Hello everyone,
I'd like to share with you a 3DS homebrew template project I have made and used during the last few weeks.
I'm developing it in parallel of my 3DS dev tutorial.
It's inspired by ctrulib's template.
It's made for Windows, but you can work with it on other OS's.
I made it because ctrulib's template seemed too incomplete to me, but also because I hate using command-line when I'm working on homebrews with Windows. So I added two little executables that do all the dirty job for me. (If someone feels like making executables for Linux/Mac OS, please contribute!)
Before using this template, you need of course to install devkitARM, ctrulib, ninjhax, etc. (more info in the tuto)
You can browse the template here: https://github.com/xem/3DShomebrew/tree/gh-pages/tutorial/template
And download it here as a zip (<600kb): https://github.com/xem/3DShomebrew/raw/gh-pages/tutorial/template.zip
Features:
- An asset folder (to store your images, sprites, sounds, etc), including a web tool to convert your images in .bin files. (image-to-bin.html)
- A data folder, to store your .bin files
- An emulator folder containing a recent build of 3dmoo for Windows
- A netcat folder containing the software netcat for Windows
- A source folder containing a complete main.c template file (optimized and well commented)
- A "build and play.bat" file (launch it on Windows to build your project, and if the build is successful, the 3dsx file is played with the 3Dmoo emulator, and sent to your 3DS using netcat)
- A clean.bat file (launch it on Windows to perform a "make clean" command, to clean the temp build files of the project)
- A logo.png file (edit it to use your project's logo)
NB: if you want to use netcat to test your builds on a real 3DS (it's recommended), you'll need to install the latest version of hbmenu, launch it, press Y, note the IP and port displayed on the bottom screen, edit "build and play.bat" and set your own values at line 15: cat ../%%F | nc [IP] [PORT]. If you just want to test on the emulator, you can keep the bat as-is. Or remove line 15 if you want.
Thanks for your feedback and happy Xmas!
I'd like to share with you a 3DS homebrew template project I have made and used during the last few weeks.
I'm developing it in parallel of my 3DS dev tutorial.
It's inspired by ctrulib's template.
It's made for Windows, but you can work with it on other OS's.
I made it because ctrulib's template seemed too incomplete to me, but also because I hate using command-line when I'm working on homebrews with Windows. So I added two little executables that do all the dirty job for me. (If someone feels like making executables for Linux/Mac OS, please contribute!)
Before using this template, you need of course to install devkitARM, ctrulib, ninjhax, etc. (more info in the tuto)
You can browse the template here: https://github.com/xem/3DShomebrew/tree/gh-pages/tutorial/template
And download it here as a zip (<600kb): https://github.com/xem/3DShomebrew/raw/gh-pages/tutorial/template.zip
Features:
- An asset folder (to store your images, sprites, sounds, etc), including a web tool to convert your images in .bin files. (image-to-bin.html)
- A data folder, to store your .bin files
- An emulator folder containing a recent build of 3dmoo for Windows
- A netcat folder containing the software netcat for Windows
- A source folder containing a complete main.c template file (optimized and well commented)
- A "build and play.bat" file (launch it on Windows to build your project, and if the build is successful, the 3dsx file is played with the 3Dmoo emulator, and sent to your 3DS using netcat)
- A clean.bat file (launch it on Windows to perform a "make clean" command, to clean the temp build files of the project)
- A logo.png file (edit it to use your project's logo)
NB: if you want to use netcat to test your builds on a real 3DS (it's recommended), you'll need to install the latest version of hbmenu, launch it, press Y, note the IP and port displayed on the bottom screen, edit "build and play.bat" and set your own values at line 15: cat ../%%F | nc [IP] [PORT]. If you just want to test on the emulator, you can keep the bat as-is. Or remove line 15 if you want.
Thanks for your feedback and happy Xmas!
