[DS] Universal DS Homebrew thread. Fucking cheapskates.

Yeah, back in the day when SDHC cards weren't available you had to choose your 1 gig microSD card wisely or you'd have some games like the Castlevania games which feature big fmv sequences getting all choppy on ya. The 8 GB microSDHC card they sell you at realhotstuff doesn't have any issues with the Castlevania games. Most microSDHC cards along with being higher capacity for storage also are faster than older microSD cards so if you get a microSDHC card you should be fine.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The DS can handle NES/GBC/GB pretty well. SNES and Genesis unfortunately are still lacking. It's not the cartridge that you should be worried about but the homebrew and the DS hardware capabilities to support the homebrew.

So just get a CycloDS or something comparable already and maybe in the far future there will be some homebrew that does SNES/Genesis emulation justice.


The one thing that I would like to research one of these days is what cards work with the DSi and if there is anything on the DSi that has been unlocked for homebrew and stuff. I'm not really interested in the DSi and of course with it having firmware that makes tinkering all the more difficult but I'm still curious.

How ya doing, buddy?

When I refer to the CycloDS I'm always talking about the Evolution. The other two are pretty asstastic. Evolution is pretty awesome though. The cards Dhsu mentioned should be great as well. And by roms they mean .nds roms which are Nintendo DS roms. There are homebrew .nds files that may be emulators though. I have one for GB/GBC roms that is pretty good. The NES emulator that I've tried works but requires more work than it should. I'd honestly just skip on pretty much all emulation besides GB/GBC but feel free to go test stuff yourself and come to your own conclusions.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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You might have some very slight slowdown in some games but for the most part everything works well and is very playable.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, if you want to be doing homebrew or playing DS roms I'd really avoid the DSi right now. Plus the whole thing is pretty lame. It costs more and you lose features and have to jump through unnecessary hoops. Just get a DS lite.

And I wouldn't ever expect a GBA emulator on the DS (especially one that actually works well). I mean the DSi might supply a need for one but I really have my doubts. Don't go buying a DSi expecting one in the future.

FELIPE NO

Yeah, realhotstuff sells sdhc cards on their website. Those things come with a very good adapter if you're hesitant on using the one that comes with your cyclo. Honestly, just bite the bullet and get an 8 gb sdhc card. That way you'll have plenty of room for your games, homebrew, and even music if you so choose. I have 100 plus DS games, 40 plus GBA games, and plenty of homebrew with a decent amount of room to spare on my 8 gb microsdhc card. 2 gigs will get you like 20 to 40 games. That's reasonable enough for most folks but I like being able to have just about everything I'd want on my DS on one card without really worrying about space.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

ez 3 in 1 is just a gba card that allows for a bit of storage (the minimum you'll need for the largest of gba games) and also does rumble (even though rumble kind of sucks and is fucking loud). I honestly wouldn't bother with the opera browser. More trouble than its worth.

Basically with your Cyclo it will load any gba games onto the ez 3 in 1 and play them from the slot 2 while transferring any save data from slot 2 to slot 1. It's kind of clever like that.

How ya doing, buddy?

From what I understand it's great to use the GBAExploader to clear your PSRAM and NOR but if you're using a Cyclo you'll have issues loading and playing games via GBAExploader. At least that's the case with Mother 3. Clear your NOR with GBAExploader and load the rom into NOR with the Cyclo's built-in GBA utility. That way you know your GBA saves will be synced with your Cyclo and not get constant save errors.

How ya doing, buddy?

I've had nothing but trouble using GBAExploader. I know Rudolph is supposedly working with Team Cyclops to get it working better though. Maybe a newer version has come out.

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Yeah, Q, do you have the built-in GBA loader for the Cyclo turned off by any chance?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

But did you send the game rom through GBAExploader to NOR or did you send the game rom to NOR using the built-in GBA support via the Cyclo? Loading the rom and sending to NOR are completely different things and depending on how you do it both the GBAExploader and built-in GBA support will get mighty pissed at you when you try to load your save data.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Burrr... well I'm telling you something can go screwy so uh uh WATCH OUT.

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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Skim through the thread. At least the 5 lastest pages. Is it that hard to do?

Anyway the R4 sucks donkey nuts. SNES emulation isn't that great. NES emulation is alright but could be better. If you want to play GBA games you need a slot 2 device. My recommendation as always is the Cyclo DS Evolution with a EZ 3-in-1 slot 2 device. Don't even try using these on the DSi right now until a proper solution is made. Have a nice day.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Fair enough, but don't try and act noble about it.

I, Duke Keefe Maraudington III, take great offense to your dispute of my god given right and noble duty to convey the joys and woes of my business and celebrate the wondrous and righteous spectacle that they truly are.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

What if I bought all my games but then gave them back to the local GameStop immediately under a myriad of disguises, got my money back or "store credit" and continued to use this "store credit" for new games to become returned games to be sold as used games and perhaps even used this "store credit" to buy these used games and then sold them as new games with the help of some saran wrap and a hair dryer thus making profit AND ON TOP OF THAT I STILL PIRATED THE GAME?



Jam it back in, in the dark.

Nope, you will always need to use a slot-2 device to play GBA games. Well at least for now. There doesn't seem to be any indication that will ever change though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.