I’m glad I could help. Unfortunately I can’t help you with a template, I’ve since switched all my development into a Linux based environment. However, if you do manage to make a Visual Studio template I’d be happy to link to it here.

Cheers.

I now have one question. Is it possible to save these settings as a template or something. This way I can click New->Project and then from the list of options have a NDS option. I’m a bit lazy (i think most coders are..) and going through all of these steps is a bit much every time I want to start up a new NDS homebrew.

Thanks loads!

This really helped me out configuring VS and I can now finally start programming for the DS too!
Thank you very much, good sir!

While I have very little experience with C# my gut instinct is that what you want to do would either be impossible, or very hard to do.

As far as I can remember, C# is targeted at the CLI. I believe a lot of the functionality requires the .NET runtime as well.

While you may be able to pre-compile all those languages down to the same intermediate language, that description right there puts you out of luck. When you program for an embedded platform such as the Nintendo DS you need to compile your applications down to architecture specific machine code.

There’s no .NET runtime and no Common Language Infrastructure included on the Nintendo DS, so unless you can include that in a machine code compiled version of your application I doubt you’ll have any luck.

Also please keep in mind that while my examples do present a C++ project, ndslib is a C library.

Great article. Now I have some experience in C# but not that much in C++, and afaik .NET’s C++, VB and C# implementations all precompile down to the same intermediate language, so they are interchangable (in theory?). Is there any way to convert the default application to Visual Studio C# Express?

Any light on the subject would be great!
Thanks,

Martin

Glad you enjoyed the article.
I’ve never used PAlib, but I’ve heard good things about it.

It’s all about perspective. If you’d like to use PAlib please feel free, don’t let me stop you. I’ve heard it abstracts certain difficult concepts out that you would otherwise have to deal with when using libnds.

Personally I started with libnds because I was curious. I like the fact that I’m “closer to the metal” with it.

If you’re objective is to get a decent game/project going on the NDS I’d actually suggest you give PAlib a try.

Then again I’ve never used it before, so don’t just take my word for it.

I’d be interested in hearing your opinions if you do give it a try.

Cheers!

http://palib.info/wiki/doku.php?id=day1

Thanks,
Ariel

Did you, or anybody else tried to build the dualis emulator from source within Visual Studio with debugging information. Could that work?

Unfortunately, dualis crashes on my computer, so I didn’t gave that a shot. I assume it’s just some missing DLLs from D3D8 or other libs, but I’m not sure.

For now, I’ll just work with the free version of no$gba

Regards
Maik

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial. As it stands you can not debug homebrew nintendo DS games through Visual Studio. I could be wrong, but I believe it to be true.

When I initially presented the instructions for the tutorial my objective was to get the code to compile and execute in both modes (both release and debug). Without the changes doing a build all and run would do nothing.

Debugger support is not included and breakpoints set in Visual Studio will not effect your ROM.

If you learn of any way to get debugging support and breakpoints in Visual Studio please let me know.

Cheers.

However, I am a bit confused about the configuration of the debugger. I did exactly as you explained, set some breakpoints in my main function, but after hitting run, it simply ignores my breakpoints.

What am I doing wrong? Is debugging the .nds through the emulator actually possible?

Regards
Maik