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Beyond playing games, can you use them for anything else? How hard is it to program them?
by dTal 6y ago
Beyond playing games, can you use them for anything else? How hard is it to program them?
- wgetch 6y agoWhile the majority of existing homebrew are either games or emulators, the systems are not limited to just playing games and there are a few options for programming them. devkitPro[0] provides a cross-compiling toolchain for 3ds homebrew development, if you are comfortable with C/C++ it is not all that difficult to program on the platform. There are several "portlibs" including SDL (SDL1 not SDL2 unfortunately) provided by devkitPro, which come in handy if you don't want to learn low level 3ds-specific APIs. There are also some homebrew game engines[1] that allow running Lua-based programs, though I haven't tried these myself. [0] https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started [1] https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Applications#Game_Engines https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Applications#Game_Engin...
- aviraldg 6y agoA 3D graphing calculator would be quite cool, I think.
- arthurcolle 6y agoI have the HP Prime that is basically this. The programming language is pretty terrible but you can get pretty impressive 3D plots (with touchscreen as well!) if you install a plugin
- aviraldg 6y agoIt has a 3D display like the 3DS?
- arthurcolle 6y agoNo but it shows a 3D plot. Want to see a photo?