Nintendo DS Programming

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 6:53 pm

in the US, the . is for the decimal, and the , is for the thousand seperator. I first saw it used the other way on this forum.

So, is it 500000 or 500? I also noticed there were 3 zeroes after the . so that would point more towards 500000. If it was 500 it would only have two zeroes for the cents.

Andy_J · Post by **Andy_J** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 7:25 pm

Not in the US. Swap them. Hell, "." is called the "decimal point" in this case. >_>

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 8:03 pm

I thought it was called period.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 9:27 pm

I thought the comma was used for the decimal part? I dont know maybe the psp devkit isnt as bad as I once thought!

crzyrbl · Post by **crzyrbl** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 9:32 pm

didnt we already go through a comma period international talk-thing? Its different in different countries, and maxcoderz has members all over the world.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 9:45 pm

Yes we have already gone through number formatting. Ben had to confront it.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Wed 13 Sep, 2006 10:26 pm

didnt we already go through a comma period international talk-thing? Its different in different countries, and maxcoderz has members all over the world.

We did, but we are trying to figure out what the hell the exacty price is. Considering that the Wii is going to be around $1,700 US dollars I can't see the DS being more than that. (Yippie for the Wii...say who wants to join me in developing for that!)

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Thu 14 Sep, 2006 12:18 am

He might've made a mistake (half a million seems fairly unrealistic) but neither American or Dutch notation involves 3 numbers after the decimal point (or comma).

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 14 Sep, 2006 12:42 am

half a million what? yen isn't so unrealistic.(well to cheap)

Was the gcn like $20000 (omg no thousands seperator), I'd say then its probably not going to be more than $50000 for any popular console devkit.

Arcane WIzard · Post by **Arcane WIzard** » Thu 14 Sep, 2006 6:00 am

He said $, in my world that means dollars.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Thu 14 Sep, 2006 7:11 pm

Yeah the wii is going to be incredibly cheap like $1700 I doubt the DS would be more than that. $500 dollars sounds about right.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sat 16 Sep, 2006 8:40 pm

Displays 'You are not touching the screen' if, well, you aren't.

First program I wrote 'myself', without a tutorial stepping me through it. Guess we all have to start somewhere.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sun 17 Sep, 2006 12:36 am

That is using PALib no? Or did you write a custom font routine?

Either way, welcome to DS Programming!

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KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sun 17 Sep, 2006 1:05 am

I definitely used PAlib... IMHO it's really nice and easy so why not use it? It's still C, not some cruddy macro language. I'll probably go back and learn it with just libnds later, in the hopes that PAlib will help me understand the concepts.

That, oddly enough, is the default font, which seems weird to me.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sun 17 Sep, 2006 6:25 am

Using PAlib is like using EZAsm. It's awful. Don't use it. PAlib will help you understand nothing. It's not anything close to low level. The whole thing is just call this and call that, no actual coding.