THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER CARTRIDGE SOFTWARE
THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER CARTRIDGE PLUS

This memory can be flash, a harddrive, ram, it doesn't matter. What you've got to have is basically three things. I bought a DS Lite a couple of months ago, and decided to get one of the homebrew enabler devices for it.

That looks like quite the nice piece of hardware, if only it had sd card or cf support.

THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER CARTRIDGE PLUS

You can also flash the firmware on the DS, but this option seems complex for little gain when you can just put in the Max Media Launcher, plus I believe it voids the warranty.' You can also use wifi to do this (or potentially serve up applications), but you need a wireless access point with a certain chipset to do this (does the USB Wifi Max router enable this?). Other products exist to redirect execution that fit in the DS game slot at the top, although ones like PassKey require that you fit a game into the device and then the conjoined entity into the DS game slot. Max Media Launcher, which goes in the DS game slot, seems to have a very good success rate at booting ROMs and homebrew when combined with the M3 SD X (what about the M3 CF X?).

THE HOMEBREW LAUNCHER CARTRIDGE SOFTWARE

'Basically, the way home homebrew and ROMS work is that you have to put something in the DS game slot at top to redirect execution to the CF or SD card adapter that carries the SD or CF memory card and various software in the GBA slot at bottom. Could anyone with DS homebrew experience verify that I am on the right track and/or suggest better ways to go? I did some investigation into DS homebrew and took some notes on the information I could find. ScummVMDS is still a great little tool, but the NintendoDS is really not a very good device for LucasArts games.

Last not least there is of course also a resolution problem, LucasArts games are VGA 320x200, DS only has 256x192, not that critical, but yet another annoyancy to add to the list.

ScummVM solves this by letting you toggle via Dpad between over, left and right click, but it really doesn't feel all that good. And another very fundamental problem is that a touchscreen can't do 'hover', either you click somewhere or the device has no idea where your pointer is, which means you can't hover and move around like with your mouse to find out which objects you could interact with. While right-click isn't needed to master any of the LucasArts games, I find it quite important for fluid gameplay, since it removes a lot of unneeded clicking. The problem with touchscreen is that it only can do left-clicks, no right clicks. A little touchscreen would be way easier to use than a mouse for those games. I'm going to buy a DS specifically for ScummVM.

The homebrew launcher cartridge