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Welcome to NDSHacks a subreddit specific to developing on the NDS.

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    9

    Ok so I’ve just found that gbarunner2 on my DS lite cannot play baldurs gate. Is there any other way to play gba games on DS lite? I’m thinking they run natively?

    10 Comments
    2024/10/31
    14:02 UTC

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    Two DSi consoles one SD

    Hi all, I was wondering if I’m able to use the same sd card across multiple dsi consoles with twilight menu and unlaunch installed on both, I have an xl for home use and a normal dsi I take in the van and away for work but want to keep my saves ect

    3 Comments
    2024/10/30
    03:48 UTC

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    Theme music for twilight menu

    I need some help making a .bgm file for my twilight menu theme. I don’t have any computer besides a shitty ok Chromebook so I was wondering if anyone else could do it for me?

    0 Comments
    2024/10/30
    03:41 UTC

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    Every time i start moonshl2 it shows this error message. I dont get what it wants me to do

    1 Comment
    2024/10/29
    17:39 UTC

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    How is SNES emulation after all these years?

    I have a Nintendo DS Lite and and a DSi XL. I have not use them in a while but I remember that even though they should be able to handle SNES emulation there simply was not a good SNES emulator for DS/DSi. Has anything changed or SNES emulation still sucks on these devices?

    I would love to try again if anything has changed

    I’m looking for these systems to emulate

    NES GBA SNES Genesis Turbografx-16 NeoGeo

    Last time I tried. I don’t know if there was Neo Geo emulation but the others I think worked with SNES emulation being the worst though

    3 Comments
    2024/10/29
    16:02 UTC

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    Original Gameboy games on DSi

    I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to play original Gameboy games on my DSi. Specifically Pokemon Red and blue. I'd also like to know if it's possible to inject them straight to my title screen so I don't have to go through an emulator or similar app like twilightmenu

    Can't really get a straight answer from Google (I don't care if it can play gba games or not lol) so I'm hoping someone here has some experience

    4 Comments
    2024/10/29
    04:09 UTC

    1

    100 classic books

    There was an option to download books on the game. Does anyone know if you can get different books on it?

    0 Comments
    2024/10/28
    23:53 UTC

    1

    How to transfer game save files from PC to DSI?

    I have a save file of Souls Silver that I wish to continue playing on my DSI, where should I drop the save file?

    3 Comments
    2024/10/28
    21:52 UTC

    1

    Homebrew suggestion/request

    I don't know if such a thing exist, or if it's even possible... But is there any homebrew app that could identify if a game (more specifically, a DS cartridge) is original or pirated/repro?

    Something that maybe reades the cartridge on tyour DS/3DS and detects if it's original? So you can test on the go before buying some used game?

    Thanks in advance and sorry if it's a stupid question/request

    0 Comments
    2024/10/28
    15:25 UTC

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    Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon crashing on prologue iv

    Every time I play prologue iv of Shadow Dragon it crashes around the time when I have to choose to sacrifice a character. I’m playing the full content patch, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Has anyone experienced this before? This is on twilight menu ++ on a DSi XL btw.

    2 Comments
    2024/10/28
    04:44 UTC

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    Can someone make me a qr code for the simpsons game? I wanna play it on my 3DS but I lost my sd card reader

    1 Comment
    2024/10/27
    19:24 UTC

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    Mod a DSi on a chromebook?

    Just wondering if its possible to do it with no extra brick risk. I bought a dsi xl for $70 and i really want to mod it.

    7 Comments
    2024/10/27
    17:05 UTC

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    Any Phoenix Wright save file editor?

    Sadly, my save file got corrupted and I want to know if there is any kind to modding my save file (.sav) since I don't want to play again because I advanced a lot in case 5. Please let me know if you know something about a save file editor or if you have a save file just right at 3rd day of case 5.

    In any case, I play the EUR version (SPA, ITA, GER).

    3 Comments
    2024/10/27
    15:17 UTC

    1

    I need help running coleco vision

    I have a Rome folder for ds and gba games but I put it in there and it didn’t work. Anybody have the answer?

    0 Comments
    2024/10/26
    23:55 UTC

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    I hate the YSmenu list on my DS lite. To the point it puts me off of picking it up. Can I have some advice on using Twilight++? Is it easy to install?

    5 Comments
    2024/10/26
    16:59 UTC

    4

    Can i replace the firmware with YSmenu or something else

    The current firmware is trash and it cant backup/restore saves, i would like a differenr firmware

    3 Comments
    2024/10/25
    20:09 UTC

    1

    GBA and GB Roms not showing up in Twilight Menu ++

    I have installed Twilight Menu ++ recently on my DSI XL and I have been able to play both DS and DSI Ware. Unfortunately, none of the GBA and GB roms appear on the menu in any of my folders and I have been unable to play them. I have tried looking online and I haven't found the solution to this issue.

