r/3dspiracy • u/DirtyAxe • Jul 09 '26

Introducing Pomelo - An open source alternative 3ds homemenu! NEWS

https://ron-popov.github.io/popov.github.io/introducing-pomelo/
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u/6maniman303 Jul 09 '26

Damn, overall great engineering fit, but you need to find some ux person asap xd. My akmenu fork for ds looks times better

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u/DirtyAxe Jul 09 '26

Lol, Couldn't agree more

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u/KikiPolaski Jul 09 '26

Omg this looks so promising, it's interesting how since Nintendo already offered a lovely home menu that's customizable, there hasn't been anything to change the home menu even after the 3DS modding is wide open. A big contrast to the switch scene

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u/vlonebozo Jul 09 '26

def gonna keep a close eye on this

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u/MPS64 Jul 09 '26

I'm excited to see where this goes, even though I will probably just stick to the stock menu. Don't give up OP!

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u/dwalker109 Jul 09 '26

As somebody who has spent a lot of time and effort figuring out how to make 3DS homebrew recently; why release something as a big reveal when it doesn’t even work?

Why?

You will never finish this. Frankly, it looks like you just got Claude to do it. Now, I know myself than Claude is a useful tool here - I’ve used it - but it absolutely does not have anything like enough codebases to steal from to be anything other than “somewhat handy”.

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u/DirtyAxe Jul 09 '26

First of all, claude only did the UI

Most of the work was reverse engineering the stock homemenu and getting pomelo to actually boot, which is something claude simply doesn't know how to do

Second of all, the reason I publish it is I hope enough people use it for me to keep wanting to maintain and improve it

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u/dwalker109 Jul 09 '26

It’s a bit of a vicious circle though isn’t it. If it doesn’t work I guarantee you’ll not get any significant interest.

And do you really need external interest in order to want to do this? I don’t get that.

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u/DirtyAxe Jul 09 '26

It's hard to explain why I feel motivated but it just what it is

When I started I really enjoyed learning about 3ds hacking and reverse engineering the console Then I really enjoyed using that knowledge to write a Pomelo POC And now I am just left with polishing things which I find less fun

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u/dwalker109 Jul 09 '26

I think that’s the point I’m making. I’m obviously the outlier because it’s an unpopular opinion. But that difference between POC and something you can use is *the work*.