DS homebrew developer FluBBa is back with the latest update for his emulator, the S8DS v0.3. To those who have yet to hear of this project, it's basically a port of SMSAdvance to the NDS, and is a Sega emulator for the said handheld.

Nintendo's still not giving in to the lures of a price drop, and really, why should they? They have the two bestselling consoles in this generation, both home and handheld. If you think about it, they can afford to keep the Wii at its price point. The good thing though is that this week, they've started making a few concessions. Well one, really. Read on for more on that, little wolf pups and adventures in censorship in the rest of the Nintendo Weekend Warrior.

Woopsi is a handy dandy GUI library made by Antony Dzeryn for those who want to make their own Nintendo DS homebrew. According to the dev, the interface here is modeled after the AmigaOS windowing system. You can check out the changelog for this release along with some screenshots in the full article.


Download: Woopsi v0.38

Tonetex from DemonHades has posted a video up at YouTube showing his multiplayer hack of the DSi. According to the notes at the beginning of the video, you will be needing a DS unit (any type: Fat, Lite, DSi), M3 DS Real with the M3 Sakura OS. Video embedded after the jump.

We're back with the big #6 issue of our weekly QJ How-To Series, and this one here is a continuation of the discussion we jumpstarted last week on Copyright Issues and Homebrew. Let's pick up where we left off last week, shall we?

Here's a little something for the DS homebrew devs out there. Text OS gives devs a way to test their homebrew games faster on DS hardware by providing support to boot only homebrew apps. It will also boot whatever is in the DS's slot 2. More details after the jump.


Download: Text OS v1.0

If you're a homebrew game developer working on your own games for the DS, then LIBXM7 might turn out to be a handy addition to your bag of tricks. It's a library that lets you use XM-format songs as background music in your DS games using only ARM7 resources. Changelog after the jump.


Download: LIBXM7 beta v0.93

Just because it's a work in progress doesn't mean it's not worth checking out anymore. BLARGH Text Editor by anomalous_underdog is meant to serve as a demo to implement Joe Strout's HexInput method of inputting text on portable devices, say, like your DS Lite.


Download: BLARGH Text Editor WIP r120

Nintendo's cracking down hard on hacking, but hackers are working just as hard to crack their consoles. While the Wiibrew community's working on cracking the latest Firmware Update, the Acekard team made some progress running their flash cart on the DSi.

Video in the full article.

We've known about this for some time, but now we get official confirmation from Nintendo that the DSi is indeed incompatible with the R4 flashcart. Guess they're getting serious.