SZLib 3DS
Just in time for it to be killed off by Nintendo in favour of the Switch (if you could ever find them in the shops; grumble grumble), Hanky Alien and Chuckie Egg now run on the 3DS. Getting the new platform up and running was pretty easy. Input was straightforward: the d-pad required switching to a couple of new functions for reading the button state but otherwise the constants are the same in libctru as those in libnds. Touch somehow just worked, which was surprising.
The hardest part was getting the graphics up and running. Not only does the 3DS introduce yet another set of RGB encodings, but the output of the LCDs is rotated 90 degrees from the VRAM. What's that? You have a bunch of 2D graphics functions that are all optimized around VRAM being laid out in rows, from left to right? Bwahaha! Now VRAM is organized into columns, from bottom to top.
Though graphics were the trickiest part, the most laborious exercise was checking that the projects continued to build correctly for all 5 of the currently supported platforms (DS, 3DS, PSP, Dreamcast and SDL). I really need to come up with a better build system for the PSP and Dreamcast, and it'd be neat if devKitARM supported makefile names other than "makefile".
There are a few things still to do:
libctru introduces yet another sound API, so there's no sound yet;
SZLib doesn't cater for the possibility that a device has multiple screens with different dimensions, so the bottom screen is off-center.
Anyhow, here are early 3DS builds, which I've tested out on my old 3DS XL and Citra (which is shaping up to be a great homebrew tool):
ChuckieEgg3DS
HankyAlien3DS
szlib
chuckie-egg
hankyalien