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What the DS can do (besides games), Part I

Chan Chi-Loong
Last updated: July 18, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Chan Chi-Loong
Published: July 18, 2008
1 Min Read

Being a huge DS fan, I’ve been tinkering with my device ever since I got it last year.

With the right mods, the Nintendo DS Lite can be far more than a portable gaming platform — and can be used to run any number of fun homebrewed apps. In my opinion the DS is probably one of the more moddable gaming platforms that can be “repurposed” for other uses. 🙂

Three pictures below tell the story of some apps I’ve been playing with: a wardriving app utilizing the dswifi development kit, an e-book reader that uses TTF (true type fonts), and a video player, dsvideo.

Wi-fi scanning, aka wardriving
A fun wifi scanner and packet capture tool

E-book reader, DS style
Chapter 2 of Alice in Wonderland on my DS

DS Video
Any Full Metal Alchemist fans out there?

Once my Slot-2 chip arrives I’ll be able to showcase instant messaging, browsing and FTPing (part 2). There’s also fun stuff like Linux for DS, dictionaries, etc. A shoutout to all DS fansboys out there!

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3 Comments
  • ozzy50 says:
    January 6, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    Being a huge DS fan, I

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  • Chi-Loong says:
    July 22, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Woah… cool gadget.

    Hardware based emulation is probably overkill for older game roms like SNES and NES — our newer phones are very much more powerful computing devices than what we had in the past.

    Still, having a chip that makes everything work will make it easier than installing a software emulator.

    My choice: get a windows mobile phone and mod away. I’ve seen ScummVM installed on my friend’s phone, and he demoed Police Quest I (that’s a 4-color CGA adventure game for those old enough to play such games). Works perfectly fine on his HTC Dual touch.

    For GBA there’s PocketGBA and for SNES there’s PocketSNES. 🙂

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  • Boon Kiat says:
    July 21, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Too bad Nintendo has steadfastly refused to make phones or license their games to phone makers. Will be sweeeeet if it happens. By the way, Chi-Loong, do you know any other phone that can do what this earlier-reported Fly Mobile one did – play Gameboy?

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