Homebrew app turns DS into portable sketchboard

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Zovni (10504) on 1/13/2008 10:02 AM · Permalink · Report

Don't know why nobody thought of making this earlier, but then again not everybody knows that the DS's touch screen is also pressure-sensitive... Anyway, behold Colors!, a homebrew digital painting program that makes full use of the stylus and turns your DS into a portable sketchboard! The soft is freeware and runs on most flashcarts when DLDI patched (works fine on my R4). Perfect for budding artists on the go.

beetle120 (2415) on 1/13/2008 10:58 AM · Permalink · Report

Wow the DS is pressure-sensitive. Nintendo never ceases to amaze me with how advanced there stuff is. Wonder why more games don't use this.

xroox (3895) on 1/13/2008 2:19 PM · Permalink · Report

Probably because people would mash the screen too hard and break it.

Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 1/14/2008 12:32 AM · Permalink · Report

hence: no porno games for the DS, "hand-held" be damned!

Sciere (930488) on 1/14/2008 6:36 AM · Permalink · Report

Doki Doki Majo Shinpan! cough

Игги Друге (46653) on 1/14/2008 1:48 AM · Permalink · Report

My step-sister uses a fork on her DS for lack of the original stylus.

Somebody bring me Sisko! (8) on 1/14/2008 5:49 AM · Permalink · Report

I hope Bob Sabiston's Fatbits Pocket Painter gets a release, too. Long time no update on that matter. DS homebrew's pretty impressive, some other guy turned his NDS into a GPS receiver to navigate with Google maps and Alexei Karpenko aka natrium42 builds and sells card kits to control robots and other peripherals with the DS. Neat!