Tutorials

[Sonic]

Hi,

I want to start to program homebrew for the NDS, so I only want to ask is if somebody knows a good tutorial or book (german or english) which should be very detailed and explains the processes in the background. I'm familiar with C language so there is no need for a C-Tutorial. I hope that somebody can help me

Thanks in advance
Sonic

[fcg]

Hi Sonic,

I want to start to program homebrew for the NDS, so I only want to ask is if somebody knows a good tutorial or book (german or english) which should be very detailed and explains the processes in the background. I'm familiar with C language so there is no need for a C-Tutorial. I hope that somebody can help me

Well, I recently started out to teach myself the devkitARM toolchain for programming applications for the NDS. (I don't have a background in C, but I have programmed a bit, so this info might not be relevant.)

Anyway, what I've found so far is:

• Official documentation for libnds
• A (slightly) outdated fairly in-depth introduction for using the 2D-engines
• An incomplete but more recent series
• a very helpful irc-channel (#dsdev) over at irc.blitzed.org
• 'Complete' algebraic explanation of the affine transformation matrix
• Bouncy: an in-depth 2D graphics tutorial

I hope this helps

/fcg

[edit1]Added the bouncy tutorial

[Sonic]

Thank you very much

[Jordan_Gray]

Anyway, what I've found so far is . . . a very helpful irc-channel (#dsdev) over at irc.blitzed.org

Hey, I'm relatively new to irc, and barely understand how it works. I tried typing "irc.blitzed.org" into the url bar and hit enter, but I got redirected to "http://www.coattails.net/f/". What is happening, and how do I chat on the #dsdev channel? Thanks!

- Jordan

[zeromus]

find an irc client and type /server irc.blitzed.org and /join #dsdev

[Jordan_Gray]

Why thank you, zeromus. Aside from WinterMute and [the folks who created Google], you are the most helpful person on earth.

[zeromus]

don't get ahead of yourself, i just want you at a more convenient range for assault

[Jordan_Gray]

don't get ahead of yourself, i just want you at a more convenient range for assault

Haha, I was serious. WinterMute tells me what not to call devkitPro and libnds and such; Google helps me find information people have put on the web; you help me with pretty much everything else. (Including learning the most basic things....)

P.S. the *dsdev is really great, but not when you're still in PAlib.

[fcg]

Today I found this, seems good:

http://ekid.nintendev.com/bouncy/index.php

/fcg