The problem is we don't have any backups yet, so we need to grab some of our game cartridges and create some. Before we can start backing up our games, however, we need to do a quick setup. From this point forward the guide is flash cart agnostic. Unless explicitly noted all instructions apply to any flash cart. At this point you'll need your Nintendo DS or DS Lite, your wireless router, the game cartridges you want to back up, and a computer to back them up to.
We'll be using a Windows 7 PC. First, configure your router. Unfortunately Nintendo never really got on the secure-wireless bandwagon when it came to the Nintendo DS line. If you're running your wireless access point wide open, you're all set. If you're using encryption stronger than WEP you'll have to temporarily crank it down to old-school—and insecure —WEP security.
You can change it back as soon as you're done backing up your games. Second, make sure your NDS can connect to the wireless router.
If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled game start the game and use it to configure your wireless settings—the NDS and NDS Lite lack a system-menu option for configuring it without a game. If you don't have a game with Wi-Fi play that would allow you to configure things, that's okay.
You have a flash cart now that we can run some homebrew software on. Load up your flash cart and browse to the DSOrganize folder. Launch the DSOrganize. Once loaded, go to Configuration, then click the start button to navigate across the tabs until you reach the last tab with the Wi-Fi symbol on it. Use one of the three available slots to set up your Wi-Fi information and save it. Finally it's time to download and configure the backup tool. Download a copy of Backup Tool 0.
BT comes with a copy of smallFTP, which is perfect for the task ahead. Copy the NDS folder contents—but not the folder itself—over to the root directory of your micro SD card; extract the smallFTP folder over to your computer.
You'll need to do some very brief configuration before we jump back to your DS. Replace the server IP with the local address of your computer on the Wi-Fi network. You can check this by typing ipconfig at the Windows command prompt or by browsing to your router's administration page and checking there. The rest of the settings can stay the same, as they are pre-configured to work with the copy of smallFTP included with BT—change them if you had to set up your own server with different settings.
If you would like it to dump somewhere else, open up ftpd. Make sure the directory exists, otherwise the backup tool will error out. Plug your micro SD card and flash cart into your DS and boot it up. NDS file you find inside. You should see a blue and white screen that prompts you to remove the current flash cart and put in the game you want to back up. Do so and press A to initialize.
You should see a screen like the one below. This screen is for backing up your saved games. Nearly every flash cart will manage your saved games for you as long as the. SAV file is the same as the. NDS file. Now is a great time to copy the. SAV file over. When the transfer is done press the Right paddle button to navigate to the Save Restore menu. Press it again to switch to the ROM Backup menu. You'll see the screen below with the ROM information changed to reflect whatever game you've inserted.
Press B to get started. Depending on the game you're transferring, you'll need to be patient. Now is a good time to double check the smallFTP window on your computer—or whatever FTP server you've set up—to make sure the file transfer looks good on both ends. Transfer over the WiFi network takes approximately one minute per 0.
Play it safe and just round up to 1 minute per MB. This particular ROM was 64MB, and when we checked back in an hour later it had just finished a few minutes prior. You've copied your game and can now copy that. Let's do that now. For those of you who aren't satisfied until the fat lady sings—or in this case the Curious Professor travels—here's a screenshot of the game loaded.
Now just rinse and repeat for every game you want to back up to your flash cartridge. Start to finish, that's how you back up your Nintendo DS cartridges to protect against loss, damage, and theft. Best of all when you're done you get them all on one cartridge so you can play anything in your collection without hauling a tote bag for your DS gear.
The A. You may use your device freely and enhanse its operation in any way you see fit, with the understanding that you will void the warranty with any permanent modification. Fantastic thing about flashcarts, is that absolutely no permanent modifications are made to your system.
I warn of course at this stage, that I have no responsibility over what you do with your own device. Multimedia Junkie: I want to play games and run homebrew applications that allow me to browse through images, listen to music and play videos.
I want to watch Naruto and Scrubs in the train on the way to work. Compulsive Gamer: I just want to play [my] game backup roms. All this other stuff you mention here will just take time away from me paying games. I like to play games! Make sure you google "flashcart review" and do some reading of your own, after you have read through my guide.
I will however offer you all of the core information needed to make your decision. In my humble opinion, you should not need to look further as I am again describing the decisions I have made for myself and my own system.
Tip 2: FlashCarts are cheap so don't stress over this too much. In terms of usefulness these things are a steal. Tip 3: FlashCarts need a microSD memory card to work. This is where you will be storing the firmware that runs the cart, your games, homebrew apps, videos, music and whatever else - so you definitely need one.
Soon even larger versions will be released. Tip 3. Do not buy your microHD memory card from them. This is all complete rubbish. Maybe back in the day when the DS hacking scene was new and they had to use MB first generation microSD cards to load homebrew there were some issues with the speed of these devices.
These days the industry has matured, all microSDs are very fast and the prices are dropping very quickly. Some will offer spring loaded ejection and others will offer none at all. In my experience if you are careful inserting and ejecting your memory card then you will have absolutely no problems with the ejection choice. Dont let that sway your decision. Tip 4: Rumble packs are offered with various FlashCarts or are at least mentioned quite a bit. They are Slot-2 devices that contain a tiny circuit and motor that reads collision data from some games and adds a feedback effect.
I haven't tried one myself but i already find the NDS Lite's form factor small-ish for my hands and certainly dont want it to rumble around on me. I opted out, myself.
