Volume Shadow NDS Demo 1.4.0

News/release from Rob

This small open source program demonstrates, among other things, some of the NDS' graphics hardware capabilities.


Now with DLDI / SLOT1 support!


Features
Hardware volume shadowing - A mini-tutorial is included in the readme!
Motion blur with video capture, using only one VRAM bank, at 60 FPS
Hardware lighting, texturing, fogging, antialiasing etc.
Display brightness control
Viewport scissoring (thanks to gabebear off the gbadev.org forum)
Loading text and binary files (through libfat)
Converting .tga 24/32bit image data to 16bit nds textures
Displaying a custom font and a text area over a background image
Smooth touch input
Simple frame rate counting and display
... and other things
It is mainly targeted towards new NDS homebrew developers, who want to see how to activate and utilize some of the NDS' graphics hardware features.

Build with devkitARM R23b, libnds 20071023 and libfat 20070127.

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