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vuurrobin

programs usally shouldn't need to know on what device they are running on.

why do you need this?

vuurrobin

it returns to menu if the menu supports it and it will shutdown de ds if the menu doesn't support it.

the behaviour used to be undefined usally causing it to hang, but this was changed somewhere in the past.

vuurrobin

the law may allow it, but that doesn't mean its supported on this forum.

vuurrobin

the installer should also have installed the gba examples (unless you deselected them). that is also a good place to look.

there should also be a doxygen manual somewhere, but I can't seem to find it (is there even one for libgba?).

vuurrobin

using the filesystem is the only good way for creating savefiles. a sortof best practice is to store your savefile in /DATA/yourgame/ so that the root doesn't get cluttered up, but sadly few people follow that.

vuurrobin

system() executes its parameter on the command line. seeing as the ds doesn't have a command line (or an OS) that function is useless on ds. letting homebrew return to the menu is really a job for the menu by implementing the exit to menu protocol (http://devkitpro.org/wiki/Homebrew_Menu#Exit_to_Men...

vuurrobin

irqInit(); and irqEnable(IRQ_VBLANK); are already called before main starts. calling them yourself will cause errors with libnds. remove those 2 calls and try again.

vuurrobin

here is an explanation of the toolchain and an explanation on how to create an nds file the hard way (note that the tutorial is old, so thing may be changed in the meantime) http://www.dev-scene.com/NDS/Tutorials_Day_2#Toolchain_Explained here is some information about the firmware (not sure if this...

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bool restart = true;

int main()
{
	while(restart)
	{
		restart = mygame();
	}
	return 0;
}

vuurrobin

you shouldn't include "system.h", it already gets included in "nds.h"

you can access the user data with the "PersonalData" define, so "PersonalData->name" will get you the users name in utf-16 format.

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