Homebrew Homebrew Writing Guide?

[silenfoot]

I was wondering if there was a guide that could help me get started writing DS homebrew - a sort of "Homebrew for Dummies." I admit that my programming experience is limited, but I have a slightly-more-than-basic understanding of BASIC and Java, and I'm learning Perl, so if there's a particular language(s) that might prove better it's not a problem because I learn fairly quickly.

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[FAST6191]

C and ASM with the occasional bit of C++ is the usual route for DS homebrew. There are a few early version interpreter type languages but not ones that I would suggest.

Still:
http://patater.com/files/projects/manual/m....html#id2534437
and palib is a bit slow and clunky but some really nice stuff has been made using it:
http://forum.palib.info/

 

[MasterPenguin]

PALib actually has multiple tutorials to get you started. Though you will need to know C, as FAST mentioned.

http://www.palib.info/wiki/doku.phphttp://...o/wiki/doku.php

It's quite useful, and in-depth.

 

[OneMichael]

http://www.dev-scene.com/NDS/Tutorials
The tutorial is far from complete, but the beginning is very informative. It tells you what kind of system you're dealing with (if you've programmed really old computers, you'd be familiar with referencing specific sections of memory, which is what you'll be doing here).

I think the best way to learn is to try to do something, and then research how to do it. It's hard to just look up random information.