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Table of Contents
01 - In the beginning
02 - The PassMe
03 - The PassMe2
04 - WiFiMe
05 - WiFi Bounty
06 - Cracking the NDS game encryption
07 - FlashMe
08 - PAlib vs The World
09 - NDSHB.com (Shameless plug)
10 - Falling out (The divide in the community)
11 - Piracy and NeoFlash vs DarkFader
The History of DS Homebrew
In the beginning/About me
My name is James Zawacki (Lynx), I'm 33, and I'm not a gamer. Never really have been into handheld gaming since I was little. But, walking by a Nintendo DS store display, the intuitive hardware caught my eye. I saw the touchscreen and wifi for $150 and saw a whole lot more than a handheld gaming system. I was currently using a $100 Palm PDA with a gray scale screen, no WiFi, no 3D, etc. I could see a future for the DS outside of the gaming industry. It was then that I started looking into homebrew for the DS. Unfortunately, it was at a time when you couldn't even purchase a DS. The DS launched in November and couldn't be found on store shelves in my area (Chicago) till February of the next year. And even then, you had to be quick to get one. Lucky for me, I picked up one and in anticipation of DS homebrew, ordered a Game Boy Advance (GBA) Flash Cart to load the homebrew onto. It took a months to arrive and was just in time for me to enter the DS homebrew scene.
Also, I'm a pretty honest guy in real life, and I'm the same person on the Internet. I treat people on-line the same as I do in my every day interactions with society. There is no difference to me. Anything I say on-line I have no issues with the world reading. Even in private messages, when I am talking to someone about someone else, I have never said anything that I wouldn't want to get back to that person. I would say the same thing if they were looking over my shoulder as I typed it. And, everything listed here shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. I don't hide any opinions or feelings. It does seem that many people think the Internet is a game. They do and say things as if they are in a fantasy world and that everyone is playing along with them. That belittling people has no reproductions in real life and there are no feelings to be hurt. It's just a game, right? With that, let's talk about DS homebrew.
