So what is Marshmallow Duel? If you've never heard of it before, it could best be explained as a Super Smash Bros. type game, but from an earlier era and stranger minds.

Marshmallow Duel DS is a complete rewrite and evolution of the original Marshmallow Duel, designed for the Nintendo DS console. It is a 2 player deathmatch game of luck and skill where each player tries to knock their opponent into the deadly marshmallow pit or destroy them with one of the 18 weapons that randomly spawn in the map.

You can view some footage of the game in action on YouTube or in this wmv.

If you don't have a Nintendo DS, you can still run it on an ordinary PC via the use of a DS emulator. I have put some info here on just how to do that. Information related to running on DS hardware can similarly be found here.

The current version, v2, features the following:

• All the 2-player dueling fun and excitement of the original
• 18 Fantastic weapons: Skull, 1000V, invisibility, mine, gun, TNT, boots, grenade, puck, parachut, hook, warp, net, shield, magnet, boomerang, weasel and dunce hat
• Finally, weapon selection and kill limit settings
• Character customisation and saving
• The wonderous ability to pause the action
• Exhaustive statistics tracking and saving system
• Stylus control for the main menu, pickups selection menu and character menu
• Configurable game options such as the number of pickups onscreen at a time, use of the bottom screen to show the pickups before they spawn, the number of rounds to play, and 'death while dancing'

Marshmallow Duel DS is free open-source software, released under the GNU General Public License.

Download (read the manual before you play!)

Download Source Code or View on Github
Note: whilst it may compile under later versions, you may need to use the older DevKitPro 1.3.5 instead.