README.md

Awesome BlocksDS list

Introduction

BlocksDS is an SDK to develop applications for the Nintendo DS (and DSi). You can find its documentation here.

This document contains a list of links to projects related to BlocksDS.

BlocksDS is possible thanks to Wonderful Toolchain.

This document is under the CC0 1.0 universal license.

Original games

• AngunaDS: Fantasy RPG with several dungeons to explore.
• Blimp Chicken DS: 🤖 Drink & drive an airship, dodge fighter jets, smoke, and ram skyscrapers in a 3D arcade combat game.
• Meteora Galactic Battle: Arcade game of fighting as a god against other planets.
• PortalDS: Homebrew adaptation of Valve's Portal.
• Space Impakto DS: A Bullet-Hell SHMUP(Space Shooter).
• Tales of Dagur: RPG game for NDS.
• Tetris 3DS: Tetris in 3D for DS.
• TouhouDS: Touhou engine for NDS.
• WolveSlayer: 3D hack'n'slash game with beautiful graphics.
• Traffic Escape DS: 🤖 A Rush Hour-style traffic puzzle game with 3D graphics.

Ports of games

• Angband: A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game.
• ClassiCube: Clone of Minecraft for many platforms, including NDS.
• DDNet 9: Free and open-source side-scrolling platformer with unique cooperative gameplay.
• Skyjo-DS: 🤖 Port of card board game Skyjo with local multiplayer support.
• MYST-DS: 🤖 Port of the adventure game MYST on Nintendo DS.
• Riven DS: 🤖 Homebrew port of Riven (sequel of MYST) on Nintendo DS.
• Triple Triad DS: Remake of Triple Triad (card minigame included in Final Fantasy VIII).
• UndertaleNDS: Remake of Undertale to Nintendo DS (source only, you must provide all copyrighted assets yourself).

Applications

• 3dmaze: Port of Windows 9x 3D Maze screensaver to modern systems (and other platforms, like the NDS).
• A-Pix DS: 🤖 A YYCHR like Pixel Art editor for the nintendo DS!
• ao-nds: Attorney Online client for the Nintendo DS.
• Bunjalloo: Web browser for DS and DSi.
• Cobalt: Painting program for creating textural and expressive pixel art, built on Bedrock.
• dsbf_dump: BIOS and firmware dumper for Nintendo DS, DSi and 3DS.
• DSMI library: It provides MIDI support for the DS.
• DSerial: DSerial card library, extracted from libdsmi.
• Eigenmath DS: Scientific calculator for the Nintendo DS.
• Kekatsu-DS: Easy-to-use content downloader for Nintendo DS(i) consoles.
• Micro Lua DS: Updated port of Micro Lua DS to BlocksDS with NitroFS and DSi support.
• miniboot: Minimalist flashcart bootloader replacement for NDS
• ndsntp: NTP client that can set the time and date of your DS from online NTP servers.
• NitroOffice: 🤖 A nintendo DSi homebrew application to read and write documents.
• Nitrous Tracker: A Fasttracker II style tracker for the Nintendo DS.
• PassMeLoader: Simple NDS application that loads the GBA slot in PassMe mode.
• ScratchEverywhere: Custom Scratch Runtime made in C++ for multiple platforms, including DS.
• uxnds: NDS/3DS fork/port of the uxn/Varvara virtual machine.
• VNDS: DS Visual Novel Reader is an application used for playing gamebooks formatted with sound and pictures.

Emulators

• bedrock-nds: An emulator for the Bedrock computer system.
• DS81: ZX81 emulator for the NDS.
• GameYob: GB, GBC and SGB emulator.
• LodjurDS: An Atari Lynx emulator for Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.
• MegaZeux: Game creation system (GCS) created by game developer Alexis Janson in 1994.
• NGPDS: SNK Neogeo Pocket emulator for Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.
• NitroGrafx: PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 emulator for Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.
• NitroSwan: Bandai WonderSwan (Color/Crystal) & Benesse PocketChallenge V2 emulator for the Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.
• S8DS: A Sega 8bit systems emulator for Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.
• WasabiDS: Watara Supervision emulator for Nintendo DS(i)/3DS.

Demos

• emod DS: Sandbox prototype environment in 3D.
• Emulator Examination: Demo by Stargaze released at Revision 2026. More information in Pouet.
• nds-bgmode-ppuhax: Proof-of-concept code of the PPU bgmode switch glitch thing, as demonstrated in Emulator Examination.
• Volumetric Shadow Demo: Demo of hardware accelerated volumetric shadows and some other 3D features.

Development libraries for NDS

• DSMA: Library to display 3D models with skeletal animations using hardware acceleration.
• LibDSF: Library to render text using fonts generated by BMFont.
• libmikmod: Port of the library used by the Mikmod module player.
• NightFox's Lib: Library to develop 2D applications with 2D and 3D hardware support.
• Nitro Engine: Library to develop 3D applications.
• PAlib: Legacy library used to develop NDS games and applications in the early life of the console.
• µLibrary: Library to develop 2D applications using the 3D hardware of the DS. It can be used alongside PAlib.
• wifikb: Library that allows you to use your PC's keyboard to type text on your DS homebrew.
• Woopsi: Nintendo DS GUI framework for creating user interfaces for homebrew software.

Ports of libraries to NDS

• Box2D: 2D physics library.
• gbajpeg: JPEG loading library.

Development tools for NDS

• NDS Compressors by CUE: Compressors for Nintendo GBA/DS consoles by CUE.
• ptexconv: Graphics conversion tool with support for Tex4x4 texture format.
• TheXTech: Free and open-source game engine for Mario-like platforming games.