Laser Hockey DS - January 31 2008

Filed under: Laser Hockey DS, Nintendo DS, homebrew

We have added DS-DS wireless connecting. We can't say multiplayer yet because you can't actually play the game against a friend. One player can host, another can join. Once a connection is established, both players should drop into the usual practice mode. Your mileage may vary. Let us know if anyone gets that far.

Internal build: 0.3.1

• Added multiplayer buttons Join and Host
• Added DS-DS initialization
• Extra update when performing screen switches
• Now drawing right before the V-Blank
• Added status text on connection error
• Wireless no longer turns on before it is supposed to

You can download it by clicking on this link: LHDS_2008_01_31.zip.

Finally, some links for liblobby as info is hard to come by:

• Source code in SVN: http://91.184.39.23/svn/wsvn/liblobby/?sc=0
• 19 pages of forum posts: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14198
• QuakeDS uses it: http://quake.drunkencoders.com/net_mods_tcs.html#Networking
• Dicewars has a beta: http://dicewars.drunkencoders.com/beta/
• StarLite had a beta before they were sadly shut down

Laser Hockey DS - January 5

Filed under: Laser Hockey DS, Nintendo DS, homebrew

We have put up a build with a couple more updates.

Internal build: 0.2.0

• We have a nice looking title screen with a single button for Practice which just launches the same old game with no way out.
• Added a real player two paddle, it's blue.

You can download it by clicking this link: LHDS_2008_01_05.zip.

Laser Hockey DS - December

Filed under: Laser Hockey DS, Nintendo DS, homebrew

We have put up a December 2007 release of Laser Hockey DS. Due to the holidays, game development took a back seat to game playing so there are only two minor changes from the November release.

The new internal build number is 0.1.7.

• The scores display on each screen
• The game goes into sleep mode when you close the lid

You can download it by clicking this link: LHDS_2007_12_31.zip.

To add a spot of good news, there is a homebrew DS-DS wireless multiplayer library named liblobby from MightyMax. We will look into using that for multiplayer in the next build.