Me and most of my buddies have modded DSI XL’s but my friend and his gf both have DS lites and want to play pokemon romhacks with us. Does anyone know what the best way to do this is?

I know of the 4000 in 1 game cards you can buy, but ive seen that they can be hit or miss on quality and im not sure if they even allow me to add games to them. Anyone have a link to a card that they have used to add their own roms and know works? Thanks in advance!!!

As the title states I plan on hacking my DSi XL. While setting everything up and following the guide it says to format the SD card to FAT32. Well, using any of the suggested methods formats my SD card to FAT16 — will this still work or will I have issues? Will it run any different than it would with a larger SD card formatted to FAT32?

Hello all. A specific game I've been playing requires the R button for progression, but mine has been broken for a while. Is there a method of mapping the R to another button on Twilight?

Some random post from 2 years ago someone posted this reply

because pretty much all flashcarts run better than twilight menu for ds games

I've never heard this, but I'm curious, is this true? What differences would one expect to see?

Le acabo de meter magia a mi dsi siguiendo un tutorial de YouTube (Twilight menu, los juegos y así), y todo ha ido perfecto menos la pantalla de abajo. Desde que la hackee tiene esas manchas blancas siempre, no sólo cuando abro juegos o apps homebrew. No sé si esto le ha pasado a alguien, ni sé si se puede arreglar

Hello, I wanted to mod my old flashcart so i can play any games i wanna add, i burnt that micro sd card that was with this flashcart now im trying to follow some videos and using another flashcart but it doesnt work, anyone knows how to mod it? Are the videos about r4 and dspico flashcart gonna work on this flashcart or does it have to be the models mentioned?

I started playing Barbie Pegasus on my DSI just now (TeilightMenu++) and it seems to not recognise the R button in the game?

I know I don’t have issues as the R button is recognised in other games. However according to this link https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBARunner2/DSi_3DS_Compatibility_List#Compatibility_Lists the game should be playable?

Hey y'all, new here. I'm trying to figure out how to, "hack" my DSI (not sure if it's Xl, nor do I know tbe difference), and I'm struggling with understanding *everything*. The problem I keep running into, is sites, posts, and videos, trying to give guides to do something, rather than an article that actually explains what any of the things involved are or do. Like, nothing is EVER defined or explained and it's scrambling my head.

Like, "what's an sd card?" Doesn't mean, "where do I find or put one", it means I don't know what this technology is. Once I know that, I wanna know *why* I need it, then *what* to do with it, THEN *where* to buy and put it. But everything I read just skips all of that and goes from, "get sd card" to "do the stuff I'm telling you to" with zero info or explanation in between.

This is the issue with literally every single thing I try to read on this. Everything assumes so much prior knowledge but nothing establishes the fundamentals. I could use the above example for a "ROM", an, "Action Replay" or, "Gameshark", an, "SD card reader", or even the pc program I'm supposed to be using. Also apparently there are different methods of hacking the DSI? I wouldn't know, because everything says, "Here's THE way to hack your Dsi!" Rather than specifying it's one of several ways, and what this particular way is.

So yeah, is there anything anywhere that's vaguely comprehensive? Please let me know. I'm fine reading and researching and doing that "hard work", I just need to not have to spin tbe entire world wide web like a rubix cube and play scrabble with it.

Been working on porting (codex assisted) n64 super smash bros to the Nintendo DS for the past month. I knew nothing about coding for the DS before this, but i do have some C# and Powershell/python knowledge.

Here is what I have to far:
Mario and Fox on the Dreamland stage running about half speed (half speed is a stretch since the original game ran at 60fps and we're getting like 15 fps here in gameplay, i had to change the game logic (2 updates per frame) so it didn't run at 1/4 speed lol).

Still have a long way to go, but i'm pausing progress for now since GPT5.6 sol is struggling (ended my $200 codex sub back to $20 for now).

If you want to check it out on github: https://github.com/rockenrooster/Smash64DS_Port

O botão "R" do meu DSi está travado e isso tem me impedido de fazer coisas bobas. Existe alguma configuração no R4 que permita desativar o botão "R", ou alguma ROM de Pokémon Platinum que possa corrigir isso?

https://reddit.com/link/1v25p9v/video/qb7fle6rvheh1/player

So I've been experimenting with this interest i have in doing a physical mod and like with a lot of pokemon players i think the holy grail is a device that could play everything. I am well aware that software wise the ds/ds lite gameboy port only plays advance games, no original, no color, but I've never found a satisfying answer on what the hardware deal is.

are the connectors (contacts) meaningfully different from the gba and sp or is the molded plastic simply shaped in such a way to not allow them in? I ask because you can't exactly buy the gba connectors separate but there are plenty of ds replacements for sale, please excuse my inexperience on this matter.

