Hi Everyone,
I am a web developer, and in the last few months I have really gotten into homebrew stuff for 3DS. In my quest for playing custom Homebrew games and doing other cool stuff with my 3DS, I found that there was no generally centralized distribution system for HB Apps/Games. I found that GBATemp and GitHub mainly hosted all of this stuff, but that these platforms were used for a lot of other stuff as well.
My idea was to create an online website or desktop app (probably some sort of Electron configuration) that would be a dedicated app store for distribution of HB tools/games for systems of all kind (Wii, 3DS, Wii U, DS, etc). The website would have a nice front-end UI that could let you search, sort and find certain apps easily, and a fast CDN powering the site that could automatically pull from selected GitHub repositories. Upon downloading an app, the user could either get the CIA/3dsx files or get a QR code that they could scan through FBI on their 3DS.
In the future this system could become similar Homebr3w or the Wii U app store in that it could have dedicated clients for the systems in question to download apps and install them easily.
After doing some digging I couldn't really find any similar, cross-platform solutions, so remind me if something like this already exists.
Any feedback? Suggestions? Doubts? Name Suggestions? I would love to hear them.
I am a web developer, and in the last few months I have really gotten into homebrew stuff for 3DS. In my quest for playing custom Homebrew games and doing other cool stuff with my 3DS, I found that there was no generally centralized distribution system for HB Apps/Games. I found that GBATemp and GitHub mainly hosted all of this stuff, but that these platforms were used for a lot of other stuff as well.
My idea was to create an online website or desktop app (probably some sort of Electron configuration) that would be a dedicated app store for distribution of HB tools/games for systems of all kind (Wii, 3DS, Wii U, DS, etc). The website would have a nice front-end UI that could let you search, sort and find certain apps easily, and a fast CDN powering the site that could automatically pull from selected GitHub repositories. Upon downloading an app, the user could either get the CIA/3dsx files or get a QR code that they could scan through FBI on their 3DS.
In the future this system could become similar Homebr3w or the Wii U app store in that it could have dedicated clients for the systems in question to download apps and install them easily.
After doing some digging I couldn't really find any similar, cross-platform solutions, so remind me if something like this already exists.
Any feedback? Suggestions? Doubts? Name Suggestions? I would love to hear them.
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