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MicroLua brings the programming language Lua on the Nintendo DS for easy and fast development of beautiful homebrews!
Based on brunni's µLibrary, µLua is a Lua interpreter featuring fast drawings and many important functionalities. You can exploit your Nintendo DS with the simplistic yet powerful Lua language!
On your cartridge, MicroLua is a NDS executable that shows as its frontend a great graphical shell from which you can explore your cartridge and run Lua scripts written for µLua.
µLua already benefits from an impressive collection of homebrews, from a complete and expandable MicroLua IDE to enjoyable games, produced by an active and helpful community.
Features
- Fast drawing: as MicroLua is based on Brunni's library, the µLibrary, MicroLua provides fast 2D drawing using the 3D GPU. This also includes alpha transparency, and PNG/GIF transparency (as MicroLua can load PNG, JPEG and GIF image formats)
- Even faster drawing: MicroLua also features Canvas, an object-oriented drawing system with high performances while allowing you to change drawing attributes after their creation
- Complete Sprites and Maps systems: with automated animations and dynamic maps, that is to say you can change the map composition through you program
- Wifi and Nifi: this project provides full access to the Web with the Wifi connection of the Nintendo DS, and also to the console-to-console connectivity
- Sound system: based on the Mixmod library, µLua can play MOD and WAV sounds
- Access to FAT: MicroLua gives you full access to the content of your card, and features a built-in library to handle INI-like config files
- Embedded File System (EFS): you can make a special MicroLua version to embed your scripts inside the Lua interpreter
- Rumble and motion features: if you have the required hardwware, you can exploit it thanks to MicroLua to shake your console and make it feel your movements
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License
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Ease: Effortless to make and run homebrew games, Just put a .lua file in the SD card and you are done. Features: Almost every component in the NDS is implemented into this homebrew. Design: It has a file explorer to load .lua files and has some good UI libraries. Support: Not a very well-maintained project nowadays, Last updated in 2016.