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I don’t think it’s as popular as Pushmo, and… I’ve never thought about playing it, but homebrewer elisherer has made a PC-based level editor for the downloadable 3DS game Pyramids.
Like the Pushmo editor we featured before, this allows players to build levels on their computers and then generate QR codes for import into 3DS. A separate file includes a “card pack” of prebuilt levels!
This is so exciting. Since these games use QR codes for input anyway, there’s no reason you couldn’t create the content in another interface.
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Haggle Man and Demon cameos in Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 (skip to 2:52 - 3:06)!!! Okay, this video/indie project is so rad for dozens of reasons, but I can’t believe these two little-known heroes from Game Center CX and Retro Game Challenge’s fake retro titles made it into this thing! We’re told that they’re only alternate costumes for other characters right now, but they may become playable characters eventually.
Developer Jay Pavlina will release this as a Flash game some time during the first quarter of 2012 — why Nintendo hasn’t hired this man yet to design an official Super Mario Bros. remix for its consoles is beyond me. You can play the original version of Super Mario Bros. Crossover, which is amazing in its own right, over here.
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Import: Game Center CX 2
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[Thanks, Zach R!]
tags / super mario crossover / game center cx / game center cx 2 / indie / gaming / pc / homebrew / haggle man / demon returns / retro game challenge / exploding rabbit / ec
GBATemp user elisherer has put together a program that allows you to design Pushmo levels outside of the 3DS, then generate a QR code to import it! It’s still early in development, but the downloadable program already lets you open puzzles from QR codes, and somehow import them from pictures. Super clever!
You can download the current version of the app here, and get started making unnecessarily complex puzzles!
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See also: Our Pushmo review, and a Tiny QR code!
tags / eshop / gaming / jc / nintendo 3ds / pushmo / 3ds / homebrew / pcHomebrew Genesis emulator running on a PlayStation Vita, done by Wololo using the Half Byte Loader and some secret techniques.
Don’t get too excited.
First, you’ll notice that the emulation is not super great. Second, this is actually using the Vita’s PSP emulation, so even at best it would only be possible to make code that would be easier to run, and operate just as well, on the PSP.
Third, Wololo points out (in a somewhat dramatic fashion) that the Content Manager Assistant used to transfer stuff from the PC to Vita can require firmware updates, and (I’m not so sure about this bit) possibly monitor transfers.
So, this may not represent a homebrew-friendly or piracy-laden future for the Vita. Just a neat trick that’s possible on the launch hardware.
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tags / gaming / homebrew / jc / vita / wololo / ps vita / emulator
There’s a new entry in the small “DS save adapter” market. The eggy R4i Save Dongle allows users to copy, back up, and restore save data from 3DS and DS games, by putting the cart directly into the adapter and then attaching that to a computer via USB.
R4i-SDHC is giving away a bunch of units, if you’re daring enough to give them your info…
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[Via DS-Scene]
tags / r4 / r4i / homebrew / save dongle / nintendo ds / nintendo 3ds / jc / gaming
A new 3DS web app will let you draw 3D art through your 3DS browser. “3DSPaint” is based on the DSiPaint app, but lets you make separate layers for 3D effects. You can have two foreground, two background, and a flat middle layer simultaneously.
The 3DSPaint site has other apps including chat, bulletin boards, some kind of game show-type game, and even an MMO thing. I’m genuinely amazed — just like I am when I find out someone’s using the DS/3DS web browser at all, much less for neat homebrew.
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It’s been a long time coming, but a group of fans have released a fully translated English patch for Konami’s 2009 dating/girlfriend sim Love Plus. Now those of you who’ve saved yourselves for the right virtual girl have three to pick from on your Nintendo DS.
The patch still looks incomplete, or at least not totally polished, as it’s a v0.9 release, but everything is in English with the exception of some graphics, which is no small undertaking for this text-heavy game. All you need to run it on your portable is a digital copy of the game (legally acquired, we hope), the patch, and a homebrew device.
For those of you wondering about the game’s 2010 sequel, Love Plus+, the team says it “might consider” working on that later. With 3DS homebrew/hacking still impossible, as far as I know, a translation project for the upcoming New Love Plus won’t happen for a while if ever.
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[Thanks, Clookster]
tags / konami / love plus / imports / gaming / translation / homebrew / patch / ec
Success! About two months after it started (and after we posted an appeal for help), the Nanashi no Game fan translation project has resulted in an actual, downloadable patch. If you have access to a DS flash cart and a legally-acquired ROM of the game, you can now read the text in Square Enix’s creepy-ass DS game (about people discovering a cursed RPG).
Perfect timing! You can play this on Halloween while you wait for trick-or-treaters, and then get really startled when they knock on your door.
Import: Nanashi no Game
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[Thanks, Clookster!]
tags / gaming / imports / jc / nanashi no game / translation / homebrew / square enix / epics
Shot of Colors! 3D, the upcoming eShop app spawned by the homebrew painting program for DS.
It’s awesome to hear that this will hook into the existing Colors! online community and gallery:
“… the gallery is often used by our users to learn from each other; both by watching painting playbacks as well as giving and receiving feedback. The gallery will be fully integrated directly into Colors! 3D, allowing you to interact with the community directly from your 3DS.”
You can read about how developer Collecting Smiles intends to moderate adult content submitted to the gallery, as well as details on the app’s 3D painting feature, four-player local canvas sharing, and more in this informative Nintendo Life interview.
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The crackdown on flashcarts continues:
“This month, France joins a growing list of countries taking a strong legal stance against video game piracy. The Paris’ Court of Appeals issued guilty verdicts on Sept. 26th against Divineo SARL, along with five other companies, for the importation, sale and distribution of game copier devices commonly referred to as ‘linkers’ in France (in other countries, the devices may be called R4s or Magicom).
This decision now brings France in line with other European territories, including the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy and Belgium, based on decisions they already have rendered. It also is consistent with other court decisions that have been issued globally.”
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tags / piracy / gaming / nintendo ds / ds / flashcarts / homebrew / ecHomebrew version of Sensible Software’s Cannon Fodder, ported from the Amiga to the Nintendo DS by French coder Alekmaul (MAME4All on DS). This version features all 71 maps and 23 missions from the Atari ST and Amiga releases.
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[Via GBAtemp]
tags / cannon fodder / homebrew / nintendo ds / ds / gaming / alekmaul / ecCrown3DS, ostensibly the first working 3DS flashcart. Like the PassMe and PassCard solutions that appeared in the DS’s early homebrew days, this isn’t the most elegant solution in its current, presumably non-final state.
3DS owners have been able to run updated flashcarts on their handhelds for some time now, but only in DS mode, which doesn’t have access to much of the 3DS hardware. Though this new Crown3DS team has figured a way to get into the 3DS mode, it’s unfortunate they’ve skipped over homebrew and gone straight to commercial games.
At the moment, the device can only run one commercial ROM, and a crappy one at that: Splinter Cell 3D. The group intends to dump more 3DS games, run more tests, fix bugs in the cart, and increase its ROM compatibility.
Because the Crown3DS is not yet on sale and unavailable to the public, it’s unclear whether Nintendo can to block this device with a future 3DS update (the cart runs on the latest v2.1.0-4 firmware). The company has made efforts to keep 3DS/DSi piracy from reaching the problematic levels experience with the DS, releasing regular firmware updates, some of which increase anti-flashcart security.
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See also: Flashcarts: More than ‘illegal game copiers’
[Via Woodhouse]
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