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quit wasting your time and post your source code. i think you havent #included the file elhobbs mentioned.

the internet contains the equivalent of 100,000 lybrarys of congress. i dont think one more is going to hurt anything.

the internet has a lot of gigabytes. i dont think its too big.

hello, sorry for my repeted post
whith this codes, I iniciate reading, but it doesn't load in my brain
please help by uploading a zip of your project
p.s. did you enable BG extended palettes?

Its not possible. Do it the way you don't want to do it. It's the right way. Keep track of your special positions independently from your art. Make a separate PC program to analyze your art ahead of time if you are unwilling to do it manually.

you have to use the filesystem. i dont think theres any best practices. someone else will have to tell you what theyve actually done, but personally I would just write a unique filename to the root of the fat

the libnds documentations arent the final word on the libnds features.
libnds features arent the final word on nds features.
libnds contains REG_BLDCNT, REG_BLDY, and REG_BLDALPHA. study the operations of these regs on gbatek

post buildable sources.
what does x start off equal to?
if youre tired of posting buildable sources you might consider using a public source code repository

BgType_Text8bpp maps such as what youre using are not char. they are u16. you are writing garbage to your map.

After a year of practice you might be able to make the DS do things you can do in 5 seconds with XNA. After another year you might even make it run as fast as it would on XNA. Do you have a couple of years booked?