3DS Homebrew Apps

My top 3 3DS homebrew apps for the Nintendo 3DS system. This covers animation, instant messaging, and the DSx86, which allows you to load and run old DOS software on your Nintendo 3DS system.

You'll need a few things in order for you to be able to load up the 3DS Homebrew apps on your hand held.

1. You need an R4 3DS homebrew card, find out more about them at http://www.r43ds.org

2. You need a micro SD Card with your R4, you can usually get them in a combo package, or if you already have one that you have used for a camera or some other gadget in the house, you can use the one you may already have.

3. You have to get the homebrew apps of course :) I find a lot of them at gamebrew.org, which has several hundreds of homebrew apps, and 3DS homebrew games and more. Check it out.

So what is homebrew and homebrew gaming / apps? On Wikipedia it says the following, and I coulnd't explain it better myself even if I tried:

Homebrew is a term frequently applied to video games or other software produced by consumers to target proprietary hardware platforms (usually with hardware restrictions) not typically user-programmable or that use proprietary storage methods. This can include games developed with official development kits, such as Net Yaroze, Linux for PlayStation 2 or Microsoft XNA.
Many homebrew games are offered as freeware, although others are offered for sale, and some can be quite costly.[1] One popular type of homebrew game is the fangame. In Japan, these games are usually called "Dōjin soft".