DS Homebrew game: ASCIIWar v0.999

Video games don’t have to be eye candy to be fun. And that’s what this new homebrew game from Samel is: fun. Introducing ASCIIWar: You play the RAM controller of your DS and you have to kill all the RAM values that have gone crazy before your CPU crashes! Check out the full article for more info.

Download: ASCIIWar v0.999

Sometimes all a game needs to be good is to be fun. Samel‘s new Nintendo DS homebrew game ASCIIWar may not be high on the eye candy (its visual interface is pure ASCII, as the title suggests), but it’s still a fun little game.

ASCIIWar is a kind of meta-game where you have to play the RAM controller of your own Nintendo DS and fight a war against a fake RAM controller who is messing up all the RAM values of your handheld. Here’s more info on ASCIIWar v0.999:

COMMANDS

• D-pad: move
• B: rest 1 turn
• L: popup the keyboard
• L then c: list command
• L then h: this help
• L then i: inventory
• L then l: list spell
• L then k: commit suicide

SPELLS

• b: cast bzero spell [L+20 MP] – [hurt all ascii in sight]
• f: cast free spell [IN/2 MP] – [restore HP]
• m: cast malloc [IN MP] – [expand ram sense]
• p: cast preempt spell [15 MP] – [delay next ram refresh]
• r: cast random spell [10 MP] – [change level]
• s: cast sigsuspend spell [IN MP] – [freeze the cpu]
• u: cast umask spell [L MP] – [mask yourself to ascii]

Make sure to take a look at the game’s readme before playing the game. The readme contains info on how to install the game.

Download: ASCIIWar v0.999

Via GBAtemp