Hacking Petit Computer coming to eShop

[Slynk]

No possibility for hack purposes...... well almost no possibility unless with a very small chance that a runtine error or the like can be make and the use of peek and poke, but the chances are pretty much none at all, especially using basic.

But I am a HUGE fan of programming in basic. I don't know C, C++, Java, HTML, or ASM, but I know and understand basic so well that I will have endless fun using it.

You gotta love basic. It used to be "THE" first language to learn. It was mine. But if you love basic, I'd highly recommend learning other languages (not mastering, just learning.) You learn so much about the software world since every language handles itself uniquely. Sure on the surface it may look like every language is just loops, conditions, and variables but there's so much more out there. Once you've learned something other than Basic, you learn just how limited of a language it really is. (Still love it, but it IS limited.) ^^ (I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to programming languages.)

C - You learn that everything is memory. You'll look at your structures and classes a new way once you've memcpy'd a chunk over a blank structure instance and it works lol.
C++ & Java - OOP 101 & Managed Memory
C# - Garbage Collector 101
ASM - Learning that one myself, so I couldn't say.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

I hope that there is at least some way to run it without the interpretor from the SD slot. That would make it easy to share programs with other people... but I'm sure that it will require the interpretor just so more people have to buy the app.

 

[Slynk]

Or the interpreter and "ide" will be separate (interpreter being free and ide being not.)

 

[Rydian]

If it's just text basic than the interpreter could be very tiny, even Nintendo wouldn't mind the bandwidth.

 

[stinkoman]

It's an interpreted, no where near low level language. Unless they manage to overflow a buffer or something, not going to happen. Very possible you could overflow something, though.

 

[spinal_cord]

I see a couple of good things in this --

1. If the files are saved to the SD card, even if you are not allowed to use a PC for editing, someone will probably find a way.

2. Sharing homebrew in a Nintendo approved way. Even if the results are not 'commercial quality', it gives Nintendo more ammo to fight flash cart manufactures and remove some of the legitimacy of flash carts.

3. If the files are saved to the SD card AND are editable with a PC, someone will no doubt make a windows/linux/mac based interpretor for this brand of BASIC, making game creation a whole lot quicker.

I am looking forward to its release, especially if they do something similar to flipnotes and have an online repository for the games where you can download them directly to your 3DS.

 

[SifJar]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

 

[Rydian]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

Watch somebody try to make a Wifi text-based MMO.



In 3D.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Hopefully this will be released outside of Japan as well.

 

[Slyakin]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

Watch somebody try to make a Wifi text-based MMO.



In 3D.

Wouldn't that be something: RPGTemp coded in BASIC on the 3DS,

In 3D. Holy crap.

 

[Slynk]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

Watch somebody try to make a Wifi text-based MMO.



In 3D.

It's like the words just pop "into" the screen! WOW!!!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

So I guess this means there will be hundreds of clueless 12 year olds attempting to learn BASIC.

Can't wait to see what could be made out of this, looks pretty cool.

 

[Slynk]

So I guess this means there will be hundreds of 12 year olds attempting to learn BASIC.

Can't wait to see what could be made out of this, looks pretty cool.

12 is pretty accurate. I learned basic at 13 personally. XD

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Ha...Edited it to be more accurate

 

[Nollog]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

You can transfer your game via local wireless.
It's on their website. Nobody here researches anything before posting. Proven.

I learned basic at 9 on a vtech.

 

[spinal_cord]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

Watch somebody try to make a Wifi text-based MMO.



In 3D.

It's like the words just pop "into" the screen! WOW!!!

There's an idea, a 2D game, with a cheat mode where clue will pop out of the screen at you. Just do some crazy button combination to enable 3D mode (rather than just moving the slider)...

 

[Kingfield]

Unlikely. It is a very simple programming DSi/3DSware that doesn't show much potential in the long run.

It's BASIC. That's a full computer language. It's not "Very simple programming"

And? It's all locked into that application. You could make it so that you could design things with C++ on it, and it wouldn't matter. Nintendo is pretty damn good with their encryption at this point.

It's not all locked into that application. It clearly says you can share your creations with others, meaning SD card save most likely. Since it's BASIC programming langauge, there might be some way to edit the save on the SD card using a real BASIC editor on the computer. That obviously has huge potential, limitless BASIC a computer makes that the 3DS can run.

Anyway, I might be talking pure stupid, but I know about BASIC, I've used it before, and know it can easily be enough to hack the 3DS if given enough functionality.

if its emulated then theres no way you could access the actual 3ds filesystem or anything like that, and obviously thats whats going to happen. you won't be able to do anything apart from change what's being displayed on the screen

 

[Nollog]

^virtualised.

 

[solidsnake13]

I don't know about hacking potential, but it does make it easier to make homebrew games, not that it was that hard in the first place.

And I learned basic when I was 12 as well, but that was when it was first released for consumer use.

 

[SifJar]

I wonder what features of the DSi will be available? e.g. local multiplayer, WiFi etc...? Probably a little hopeful to hope for either of those things I guess...

You can transfer your game via local wireless.
It's on their website. Nobody here researches anything before posting. Proven.

I learned basic at 9 on a vtech.

I meant for using within the BASIC programs you write.
Nobody here can understand a simple sentence without jumping to baseless conclusions. Proven.