Applications
Multipurpose Tools
Media players
- MoonShell
plays movies and several music formats, views images and text files,
and launches other homebrew. [1]
- DSOrganize
plays several music formats and allows you to view images, text and
stream audio.
Video Players
- Moonshell
can play DPGs.
- DSM
Play can play DSMs (a higher quality format than DPG)
- MPEG-4
videos can be played on ds using this
demo, sound is currently unsupported.
Music Players
Image Viewers
- ComicBookDS,
a comic books (or image based documents) viewer.
- Infantile Paralysiser's Image
Viewer works by converting the pictures into a special format
using the PC end of the application and viewing them in an iPhoto-like
environment on DS.
Text Readers
- TextViewer
supports a variety of file formats, a touch screen interface, low
power mode, and persistent text bookmarking.
- Flip
is an as-yet unreleased ebook reader and manager.
- DSReader
is another highly aesthetic text reader.
- DSLibris
is recently released text reader incorporating html support.
Internet
Web Browsers
- DSLinux
includes a web
browser.
- OKIWI
is a web browser for the DS in alpha stages.
- DSOrganize
includes a browser with support for forms and limited support for
pictures.
- DSHobro
0.3 is somewhat like Opera
Mini, consisting of a PC based proxy server that processes the
page and a DS client program that views the page through the proxy.
Instant messaging
- HelloDS
is known for its lack of compatibilty. Development has ceased.
- DSiP
requires a VoIP
account.
- Infantile Paralysiser's Wifivoicechatclient
allows you to draw as well as chat.
- SvSIP
is a VoIP application based on pjsip.
Remote
Administration
Other Internet Based applications
Drawing Applications
- Colors!
is a pressure sensitive drawing application focusing on simplicity and
ease-of-use. Has a playback option to see the whole drawing process.
- Phidias
is a drawing application for ds that can use custom brush shapes. No
pressure sensitivity.
- DS
Notes is a note application, which is similar an offline pictochat.
- Smoove
is a pixel editor for ds.
- FlickBook
is an animation creator.
- Animanatee
is another animation creator featuring 32 levels of undo and onion
skinning.
Dictionaries
- NewDictS
is a dictionary interpreter of the StarDict
.dic dictionaries, with Voice capabilities. Initially released by
phillips, which released his NewDict
7 source code, now being improved and currently edited by Sesa. A
translation page can be found here.
Other Applications
- TxtWriter
is a text editor optimized for easy, fast typing.
- NitroTracker,
tracker
software.
- DiagnoSe
is an tool for testing the hardware features of the DS.
- Infantile Paralysiser's Cooking
Timer is a skinnable countdown timer which plays a chosen MP3 when
it reaches 0:00:00.
Emulators
* signifies GBA homebrew, which can be used with most slot 2 DS
homebrew tools.
Games
- Whee!
DS a 3D racing game that randomly generates each level, meaning
there are infinite levels.
- DSCrawl,
Linley's
Dungeon Crawl roguelike, adapted for the DS by Sasq.
- Tales
of Dagur, An RPG by LiraNuna.
- DSDoom,
Doom for
the Nintendo DS.
- DSChess,
A chess game with a strong engine.
- A
Touch of War, A realtime strategy game.
- Explosive
Gas, A multiplayer Bomberman
clone.
- Omalone,
A board game with wifi features for online play.
- HexenDS,
Hexen
for the DS. Includes touchscreen support and source code. A newer
branch that supports more devices also exists.
- DSHeretic,
Heretic
for the DS. Also includes touchscreen support, as well as full music
support.
- LemmingsDS,
Lemmings
for the DS. Supports touch-screen, custom levels. (now includes all
292 of the original levels)
- DSQuake
or QuakeDS,
Quake
for the DS.
- Warcraft :
Tower Defense, An adaptation of the famous Warcraft
III mod Tower
Defense for the DS, by Noda. Includes a complete map editor.
- Duke3DS,
a port of Duke
Nukem 3D.
- POWDER,
a roguelike dungeon adventure game developed specifically for the
Gameboy Advance and DS.
- World
of sand A falling
sand clone for nintendo DS.
- PuzzleManiak
Port of the Simon
Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection with 27 puzzle games
including: Tents, Dominosa, Mines, Bridges, Light Up (aka Akari),
Pattern (aka Picross), Net (aka Netwalk), Untangle (aka Planarity),
Sudoku (aka Solo), Galaxies, Slitherlink (aka Loopy), Blackbox,
Mastermind (aka Guess), Map, Filling, Solitaire (aka Pegs), Sixteen,
Fifteen, Slant, Rectangles, Netslide, Samegame, Unequal, Flip,
Inertia, Twiddle and Pyramide (adaptation of Cube).
- DScent,
Descent
Port for Nintendo DS
- NetHack
for DS, NetHack
port for Nintendo DS.
- AmplituDS,
based on Harmonix's
Amplitude
for the Playstation
2.
- Wolfenstein
3D, A port of the popular PC DOS game 'Wolfenstein 3D'
- Spider
Solitaire DS, a clone of Windows' Spider Solitaire
- SensitiveDS,
a clone/remake of The C64 classic Sensitive.
- Ka-BoOm,
a minesweeper with a twist by Stravingo.
- Setsuzoku
no Puzzle, an addictive puzzle game by Stravingo based on the
arcade game Match It.
Programming on the DS