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[jbullfrog]

A dictionary would be most useful on the ds.

Is this an easy app to make?

Would a search function be possible?

[bacon]

wikipedia downloaded onto a ds would insane, i would be on my ds even more if thats possible

[jbullfrog]

bacon, that's impossible... but

how about a homebrew app that is excluesively the wikipedia site?

[Perseid]

There are dictionary cartridges in Japan and Korea. I think they don't release them in the US because people still regard the DS as a game machine only. If you look at the Japanese DS cartridges there's weird stuff like cooking tutorials and calligraphy tutorials...none of which we get here.

[autobulb]

Perseid, would you happen to have the names of those cartridges you were talking about? I noticed alot of Japanese carts but I haven't had time to investigate them. I am learning Japanese and want to play with these carts if possible but I can't translate their names yet so I don't know which ones to try first.

[Perseid]

I don't know Japanese either so I don't remember what they were. Sometimes I just pop in a random Japanese ROM to see what it is. Sorry.

[mescalin]

wikipedia downloaded onto a ds would insane, i would be on my ds even more if thats possible

I don't think that's what anybody was talking about, but wiktionary does provide dumps of it's content and a program called mwdumper for filtering and extracting bits.  That could be possible (I don't really understand the process of development so I wouldn't know), although an xml reader might be just as good, and I should add that the raw uncompressed data I just extracted is 323MB.  I don't think many would be willing to do this.

[StaticStrike]

You could use this .txt dictionary I found on the Moon Books website: http://moonbooks.stonecypher.net/reference-websters

I tried it on moonshell, and it takes a while to find the word, but its the only DS dictionary that I know of. Of course, you should keep pressing the right button so that you can find the word faster than scrolling down.

[tenba]

Cool!  Thanks for the links.  Also, instead of Moonshell, one could try putting the text files into DSLinux and using vi to search for a word...  It'd be faster than scrolling through lots of text.  And once one has the data, it probably isn't hard to write a perl script to search for a word in DSLinux, if one doesn't need a graphical interface.

[GIDZzz]

There's an app called TranslatorDS. It supports Dictionary Project Data File format (wb) so you can search the Internet for lots of addidational databases.

You can find it here:
http://www.palib.info/wiki/doku.php?id=translatords