Introduction

This is a list of pages that contain background information regarding the DS Hardware

Details

The ARM Architecture Reference Manual, 2nd Edition By David Seal

• The ARMARM book

Arm instruction set cheat sheet

• http://re-eject.gbadev.org/files/armref.pdf

ARM Procedure Call Standard: <google>

• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/riscos/docs/CodeStds/APCS.txt

Basic register descriptions:

• http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.txt (a must read, don't skip it!)

• http://nocash.emubase.de/gbatek.htm

• http://neimod.com/dstek/

• http://www.bottledlight.com/ds/

• http://dualis.1emu.net/dsti.html

Tutorial:

• http://www.double.co.nz/nintendo_ds/ (worth read, hw programming guides)

• http://www.dspassme.com/programmers_guide/tutorial/

• http://www.tobw.net/dswiki/index.php?title=How_to_run_code

Reference framebuffer implementation:

• http://dslinux.gits.kiev.ua/trunk/linux-2.6.x/drivers/video/ndsfb.c

Graphics reference:

• http://www.tobw.net/dswiki/index.php?title=Graphic_modes

• http://www.dev-scene.com/NDS/Tutorials_Day_2#Graphics_Overview

Wifi RF2958

• http://akkit.org/info/dswifi.htm

• http://dslinux.gits.kiev.ua/trunk/linux-2.6.x/arch/arm/mach-nds/arm7 wifi using fifos for ipc

• http://dslinux.gits.kiev.ua/trunk/linux-2.6.x/include/asm-arm/arch-nds/ wifi.h & fifo.h headers

• Nintendo DS Wireless Networking Guide (worth read, also!)

• WiFiMe RT2570 usb
1. http://simon.teunvandeberg.nl/nifi/rt2570/howto_choose.html
2. http://masscat.afraid.org/ninds/wifi_apps.php

• http://91.184.39.23/svn/wsvn/liblobby/ (ds-to-ds communication)

Debugging

• from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging

``The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements''.

Brian Kernighan, "Unix for Beginners" (1979)

• http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=10332

expansion RAM lib

• http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=13023

• http://www.pineight.com/ds/

Bit Twiddling Hacks

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html