2006 Compo Results And Entries!

[Francesco]

Results!



3rd place

MEDS by Strager



Prize: MagicKey2 + 128MB SD card



2nd place

Kicker by Nikolas



Prize: MagicKey3 256Kb + 128MB SD card



And the WINNER is...!

Organizer by Chetic



Prize: MagicKey3 512Kb + 128MB SD card

All prizes are sponsored by NeoFlash

[Francesco]

All entries!

Cippotto [out of competition]

• Author: Papero
• Download: binary and sources (304 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: The first WinDS emu... how cool!
• Comments by LiraNuna: This one isn't judged, but shows a good examples about Emulation architecture on WinDS!
• Comments by Papero: It's my little entry for this compo, so it's out of competition. Btw, it is a chip8 emulator. Maybe it blinks a bit... Enjoy!

Color Demo

• Author: SausageBoy
• Download: binary and sources (311 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: This is a demo app. It could become a nice color chooser control and has a cool built-on-the-fly icon! Unfortunately, it does absolutely nothing, although it does it very well! .
• Comments by LiraNuna: Quite an... Intresting demo! Shows unique features like real-time-rendered icon and using full-screen applications.
• Comments by Papero: We have received this entry at the very end of the time. It is only a small graphic effect demo, that changes both screen color while touching the touch screen. I had a lot of headaches to link this applib to others and I needed to partially rewrite it. Not so fun, not so complex, but it's worth a
  look for some cool ideas in the source.

MEDS

• Author: Strager
• Download: binary and sources (870 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: A nice input method. The design is not original and i'm not sure it could be useful on WinDS (which has a quite comfortable keyboard already). Anyway the implementation is well done and works fine, also including two communicating windows.
• Comments by LiraNuna: An alternative Input method. I'm sure that this alternative keyboard will be added into WinDS as an option
• Comments by Papero: Very interesting entry. It is a revolutionary writing system for devices with a touch screen (like our nds ). Not an original idea, because it is an implementation for ds of an existing software, but I think that LiraNuna could embed it in WinDS.

My Wins

• Author: RoboNes
• Download: binary (215 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: We couldn't get this one to work properly. That's a shame, cause it looked promising. I hope Robones will get it to work soon.
• Comments by LiraNuna: We couldn't run this application : Not on HW and not on Emulators.
• Comments by Papero: It's a shame that a very good entry like this does not work on NDS. We have tried in all ways to make it work, but no way. It works nicely on GBA (both emus and HW). Basically, it's an application like "My computer" on windows, so you can see your phisical drives and filesystems. The author has made a windows tool to create filesystems and append it to roms too. Maybe in too much early stage, but it worths to keep the good work, RoboNes!

Organizer

• Author: Chetic
• Download: binary and sources (434 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: This app is very nice, including all basic features of an organizer. It's easy to use, practical and able to store and reload data. Very useful, too!
• Comments by LiraNuna: Wow! Impressive application! Task organizing application! That's what i've allways wanted on my DS! This one could get full score from me if i could erase tasks
• Comments by Papero: What can I say? This is an entry that could grow up our WinDS! It is an Organizer like the ones you can find on PDAs. You can organize all your planned tasks by setting up expiration dates on this little app. Of course you can set groups and assign it a colour that allows to recognize a task by looking at the calendar. A very useful app! Because it uses a filesystem, it does not work on emus.

DSudoku

• Author: Frz
• Download: binary and sources (323 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: Nice try. The game works with no pains and does what you expect it to do. I'd like to have some more features, but who loves sudoku will love this one too.
• Comments by LiraNuna: A Sudoku game for WinDS, I'm not a big fan of this game, but i appreciate the hard work of the author.
• Comments by Papero: A tidy game... it's a Sudoku with a help system. It works nice, but somewhere the design lacks (eg. the way to put numbers by a droplist). BTW a clean and nice work . It uses an external open source lib for the help system.

