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Idiotic? perhaps.
 anyway i'm pretty new to DSlua( not PSPlua).
I have plans for a family guy/simpson themed simple enough game, have not   started it yet as am waiting for supercard lite. anyway...
could someone answer:
Is there a dofile command in DSlua? something like

dofile "mainmenu.lua"
...?
And to generate a random integer from 1 to four inclusive , what would be the best way for this?
Thirdly: are these stupid questions? is dslua exactly the same as psp bar touchscreen and dual screen and mic??

Lastly , thankyou for your help, i'll be here again soon no doubt ,
and hopefuly you'll all be enjoying my game in the next few weeks!(i have exams these days :-\)

I'm not sure what PSPLua is like so I can't compare for you right now...

DSLua includes almost all of the same functions as normal lua, almost everything tought in this page ( http://www.lua.org/pil ) will work in DSLua. Of course there are also extra functions for the DS which are found on the documentation (see the menu to the left.)

So yes there is a dofile function, I would write it like this but your way might work (I've always used parentheses):

dofile( "mainmenu.lua" )

Random numbers are also the same as normal lua ( http://www.lua.org/pil/18.html ). Except for the seed number use DSLua.VBlankCount() which is the number of V-blanks since the program started (it counts up every 1/60 of a second.) So:

math.randomseed( DSLua.VBlankCount() )
print( math.random( 4 ) )

This prints a number either 1 2 3 or 4 (you have to set up the screens first in DSLua though). If you want it to be inbetween 5 and 10 (for example) you would put this: math.random( 5, 10 ) .

And no they weren't stupid questions, they were good questions. ;)

cool thanks for the quick reply!

Another question..
Say if im doing credits in the game, the person presses on credits button and i have say 3 screens worth of thanks and so on.
I kindof worry that the game will seem very imagey and static with little animation.. so do you think it a good idea if i wanted the credits on one screen only, if i made an image the size of three ds screens on eachother, and displayed the top of the image first then waited for .1 of a second (for example) and moved the image up a line of pixels.
I mightn't be wording this the best but does it make sense? I'd prefer this sort of thing than just displaying 3 images/ pieces of text seperatly...

It was just an idea that struck me to make the game look more professional and animated!!! what do you think?
Thanks!

Nice idea, should be do-able I guess.

Edit; As a matter of fact, I think I can help you with that, as in; got some code laying around somewhere on my harddrive. A "credits", "splash" or just "endscreen" query should do the job.

Hmm, you probably know the sentence; If you can't find it, rewrite it? No? Well, that doesn't matter here.

First time No$GBA AND Dualis gave me an error after loading a .lua file. Probably some wrong coding from my side, but still, normally it gives my a regular black screen or a selfwritten error message. Odd.

Guess I can't help you, maybe JeremySR/Sypherce or Daltonlaffs could post an example?

Yeah I used that in my Skip-Bo game for the menus. I made a tiled map of the three screens and scrolled them up when choosing menus. You can see it in the Projects forum.

There's special instructions for getting DSLua 0.6 running in Dualis here, in the 2nd paragraph -> http://www.bio-gaming.com/jeremy/dslua/index.php?act=helloworld

Is saving present in DSLua 0.5?

Yeah