Homebrew Store for DS?

[canofaltoids]

Is there a homebrew store for DS?

 

[CoolMe]

..That you can access within the DS or DSi? Nope.

 

[Coto]

NTR/TWL mode, using NTR mode wifi chipset:
I've written one, altough there is no servers for it (I had one 2 years ago but not anymore), here is the implementation:

1) Set up a FTP server (USER/PASS authentication by default), read-only. Then TGDS-onlineapp must replicate these creds as well
2) Deploy the NDS/TWL package using this format, to root folder in said FTP Server
3) Use TGDS-onlineapp to connect to such server, download and run packages online

The package packer souce code is here

Usage:

a) Emit a Package out of a release folder (having a main NDS program, containing sub folder, file dependencies): Package packer does that.
b) Package is copied over the FTP server set up in 1)
c) TGDS-onlineapp now connects to same FTP server set up in 1) and sees, downloads and runs the package.

 

[FAST6191]

There were a few attempts over the years, and you can cobble something together with stuff like the post above, but nothing that really stuck or that is comparable to things seen on later consoles, stuff like the xbox homebrew installer discs, things we see for tablets/mobile phones, linux or the like.

DLDI should autopatch (but ports of DLDI for the DS are available if you need one), there are tools to unpack at least zip files on the DS (hopefully it is not 7z/rar/ace/lzh...), there are tools to manage folders.

For the most part though
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/List_of_all_DS_homebrew
https://gbatemp.net/download/
https://pdroms.de/
http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/
http://nintendo-ds.logic-sunrise.com/
https://gueux-forum.net https://www.gx-mod.com/category/les-news/nintendo/ds-3ds/
https://forum.gbadev.org/
http://www.gbarl.it/
and whatever else still exists or you can fish out of internet archive. Also hope no DMCA happened, mirrors are available and all the rest.

DS homebrew was a pretty exciting time so it was fairly well covered, especially once DLDI dropped, and you can probably find some nice best of lists that are pretty representative and skip the "I did something barely more than hello world" aspects. https://gbatemp.net/threads/links-to-various-gbatemp-features-over-the-years.352851/ has a few such things.

There is also a few versions of Lua on the DS and they have notable scenes in their own right. It is lua so not going to be things like you see.

 

[banjo2]

Work on Universal-Updater for DS(i) began, but is stalled until dsiwifi improves