Hacking 3rd Party Brings Motion Sensing To DS

[[M]artin]

Via DSFanboy:

...thanks to the power of homebrew, you'll soon be able to turn your trusty DS into an etch-a-sketch. This new DS motion card plugs right into the card slot and includes a 3-axis accelerometer and single-axis gyroscope functionality for a rich motion-sensing experience that you can take with you. But what can you do it with? Just think -- tilt sensing, gesture recognition, twist functions ... the possibilities for applications here is huge. There are already a few apps on ndsmotion.com that have been designed to work with the sensor card: the aforementioned DSaSketch, and two other simple games, Spout and Water Drops Tilt...

More details HERE

 

[fischju_original]

i litteraly found out about this 10 minutes before any article, randomly trying to find a place to buy a passme

 

[ChowMein]

It's like a multifunctional PS3 controller!

Personally, however, I think Nintendo has to pick up the homebrew before anything really awesome comes out of it - I don't think many companies will design entire games around 3rd party attachments (which aren't their own).

 

[adgloride]

As long as you remember not to use this with the DS lite. It may fall to bits when you shake it to clear the screen

Joking BTW

 

[[M]artin]

I can't help but think that people that own only Slot-1 based flashcarts will be sad...