diff --git a/scripts/build-container.sh b/scripts/build-container.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Build development containers for various platforms
+# Usage: ./scripts/build-container.sh <platform> [version]
+#
+# Platforms: 3ds, switch, wiiu, wii, gamecube, nds, gba
+# Version: Semantic version (default: 0.1.0)
+
+set -e
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+PROJECT_ROOT="$(dirname "$SCRIPT_DIR")"
+
+# Colors for output
+RED='\033[0;31m'
+GREEN='\033[0;32m'
+YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
+BLUE='\033[0;34m'
+NC='\033[0m' # No Color
+
+# Print colored message
+print_msg() {
+    local color=$1
+    shift
+    echo -e "${color}$*${NC}"
+}
+
+# Print usage
+usage() {
+    cat << EOF
+Usage: $0 <platform> [version]
+
+Build development container for specified platform.
+
+Platforms:
+  3ds         Nintendo 3DS (devkitARM)
+  switch      Nintendo Switch (devkitA64) - Not yet implemented
+  wiiu        Nintendo Wii U (devkitPPC) - Not yet implemented
+  wii         Nintendo Wii (devkitPPC) - Not yet implemented
+  gamecube    Nintendo GameCube (devkitPPC) - Not yet implemented
+  nds         Nintendo DS (devkitARM) - Not yet implemented
+  gba         Game Boy Advance (devkitARM) - Not yet implemented
+
+Version:
+  Semantic version tag (default: 0.1.0)
+  Example: 0.1.0, 1.0.0, 0.2.0-beta
+
+Examples:
+  $0 3ds              # Build 3DS container with version 0.1.0
+  $0 3ds 0.2.0        # Build 3DS container with version 0.2.0
+  $0 switch           # Build Switch container (when implemented)
+
+Environment Variables:
+  CONTAINER_RUNTIME   Container runtime to use (podman or docker, default: auto-detect)
+
+EOF
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# Detect container runtime
+detect_runtime() {
+    if [ -n "$CONTAINER_RUNTIME" ]; then
+        echo "$CONTAINER_RUNTIME"
+        return
+    fi
+    
+    if command -v podman &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "podman"
+    elif command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "docker"
+    else
+        print_msg "$RED" "Error: Neither podman nor docker found in PATH"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "Please install podman (recommended) or docker"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Build container
+build_container() {
+    local platform=$1
+    local version=$2
+    local dockerfile="docker/${platform}.Dockerfile"
+    local image_name="tomusan/devkitarm-${platform}"
+    
+    if [ ! -f "$PROJECT_ROOT/$dockerfile" ]; then
+        print_msg "$RED" "Error: Dockerfile not found: $dockerfile"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "This platform may not be implemented yet."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    
+    local runtime
+    runtime=$(detect_runtime)
+    
+    print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    print_msg "$GREEN" "Building ${platform} container"
+    print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    echo
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Platform:   $platform"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Version:    $version"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Runtime:    $runtime"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Dockerfile: $dockerfile"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Image:      ${image_name}:${version}"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "            ${image_name}:latest"
+    echo
+    
+    cd "$PROJECT_ROOT"
+    
+    # Build with both version and latest tags
+    print_msg "$GREEN" "Starting build..."
+    echo
+    
+    "$runtime" build \
+        -t "${image_name}:${version}" \
+        -t "${image_name}:latest" \
+        -f "$dockerfile" \
+        .
+    
+    local exit_code=$?
+    
+    if [ $exit_code -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo
+        print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+        print_msg "$GREEN" "✓ Build successful!"
+        print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+        echo
+        print_msg "$GREEN" "Tagged images:"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "  ${image_name}:${version}"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "  ${image_name}:latest"
+        echo
+        print_msg "$GREEN" "To use this container:"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "  $runtime run --rm -v ./your-project:/project:z ${image_name}:latest make"
+        echo
+        print_msg "$GREEN" "For interactive shell:"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "  $runtime run -it --rm -v ./your-project:/project:z ${image_name}:latest bash"
+        echo
+    else
+        echo
+        print_msg "$RED" "✗ Build failed with exit code $exit_code"
+        exit $exit_code
+    fi
+}
+
+# Main
+main() {
+    if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+        usage
+    fi
+    
+    local platform=$1
+    local version=${2:-0.1.0}
+    
+    # Validate platform
+    case "$platform" in
+        3ds)
+            ;;
+        switch|wiiu|wii|gamecube|nds|gba)
+            print_msg "$RED" "Error: Platform '$platform' is not yet implemented"
+            print_msg "$YELLOW" "Currently only '3ds' is available"
+            exit 1
+            ;;
+        *)
+            print_msg "$RED" "Error: Unknown platform '$platform'"
+            echo
+            usage
+            ;;
+    esac
+    
+    # Validate version format (basic semantic versioning)
+    if [[ ! "$version" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9]+)?$ ]]; then
+        print_msg "$RED" "Error: Invalid version format '$version'"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "Expected format: X.Y.Z or X.Y.Z-label (e.g., 0.1.0, 1.0.0, 0.2.0-beta)"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    
+    build_container "$platform" "$version"
+}
+
+main "$@"
diff --git a/scripts/container-shell.sh b/scripts/container-shell.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Open interactive shell in 3DS development container
+# Usage: ./scripts/container-shell.sh [project-path] [podman-args...]
