What to do on your DS, and how to do it

What to do on your DS, and how to do it
How to use this guide
Versions
Todo
Multi-purpose File Browser/Manager on the DS
Playback Music (Eg. MP3,OGG..)
Read text files aka "E-Books"
Read E-Book while Listening to Music
View Photos, Images, Comics
Surf/Browse the Net
Store and Watch Videos on the DS
Check your mail
Transfer files to and from DS wirelessly
Remote control of your PC
Connect remotely via SSH
Write Notes
Chat on Messenger(MSN, AOL..)
Chat on IRC
Make VoIP calls (Wireless Internet Calls)
Paint, Scribble, Doddle
Blog
Timer
Create Music
Music tools
Games
Emulators- Run software and games for olden hardware
Run other Operating Systems
See Stars
Language Learning / Aids / Flashcarts / Tools
Read the Bible
Streaming/ Online Radio
Translator / Dictionary
Text to Speech
Reducing the size of DS files
Perform Mathematical Calculations
Scripting / Programming on the go with DS
Modify Firmware
Unzip Files
Holding Area - Uncategorised Applications
Misc
How to Create your own Software for the DS
Links

Make the most out of your DS aka "Zz85 Guide to NDS Homebrew Apps"

How to use this guide

Basically look at the table of contents, and see what interests you. Eg. would you like to listen to mp3s on your DS? Check out the section. This guide might assume you have basically knowledge of running homebrew- transfering to your storage card or patching with DLDI. Here might just teach you new ways to do stuff. This is not yet completed, but you can help too by editing this page or giving me comments.

Versions

14 June 2007 - 0.1 Initial Document. Announce this project before going to bed for comments.

15 June 2007 - Additonal of apps, and software links

Todo

Update links to the application titles.

Coverage of more feature that NDS can do.

Touch up and clean up

Filter and select quality apps for the many software which does the same features. Recommend app by placing * by side the title.

Multi-purpose File Browser/Manager on the DS

See DSOrganize and Moonshell

Playback Music (Eg. MP3,OGG..)

You can use: Moonshell Player, DSOrganize, LMP-NG,

My prefered player for music listening is Moonshell followed by DSOrganise.

LMP-NG has is an Ipod-liked interface or what they call IPod clone. Its a impressive and nice to show off but I get cracks in mp3 playback.

DSOrganize plays FLAC, M4A/M4B, AAC, WAV, and modules like MOD, XM, IT, S3M, SPC, NSF, SID

Moonshell plays MID files in addition to these.

Read text files aka "E-Books"

Turning your DS into a digital book or paper.

Moonshell- my preferred. Supports different encodings and fonts. Open huge files too. Can be configure to use top (normal), bottom (touch) or both screens. There's a collection of free books optimised for moonshell at the Moon Books Project

DSOrganize- useful if you need to edit the files. I usually use it to open smaller txt files.

ReadMore Alpha- Interesting and prefered to some. Turns the DS sideway to make it look like a real book with 2 pages.

NDSkybookM - A little like ReadMore except its uses the tranditional chinese/japanese book style, the flow of characters starts from top right, and reads vertically down followed by left.

Dolphin Reader- A chinese text reader which reading style is similar to ReadMore.

DS Reader

Read E-Book while Listening to Music

So far this Chinese modified Windows XP-like Moonshell player does it. Start the play and then select a text file to read it while the music plays in the background. Use R+L to close the book.

Another to do this is using DSLinux. Use a terminal to run "madplay * --downsample" on a directory of music files. Hit Alt-F2 to switch terminals and run vi to open a text files. You might want to use consolechars to change the font size.

View Photos, Images, Comics

The 2 general purpose software MoonShell, DSOganize does them again.

For specialised software try Comic Book DS, and Infantile Paralysiser's Image Viewer . Both allows album, gallery style viewing. ComicBookDS has an excellent interface (perhaps the best I seen for DS) but would require a java application to convert files into a comic format running on the DS. ImgView also needs to convert using its windows software.

Surf/Browse the Net

So far the best / most compatible web browser is the commerical Nintendo Opera Browser.

