Killer Whale Cursor for Nintendo Switch

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Current version: 1.0.0

This is a recreation of the famous Killer Whale Cursor flash app for the Nintendo Switch, using libnx and a couple of other libraries.
However, this particular recreation contains a couple of extra enhancements and features compared to the original:

• Use of motion tracking with the right joy-con and/or touch input to make the Killer Whale follow the cursor
• Ability to reset cursor position by pressing Y
• Ability to toggle between a front and rear view of the whale (basically changing the draw order) by pressing X
• Toggle on-screen text for full screen visibility by pressing B
• Customize motion sensitivity, whale movement speed, and "flexibility" (how fast the individual segments follow eachother)
• Customizable whale diffuse color, as well as background color

Some current planned features I'm looking to implement for the next release:

• Loading custom backdrop graphics from the microSD card
• Slightly more accurate motion tracking

Important!
Make sure to run this through the NSP version of HBL; launching via Album has some graphical issues due to constraints, and thus isn't supported.

Download:
Sorry, but this homebrew is no longer available from me.
If you happen to find it elsewhere, just drop the NRO onto the microSD card in the /switch/ folder, and run from the NSP version of HBL.

Source Code:
No longer available.

 

[Illuminaticy]

Looks more fun than 95% of switch games lol. Nice work!

 

[eskinner3742]

Yeah this is actually pretty cool. Nice work!

 

[Deleted member 412537]

Omg, its Shamu!

 

[Mythical]

Free Willy guys

 

[Deleted User]

lol cool, u r good
will download now

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Important!
Make sure to run this through the NSP version of HBL; launching via Album has some graphical issues due to constraints, and thus isn't supported.

using SX OS and dont have Problems with the album.

 

[Deleted User]

lol cool, u r good
will download now

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using SX OS and dont have Problems with the album.

So it doesn’t only draw half the whale? Thank god for that. Guess I’ll amend it saying it only happens with non-SX CFWs then.

 

[KiiWii]

This is amazing.

I remember seeing a demo like this with a stretchy human in about 2004, it sticks in my mind, along with my hyper irrational orca-phobia.

Great work!

 

[Cyan]

nice effect and good work with gyro pointer.
we don't have a lot of demo, it's nice to get an interesting one.
it's usually just random hello world text or rotating cube

edit:
it's only 2D rendering ? impressive 3D effect with just loading png on top of the other!

 

[cucholix]

@SciresM The Game

 

[Zumoly]

Thanks! Getting this only for the kids!
Would be cool if you could add vibration.

 

[Deleted User]

So it doesn’t only draw half the whale? Thank god for that. Guess I’ll amend it saying it only happens with non-SX CFWs then.

yeah im not joking

here is proof (sorry for quality)

http://bit.ly/SXWhale

 

[iyenal]

Nice 3D effect!

 

[Deleted User]

yeah im not joking

here is proof (sorry for quality)

http://bit.ly/SXWhale

Ah, actually, if you look closely at the back of the whale, his tail fin parts aren't displaying. That's what I was getting at; not sure if it's memory constraints or if I'm just not allowed to process so many images in one go, but yeah... the NSP version correctly displays the rest of the whale's body.

 

[Deleted User]

Ah, actually, if you look closely at the back the back of the whale, his tail fin parts aren't displaying. That's what I was getting at; not sure if it's memory constraints or if I'm just not allowed to process so many images in one go, but yeah... the NSP version correctly displays the rest of the whale's body.

mh i cant see diffrents between the flash game and the Homebrew
ok after trying i see

 

[Deleted User]

mh i cant see diffrents between the flash game and the Homebrew

It's missing this part:

 

[Pippin666]

A whale that follows your joy-con motion ... with delay.

Pip'

 

[Deleted User]

A whale that follows your joy-con motion ... with delay.

Pip'

It delays because the original flash version also has delay... if you don't like it, you can just increase the whale's move speed.

 

[TheZander]

What happens when it finally catches the cursor?

 

[KyleHyde]

I'm surprised I hadn't heard about the original flash app back then.
The way all those segments move around to create the illusion of 3D movement is quite impressive.
Keep up the good work!