GAME. It’s all here!

The NDS by itself is a reallt great game system. But add an R4 DS card to the mix, and a whole slew of homebrew programmers, and you have a handheld console.

1) Lemmings DS – THE Classic strategy and mind game is back.Come, amazing gameplay, mixed with Strategy!

Lemmings was a huge hit on the Commodore Amiga computer.  It went on to spawn version for the Commodore 64 at the time, as well the PC computers.I really do believe that it was this game that set the stage for today’s strategy and brain training games.All of the original 120+ levels that could be found on the Amiga version of the game, remade for the NDS.So you get every single, identical stage/level originally created for the Amiga computer, and later the C64 computer as well.  A must have for any serious comical strategy game lover.

2) Quake DS – The original FPS!

It is the first and standard setting Quake that was released over 10 years ago for the PC.There’s really no way I could really say any more.Quite possibly the best game and in my opinion that game that inspire the whole first person genre.And now, it’s available as a FREE download for your Nintendo DS so long as you have an R4 DS Card too.Carefully and precisely remade for the NDS and NDSi Console.

3) xRick is the remake / conversion of one of the best classic platform games on the Amiga computer and now you can enjoy it on your NDS / DSi console

Another classic game that you always want to go back to and play over and over again.One of the absolute best platform side scrollers of all time. You just have to put xRick on your R4 DS Card and start playing it right away.Rick Dangerous was the must have side scroller of the day.Anyone that did not have a Nintendo DS system had either one or both of these games in lieu of.Side Scrolling Advanture game truly taken to the max.  Challenging, great graphics, and loads of fun!

4) DSLinux Turns Your NDS into a full blown linux hand held – complete with many of the same applications you’d find on linux

Ah yes, DS Linux.  Before cards like the R4 DS Card, it was unimaginable for us to be able to load linux onto a system that fit in the palm of our hands.While there are a good number of ports for different OS and game systems the truth it you can’t really enjoy them on anything other than the NDS because of the touch interface.  Because you can use your Stylus as mouse, you really get the full benefit of loading all of your favorite linux games, applications, etc… Rigth on your Nintendo DS lite system.No longer just for personal computers, with the r4 DS card you can have linux on a new platform.  If you have a Nintendo DSi, then you’ll need the R4i SDHC version of the R4 DS Card.

5) ScummVM – The only way to really have the chance to play those old point and click adventure games!

If you absolutely love point and click games, like Monkey Island, Beneath a Steel Sky or others, then you have to try ScummVM.  ScummVM DS is a part of the ScummVM project. The ScummVM project is an attempt to re-engineer many classic point and click adventure games of the 80s and 90s to run on modern computer hardware. Technology has changed a lot since these games were written, and so ScummVM attempts to replicate the gameplay of the original games in exacting details, without any of the original code that the game ran on. What you will find with the ScummVM emulator is that you do actually need a copy of the original game so that ScummVM can utlitze the graphics, sounds, and scrips that made the game work. ScummVM is written in such a way that it can be ‘ported’ from one type of machine to another, and ScummVM DS is a port of ScummVM to the Nintendo DS handheld games console.

And that is the list of homebrew games you must have for this week.Next week I will talk about and introduce you to a whole slew of emulators for older computer and console systems, all of which can be played on your NDS with the R4 DS Card