Hacking Homebrew [Release] libnds-rs - Rust for the Nintendo DS

[Pikachuk]

Hey everyone.
I've recently been working on porting rust to the nintendo DS for one of my projects.
I ended up getting it working so I felt like releasing it publicly for everyone.
you will need to have BlocksDS installed with your environment variables set to use it.
https://github.com/SeleDreams/cargo-nds

at the moment this is a wip, so homebrews made with it will compile and run on the DS, however, only an unsafe access to the raw rapper of the C api is available. I plan to work on providing a safe wrapper that is more natural to use from rust
I hope this will be useful to others

 

[yoooblls]

Hey what's rust btw

 

[Pikachuk]

Hey what's rust btw

A programming language

 

[orangy57]

Super cool! Really interesting to see a such a new programming language on such an old console. Is the memory overhead any different compared to C/C++?

 

[Pikachuk]

Super cool! Really interesting to see a such a new programming language on such an old console. Is the memory overhead any different compared to C/C++?

Rust is compiled to native code and doesn't have garbage collection, so it's pretty equivalent

 

[Jayro]

Hey what's rust btw

It's a game on Steam:

 

[yoooblls]

It's a game on Steam:
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It's a game on Steam:

Bro what it's 1000 pesos

 

[Nikokaro]

With all the care and attention I lavish on it, the last thing I want is to have damn rust on my beloved DS Lite.

 

[yoooblls]

With all the care and attention I lavish on it, the last thing I want is to have damn rust on my beloved DS Lite.

Idk I think halo is better

 

[Nikokaro]

Idk I think halo is better

What? Mine was a joke, a play on words. I was referring to real rust, which forms on iron by oxidation. Instead, I do not understand this reference to Halo, which if I am not mistaken is an FPS game, impossible on DS.

 

[yoooblls]

What? Mine was a joke, a play on words. I was referring to real rust, which forms on iron by oxidation. Instead, I do not understand this reference to Halo, which if I am not mistaken is an FPS game, impossible on DS.

Ik but for me halo is better than rust no offense

 

[Pikachuk]

Update :
I did a pretty big update of the implementation of rust for the DS and switched it to use BlocksDS instead of DevKitPro as it is more efficient and uses clearly licensed dependencies.
The new system is better and also easier to use.
Here is the link with instructions https://github.com/SeleDreams/cargo-nds

Post automatically merged: May 7, 2024

Here's a video that shows how to use it

 

[ladyanita22]

How's the performance vs. standard C BlocksDS? I wonder what could be effectively be done with this to be honest...

The Super Mario Galaxy DS is the most impressive thing I've seen so far, and I wonder if rust would be adequate for producing anything similar

 

[Pikachuk]

How's the performance vs. standard C BlocksDS? I wonder what could be effectively be done with this to be honest...

The Super Mario Galaxy DS is the most impressive thing I've seen so far, and I wonder if rust would be adequate for producing anything similar

The performance should be pretty similar overall.
Rust compiles like C to machine code and under the hood, the same libc is used

 

[pgattic]

Hey! I am pretty interested in this project! Do you have any examples for like, interacting with the filesystem or rendering to the screen?

 

[Pikachuk]

Hey! I am pretty interested in this project! Do you have any examples for like, interacting with the filesystem or rendering to the screen?

I probably should make some example projects