Homebrew [Question] Is it possible to have a homebrew app to download files from the internet?

Stack3r · Oct 4, 2015

Okay to clarify it down some, is it possible to have a homebrew internet browser and download files like the latest builds for example and save it right to your 3ds folder instead of having to use a computer and either taking out the sd card or using ftbrony?

Cyan · Oct 4, 2015

yes it's possible to get a network connection and to transfer files.
what you ask is what DownloadMii is doing.

a place where you can download homebrew from another homebrew and install them directly in your 3DS folder.

Stack3r · Oct 4, 2015

Cyan said:
yes it's possible to get a network connection and to transfer files.
what you ask is what DownloadMii is doing.

a place where you can download homebrew from another homebrew and install them directly in your 3DS folder.

will it also let you browse this site say to download the nightly builds of retroarch? and it looks like it was abandoned

Cyan · Oct 4, 2015

downloadmii is (seems) currently not available anymore, but it was an example to tell it's possible.
there were another homebrew downloader in development, I don't know if it's released or if it's still working.

to do such homebrew, it requires a good program and a good and maintained database.
both are hard to do.

Stack3r · Oct 4, 2015

Cyan said:
downloadmii is (seems) currently not available anymore, but it was an example to tell it's possible.
there were another homebrew downloader in development, I don't know if it's released or if it's still working.

to do such homebrew, it requires a good program and a good and maintained database.
both are hard to do.

Ah okay gotcha, so its not as easy as porting like opera and then implementing a download system to sd card

Cyan · Oct 4, 2015

it's easier to make a specific downloader (connect to server with homebrew database) than coding a fully functionnal webpage browser.

Tjessx · Oct 4, 2015

An internet brower is sickening hard to make, but an homebrew downloader is doable(still pretty hard though). Downloadmii's developer stopt working on kt due to time consumption etc.
However, i'm willing to give it a try if a skilled programmer wants to work on this :-)

Cyan · Oct 4, 2015

internet browser is sooo hard to make than even nintendo is not coding their own, they are using Opera.

that would be great to have another homebrew downloader.
it's hard to maintain and require lot of time. I hope someone will be interested and able to help.

Bubsy Bobcat · Oct 4, 2015

You can easily write a program for Lua Player 3DS that'll download and extract a file from a site.

Tjessx · Oct 4, 2015

Cyan said:
internet browser is sooo hard to make than even nintendo is not coding their own, they are using Opera.
that would be great to have another homebrew downloader.
it's hard to maintain and require lot of time. I hope someone will be interested and able to help.

The biggest problem would be to keep the server online.
if we want to maintain the quality of the server downloads, and available applications we should save them local and that raises the server costs again.

I think it would approximately costs between 60-80$/year.
And it wouldn't have any space/bandwidth/power for other stuff.

TheCruel · Oct 4, 2015

I'm a web developer normally, and I've been wanting to do this, and have a server already. I just have so many other things I'm working on, probably won't have enough time for like another month. If someone starts something in the meantime, I can probably contribute.

Tjessx · Oct 4, 2015

I'm a web developer too, but something like an online market place will take over the entire server and i won't be able to use it for other stuff anymore.
Which is kind'a ok, some user in the "homebrew development" topic just asked for an online high scores platform.
Gonna start on that this evening, will probably extend that to the market later on.
I'll keep you posted

Jwiz33 · Oct 4, 2015

Bubsy Bobcat said:
You can easily write a program for Lua Player 3DS that'll download and extract a file from a site.

I do this a lot, but it doesn't work on Ninjhax 2.0, although it works fine with 1.1b.

Tjessx · Oct 4, 2015

You guys were right, something like that would be awesome.
However, since i will dedicate a complete 60-80 dollars server to this,
I'm gonna implement some stuff so that homebrew developers can easily set online highscores(and other stuff) for their apps,
Should i keep you guys up to date on the progress i make?

Megalegacy98 · Oct 5, 2015

Tjessx said:
You guys were right, something like that would be awesome.
However, since i will dedicate a complete 60-80 dollars server to this,
I'm gonna implement some stuff so that homebrew developers can easily set online highscores(and other stuff) for their apps,
Should i keep you guys up to date on the progress i make?

Please do! This would be awesome.

keanutah · Oct 5, 2015

Tjessx said:
You guys were right, something like that would be awesome.
However, since i will dedicate a complete 60-80 dollars server to this,
I'm gonna implement some stuff so that homebrew developers can easily set online highscores(and other stuff) for their apps,
Should i keep you guys up to date on the progress i make?

This is a great idea.

teampleb · Oct 5, 2015

Someone could make an APT-like homebrew downloader. So you have to add your own sources and the creator wouldn't need to maintain a homebrew list. You'd just have to add the repo.

keanutah · Oct 5, 2015

teampleb said:
Someone could make an APT-like homebrew downloader. So you have to add your own sources and the creator wouldn't need to maintain a homebrew list. You'd just have to add the repo.

Sounds like the way to do it. Point the app at a github repo of download links, that way people could submit PRs for new homebrews. Maybe I'll work on this.

teampleb · Oct 5, 2015

keanutah said:
Sounds like the way to do it. Point the app at a github repo of download links, that way people could submit PRs for new homebrews. Maybe I'll work on this.

I meant something like LaunchPad but for 3DS.

Tjessx · Oct 5, 2015

That woulw be nice, however, if yhe file is dlwn. Someone should manually report it, and take it down frol the server aswell. If we put it on a server, we can be sure it'll be always online

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