DS Homebrew Mario's Cement factory Game and Watch
In 1984 I got my second ‘handheld’ console: the G&W Mario's Cement factory. And now I programmed this version for the DS homebrew.
This is the result and I hope you like it.
A video showing the game can be found on YouTube: Nintendo DS Homebrew game Mario's Cement Factory.
A video showing the game can be found on YouTube:
Some information:
- Gameplay identical to the Game & Watch Mario's Cement Factory.
- Each level becomes gradually more difficult: more carts carrying cement and more missing elevator steps
- Background graphic 'borrowed' from 'Game and Watch Gallery 4'.
- All other graphics created from a picture taken from my G&W Mario's Cement Factory.
- All sounds recorded from a playing session with my G&W Mario's Cement Factory.
[ Yes, my G&W Mario's Cement Factory handheld is still working !]
The game is created using devkitpro: https://devkitpro.org/.
Good introduction tutorials to using devkitpro and DS programming: https://patater.com/files/projects/manual/manual.html.
- It is as simple as putting the mariocement.nds on the SD card.
- Put the SD card back in the R4DS card.
- Put the R4DS card back in the Nintendo DS.
- Start the Mario's Cement Factory homebrew application.
- Folder - audio: contains all the sounds.
- Folder - build: used to build the game application.
- Folder - gfx: contains all the graphics.
- Folder - source: contains the game sources.
- File - main.c: the main game program source file.
- File - mariocement.nds: game nds-file (result of build).
- File - mariocement.elf: game elf-file (result of build).
- File - mariocement.pnproj: devkitpro project definition file.
- File - icon.bmp: game icon image.
- File - Makefile: devkitpro project make file.