutorials Some basic tutorials

[edit] Documentation

NDSTech Wiki Veeery technical info about the DS. If you want to know which functions the BIOS offers, or how the firmware EEPROM chip is called, you can find it here.

DS Tek by neimod Contains real gems of DS info, for those who speak hex.

GBATEK Huge amount of NDS and GBA documentation from the author of no$gba.

PhoenixRising's Homebrew Programmers Guide to the Nintendo DS Still very incomplete documentation, but some nice pieces of information.

NDSlib documentation The documentation of the DS homebrew API. Somewhat outdated, but still an excellent resouce.

[edit] Misc

replacement parts If your screen is broken or you need a new mainboard, look here.

Wifi Bounty Homepage There is a bounty set to figure out, how wifi works in the DS. Here you can donate or check the status.

Wario World Here you can buy the official DS developement kit - if you are an official developer...

nds unofficial wiki Another DS related wiki.

Patater's link list The most complete list of websites about DS and DS development. No matter what you need, you'll find it there.