Re: Nintendo DS Downloads?
Just to let you know, DealExtreme is a pretty good site with a ton of stuff for pretty cheap. And it has free shipping. But you'll probably wait a good few weeks, possibly up to a month for your order to arrive. My experience with them(bought from them three times) it took them about a week just to ship my orders out.
But like I said, they're cheap with free shipping. So if you're patient then they're a good site to buy from.
And CBen, it's not necessary to flash your DS. I did it a few years ago(and it's still flashed), but it's served no purpose at all. Flashing the DS's firmware is suppose to make the DS recoverable if you accidentally "brick" it, by installing bad homebrew onto it or something like that. But I've never had any problems. Plus the flashing process itself is pretty tricky. You can actually brick your DS by messing up the flash process.
All you need is a flashcart, like the ones listed in this thread already. Then just download the DS and transfer the roms onto the cart and you're ready to go.
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ljepava
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Re: Nintendo DS Downloads?
ive only used the r4 carts at my work but basically there is small usb chip that ejects from the cart. you plug that in and copy over the roms and then insert the usb chip back into the cart and play. the carts for the ds and ds lite are the same.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...turyfog/r4.gif
your files you transfer over should be .nds file format. try googling r4 tutorials if you are having trouble
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Thanks.. So basically if i buy that card r4 and download one DS game thn only need to copy that game into r4 card via usb or something and thats it...........
Just one more thing if i need to install any software or something( i really dont know anything about it) ?
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Funkin'
Just to let you know, DealExtreme is a pretty good site with a ton of stuff for pretty cheap. And it has free shipping. But you'll
probably wait a good few weeks, possibly up to a month for your order to arrive. My experience with them(bought from them three times) it took them about a week
just to ship my orders out.
But like I said, they're cheap with free shipping. So if you're patient then they're a good site to buy from.
And CBen, it's not necessary to flash your DS. I did it a few years ago(and it's still flashed), but it's served no purpose at all. Flashing the DS's firmware is suppose to make the DS recoverable if you accidentally "brick" it, by installing bad homebrew onto it or something like that. But I've never had any problems. Plus the flashing process itself is pretty tricky. You can actually brick your DS by messing up the flash process.
All you need is a flashcart, like the ones listed in this thread already. Then just download the DS and transfer the roms onto the cart and you're ready to go.
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Originally Posted by
ljepava
Nice. Thanks.
^^^^I'm with stupid! Ordered both my flash cards from DealExtreme (DSTT and Ackard 2i) for about $10 a piece. It took about a week but you can't beat their prices.
Re: Nintendo DS Downloads?
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CBen
Thanks.. So basically if i buy that card r4 and download one DS game thn only need to copy that game into r4 card via usb or something and thats it...........
Just one more thing if i need to install any software or something( i really dont know anything about it) ?
What you need:
R4 cart (or similar)
SD or SDHC micro card (formatted to FAT16 or FAT32)
Firmware
Downloaded .nds files
The firmware for the R4 can be found quite easy just googling it. Download the firmware, put that on the SD/SDHC micro card with the.nds files. The SD card then goes in the R4 and it all then goes in the DS in the game cartridge slot. Turn it on and you should get a menu listing all the games on the SD card.
If you're still not sure have a look on youtube. There are some good tutorials on there.
In theory you could literally put as many .nds files on the SD card as fit but that is not recommended as each time you play a game you create/increase a .sav file which saves the game for you. Just be careful how much you try to fit on there as you don't want to corrupt the card.
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ghurka
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Originally Posted by
CBen
Thanks.. So basically if i buy that card r4 and download one DS game thn only need to copy that game into r4 card via usb or something and thats it...........
Just one more thing if i need to install any software or something( i really dont know anything about it) ?
What you need:
R4 cart (or similar)
SD or SDHC micro card (formatted to FAT16 or FAT32)
Firmware
Downloaded .nds files
The firmware for the R4 can be found quite easy just googling it. Download the firmware, put that on the SD/SDHC micro card with the.nds files. The SD card then goes in the R4 and it all then goes in the DS in the game cartridge slot. Turn it on and you should get a menu listing all the games on the SD card.
If you're still not sure have a look on youtube. There are some good tutorials on there.
In theory you could literally put as many .nds files on the SD card as fit but that is not recommended as each time you play a game you create/increase a .sav file which saves the game for you. Just be careful how much you try to fit on there as you don't want to corrupt the card.
Great..thanks just one more question ..example if i put 2 or 3 games files on the card and after finish that game possible to remove it and put another new game or i have buy new card again ?
Anyone have idea about this card Acekard 2i?
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acekard is better than r4i, use an high speed card to run the games
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4GB Micro SD (micro sdhc high capacity) and Acekard 2i what you think ..good enough or need something better?
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I forgot to mention this, but it's better to have a high speed card to put your ROM's on. A Class 6 card is ideal.
