DS Motion Sensing
I’m catching up with some homebrew DS stuff, and found this delightful looking widget via Dev Scene: A DS cart for homebrew applications containing a three axis motion sensor, and it’s only $25. I was going to wait until my warranty was up before flashing my DS with homebrew friendly firmware, but this has successfully tempted me… reading the page, the makers are incredibly developer friendly too.
There’s an obligatory lightsaber app demo up on YouTube. Also, from the gbadev thread:
This could be used to make some sort of “hot potato” game or some other game that sense when the DS is being thrown – anyone up for tossing their DS around?
Bwahaha!
Last time I looked at DS homebrew in early October, I was very disappointed. The SuperCard Lite wasn’t long out, but the homebrew scene appeared to be stagnating. A few major projects had halted development amidst big rows, and the authors kept source closed and didn’t pass it on to successors. It was also very discouraging that some flashcart manufacturers seem to put their coding efforts into enabling piracy while doing sod all to support development of new stuff.
I see there are still sulky developers occasionally deleting all their stuff and flouncing into the sunset, but overall it seems to have been thriving. DragonMinded has resumed development of the fantastic DSOrganise, made it much better, and released source code, Lick has made some great discoveries and made them open source, Nitrotracker is still going strong, there’s a learning app for guitar fretboards, emulators, game ports and clones, etc.
Head on over to Dev Scene for a bonanza. I wish I had more free time this week; the rest of January is going to be a feast.