    Please help,

    Thank you.

    3 Comments
    2024/10/25
    15:04 UTC

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    I need help with DS roms on twilight menu

    I copied several roms to the micro sd of my Dsi xl and there are some that are not even detected when I start the twilight menu, I don't know if I have to update it or change some configuration

    11 Comments
    2024/10/25
    00:37 UTC

    1

    Some games randomly shuts the system down.

    I just got a NDSI XL and hacked it using the guide. I put the roms from my old DS lite flashcard on the SD card, and everything seems to work fine. But I have issue with some roms, like Mario Kart and Chrono Trigger. I can play them for a 5-10 minutes or so, and then the system goes completely black. I had no problem running the games in my old nds lite using the flashcard. I tried changing the game settings to DS mode. But it still happens.

    Anyone know what this means?

    6 Comments
    2024/10/24
    13:06 UTC

    28

    No cheats found

    I've followed all the instructions and double checked everything, but it says no cheats found on every game, i used the "DeadSkullzJr's NDS(i) Cheat Databases" usrcheat.dat, but no matter what there's no cheats, help would be appreciated

    11 Comments
    2024/10/24
    03:29 UTC

    6

    stuck unlaunch

    i modded my dsi about a month ago and as of yesterday its stuck on the unlaunch setting. pls help, idk how to get out.

    7 Comments
    2024/10/24
    00:43 UTC

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    HiyaCFW: 'An error has occurred' after updating TwilightMenu++ (and NDS_Bootstrap) to latest version

    Hi all! Im wondering if anybody can help me with an error im facing.

    For context, yesterday I decided to update TwilightMenu++ to the latest version on my DSi, as to be honest, I hadn't updated it in years so figured it would be good to bring everything up to date.

    However, once the update was done by following everything here, I booted up my DSi and after the HiyaCFW splash screen pops up, I get a generic DSi error An error has occurred... I've done some digging online and this error seems to be related to the size of the SD card, but its the same size SD card I've had since homebrewing my DSi about 4 years ago and this is the first time I've seen this error (I think..) so I'm guessing I missed something in the update process? Also worth mentioning that I've swapped out the old hiya.dsi file on my SD card with a new one from the latest hiyaCFW release, but still no dice.

    I can still boot up the DSi with Unlaunch and get to Twilightmenu++ that way and as a workaround, I've set it to boot straight into Twilightmenu++ via Unlaunch's "No Button" option but would really be interested to know if anyone has run into this same issue before and fixed it.

    Thanks

    2 Comments
    2024/10/23
    08:46 UTC

    1

    Modded DSi stuck on loading screen.

    Yesterday, I modded my DSi. It all went well, up until I tried loading ROM's onto the SD card. I put 2 games on there and it worked fine, so I put a few more on. Now my DSi refuses to boot up, and stays on a white screen whenever the card is inside. Also I don't know if this is a me issue, but whenever I try to delete a ROM file, the file explorer for the SD card closes and opens back up, so I can't delete anything. Does anyone know of a solution?

    2 Comments
    2024/10/22
    17:09 UTC

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    Pokemon Soul Silver Acreus

    I've been trying to find a urscheats.dat file that have the event Arceus for Soul Silver but I can't find one. My emulator is ds 44670. Can someone help

    1 Comment
    2024/10/22
    03:17 UTC

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    Emulated ds game not loading

    I installed a ds game and whenever I try to boot it, it just stays as a white screen and doesn’t load. When I try to load the ds game with TWiLight Menu++ a pop up states that my sd card isn’t formatted using 32kb clusters causing the game to load very slowly even though my sd card if formatted to 32kb. Any advice on how to possibly fix it?

    2 Comments
    2024/10/22
    02:48 UTC

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    how do i install hiyacfw

    basically the title all i want is to install it without erasing the sd card, i dont know anything about sdnand or how to get it i already have unlaunch and twilightmenu already

    4 Comments
    2024/10/22
    00:51 UTC

    4

    Getting started on Homebrew development

    The title says pretty much everything, I want to start developing for the DS and don't know where to start exactly. I found some tutorials on youtube but they are quite old, maybe there are some better tools nowadays to start than 12 years ago. So, what are the best tools to develop for the DS?

    1 Comment
    2024/10/21
    23:22 UTC

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    How do i alter my savefiles on drastic ds android?

    I have been playing soulsilver on my drastic ds emulator but idk how to turn my haunter into gengar. I tried to use pkmds but Idk how reinsert the new savefile. Please help me out

    0 Comments
    2024/10/21
    15:18 UTC

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