Homebrew support
I'm here today to share with you what is probably my favorite feature in the upcoming final version of the Xtreme OS. We know that there has been a lot of worry lately over homebrew compatibility with the various new DS products which are coming to market. Many of you have concerns about libfat drivers, and the time it will take for your favorite homebrew to be updated with new drivers for new devices, or even if these applications will be updated at all. We have taken these concerns to heart, and have come up with a solution which we hope will alleviate most if not all of these fears. We've put together a short video demonstrating, and I think it more or less speaks for itself. (And I also speak a bit, so I recommend watching with sound!)
No waiting for a new version with driver support. No confusion over multiple downloads and making sure you have the right binary for your hardware.
After testing quite a selection of homebrew applications, we are pleased with the results we've seen so far. However, if you do run into any issues with particular applications, we ask you to report those issues on the support forums.
We will, of course, still be providing libfat driver source once the product is in the hands of end users for developers who do wish to recompile their application for the most seamless interoperability with the DS-Xtreme. Of course we also would like to extend our support and encouragement to anyone working on new homebrew development targeting the DS-Xtreme as well. One of our primary goals in the design of the DS-Xtreme has always been to support the growing development community as much as possible, and we hope to make our product the easiest and most flexible development tool available.
Aphex
Lead Systems Engineer
DS-X
P.S.
A very special thanks to DragonMinded for creating DsOrganize, which we consider to be one of the highest caliber homebrew applications available on the DS today.
woot! first post! nice vid!
Posted by gil | September 18, 2006 3:21 PM
Posted on September 18, 2006 15:21
Wow! That is excellent! Is that the first vid of the DS-X at work? Me-thinks it is! :D
Nice work guys!
Posted by WildWon | September 18, 2006 6:23 PM
Posted on September 18, 2006 18:23
Congrats on compatibility. Hopefully it will work with all previous versions of libfat and compiler settings.
Posted by DarkFader | September 18, 2006 6:45 PM
Posted on September 18, 2006 18:45
fisrt vid ftw, more info now :D
Posted by respiko | September 18, 2006 7:52 PM
Posted on September 18, 2006 19:52
Very nice video, nice enough to actually be forgiven for not letting us know when we can get our hands on the DS-Xtreme.
No, just kidding. We still want to know. ;-)
Posted by PanDemic | September 18, 2006 8:58 PM
Posted on September 18, 2006 20:58
Looks good. I was wondering, is it possible to upload a new version of your homebrew while the cart is in the Lite? It looks like the min-USB could be connected while it's in there, but just wanted to confirm. This will be nice for homebrew because it'll save a couple steps that you have to do on every build with other carts.
thanks, scott
Posted by Scott | September 19, 2006 4:20 AM
Posted on September 19, 2006 04:20
Nice to see, although DSOrganize uses a modified version of gba_nds_fat, and not libfat as specified. So how'd you manage to hook in? Whatever it is, let's hope it works on libfat too.
Posted by chishm | September 19, 2006 10:26 AM
Posted on September 19, 2006 10:26
I have to say, I want to just go and pre-order this right now. That video has just totally allayed all my fears about the professionalism of your team and how open you would be with the community. Good show, mates, good show.
Posted by Elk | September 24, 2006 4:29 PM
Posted on September 24, 2006 16:29