Welcome to the Micro Lua DS project website

This website presents the Micro Lua DS project. Micro Lua is an homebrew for Nintendo DS which allows you to lauch Lua scripts (www.lua.org). Tens of functions have been added to Lua 5.1.3 source code. This allow you to create applications and games very simply on your favorite console.

News

2008/10/21 - Micro Lua DS 2.0 beta released !

The new version of Micro Lua DS is out !

What's new:

- Displaying is about 3X FASTER!
- Some syntax changes (see "syntax changes.txt")
- Adding a Canvas system. You can now create a Canvas, adding some objects inside like lines, rectangles, images...etc. Then call Canvas.draw function to draw all items. This method is aboute 30x FASTER than displaying of Micro Lua 1.0!!! On no$gba you can display 1600 images without loss of FPS.
- Adding an INI file management system. You can now read and write ini files.
- Adding ScrollMaps. They are maps we can scroll pixel by pixel. It's faster than normal Maps (faster than 1.0 too) but you can only display them in fullscreen.
- A getTile function for maps
- Some bugs corrections
- Better errors management

2008/09/09 Lua Editor DS 1.0 released !

samy from the official forum has released a very useful application that allow you to program directly on your DS: Lua Editor DS. You can download it in the download section.

2008/09/04 Micro Lua DS 1.0.1beta released !

This version correct the bug with exceptions. Now when an error occured it will displayed on the lower screen.
Now the no$gba tester works.

You can download this version in the download section.

2008/09/04 - Micro Lua DS 1.0beta released !

The first public beta of Micro Lua DS has been released this morning. You can download it in the "Downloads" section.