Background-
In 2005, Maximilien Dagois (Groquick) adapted the RUSHHOUR board game (made popular by ThinkFun, Inc - http://www.thinkfun.com/) for the Nintendo DS, using gorgeous graphics created by his girlfriend.
His adaptation was beautiful in it's simpicity, and worked flawlessly, except for the fact that he used now out-of-date versions of a development toolkit that did not allow the game to save progress data to slot 1 passthrough/flash cards on the Nintendo DS Lite. So if you were running the original version from a slot 1 device, you effectively had to start over from scratch (level 1) every time you relaunched the game, instead of being able to start from where you left off as designed.
While Groquick was not interested in continuing any development on the game in order to fix this limitation, he was gracious enough to release his original source code in hopes that others might be able to make it work with slot 1 devices if they were so interested.
Forward to the present day-
Well... to make a long story short... I was interested. My kids absolutely love the board game, enjoyed the fact that they could play the DS version to avoid the tedious setup, but whined every time they got far along in the game and lost their progress when they went to play it the next day.
After several months of delay due to other projects, I was finally able to sit down at my development system and start poking around Groquick's code. After many, many hours of tinkering, reconfiguring, and recoding to use updated versions of various toolkits, I was able to get it to link up and compile, and am now actively developing my version of Groquick's RUSHHOUR DS.
What is "Carpool Edition"?-
I have released my updated versions as named editions to try to distinguish them from Groquicks original. My first release was called "Express Commuter Edition", which was a stop-gap build that shipped with all levels unlocked in order to work-around the saving requirement. You could select ANY level you liked, at any time.
A second version, called "Construction Zone", never publically released, added save functionality which proved to be somewhat buggy and unreliable. It took many hours of scouring and posting to various forums and blogs to figure out why it wasn't working.
"Carpool Edition" is the next generation version, not only adding the ability to save game progress, but the ability to save the progress of MULTIPLE games. So now everyone in the family can enjoy RushHour in their own game, unlocking levels independently from all other siblings (or parents).
As far as I've been able to determine, this latest version runs and saves reliably on a Nintendo DS Lite with an M3DS-Simply slot-1 device. It remains untested on any other DS/flash card combination. If you experience problems on your system, do let me know and I'll do my best to address them.
RushHour and the RushHour logo are registered trademarks of ThinkFun, Inc. As such, no version of RushHour DSshall be sold, or included in any package, suite or compilation to be sold, for profit or otherwise, without the express consent of ThinkFun, Inc.
Like it? Share with your friends!
If you got an error while installing Themes, Software or Games, please, read FAQ.
Similar Software:
Diamant Diamant - NDS homebrew dev pectrenoir06 has update "Diamond" which is a puzzler for the Nintendo DS to version 1.2. Your goal is to deliver the diamonds to their bases to complete each level.
Changelog v1.2
Clearing the VRAM and RAM
Source: http://microlua.xooit.fr/t895-Reflexion-Puzzle-Diamant-non-provisoire
Box Destroyer Box Destroyer is a PSP clone of the flash game "Totem Destroyer" by Gabriel Ochsenhofer. It's a physics-based puzzle game with 14 levels, to win you must destroy the required number of blocks in each level without letting the little white block fall into the ground. Click on a red block to destroy it (blacks blocks cannot be destroyed)
SudokuZen v1.0 (CFW 3.xx) SudokuZen v1.0 (CFW 3.xx)
PlayStation Portable homebrew developer EvilDooinz has released a new homebrew game called SudokuZen. As the name suggests, SudokuZen is based on the numbers puzzle game
Holy hell Holy hell We don't normally cover GBA Homebrew but GBA dev genecyst has stated the Holy Hell v2.2 will be the last version of this homebrew game so we wanted to put it out there for you.
A
Genecyst wanted to thank all of people at the gbadev community for helping with this homebrew over the years
TetWiis TetWiis
TetWiis is a Nintendo Wii Tetris clone, shamelessly based on the Nintendo DS version of Tetris
Element DS Element DS Element DS is inspired by the Flash game called "COLLISO DS" created by kurohako. The DS version has been redesigned and made from scratch and features about 160 levels. The objective in game is to remove all the blocks by dragging them toward the blocks of the equal symbol/color
puZSion puZSion
Homebrew dev Hokutoy has released puZSion for the Wii. Already available in different platforms, the Jewel Quest-like puzzler now comes to the Nintendo platform, packed with the same good ole fun features, and then some.
Developer's note:
Puzsion is a puzzle game very similar to MagicMatch games
Magic Number Magic Number
Magic Number is a simple console number guessing game for the Wii. The Wii picks a random number between 1 and "X" depending on what difficulty level was selected. The player is then tasked with guessing the random number before the player runs out of lives
Newton Powered Newton Powered - It is a game based on flash game Gravity Pods.
The goal is to reach the black hole (purple) to go to the next level.
"Planets" you attract blue and red you push.
Check the readme for other details
Chronotron Jubei867 has come out with his own version of the puzzle-platformer Chrontoron, originally by ScarbugGames
Comments on RushHour DS Carpool Edition:
Comments not found
If you noted an error or download link is broken, please, report it via this page or use comments.
Please, select device to check if RushHour DS Carpool Edition supports it
