Hi. I'm CoinzReturns. You may have talked to me a lot about SmileNet.
Honestly, if you can't grasp basic programming yet you won't grasp homebrew.
Even with an R4 card and a DSLite which is what you'd have to use, you will not fully comprehend everything there is... though the DS is a lot simpler to make homebrew for than the 3ds.. in all honesty.
That said..
You'll need to understand some C first. I highly recommend it. I'm currently trying to do something for SmileBasic that requires 3ds homebrew skills which I have zero of and it is hard, my C isn't so great.
Next, the tool you'd use for PC is called Devkitpro using anything else is a nightmare and not recommended at all.
For Nintendo DS Lite development and Original DS there are a lot of documentations.
Here is the devkit pro page so you don't get lost: https://devkitpro.org/
Here is all the documentation you will ever want for DS lite development and it should get you started: http://osdl.sourceforge.net/main/documentation/misc/nintendo-DS/homebrew-guide/HomebrewForDS.html
*one more thing*
In order to compile using devkitpro you'll go to "C:/Devkitpro/pn.exe" after setup and you'll open pn.exe then go to file open and once you've done that you will go to "C:/DevkitPro/Examples/DS/" then you will browse example folders, go into them, and look for the file in the core folder of that in /source called makefile or make, you will open that then go to tools->make. After that it will generate the binaries (in this case .ds files) for you to execute in either a DS emulator or on real hardware.
Note that this teaches you nothing and you have to actually go through a tedious amount of work to learn how to homebrew for DS.
R4 type DS cartridges thread
ShellyCreated:
Some quick advice when it comes to DS flashcarts:
- NEVER buy a flashcart with a year in the name. These flashcarts are intentionally rigged to stop working in a couple of years to get you to buy another one.
- Unfortunately, counterfeit flashcarts are very common, and finding reputable sites is difficult. This one is actually reputable despite it looking ridiculously shady; that's just kinda how these go.
MY GOSH THIS IS A PAIN. I figured out ow to do it but my laptop has so many files that when looking through downloads for the files I needed it took forever. I'm finally almost done. Also, I plan to order a flash cartridge either tonight or tomorrow.Good luck!