NDS Hombrew Games You Must Have - And Why You Need An R4 DS To Play Them
The Nintendo DS on its own is a fantastic gaming systems. But add to your Nintendo DS the actual R4 DS Card and you’ll have access to hundreds, if not thousands, of homebrew games and applications - all of them free.
1) Lemmings DS - The classic is back.Come, amazing gameplay, mixed with Strategy!
Lemmings was truly a trend setting game and probably set the stage for many of todays puzzle / strategy games.It went on and was later converted to the Commodore 64 computer as well as IBM PC’s as well.I really do believe that it was this game that set the stage for today’s strategy and brain training games. All 120 of the original Amiga levels have been carefully redone for the Nintendo DS.So you get every single, identical stage/level originally created for the Amiga computer, and later the C64 computer as well. A must have for any serious comical strategy game lover.
2) Quake DS - The original FPS!
It is the first and standard setting Quake that was released over 10 years ago for the PC. Can’t realy say anything more. Probably THE game that started the First person shooter genre. And now, it is available for the Nintendo DS - so long as you also have an R4 DS card to play it on. Carefully and masterfully re-done for the Nintendo DS console.
3) Xrick - A Port of Rick Dangerous for your Nintendo DS - It was arguably one of the best platform games / side scrollers on classic computers like the C64 and the Commodore Amiga
Another one of those classic games that you just can’t seem to get out of your system.Just put xRick and your R4 DS and into your Nintendo DS to be transported back to a time when side scrollers and platform game were all the rage - and perfected. Rick Dangerous was probably one of the most popular side scrolling games of it’s time, right niext to Giana Sisters. Anyone that didn’t own a Nintendo DS, had either one, or both, of these games as an alternative. Side Scrolling adventure game taken to the max.Great graphics (for the time), absolutely challenging and not to mention, loads of fun!
4) DSLinux - This puts a portable Linux Computer in your pocket by way of your Nintendo DS
Yes, the much desired and wanted / requested Linux for your Nintendo DS. Before cards like the R4 DS Card, it was unimaginable for us to be able to load linux onto a system that fit in the palm of our hands. While there are many linux ports now, on various hand held consoles, none of them even come close to the Nintendo DS version on an R4 DS Card because no other console really utilizes touch the way that the Nintendo DS does.Because you can use the NS Stylus as a mouse, just as you would use it on your PC you truly do get the sam benefit of loading all of your favorite games and apps, etc… On the Nintendo DSi console.No longer just for personal computers, with the r4 DS card you can have linux on a new platform. If you have a Nintendo DSi, then you’ll need the R4i SDHC version of the R4 DS Card.
5) ScummVM - Your point and click solution to the best point and Click Games!
If you absolutely love point and click games, like Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky or others, then you have to try ScummVM. ScummVM DS is a part of the ScummVM project. The ScummVM project is an attempt to re-engineer many classic point and click adventure games of the 80s and 90s to run on modern computer hardware. Games and Game system technology has changed tremendously since these games were released and as such, ScummVM tried (successfully) to replicate the gameplay of the original game in their true classic form. ScummVM needs a copy of the original game, in order to take the graphics, sound, and scripts that made the game work. ScummVM was written and coded in a manner that quickly and easily allows it to be ported from one operation system / machine to the next.
That concludes my homebrew games reviews for this week.In the coming weeks I will review and talk about some of the best emulators of classic computers and game systems - that you can actually play and use with your Nintendo DS
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