Welcome to Patater

Introduction
Hay kiddies! Guess what? I made you this special little app that helps you break that nasty habit of yours. Do you want to convert some data out of a .c, .cpp, or .h file into REAL, ACTUAL binary data? Does everybody on #dsdev yell at you for using .h files for your graphics instead of .bin files, but your graphic converter only converts graphics into .h? Enter hConvert: the hero of smashing text based binary data. It'll parse through a (currently limited) hex based, comma delimited, "{" starting, "};" terminated dump of binary data and spit out a little .bin file. Super useful! You know you want it oh so badly.

About
RGBCompare is a nifty little application for X86 Linux, Macintosh OS X, and Windows. It allows you to compare how colors look on your PC and the Nintendo DS (or any other 555-color based system).

PataterChess will be a case study in porting a GTK+ application (PataterChess for Linux) to the Nintendo DS using the PataterSoft GUI Kit.

DSEDICT will be a handy, free dictionary for Japanese on the Nintendo DS.

PataterSynth was a DS project I have been working on non-stop for the past 2-3 days, it's hard to tell exactly, no sleep during this time.

About
The PataterSoft GUI Kit is an open source (released under MIT license) GUI kit for the Nintendo DS. It is a basic framework for building a GUI. It is designed to help developers streamline the creation of basic menus and other similar components. It also includes a separate library with a few useful functions, such as vblanksleep, waitfortouch, and dmafill. It was written in C++.

About
The PataterSoft Girl Demo is an open source (released under MIT license) demo for the Nintendo DS. It demonstrates displaying two 256-color paletted 256x192 bitmaps. Pressing start and select exits back to the Darkain MultiNDSloader (or freezes the demo if not using the Darkain loader). It was written in C++.

The Theme
The theme of the Thanksgiving Harvest Homebrew Competition is simple: Harvest Season and Thanksgiving. Any game or demo that has a turkey, cornucopia, thanksgiving holiday related food, autumn leaves, pilgrims, etc. in it would meet the theme.

About
The following guide will help you to compile Boost for the Nintendo DS using devkitARM on linux. It assumes you have $DEVKITARM and $DEVKITPRO environment variables already set-up properly, and bjam, boost's special version of jam (similar to make), already installed. Thanks to davr for working with me to get boost compiling.

This is the modest and lowly Introduction to Nintendo DS manual, the supreme source for beginner knowledge on programming the Nintendo DS.