+#
+# All arguments after project-path are passed to podman/docker run before the container name
+# This allows mounting additional volumes, setting environment variables, etc.
+
+set -e
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+PROJECT_ROOT="$(dirname "$SCRIPT_DIR")"
+
+# Colors for output
+RED='\033[0;31m'
+GREEN='\033[0;32m'
+YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
+BLUE='\033[0;34m'
+NC='\033[0m' # No Color
+
+# Print colored message
+print_msg() {
+    local color=$1
+    shift
+    echo -e "${color}$*${NC}"
+}
+
+# Print usage
+usage() {
+    cat << 'EOF'
+Usage: ./scripts/container-shell.sh [project-path] [podman-args...]
+
+Open interactive bash shell in 3DS development container with project mounted.
+
+Arguments:
+  project-path    Path to project directory (default: current directory)
+  podman-args     Additional arguments passed to podman/docker run
+
+Examples:
+  # Shell in current directory
+  ./scripts/container-shell.sh
+
+  # Shell in specific project
+  ./scripts/container-shell.sh ~/my-3ds-game
+
+  # With additional volume mount
+  ./scripts/container-shell.sh ~/my-game -v /data:/data:z
+
+  # With environment variable
+  ./scripts/container-shell.sh ~/my-game -e DEBUG=1
+
+  # Multiple extra arguments
+  ./scripts/container-shell.sh ~/my-game -v /data:/data:z -e DEBUG=1 --network=host
+
+Inside the container:
+  - Project is mounted at /project
+  - Working directory is /project
+  - All devkitARM tools are in PATH
+  - Run 'make' to build your project
+  - Run 'exit' or Ctrl+D to leave
+
+Environment Variables:
+  CONTAINER_RUNTIME   Container runtime to use (podman or docker, default: auto-detect)
+
+EOF
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# Detect container runtime
+detect_runtime() {
+    if [ -n "$CONTAINER_RUNTIME" ]; then
+        echo "$CONTAINER_RUNTIME"
+        return
+    fi
+    
+    if command -v podman &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "podman"
+    elif command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
+        echo "docker"
+    else
+        print_msg "$RED" "Error: Neither podman nor docker found in PATH"
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "Please install podman (recommended) or docker"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Main
+main() {
+    # Show help
+    if [ "$1" = "-h" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
+        usage
+    fi
+    
+    # Determine project path
+    local project_path="${1:-.}"
+    shift || true  # Remove first arg if present, don't fail if no args
+    
+    # Resolve absolute path
+    project_path=$(cd "$project_path" 2>/dev/null && pwd) || {
+        print_msg "$RED" "Error: Project path does not exist: ${1:-.}"
+        exit 1
+    }
+    
+    # Collect remaining arguments for podman/docker run
+    local extra_args=("$@")
+    
+    local runtime
+    runtime=$(detect_runtime)
+    
+    local image_name="tomusan/devkitarm-3ds:latest"
+    
+    print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    print_msg "$GREEN" "3DS Development Container Shell"
+    print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    echo
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Project:  $project_path"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Runtime:  $runtime"
+    print_msg "$YELLOW" "Image:    $image_name"
+    if [ ${#extra_args[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+        print_msg "$YELLOW" "Extra:    ${extra_args[*]}"
+    fi
+    echo
+    print_msg "$GREEN" "Type 'exit' or press Ctrl+D to leave the container"
+    echo
+    print_msg "$BLUE" "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+    echo
+    
+    # Run container with interactive shell
+    # Project mounted to /project, any extra args passed to podman/docker run
+    "$runtime" run -it --rm \
+        -v "$project_path:/project:z" \
+        "${extra_args[@]}" \
+        "$image_name" \
+        bash
+}
+
+main "$@"