Over at GBATemp, user bobdamnit suggested that it'd be better if I release my 3DS games as .CIA files, so they can be installed on the main 3DS menu instead of just the Homebrew Launcher.

I should probably make this a regular thing, again. It's always fun to get a little back'n'forth going.

Dan from SoCoder

Recently, i saw a Choplifter game (Game Gear), on youtube and thought, with a bit of imagination,the rescuees looks like the platdude. So my idea is, if you like to make a Choplifter Clone or alike with platdude. At least something with Helicopter ? ^^;

I'm fairly sure I can make a draw-buffer work on the 3DS, but it seems I have a limit of 256x256 pixels due to my ongoing memory issues. For the Desktop side of the Framework, I typically work with buffers of 1024x1024, so that's a 1/4 scaling thing from the get-go. On the 3DS Framework, sometimes it uses full sized PC images when they're small enough, whilst other times it refers to smaller 1/4 sized scaled down images. This is more or less the same issue on the buffer's side of thin...

After each game's release, my inbox is filled with the writings of all the people who bothered to play it. Let's see what @RSKGames thinks of this weeks game! You can Download Franken Hopper here.

@RSKGames

Overview: In Franken Hopper you Hop and catch the flying creatures and avoid the blazing flames from the statues to the side and the fireballs from the big statue's eyes. The platforms help to climb higher to get creatures with more points(Lowest level 5 points, Mid level 2...

I don't normally post a game on a Saturday, but with all the things I had to remember to do, I figured it best to make an early start on this week's posting incase things got a little crazy!

Eating bugs, just for fun!

The new choon that appeared last night, Generous Justice, is the music for Franken-Hopper.

Having solved the "gap" issue from last night's post, I spent some time fiddling with the actual game.

Already the scaling is causing quirks!!

I did a little coding, yesterday, but nowhere near enough to be worthy of blogging about. Instead, I sat and played quite a lot of Words With Friends (Username : Jayenkai, if you want to join in) and watched a ton of random bits and pieces on YouTube. I've been watching a lot of Disneyland-Secrets things, lately, and I'm not really sure why. TPMVids filled an alarming amount of my time, last night. Either it's the hot weather, or it's my mind's way of saying "Hey, I wrote this wh...

With the 3DS onslaught in full swing, and this week's game being delayed, what better time than to stop and pause, and think about the other myriad of things that I'd like to do..?!

D'oh! Well, I did say that Franken-Hopper was a little bit *too* difficult. .. Now it's the exact opposite. Needs more death, now. Today's been a weird day, code-wise!!

I've found a number of minor issues with Micro Clampett, like how I'd forgotten to add the Music Volume setting to the Music Channel. D'oh! My mind seems to be enjoying doing all these little fixes a lot more than working on actual games, at the moment, so I'm just going to keep doing that until I get bored!!! We'll hold off Franken-Hopper until next week, and hopefully I'll come up with a more interesting gameplay style for it. At the minute he can definitely hop, but then he ...

1. Finish off the Franken-Jumper game. 2. Rewrite my giant Array declarations. .. Oh, and then double check that the new stuff works on all targets.

I tried to compile "On a Space Shooting Trail" for 3DS tonight, but it wasn't having any of it! Seems that my habit of creating giant arrays, at launch, isn't very good when it comes to trying to then run them on the limited 3DS. It seems that if I "alloc" the big arrays at a later point, they tend to work better than if I try to just declare "I'm having a ginormous array, here!", right at the start of the code. The task, then, will be to rewrite a significant part of "On a Space Shooting T...

I sat around waiting for feedback from the GBATemp community, in the hope that I might be able to fix up any potential issues with my 3DS Framework. Nothing arrived. I've left it there for 3 days, and... Nothing... So, here's release #2. Micro Clampett on the 3DS. (YouTube) You can Download Micro Clampett here.

My plan for this week was mostly to fix all the issues that people had with the first test release on 3DS.

Over the next few days, I hope to fix up a few of the flaws in the 3DS Framework, but otherwise I'm fairly happy with the way it's worked out. Having said that, there's been absolutely no feedback whatsoever over the past few hours, so I have no idea if it's working for others or not. Ho hum..

I promised over on the GBAtemp forum that today would be the day for the first 3DS Homebrew test release, with or without working music. Unfortunately, it's without working music 39)( But it does contain biscuits, so that's ok! If you head over to the Roland Eats a Stale Biscuit page, you'll find a lovely little .3dsx download button. Mmmm..

Here's how yesterday went. 1. Create the logo, do the screenshots, prepare the assets. 2. Compile the Windows version. 3. Test the 3DS edition. 4. Tweak the 3DS edition. 5. More 3DS tweaking. ... 2184. Extra 3DS tweaking. 2185. Realise there's no time to post the actual game.

Whilst trying to help rearrange the shed, the past few days have been rather lacklustre in the coding department.