diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 618bed9..dc225c6 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-#![feature(lang_items)]
+#![feature(alloc, collections, lang_items)]
 #![no_std]
 #![crate_type = "rlib"]
 #![crate_name = "ctru"]
 
 extern crate ctru_sys as libctru;
 
+extern crate alloc;
+extern crate collections;
+
 pub mod console;
 pub mod srv;
 pub mod gfx;
diff --git a/src/panic.rs b/src/panic.rs
index c0e4d0a..9fb3e82 100644
--- a/src/panic.rs
+++ b/src/panic.rs
@@ -1,22 +1,65 @@
-use core::fmt::{Arguments, Write};
+// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
 
+//! Implementation of various bits and pieces of the `panic!` macro and
+//! associated runtime pieces.
+
+use core::fmt::{self, Display, Write};
+use core::any::Any;
+
+use collections::String;
+use collections::boxed::Box;
+
+///The compiler wants this to be here. Otherwise it won't be happy. And we like happy compilers.
 #[lang = "eh_personality"]
-extern "C" fn eh_personality() {}
+extern fn eh_personality() {}
 
+/// Entry point of panic from the libcore crate.
 #[lang = "panic_fmt"]
-extern fn panic_fmt(fmt: Arguments, file: &str, line: u32) -> ! {
+extern fn panic_fmt(msg: fmt::Arguments, file: &'static str, line: u32) -> ! {
+    begin_panic_fmt(&msg, &(file, line))
+}
+
+/// The entry point for panicking with a formatted message.
+///
+/// This is designed to reduce the amount of code required at the call
+/// site as much as possible (so that `panic!()` has as low an impact
+/// on (e.g.) the inlining of other functions as possible), by moving
+/// the actual formatting into this shared place.
+#[inline(never)]
+#[cold]
+pub fn begin_panic_fmt(msg: &fmt::Arguments, file_line: &(&'static str, u32)) -> ! {
+    let mut s = String::new();
+    let _ = s.write_fmt(*msg);
+    begin_panic(s, file_line);
+}
+
+/// This is where the main panic logic happens.
+#[inline(never)]
+#[cold]
+pub fn begin_panic<M: Any + Send + Display>(msg: M, file_line: &(&'static str, u32)) -> ! {
     use gfx::Screen;
     use console::Console;
 
+    let msg = Box::new(msg);
+    let (file, line) = *file_line;
+
     let mut error_top = Console::init(Screen::Top);
     let mut error_bottom = Console::init(Screen::Bottom);
 
-    writeln!(error_top, "--------------------------------------------------").unwrap();
+    write!(error_top, "--------------------------------------------------").unwrap();
     writeln!(error_top, "PANIC in {} at line {}:", file, line).unwrap();
-    writeln!(error_top, "    {}", fmt).unwrap();
+    writeln!(error_top, "    {}", msg).unwrap();
     write!(error_top, "\x1b[29;00H--------------------------------------------------").unwrap();
 
-    writeln!(error_bottom, "").unwrap();     
+    write!(error_bottom, "").unwrap();     
 
     loop {}
 }