When you’re reading this that must mean The DStillery has officially opened, welcome!

I got my shiny black Nintendo DS a few weeks back. Before that I always hijacked my girlfriend’s DS but sitting on the public transport with a pink DS just go a bit weird when I received Guitar Hero. A pink DS is one thing, hitting your DS like a madman while ranting lyrics become really awkward so that’s why I finally bought one for myself. With my DS came a DSTT and since a DSTT is not so fun empty I decided to look around for some good homebrew. But the homebrew out there was like my heart after my first ex-girlfriend was done with it, scattered all over the place.

Around the same time I came across a great piece of open source software by RailsJedi called opensourcerails. The software powers a software gallery by the same name filled with Ruby on Rails projects. This would be perfect for a DS homebrew site! I made some minor modifications to the code, registered myself a fancy webdomain and filled it up so it wouldn’t be completely empty and this is where you come in. Every users/developer of DS homebrew is welcome to upload the games / applications they enjoy and host them here on The DStillery. Let’s take a look at some of the feautures.

  • You can create projects
  • Upload multiple screenshots for a project
  • Upload multiple versions for a project
  • Tag a project
  • Leave comments
  • See the number of downloads for a project
  • Rate projects
  • Bookmark projects

And the best thing is you don’t even need to create an account to do all these things! So show me you guys can handle that responsibility. The adjustments I made to the code are open source too so if you want to help out coding new features or just use it for your own projects please do.

My heart is all in one place again, let’s try to do the same for all that great homebrew out there.

Maran

ps. If you are the author of one of the projects listed on The DStillery and want admin access over your project, register a user and then email us here and we’ll grant you project ownership access.