Porting Minetest onto the NintendoDS

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Porting Minetest onto the NintendoDS

by Jordach » Post

I just saw DSCraft and would like to see this on my own NintendoDS; I have tried it on my own (using a SuperCard Lite Rumble) and it fails; what I might try to do, is make Irrlicht work on both screens.

I might write a key changer.

So whaddya you guys think, comprende?

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by tinoesroho » Post

Let me put it this way:

Minetest - at least minetest-c55 will never be able to run on a console. Never. Ever. On the other hand, minetest-compatible clients could run on consoles; it's just a matter of hacking on the functionality to an existing "game".
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by CTMN » Post

The c++ code would have to be compiled for the NDS and thats easy. But I dont know if there is such a graphics lib for the NDS.

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by Jordach » Post

CTMN wrote:The c++ code would have to be compiled for the NDS and thats easy. But I dont know if there is such a graphics lib for the NDS.
It COULD work on DSLINUX, however, I doubt it; would be cool though to have it out of the house and not carry a laptop around all day.

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by leo_rockway » Post

Jordach wrote:
CTMN wrote:The c++ code would have to be compiled for the NDS and thats easy. But I dont know if there is such a graphics lib for the NDS.
It COULD work on DSLINUX, however, I doubt it; would be cool though to have it out of the house and not carry a laptop around all day.
Do you have the GBA slot memory card? Otherwise DSLINUX can't do much. The memory of the DS is quite awful. DSLINUX without added memory was only good for sshing for me...
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by Temperest » Post

Good luck fitting even the minetest.exe in 4mb of RAM and 67MHz of processing power :P

You might be able to get maybe 0.08 FPS if you use a very aggressive paging scheme, but the IO overhead would make it more like 0.0001 FPS.
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by Jordach » Post

Temperest wrote:Good luck fitting even the minetest.exe in 4mb of RAM and 67MHz of processing power :P

You might be able to get maybe 0.08 FPS if you use a very aggressive paging scheme, but the IO overhead would make it more like 0.0001 FPS.
I own whats called a Super Card (http://supercard.sc) this allows me to use homebrew etc.... without flashing.

I am been able to assign 500mb from a microSD card. Just to use as swap, and the top card I am also able to supply 256mb of swap; I should suppose that could work (I own several 2gb microSD cards.)

I also semise flashing it for an overclock, however stupid this sounds.

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by CTMN » Post

Do you mean that the SD card would be the RAM? That would make it even more slow.

So the only solve is... ASSEMBLER

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by Michael Eh? » Post

What I do know about the NDS is only one screen has 3D processor... the top screen. So you would have to address menu options, inventory, furnane to the bottom screen. Maybe the debug screen.

Mods, world, would have to be directed to external memory aka SD card. I lost track of the person I knew who had DS programming experience.

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by cornernote » Post

wouldn't it make more sense to port to android or ios, where the devices are more powerful and getting more powerful all the time? Also would be great exposure for minetest to be available in those marketplaces.

I don't know jack about programming for either, but i would really love to play minetest on my mobile devices. =)

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by IthegeekRS » Post

tinoesroho wrote:Let me put it this way:

Minetest - at least minetest-c55 will never be able to run on a console. Never. Ever. On the other hand, minetest-compatible clients could run on consoles; it's just a matter of hacking on the functionality to an existing "game".
Actually, I can simply develop a console friendly version if I make the console.

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cornernote wrote:wouldn't it make more sense to port to android or ios, where the devices are more powerful and getting more powerful all the time? Also would be great exposure for minetest to be available in those marketplaces.

I don't know jack about programming for either, but i would really love to play minetest on my mobile devices. =)
They already have it for Android, it's called Worldcraft.
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Mcc457 wrote:
cornernote wrote:wouldn't it make more sense to port to android or ios, where the devices are more powerful and getting more powerful all the time? Also would be great exposure for minetest to be available in those marketplaces.

I don't know jack about programming for either, but i would really love to play minetest on my mobile devices. =)
They already have it for Android, it's called Worldcraft.
There is no official minetest app on android.
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Mcc457 wrote:
cornernote wrote:wouldn't it make more sense to port to android or ios, where the devices are more powerful and getting more powerful all the time? Also would be great exposure for minetest to be available in those marketplaces.

I don't know jack about programming for either, but i would really love to play minetest on my mobile devices. =)
They already have it for Android, it's called Worldcraft.
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rubenwardy wrote:Worldcraft/buildcraft was illegally posted. It does not follow the share-alike clause of the Minetest license.
Someone pointed out that Minetest is under the GNU LGPL, and the publisher of the Android Minetest circumvented copyleft by technically making a compatibility layer that loads Minetest like a library.

Unless the analysis is wrong, this is just an example of why you shouldn't recklessly apply weak copyleft to everything in lieu of strong copyleft.
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