Kana DS won't teach you how to translate Famitsu magazine scans for your favorite games, but it will help you strengthen your hiragana and katakana skills. Think of the homebrew application as Brain Age for Japanese charsets, minus the floating, decapitated head.An alpha release of the project has been posted, demonstrating its "number sorting" mini-game. The only other implemented feature is a character reference mode, but we can already see a lot of potential for this polished application. Developer Julio Gorgé plans to include handwriting recognition, progress tracking, and difficulty scaling in future builds.
It might not be as mind-blowing as Kanji Ken, but few games are. Check past the post break for a preview video of Kana DS.
[Via DCEmu]
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4-09-2007 @ 7:53PM
raycosm said...
There doesn't seem to be anything to do in practice mode, running DeSmuME 0.5.0
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4-09-2007 @ 8:10PM
Eric Caoili said...
raycosm, the only available minigame (sort numbers) right now is under "custom practice."
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4-10-2007 @ 9:27AM
Chris said...
Here's an idea - why don't you stop stealing games?
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4-10-2007 @ 11:00AM
rk said...
I've got a better idea, Chris! Don't be a self-righteous prick!
THIS IS A HOMEBREW GAME.
The authors made it available for free. If you're playing it on a DS emulator, you are stealing from NO ONE.
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4-10-2007 @ 2:28PM
ssuk said...
A game to help you learn the easiest part of learning the Japanese language. Congrats.
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4-16-2007 @ 12:21PM
Kenbox said...
so this game concentrates on learning the japanese language? where can i download this game?
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