Well, it's know by most NintendoDS owners that the available flashcards are capable of running both homebrew applications and videogame backups. Also, the main conflict between Nintendo and the flashcard manufacturers is that the backups are always related to piracy.
This war has arrived at the point of Nintendo beginning to block those flashcards, so the homebrew software can be avoided. Because of that, the devKitPRO and libnds teams released this year 2010 a special Homebrew Menu, that is, a simple launcher intended to support DS homebrew developers and their users which has no means to run commercial games: only homebrew. This is my own DSi running this hbmenu.
This Homebrew Menu, or hbmenu, will be really necessary for the homebrew applications developed by using the 1.4.x versions of libnds that are taking advantage of the recently innovative embedded filesystem to store media data, called nitroFS. This filesystem will be focused in future posts, since my RPG project, Shades of Oblivion, will use it.
