We're sure it has been done, but likely not without a lot of work, solder, and cannibalizing 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 Craigslist or eBay for a used DS unit for the backing up.
After you've backed up, you can play your backups on your DSi without problems. 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 won't 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 back up your Nintendo DS games? Why not back them up? You paid good money for those little NDS cartridges. 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, you'll be painfully out one NDS unit—but you'll have all your NDS game cartridges safe and sound at home—and likely the original backups still on your computer.
If that's 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:. 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 ModChipCentral. They've 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 wasn't a fluke—arrived promptly. The flash cart market is rife with cheap imitations and outright scams so it's 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—we'll help you choose a flash cart based on your needs. These aren't 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 back up and play your Nintendo DS games and don't really care about emulation, media playback, or other fancy features, the Acekard2i is for you. It's a solid cartridge, it has a development community behind a robust cart-specific operating system called akAIO, and for basic playback as well as homebrew-based emulation you'll be just fine. If you want to back up 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 you'd like to enable movie and music playback, the SuperCard DSTwo is for you.
Once you get your flash cartridge in the mail, you'll need to load and update their software. The process differs between the two carts we're covering, so if you've got the Acekard2i, go here ; if you bought the Supercard DSTwo, jump ahead to here. After this setup, the instructions are the same for both. Setting Up the Acekard2i: Download the Acekard21 loaders. Extract it to the root of your micro SD card.
Download the WiFi update. Your games will go here once you've backed them up. If you intend to use the Acekard2i in a Nintendo DSi that is has been updated to menu version 1. Download the Acekard2i update for the 1.
But still suggest you to buy dstwo that i said above, the best GBA card, no need to buy other extra things. Wouldn't a GBA emulator work on my current card? I would need to buy another ez flash 3in1 package? Last edited: May 9, You must log in or sign up to reply here.
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Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? If you want to format the card, copy the folder inside the SD-card first do not alter it to make sure all data from any games is saved. Then, copy them back to the SD Card after formatting. Also, Spotpass can sometimes store data on the SD Card. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to ask and answer questions.
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