Kicker

• Author: Nikolas
• Download: binary (217 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: This is a nice loader based on GBAMP, supporting icons for each app. I got very little to say: this is a very useful and well coded app!
• Comments by LiraNuna: An .NDS Homebrew launcher. This application is very handy and will be handy too after i will add a file-handler to WinDS (oops... i wasn't supposed to tell you that...)
• Comments by Papero: Another great app from our guys! Kicker allows you to launch nds files from a GBAMP without the need to restart the console. It is very nice to select an app from the droplist and start it from WinDS... now you can use WinDS to test homebrews too

TipMe

• Author: Strager
• Download: binary and sources (870 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: Very basic app, featuring simple algebra and the ability to switch data and unknows. Does little, does it well.
• Comments by LiraNuna: A Fine/Tax calculator, a very simple handy tool.
• Comments by Papero: A little tool that calculates Price/Tax/Total starting from 2 of them. Another utility for our NDS!

WinSweeper

• Author: Strager
• Download: binary and sources (870 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: I like this implementation of Mines. I look forward to see a way to add flags on the buttons as in the Windows version, a reset button and a risezable field. As for the rest, nice work including cool buttons and game statistics.
• Comments by LiraNuna: A nice little game. Kept me playing for hours . Too bad there are no options to enhance the game and make it harder (such as changing the grid size, adding more mines precentage, etc...)
• Comments by Papero: Someone here does not know Mine Sweeper? =D Well, now you can play minesweeper on the ds too! What a shame... no way to change the grid size =( BTW, another neat app from our compo's Stakanov ().

ZTiles

• Author: Luis Cabellos
• Download: binary (306 kb)
• Comments by Francesco: This is a headache-maker game . Basic features and nice buttons. I'd like to see some more stats during the game. Moreover, saving in this game is quite necessary, but not included. Good although not perfect.
• Comments by LiraNuna: Another game that kept me busy for a LONG time! I got untill the 51th level, then it got waaay to hard. thumbs up!
• Comments by Papero: A nice board game. It works fine, but the app itself seems a bit poor. Unfortunately it lacks a way to save levels, so every time you should restart from the first one .

Downloads:

• Get the WinDS Coding Competition 2006 Distro here (566 kb, includes all entries built in a single nds/nds.gba file). Note: some entries are working only on hardware!
• Get the distro sources here (544 kb, includes only sources and applibs to build the distro).
• Get ALL entries in a single package here (2.88 Mb, includes all entries listed above, with single binaries and sources, where available).

Last words

Last words by Francesco
Puff! Pant!

This compo has not been easy to organize, since we couldn't just leave all work up to coders. We had to prepare a devkit stable enough for you to code, we had to manage issues about the linkage of your apps creating the mechanism of applibs, we had to build tools to help you getting started as easily and fast as possible. Most of all, we had to get you through a completely new API (for most of you), learn its mechanisms and make it do what you meant to. Not an easy task!

At the end all went right! We got some really nice entries and I'm sure they'll bring other coders to WinDS.

Judging these apps has been very difficult! I'd like to send a prize to everyone but i suppose Neoflash would not approve .

Thank you everyone. Really.


Last words by LiraNuna
This was the first coding competition GBAWinS.com ran - and i see it as a success, we got an overall of 10 entries, and i think it's alot for a small compo like this one. We will surely run another compo soon. I hope to see more outstanding works even when we are not running a compo


Last words by Papero
Although it was the first WinDS compo, we have had very good entries. Someone
haven't put a valid readme in the package, but this is a detail. It has been
very difficult to choose a winner... Personally, I'm very happy for those guys
that have released their source code and for those apps that could make grow our
beloved WinDS. A special mention for Strager, that has put a great effort in
this compo, by submitting apps over apps and useful patches and by supplying
sources for your use.
A last word for Robones: his app was great... unfortunately we haven't been able
to try it neither on real DS nor on emus. For sure he would had a good score if
all were worked fine.