Homebrew nds-bootstrap Minigames, featuring Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe!

[RocketRobz]

Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe came to nds-bootstrap v0.6.2, in the form of loading screens, to kill time when a DS ROM was loading, and the functions getting patched.
As the nds-bootstrap loading speed improved in later versions, the loading screens got removed.
If you miss those loading screens, fear not!
Now with this nds-bootstrap spin-off, the Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe loading screens return as standalone minigames!

Download
.nds and .cia included.
Requires TWiLight Menu++ or nds-hb-menu to run this app (as .nds).

General controls

• START: Pause/Unpause
• SELECT: Switch between Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe
• B: Exit app

Pong controls

• Up/Down: Move Up or Down, to block and bounce back the ball

Tic-Tac-Toe controls

• Up/Down/Left/Right: Select a square
• Y: Mark an N (for NTR)
• A: Mark a T (for TWL)
• X: Erase marks

 

[alivebacon]

Good idea. Maybe you could set up local or dlplay.

 

[RocketRobz]

Good idea. Maybe you could set up local or dlplay.

Well, this is Haxxstation-friendly.

 

[Deleted User]

This is legal now since Namco´s patent expired in 2015.
https://kotaku.com/the-patent-on-loading-screen-mini-games-is-about-to-exp-1744705351
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Dav...Year_We_Get_Loading_Screen_MiniGames_Back.php

 

[alivebacon]

Well, this is Haxxstation-friendly.

What I'm thinking is local multiplayer. I didn't mention wiimmfi because that probably won't happen.

 

[Coto]

Code for nifi having proper crc'd frames:

https://bitbucket.org/Coto88/toolch...m9/source/arm9_driver/dswnifi_lib.c#lines-105

if you ever want to implement local wireless through DSWIFI

 

[KoopaMaster]

Looks very nice , very good job !
Now I want to wait 10 minutes for loading

 

[godreborn]

you need rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock.

 

[spinal_cord]

This is legal now since Namco´s patent expired in 2015.
https://kotaku.com/the-patent-on-loading-screen-mini-games-is-about-to-exp-1744705351
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Dav...Year_We_Get_Loading_Screen_MiniGames_Back.php

To be fair, Namco should never have been allowed that patent, as there were plenty of prior examples of non-Namco games having loading mini games at least a decade before.
Here is a favourite of mine from the 1980's...