Touch your PC!

We all know you love your DS with a motherly passion – and that’s entirely justified. It’s a great system, with a lot of great games. But, did you ever get that crazy idea that, maybe, it could be used for a whole lot more?

Well, thanks to some industrious homebrew developers, you can control your computer (and emulators!) with your DS – completely lag free. No, it’s true. The future is now!

Homebrew developer spyherce spent many lonely nights whipping up his latest creation, DS2key, which is a server / client couple designed to transmit the button input from the DS and input them as keypresses on a computer’s keyboard – perfect for whatever games you might want to play. DS2key takes advantage of Steven Stair’s wifilib, so not only can you play Bubble Bath Babes on your favorite system, but you can even do it from 20 or 30 feet from your computer! Need more proof? Check out this video.

That’s not all, either – perhaps you’ve asked yourself the age-old question of, “Well, I have a touch screen. Why in the world do I need a mouse?” Sintax, another homebrew developer gaining popularity in the DS Homebrew scene, has whipped up a quiet little server / client couple using sgstair’s wifilib that allows you to poke your DS’s screen, and watch in awe as that little white pointer dances around the machine.

Remember, to use these, you’re still going to need to have your DS homebrew-capable. That means, you’re going to need either a flashed DS (or a PassMe) and a storage device!