A custom operating system and lightweight web ecosystem designed specifically for the Nintendo DS.
WebForge DS is an alternative textual and graphical environment built to transform the Nintendo DS into a portable web-like ecosystem. Instead of relying on heavy modern web standards, WebForge DS implements its own highly optimized, lightweight rendering engine and interpreter to run custom web pages directly on bare-metal hardware.
- Netwarper Browser: A custom web browser featuring web connectivity via Wiimmfi, capable of interpreting standalone lightweight web files.
- Calculator: A built-in touch-driven application for quick mathematical calculations.
- Internet Signal Test: A real-time utility to monitor, test, and display Wi-Fi signal strength and ping status.
- System Information & Settings: A control panel to configure date, time, and system preferences (supporting international DD/MM/YYYY and US MM/DD/YYYY formats).
- Hardware Information: A diagnostic utility to display detailed specs of the DS architecture and memory status.
- Theme Packs: A built-in personalization engine supporting custom visual themes made by the creator and the community.
To circumvent the hardware limitations of the Nintendo DS (67 MHz CPU and 4 MB RAM), Netwarper does not use standard HTML5/CSS3. Instead, it parses a custom, hyper-lightweight syntax split into three files:
Equivalent to HTML5, used to define elements and positioning on the DS screens (
[MT:"TITLE HERE"]
[P:"Paragraph" POS:"48, 50" CLS:"class"]
[MBP:"Featured here!"]
[USE_STYLE: style.sty]
[LOAD: script.dsjs]
Equivalent to CSS3, mapped directly to hardware properties and colors.
B_YELLOW:BG=#FFCC00,TXT=#000000,BRD=2,PAD=4
B_RESET:BG=#FF0000,TXT=#FFFFFF,BRD=1,PAD=2
MBP_PRG:TXT=#FFFFFF,SIZ=12,FNT=AURA
A trigger-based scripting syntax equivalent to JavaScript, processed via an optimized C++ switch-case interpreter.
VAR:clicking=0
ON:read_mode
INC:clicking,1
OS:PLAY=sound_data.sdat
OS:REFRESH
IF:clicking==10,OS:ALERT="Hello, world!"
wscs://(WebSite Certified Secure): For secure remote connections.wscns://(WebSite Certified Not Secure): For unencrypted connections.example.per: Serves as the default documentation and local test standard.
This project is configured to compile automatically using GitHub Actions via devkitPro's official devkitARM container. The workflow generates the final .nds executable on every push.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.