How To Hack Your Nintendo DS For Easy Backups, Single Cartridge Playback If youd love to back up all your Nintendo DS games and carry them around on a single and inexpensive game cartridge you can play on any DS, DS Lite, DSi or DSi XL, this guide is for you. Earlier this year we showed you how to backup and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. Many of you wrote in asking when we would do a guide for your other gaming darling, the Nintendo DS. You asked, we listened, and now were back with a start to finish guide to backing up your Nintendo DS games. Well be swapping out the bulky external hard drive for a nice slender micro SD card but the basic premise remains the same. Note Unfortunately this technique relies on you using a Nintendo DS or DS Lite. The architecture of the DSi simply doesnt support easy ROM dumping. Were sure it has been done, but likely not without a lot of work, solder and cannibalising a few units in the process. If you have a DSi and you want to back up your games, we suggest you find a friend or hit up e. Bay for a used DS unit. You know those units with descriptions like Screen badly scratched, battery dead, extensive signs of wearWii ISO Download Portal. You can download Wii ISO files in. To save bandwidth the files can be compressed using zip rar or Oggi vediamo come crackare il nostro amato nintendo ds. Per poter usare i backup dei giochi sul nintendo ds bisogna assolutamente avere la R4 Revolution for DS. Grab an old DS unit with a description like that for 3. Even better, while the chances are of bricking your Wii using our guide were nearly 0 but still technically possible your chances of damaging your Nintendo DS with this guide are 0. None of steps will require you to alter your actual DS unit all tweaks and hacks occur entirely on the flash cartridge we will be setting up. The NDS is a robust little gaming platform and there is next to nothing you can throw at it that a simple reboot wont fix. Should you ever want to sell your DS in stock form, all you need to do is remove the flash cartridge and wipe your system settings. Note Screenshots for the two flash carts short for cartridges we tested were taken on both a Nintendo DS Lite and a Nintendo DSi unit, as we tried out features to ensure functionality across models. Why Backup And What Youll Need. Why back up your Nintendo DS gamesWhy not back them up You paid good money for those little NDS cartridges. Do you really want to shell out another US3. QxEJihR.png' alt='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' title='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' />Just like backing up your fragile DVD based Wii games to an external hard drive protects them from damage and your sticky fingered kids, backing up your NDS games provides the same protection. Photo by el monstrito. It also protects your games from theft. Should your NDS be stolen after you switch to using backups, youll be painfully out one NDS unit but youll have all your NDS game cartridges safe and sound at home and likely the original backups still on your computer. If thats not enough for you, playing your games from a backup flash cart gives you access to all sorts of neat bonuses, like Action Replay cheat codes, unlimited game saves and depending on the flash cart you use even in game, on the fly cheat application and game speed tweaks. So what do you need to get started with this backup magic For this guide you will need the following items A Nintendo DS or DS Lite unit with power cable on hand. FIZ/B3V1/FRA9WN6T/FIZB3V1FRA9WN6T.MEDIUM.jpg' alt='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' title='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' />A Flash cartridge which well refer to as a flash cart from here on such as the Ace. Kard. 2i or the Super. Card DSTwo. The Acekard. TPk_Vy3hI/0.jpg' alt='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' title='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' />US2. Supercard DSTwo is US3. A micro SD card and card reader. GB is more than sufficient for most people. A wireless router. Nintendo DS game cartridges to backup. Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' title='Ds Games Zip R4 Firmware' />A computer well be using a Windows PC for this tutorial. Selecting Your Flash Cart. Gowin Tks-202 Software'>Gowin Tks-202 Software. For this guide, we purchased and tested two NDS flash carts. There are more than a half dozen flash carts on the market with varying features like hardware emulation, media playback and more. We researched flash carts and selected one from the more economical end of the price scale and a premium cartridge to see if the build quality and features were worth the increase in price. All flash carts were ordered from Mod. Chip. Central. Theyve got excellent prices, reasonable shipping, and all of our orders we made two just to make sure our first expedient delivery and great customer service wasnt a fluke arrived promptly. The flash cart market is rife with cheap imitations and outright scams so its worth using a merchant somebody can vouch for. Rather than overwhelm you with the specifications of the two cartridges we ordered you can read their product pages for those well help you choose a flash cart based on your needs. These arent the only flash carts on the market, but they are the ones we were able to test extensively and can give you some insight on. If you just want to backup and play your Nintendo DS games and dont really care about emulation, media playback or other fancy features, the Acekard. Its a solid cartridge, it has a development community behind a robust cart specific operating system called ak. AIO, and for basic playback as well as homebrew based emulation youll be just fine. If playing Gameboy Advance games is important to you, however, keep in mind that this flash cart cannot play Gameboy Advance backups on the Nintendo DSi this is a hardware limitation due to the lack of a Slot 2 for GBA games, it can still play Gameboy Advance backups on the DS and DS Lite. Left 4 Dead Version 1.0 0.9 Patch'>Left 4 Dead Version 1.0 0.9 Patch. The Acekard. 2i is US2. Mod. Chip. Central. If you want to backup and play your DS games and use enhancements like cheat codes, real time saving, as well as playing games in emulation like Gameboy Advance and SNES games, and youd like to enable movie and music playback, the Super. Card DSTwo is for you. It handles the basics of backing up and playing NDS games perfectly but then goes a step further by layering an interface over your NDS game playback accessible by pressing LRStart at any time during playback which gives you access to game guides, real time cheat codes and game saves, slow motion playback, and a really cool Free Cheat mode where the Super. Card looks for open variables in the game that can be modified like those for health or ammo left. In addition the Super. Card has a built in chipset for emulation of the GBA on the DSi, hardware based SNES emulation and media playback. The Supercard DSTwo is US3. Mod. Chip. Central. Setting Up Your Flash Cart. Once you get your flash cartridge in the mail, youll need to load and update their software. The process differs between the two carts were covering, so if youve got the Acekard. Supercard DSTwo, jump ahead to here. After this setup, the instructions are the same for both. Setting Up the Acekard. Download the Acekard. Extract the contents of the ZIP file to the root of the micro SD card youll be using for your Acekard. Download ak. AIO an alternative but practically official OS for the Acekard. Extract it to the root of your micro SD card. Download the Wi. Fi update. Extract into aioplugin on your micro SD card. Make a folder labelled ROMS NDS on the root of your micro SD card. You could call it Games if you wont be using any emulators or other NDS software, but we like to keep things well categorised around here. Your games will go here once youve backed them up. If you intend to use the Acekard. Nintendo DSi that is has been updated to menu version 1. Acekard. 2is firmware. Download the Acekard. Extract the contents to the root of your SD card. The update can only be run from a DS, a DS Lite or DSi with menu version 1. W810 S. You cannot update the flash cart from a DSi unit with system menu 1.