Homebrew [Homebrew] Pong 3DS v1.0

[AntonioND]

This is the game I've been coding for a few weeks.

It's just a 3D pong, like the one I made years ago for the DS. All graphics are done by software, each CPU core renders one of the top screen images.

I hope you like it!

Binaries here (and attached to the post): https://github.com/AntonioND/pong-3ds/releases

Source code and more information here: https://github.com/AntonioND/pong-3ds

Screenshots:

 

[Technicmaster0]

It would be great if you could add it to the wiki (http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew) and maybe upload it to https://www.downloadmii.com/apps/.

 

[AntonioND]

Yeah, I'll do it tomorrow. I've just fixed a few things so I'll probably upload a different binary.

 

[VinsCool]

Beatiful! Nice work

 

[hippy dave]

Looks badass.

 

[DarkFlare69]

That looks great! I'll definitely download it and try it. Good work.

 

[Technicmaster0]

The 2.5D and 3D modes are really hard

 

[Cyan]

Nice idea to make it in 3D
It makes me remember an old and great 2D palet game. (shuffle puck café )
thanks for helping with the wiki too.

 

[AntonioND]

Oh, lol, I've just seen a video of that game, it's... strange. xD

The reason I did this was that I made a simple soft 3D engine for GBA years ago but I never made a game or anything with it. This game was a good way of finishing it AND doing something for 3DS. And, as the engine doesn't support textures, I had to do a really simple game.

It's nothing. I've also uploaded it to DownloadMii.

 

[Cyan]

I wanted to make a game but the GFX example in libctru is using aemstro and texture, but I don't understand how it really works. I never worked with 3D engine before.
I'll look how you did colored 3D object without texture, it's always good to see different way to do things

thanks

 

[AntonioND]

I tried to use aemstro but I couldn't get the python environment to run it so I decided to wait until there is a nice compiled shader assembler. Picasso is a bit outdated I think, and that was the only one I was able to compile.

Well, the functions for drawing filled polygons are the worst part of the code... xD They were awfully boring to code because they are just a lot of comparisons and loops... But sure, take a look at them.

 

[SLiV3R]

Very cool hb! I want more hb from you

Edit: If you want to have some music for this project or upcoming. Use my music:

https://m.soundcloud.com/daggdroppe

 

[hippy dave]

Haha I loved Shuffle Puck Cafe on the Amiga

 

[Cid2mizard]

Impressive, stereoscopic 3D is very successful ​

 

[Idaho]

Awesome homebrew here, it's nice to see that it's taking use of the 3D capacities, even though for some reason the display is flickery on my new 3DS and the 3D isn't perfect, it's a nice thing that we have, keep up the good work, contact me if you want me to test things on new 3DS

 

[AntonioND]

That's strange, in my 3DS it works perfectly. I have a N3DS but I can't load homebrew on it, so I can't test... The problem can be something related to the double buffering or it could be the sound functions that are messing with the graphics. Ninjhax doesn't have access to csnd functions in N3DS, but I check at the start if csnd is inited so it shouldn't be a problem. Does it happen if you disable the 3D?

 

[Idaho]

Yes it also happens with 3D off :/

 

[AntonioND]

Then the problem must be something about the buffer swap. I think the function of ctrulib I use schedules the swap to be done after the screen redraw, but maybe it doesn't work fine in N3DS. I started with a ctrulib example and I didn't see flickering even when I was developing the game and the FPS were lower than 60. I did see flickering once when I messed up the buffer swap, and I saw that the screen was basically divided by a vertical line (that changed every frame) and one part of the screen showed the correct scene but the other one was incomplete. Do you see something like that?

 

[Idaho]

I don't think it was something like that, I will shoot a video to show you exactly what's happening

 

[AntonioND]

Well, it could help. Thanks.