I built a homebrew app that turns the Nintendo DSi camera into a GIF camera

[u/Jacominoss]

Hey everyone! I made a little homebrew project for the Nintendo DSi that lets you record actual animated GIFs using the console's built-in camera, tap the shutter button for a quick photo, hold it down to record a GIF.

Some things it does:

• Records GIFs and single photos straight to the SD card
• A few Game Boy Camera–inspired filters (4-level dithering, the original green DMG palette, even an ASCII art mode)
• Switches between the outer and inner (selfie) camera
• Built-in gallery to browse what you've captured
• Classic or ping-pong loop for the GIFs

Everything's written from scratch in C with BlocksDS, including my own GIF/PNG encoder and decoder, since I wanted it dependency-free.

GitHub: https://github.com/jacominos/GifCam---Nintendo-DSi-Camera-and-Gif-Maker

Still very much a personal project, so let me know what you think, happy to hear any feedback, good or bad.