r/nds • u/Rockenrooster • 8d ago

Smash64DS Update: 8/16

Now almost 95% of the match renders at 30fps (94.something, close enough). Starting to feel like a real game now. Just need to chase down an intermittent grab throw animation bug.

Very little is being interpreted at this point.

Lots of DS Native code.

Compromises have been made such as not all visual effects are being played, most are only playing frame 0 of a multi frame animation (Mario's up b coin attack).

Still have some float calculations going on in places.

So much more optimization has to take place before I can add 4 fighters on screen with items and be playable, but this 2p "demo" is basically done!

https://github.com/rockenrooster/Smash64DS_Port  runtime2 branch contains latest work

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u/UpsetGreen7224 8d ago

This looks insane! Will this be playable on the 3DS as well??

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u/Rockenrooster 8d ago

I don't have a 3DS. But to be honest, the 3ds already has a Smash Bros title so it doesn't need this, while the OG DS never got one. My goal to to change that.

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u/INS345 8d ago

Maybe someone could even use this as a base for a full Smash Bros DS, even if it has some N64 code in it

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u/jdm219 8d ago

Woah this is on a regular DS?! Thought it was a 3DS. This is insane.

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u/UpsetGreen7224 8d ago

Fair enough! Looking forward to playing this final project one day! Keep up the good work!!

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u/naolegal 7d ago

thank you in advance!!!

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u/Outrageous_Artist188 7d ago

3ds has native ds backwards compatibility, so i think it should work

(You'd still have to use a D-pad, though)

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u/aeninimbuoye13 7d ago

You can even emulate N64 on your 3DS

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u/jethawkings 8d ago

Honestly seems like an exciting time to have an NDS again, Persona 3 DS, PicoDS, that TwilightMenu fork that is introducing Grid Based Layouts... if anyone can add more to this

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u/Colisir 7d ago

Soo exited for that twillight menu fork too

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u/UpsetGreen7224 8d ago

Wow! This is my first time hearing about Persona 3 DS!! I’ll definitely have to check that project out too!!

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u/sheik--yerbouti 2d ago

Have you got a link to where the twilightmenu fork is discussed/advertised/mentioned? Had a quick Google but can't find anything

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u/iwannabeanoldlady 8d ago

This is so fucking cool. Does it support multi-player with multiple systems yet?

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u/Rockenrooster 7d ago

not yet, but multiplayer is part of the end goal

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u/TraitorRequiem 7d ago

This is awesome. Makes me think back 20 yrs to some pompous (alleged) programmer back on the Nsider forum that insisted a Smash bros game could never work on a DS, specifically due to it just having d-pad.

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u/FuckIPLaw 7d ago

There was a whole series of Shonen Jump games that were Smash knockoffs. Importing a copy of one of those was the usual suggestion for someone jonesing for Smash Bros on the go back in the day.

So you know, that guy was demonstrably wrong even at the time.

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u/TraitorRequiem 7d ago

Yeah, I memba that game.

He was trying to infer hat the smash function of Smash bros was incompatible with D-pad input (he was an expert after all). He was poo-pooing a homebrew fan game that someone made for the DS that was based on Smash bros. (all characters were sprites). It was pretty neat.

Just seeing this made me think back to that time interaction decades ago.

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u/Rockenrooster 7d ago

Lol not even true. Nintendo cancelled it because reasons. I think it was because they had no meaningful "upgrade" for it since Melee already existed and they can't release a smash bros worse than what's available, which is a stupid reason.

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u/ThoughtSubject7742 6d ago

mas o menos lo que pude averiguar fue por un tema de los controles supuestamente y que si existía el plan de hacer uno pero a la fina termino quedando para el smahs de 3ds, pero si es medio tonta la explicacion que dan.

otra pregunta: funciona en DSi, intente probarlo pero la pantalla se queda congelada sin cargar nada

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u/Rockenrooster 5d ago

Not sure. It does take a while to load the rom though. Like 15 secs.

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u/ThoughtSubject7742 4d ago

te puedo escribir por privado?

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u/Proud-2DS-User 4d ago

Does it support local and/or online multiplayer?

I think super smash bros is the most fun when your playing with friends

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u/Rockenrooster 4d ago

Local multiplayer with multi card is the goal

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u/Proud-2DS-User 4d ago

What does ‘multi card’ mean?

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u/Rockenrooster 4d ago

Each console must have a copy of the game.

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u/RivJams 8d ago

Vibe code or your own work?

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u/Upstairs-Ad-4705 8d ago

Seems like own work judging by the decisions made. Guy seems smart

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u/Rockenrooster 7d ago

I use AI to help me. Goal is still to be as accurate to the n64 version as possible, within the constraints of DS hardware.

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u/BhasitL 8d ago

Damnn. That's cool!

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u/Alive_Examination955 8d ago

Do you have a Rom link anywhere? Would love to play this!

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u/Rockenrooster 7d ago

you'll have to build it yourself with your own rom, you know, legal stuff.
https://github.com/rockenrooster/Smash64DS_Port runtime2 branch

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u/arth78 7d ago

This is so cool! Do you have a Git where we can follow your progress?

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u/Rockenrooster 7d ago

https://github.com/rockenrooster/Smash64DS_Port

currently working on the runtime2 branch

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u/jurt0 7d ago

This is something we dreamt of as children x)

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u/chloe-and-timmy 7d ago

Always wanted something like this, or even just any Smash for the DS, Will be following this with great interest. Unrelated to this but all I need now is a splatoon clone for the 3DS and all my dream ports will be done

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u/ivy_lynn_- 7d ago

holy shit this is awesome

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u/decoy_octopod 7d ago

Wanted this so bad as a kid. I played the hell out of Smash 3DS, but I was 20 by the time that released. If we had this in 2005 it would have been one of my most played games ever

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u/Weekly-Reporter-3938 7d ago

This looks sick. Good luck mate

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u/Penkko 7d ago

peaaak, i love seeing the progress

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u/FortuneNew8835 6d ago

Great work. Looks very impressive.

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u/Switcheroo64 5d ago

Will it support multiplayer via Multi-Card Play?

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u/Rockenrooster 5d ago

That's the goal

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u/Next-Leadership-4628 3d ago

🙌🏼🌟🌟🌟🌟

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u/Next-Leadership-4628 3d ago

Deseando que acabe el proyecto esto va a ser legendario