Colors! - Drawing On The Nintendo DS
Colors! is another homebrew application that I have loaded on my Nintendo DS. In short, it is a drawing program using the stylus. This isn't just Microsoft Paint though. It is a fantastic little program that can create some really nice images.
The interface is very simple and allows you to choose colors, brush sizes, opacity to your paint, and more. You can even zoom in and scroll around your canvas to look at it better. A super handy eyedropper tool is available to pick colors from your canvas as well.
I won't go much more into, but download it and load it up. The drawing experience is incredibly simple and refined to feel like you have a lot of control. You can save your images directly onto the flash card as well.
Getting It To Run
The setup is very simple.
- Download the latest version from the Colors website. I am using 1.05 as of August 14th, 2007.
- Unzip the download into its own folder. The important files are the colors folder and the Colors.nds file.
- This application reads and writes to the memory card so you will need to patch the Colors.nds with the DLDI for your hardware.
I have written an instruction page on doing this called Patching NDS Homebrew With DLDI. Follow the instructions there and then continue on here.
- Copy the colors folder into the root of your flash card. The Colors.nds file can go anywhere I believe, but I have not verified this.
- Boot your NDS and start playing.
Here is an image I took from their website. Someone definitely has some talent. You can check out more digital paints at this gallery.
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Original Post: Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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