Next is ported web browsers on DSLinux (needs a little experience):

retawqs is a quick text based browser, but you might need to learn a few key commands.

links has quite good text layout compatibility, and in the recent build you can surf graphically running "links -g"

The browser included is also text-based but runs pretty smooth. DSO Browser

Other developing proejct I'm eying without any working release yet are Okiwi, Bunjalloo, DSHobro

Store and Watch Videos on the DS

Moonshell, DSMPlay

Moonshell playbacks DPG/DPG2 Video format, which is a MPEG-1 video and MP2 or OGG audio recording. Conversion on windows is usually done using dpgenc.exe from dpgtools, but BatchDPG can be used.

DSMPlay has a windows media player skin/interface, with DVD like chapter feature. The conversion for DSM player is usually nicer, but the video files are very huge - few hundred MB for few minutes of playback.

Check your mail

NDSMail

You could also check your web mail if you already using your DS to surf the net.

Transfer files to and from DS wirelessly

Setup a FTP or TFTP Server, or FTP client

DSFtp, CFtpServer, DsLiveFtp, TFtpsDS

WifiTransfer

DsFtp seems to be the most matured FTP server for the NDS. However, it is single threaded so make sure the FTP client doesn't run concurrent connections.

CFtp is the file name of the ftp server downloaded from its french thread titled "Serveur FTP NDS". Its seems that 0.3 Alpha comes with a FTP Client. http://blog.dev-scene.com/lilou/

TFtpDS is uses the TFTP protocol (which is a common transfer protocol for routers), and the command line is usually used to send and receive files. This is only for Flash Advance Pro carts.

Note: DSOrganise has the ability to download applications using its online homebrew database.

*WifiME

Remote control of your PC

Ds2Win, DSPad(Ds2Key), DsVNC, Pointyremote, VNC in DSLinux

DSMouse, Mk5

Connect remotely via SSH

I wished someone had written a app for SSH, just like one for PSP, but anyway you could still use SSH running DSLinux.

Just type "ssh hostname -u username". The features after this are limitless. You could run screen to multiplex terminals, run console based web browser(links), editor(nano), msn (tmsnc), torrents (ctorrent) and much more..

Write Notes

Todo notes: DSO, DSsuite

Txt writers: TxtWriter

DSNotes http://www.musicpd.org/info.shtml

Chat on Messenger(MSN, AOL..)

Msn:

BeUp Looks almost like MSN Live. Supports avatars. Handwritting doesn't seems to be working. Also accounts with huge number of contacts may not be able to connect (likely due to a dswifilib issue)

NDSIM

AOL:

DsAim

Jabber:

DSJabber

Chat on IRC

DSO, IrcDS

SylphIRC

Make VoIP calls (Wireless Internet Calls)

DSiP

Connect to your SIP provider. Works in progress, but very promising.

Paint, Scribble, Doddle

DSO, Phidias, Draw, rPaint, Colors!

Blog

PictoBlog

Make a post on your blog by scribbling or doddling on your DS

Timer

Zz85 Rubik’s Cube Timer

To check if you broke your speed cubing record

Create Music

NitroTracker

Music tools

myMeloDS - Ear Training and Composition music app

DSFret

Drumers:

bliptracker (beatpad) - Drum Machine/Sequencer

Dj Portable DS http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?p=107370#post107370

Nintendo DS Drum Machine http://thechuckster.homelinux.com/tr909/

DrummerS http://www.lien.palib.info/nds/proy.html

DrumeMe (Touch SCreen DrumKit) http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=13325

Games

This is an entire section I'm not yet prepared to write. See the emulator section below

Puzzle - SensitiveDS

temporary Homebrew DS Games dump

Emulators- Run software and games for olden hardware

Calculators- Ti-85 Graphical DS85, TI83 Emulator

WonderSwan - DualSwan, with plugin for DSO

Atari 2600- StellaDS

Gameboy (Colour)- LameBoy

C64 - FrodoDS

Scumm - ScummVM DS

Sega MegaDrive / Genesis - PicoDrive, jEnesisDS

NES - NesDS, Midori

SNES - SnezziDS, SnesDS

Dragon (16/32) and Tandy CoCo- XRoar

NGP and Neo Geo Pocket Color (NGPC) - RACE!, NeoPop

Multi-Arcade - MarcaDS

Sega Game Gear / Master System - DSMasterPlus

Others

Run other Operating Systems

DSLinux

vMacMini

GeoDS

DOS: I would think that with DS hardware its possible but so far I've seen no new on anyone doing this.

Someone is creating a Win3.1 like software but I guess that falls under Organisers. Also there are skins for moonshell which makes it look like Mac or windows OS.