This is a Slot-2 device with some extra memory that the browser uses to cache stuff. You can buy it separately from any FlashCart you decide on, as they are largely compatible with eachother, or go for a combo package. Here are the best FlashCarts on the market today. Considered the Ultimate flashcart. Order without the memory expansion more on this in the next step. This was my choice. Excellent compatibility, reliable and good and frequent firmware. One of the oldest flashcarts around.
Excellent compatibility, with a brand new version of the cart just out, this is a very good choice for anyone, new or experienced.
Coupled with the EZ 3-in-1 slot-2 this is a great flashcart. A very good selection for someone not interested in homebrew or browsers. However, I have been using RealHotStuff for a couple of years now, for my hacking and console modding needs, and I consider them the NewEgg of hacking, because they are quick to deliver, have very good prices and well stocked up.
But please have a look around, and let me know if you find a good source and I'll add it here. The links are to homepages for reference. The firmware can be downloaded from the appropriate download pages, or other sources. Other online stores that have a good reputation is Electrobee : An exclusive NDS Flashcart online store with worldwide delivery and Divineo : Canadian and China based mod chip and gaming electronics store with worldwide shipping.
If you find a cheaper place, then post and I'll update with the latest link to the best deal on the net! However, there are a lot of knockoffs, so you have to be careful, e. Please help me update and maintain this reference page. And I got just the one for you! I had it. It had errors a-sunder! Sent it back 4 times. Yes 4! Came back with errors again. You can read my rant on all that mess here. Got an EZ 3in1 and now all my troubles are gone. There are some things I can add here however, but I will try to do so swiftly.
Although this sounds fine, and since DSOpera doesnt cache anything it should of been fine. The memory I got was failty though and the browser froze continuously. I replaced it and at CircuitCity and the same thing happened. I replaced it again and again it was a mess. Homebrew applications are those writtten by the DS community and are free for distribution and use. You can find anything from games, graphical editors, emulators, multimedia applications and even compiliers for programming on the go.
A DS with its nifty touchscreen, loaded with some clever homebrew can be an amazingly versatile tool, not to metion the coolest jukebox ever. There is a very large homebrew community, that is constantly updating its material. You only need to google "DS homebrew" to get a flavor of what we're talking about here.
Below, I have some instructable worthy games for you guys. Completely free. Very nice. Warcraft: Tower Defence: A DS adaptation of the popular Warcraft III bonus stage, this strategic rts puts you in charge of defending your camp by placing defencive walls and turrets. Very nice homebrew.
AmplituDS v 4. Also look at this instructable on running homebrew on your DS for another good opinion. To save us all some time, I have added all of these to a ZIP file that can be found at the end of this step : Now you have some games. Let me get something off my chest first. Most homebrew applications out there you will have no use for. There's a lot of tech demos from people playing with the compiler and there are also some very nice and intricate programs that you just wont use with any given frequency to justify keeping them on your DS.
So I have compliled a list of Homebrew applications that you will most probably use or like to have on your DS here. If you have specific needs or interests please look through some review sites for stuff you like.
The sites listed in the previous steps have comprehensive collections of homebrew applications. Again, if you have a favorite then post a comment or send me a message and I'll add it here. DSOrganize 3. This app feels like an operating system in itself. Get it. Moonshell 2. Apparently no longer being developed, but a must have. DSMaps 0. Works kinda like a guided GPS. No longer under development and searching for people to pick it up. I like this app and use it a fair bit. Found my way around Austin with it once.
True story. DSWeather 0. You can look up your city code by going to the weather channel and looking up the weather at your hometown. NDSMail 0. With POP servers and I dont know. I havent used it, cuz I have DSOpera and use gmail.
DSLinux : Because they can! Kinda fun to try to debug. Are you better than those guys that made it in the first place? If you get it working what you gonna do with it? Some report running browsers through DSLinux. I havent tried recently, but its on here for the hardcore. DSFTP 2. And the most useful you will have on yours. Noodle93 LOL has already beat me to this instructable , although I think I'll post my own trouble shooting for this app soon. Emulators are a big part of homebrew applications, which I will dedicate a seperate step for, since it can get complicated.
Emulators are software that allow you to play games and run software on different platforms. For instance the very popular MAME is a program that allows you to run old and some new arcade games on a personal computer.
This kind of emulation seems to be limited only by processing power and the creativity of the open source programmers out there. In this step we will look at DS emulators for personal computers, as well as emultors for other consoles that run on the NDS itself. These are in a constant state of revision and some work better than others.
Here I list the ones that work the best, and mention others that are still under development for completion. Remember that these are developped by gifted individuals on their spare time so, results vary.
You can use the free 7-zip to extract it. Ruby is the ATi 3D hottie, if you didnt spot her already, btw : Emulators on the NDS As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of emulators that you can place on your DS for playing games from other consoles. Emulation is not perfect, but roms are quite easily obtained with some googling , since many of the rights are not enforced for games, where their consoles are no longer in production. This is great for those who love Nintendo and the work that they have done with the DS and that do not want to break any copywrite laws, but still want to hack up their portable.
Again, none of these are perfect, they will need some tweaking and figuring, but now you have a place to start. Now that you have everything, its time to put them together. Dont worry. If anything gets messed up, you can always delete all of the files on the microSD and start over. You can also add and delete things as you go along. Here goes: 1. The format of the microSD card should be FAT32, with the standard cluster allocation unit size of 4, bytes per allocation unit.
Chances are you will not have any other options, so WILL do fine This will save some overall space.
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