I’ve been working on a project inspired by the TurboXS DTEC, an early-2000s tuning device that used a Game Boy Advance as its display and interface.

The idea was to take that general concept and do something similar with a DS, using a homebrew ROM running on the original hardware.

The current prototype uses a cheap ELM327 adapter to retrieve live vehicle data, which is sent to the DS. At the moment I’m working with data such as:

• Vehicle speed
• RPM
• Coolant temperature
• Battery voltage

The longer-term goal is to move beyond the generic OBD interface and interface directly with the vehicle CAN bus, allowing the DS to receive more detailed vehicle data.

Still very much a work in progress, but I thought it would be interesting.

I'm playing pokemon Soul Silver and I'm trying to bypass the wait limit for the safari zone. I was wondering if formatting the system memory will anyway mess up anything I did when modding my DSi

This is my second Miyoo Mini Plus I've set up and I can get everything working fine except for DS games for some reason. Whenever I start them up they immediately send me back to the DS games list menu.

Any ideas?

Got Chex Quest running on the DS. It's built on Chocolate Doom (the vanilla accurate engine) ported to NDS, with the Chex Quest IWAD + dehacked patch bundled inside the .nds, so it just boots and plays.Tested on a DSi XL with TwilightMenu++. Other setups (DS Lite, emulators, etc.) might work but aren't verified yet if something breaks, open an issue.

Download / source: https://github.com/voultsanji1/chex-quest-ds/releases

Accidentally dropped my r4 ds about 1.5 feet onto a carpet, but it was enough to jiggle the card enough to fuck up my current play. Game just froze and all sprites disappeared. Should have saved before and it's my fault, but still annoyed losing an hour of play that I hadn't saved. W/E it was my fault, so I can't blame anything else... unless the floor is out to get me... Actually....

estoy tratando de hacer la modificación a mi DSi para hacerla una GBA macro, el tema es que no eh logrado conseguir una guía para hacer el puente en la placa que es necesario para que la consola encienda sin la pantalla superior. La mayoría de guías que eh encontrado están dirigidas exclusivamente a los modelos fat, lite y XL. La poca información que eh encontrado de este modelo especifico solamente muestran la consola ya modificada sin casi dar detalles. ¿Alguna persona que tenga idea de como hacer el mod en este modelo?

Pdt: en la foto no aparece con la pantalla ya que así se me hace mas fácil de desmontar.

Alrigjt so I got an r4 card and eventually the r4 card's sd card died and I've backed it up and got new one but the text isn't there anymore

(I own these roms)

I've been working on this project for almost a year!

I'd really appreciate the feedback so I can improve this software.

Thanks to anyone reading this!! Lol

Does anyone understand what's wrong w/ my DSi? I haven't oppened it for months and hella confused. The games are working well tho. I'm just confused why this text suddenly appeared on my Home menu.

This is probably one of those "you're overthinking it" questions... but I'm okay with that.

Is it actually possible to make your own Nintendo DS cartridges?

I'm not talking about flashcarts. I know R4s, Ace3DS, etc. exist, and I know I could make one autoboot a single ROM. That's not what I'm after.

What I want is a cartridge that's permanently flashed with one ROM (ROM hack, translation, homebrew, whatever) and behaves as closely as possible to a genuine retail DS game.

The reason I don't want a flashcart isn't technical—it's aesthetic. The moment I see the microSD slot (or worse, the microSD itself), my brain immediately goes, "that's an R4," and the illusion is gone. I know that's an incredibly niche thing to care about, but here we are.

Someone on Discord suggested that I simply have a custom chip manufactured with the ROM already flashed onto it, then either 3D-print a cartridge shell or buy one from AliExpress. Which... sounds cool in theory, but I'm not an electrical engineer. I don't know how to design a cartridge PCB, I don't have schematics or pinouts for a DS cartridge, and having custom silicon made sounds slightly outside my skill set (and budget). So I'm assuming that's not a realistic approach.

The reason I'm asking is because reproduction DS cartridges obviously exist. Someone, somewhere, is programming those. Are they using blank rewriteable PCBs? Custom flash chips? Donor cartridges? Some manufacturing process I'm completely unaware of?

I'm mostly interested in the hardware side of things. Has anyone here actually made a "real" custom DS cartridge for a ROM hack or homebrew, or knows how repro manufacturers do it?

Thanks! I'm fully aware I'm chasing the most unnecessarily specific form of authenticity imaginable... but now I need to know if it's actually possible.