Control Tester
Every homebrew app has a story behind it and for the Control Tester v.5 this is developer Johnny McKinney's tale:
"I always go tired of going to play any of my games (mainly Syphon Filter) and noticing something was up with my controls
MSTest
MIB.42 is still working on memory stick related projects. This time he has brought us his MSTest, Memory Stick benchmark utility for the PSP, version 1.0. Here is his message:
I just got my new SanDisk 2GB MemoryStick Pro ( the light blue one ) and run the R/W tests. Read speed is same as the 512M one ( 14
Ball Mark from Risike:
Mark Ball is a kind of bench mark program to test the performance of Micro Lua on DS and DS emulator.
The program will display bullets rebondissantes random color, size random and whose speed and direction is uncertain.
It will add for one minute and 20 seconds trying to remain at 30 fps
memtestARM This DS homebrew program runs a diagnostic test on the RAM in a SLOT-2 accessory connected to your Nintendo DS system. It uses RAM Unlocking API by Lick to see what kind of accessory (or "RAM pak") you are using, and then it writes various bit patterns to RAM (much like memtest86) to make sure that RAM can hold them.
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Volumetric Shadow Demo 1.5.1 Developer R.H.L is announced the release of Volume Shadow Demo verion 1.5.1 for the Nintendo DS. This homebrew, in case you weren't around during its previous release, is actually a program designed to test the handheld's graphics hardware capabilities
Volume Shadow Demo 1.2.0 Developer RHL is announcing the release of Volume Shadow Demo 1.2.0, a homebrew bascially allows you to test the DS' capabilities
DiagnoSe Spinal, who won this year's NeoFlash Spring coding competition for his Sensitive DS homebrew game, has released the first version of his homebrew app, DiagnoSe. As implied by the name of the homebrew, it allows you to diagnose your DS system on its many functions. The cool thing about it is that the interface actually mimics that of the Wii menu channels
Check NDS Check NDS by bong is one of those helpful homebrews that comes really handy when your DS is acting up and you don't know whether to just give it a kiss. Or pound it to smithereens with a hammer, then pour gasoline over every piece and torch the crushed console even CSI agents won't recognize it
