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Homebrew Bounty 2018 Month 2: Switch Applications

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THE 2018 SWITCH HOMEBREW BOUNTY
MONTH 2: SWITCH APPLICATIONS

What is the 2018 GBAtemp Switch Homebrew Bounty? Read more here. (MONTH 2: WINNERS ANNOUNCED! CLICK HERE)

The second month has now officially begun. You have until December 31st (23:59:59 UTC+00) to submit your Switch homebrew application and get a chance to win a massive cash reward! There will be 4 consecutive months, one for each category. We'd like to remind you that this is the second month, and this month dedicated to the following category.

CATEGORY 2: Switch Applications

This category is meant to reward authors of Switch applications, as in, programs that run natively on the Switch itself and serve a specific purpose such as media players, file managers, homebrew loaders, and much more (this short list is non-exhaustive). If you aren't sure whether your project fits in this category, look at the other categories listed in this thread, and if in doubt, simply ask a moderator.

The top 5 highest-voted projects in this category will receive:
#1: $1,000 reward
#2: $500 reward
#3: $300 reward
#4: $150 reward
#5: $55 reward

In order to submit your project, please respect the following instructions:
• Upload your project to the GBAtemp Download Center. Make sure to give a proper description, screenshots, anything you might find useful. This is your chance to showcase your project, the better your page looks, the more chance you may receive votes from judges.
• If your project is not entirely new, it must at least come with a major/significant update, so please describe specifically what new feature(s) the upgrade brings forth.
• After your project is posted to the download center, please post a comment in this thread to link to your project.

After December 31st, two voting sessions will begin simultaneously: a staff vote, and a patron vote (for our backers on Patreon). The results will be announced a week after.



Sponsors

Half of this sum is generously donated by yours truly, GBAtemp!
Thanks to ad revenue and to our Patreon backers, GBAtemp is the biggest donator.
The other half comes from our generous sponsors as listed below.

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MOD3DSCARD.COM
Buy flashcard to mod 3DS and Switch | Team Xecuter SX | Sky3ds+ | Stargate 3DS | R4 3DS - mod3dscard

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AXIOGAME.COM
Axiogame | Backup Units, Modchips and more

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And let's not forget Team Xecuter who made a very generous donation too.



Member donations

The bounty isn't only about sponsor companies: you, beloved members of our community (and even guests) can contribute too! If you want to make a donation, simply click the button below to send a payment to our Paypal. Needless to say, 100% of the amount we receive will be transfered to the authors of winning projects.

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Upon submitting your donation, you can indicate whether you want the donation to go to a particular category, or all of them.
Also please note that our Paypal account name is "FILETRIP" - this is normal.

We have already received the following donations:
• Eric C. donated $100 towards the Game bounty
• Pierce T. donated $25 towards the Emulator bounty
• Jonah N. donated $10 to the bounty
• Andrew B. donated £5 towards the Tools and Utilities bounty
• Michael C. donated $5 to the bounty
• Raphael G.V. donated an incredible $0.36 towards, hmm, creating complexity for our accountant?

Thanks a lot guys! To everyone else, feel free to make additional donations, which will go to the other 2 categories.

 
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Why did you quote me?

I was on mobile yesterday on my phone, I started to peck out a response on my phone, but then stopped because I got busy. Logged onto PC today, quote the Thonk post, and submitted, and didn't notice it had included my partial reply to you yesterday at the top.
 

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I was on mobile yesterday on my phone, I started to peck out a response on my phone, but then stopped because I got busy. Logged onto PC today, quote the Thonk post, and submitted, and didn't notice it had included my partial reply to you yesterday at the top.
Ah okay, thanks for the clarification.
 

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Vapor Spec Virtual Game Platform
My submission is a switch implementation of my virtual game platform. My platform runs binary programs and can load static data (rom).

I have posted the files in the GBAtemp download center, along with a link to the github repo. I can't post links here because I am new.

Attached are some images of games that I developed and ran on PC, and can now run on the switch:

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Vapor Spec Virtual Game Platform
My submission is a switch implementation of my virtual game platform. My platform runs binary programs and can load static data (rom).

I have posted the files in the GBAtemp download center, along with a link to the github repo. I can't post links here because I am new.

Attached are some images of games that I developed and ran on PC, and can now run on the switch:

View attachment 153779 View attachment 153774 View attachment 153776 View attachment 153773
Nice job. Welcome to the site! Link: https://gbatemp.net/download/vapor-spec-virtual-game-platform.35337/
 
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hello, welcome to gbatemp.
thanks for sharing your project.

I'm not sure if it's eligible for this category : homebrew application.
to me, it feels more like an emulator (next month category), as it's loading and interpreting ROMs, or game packages. even if it's not really emulating a real hardware but interpreting a game's script your wrote, right?
this is not a tool in the sense of Switch File manager, video player, picture viewer, etc. but it could be viewed as an interpreter (like Python-NX, which is a tool interpreting python scripts, not an emulator)

Either it's a game engine (like rpg maker? then games could be created part of 4th bounty category in 2 months!) or an emulator, the difference is thin.

I'll let Costello and/or other moderators see and decide if we push it to the next category or include it in this one.

edit:
I'm trying to find information on the vapor spec and game format.
https://github.com/minkcv/vm
https://github.com/minkcv/vm-switch

I like the idea of this project, allowing game development on a custom language engine. you said it has a demoscene feeling, I don't know if a lot of dev will make games on it, but it'll be interesting.
idea: A Switch game editor (directly writing games on switch) would be fantastic! but hard for sprites.
 
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Sup guys, Goldleaf v0.2 has been released, so take that one into account for the bounty, just minor fixes: https://gbatemp.net/download/goldle...e-installer-manager.35430/update?update=35564

Changelog
  • Supposedly, now those random crashes browsing menus or filesystems are fixed now.

  • When looking for the key file for NCAs or themes, now more names are sopported (not just keys.dat): keys.dat, prod.keys, keys.txt or keys.ini.

  • Fixed bug which would not install the selected theme if qlaunch was not extracted, and it would just extract it without processing the theme.

  • Now title 0100000000001013 is installed to qlaunch directory, previously user page themes wouldn't work for this issue.
Goldtree doesn't have any changes, only version number.

Happy New Year!
 

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hello, welcome to gbatemp.
thanks for sharing your project.

I'm not sure if it's eligible for this category : homebrew application.

Ok. I can submit for the next category. No hard feelings if it's not eligible for this category.
 

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don't worry, I didn't decide yet :P
I'm feeling it's more a game engine now, like RPGmaker loading external game data. it might be good.
We might keep the next category for hardware console/computer emulators, as yours is not based on a hardware device I guess it's good here.
we will tell you whether it's included or not in the vote.
 
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don't worry, I didn't decide yet :P
I'm feeling it's more a game engine now, like RPGmaker loading external game data. it might be good.
We might keep the next category for hardware console/computer emulators, as yours is not based on a hardware device I guess it's good here.
we will tell you whether it's included or not in the vote.
I do also think it would better fit in this month category (unfortunately for me, maybe :) ).
 

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