The advancement of digital technology has allowed vast amounts of media to be stored on very small memory cards. Considering the size of a DS game (very small), I became interested in finding out if there was a way of storing multiple games on one cartridge.
For a "newbie" like me, it became clear that this was possible but I had no idea how due to the technical jargon being used that baffled me every step of the way.
Over time I managed to work out a way and have also found the cheapest software needed to do so. This page has been designed to share my knowledge with you and to help with any queries.
I am still no where near the technical abilty or knowledge of most but this should help me in being understood as I will speak your language.
The first issue I must deal with is to inform you that although it will be possible to download and play any NDS game, this process should only be used for games where you own the original cartridge. If you download and play a game that you do not own, you will breach copyright law.
The first thing you need is the software to play the games. Two things are needed here a compatible NDS Card Reader and a micro SD memory card. There are many NDS card readers on the market which vary in price so which to choose? Well, as I was new at this I went for the cheapest option so I would have little to lose if I wasn't able to do it all properly. A company called Deal Extreme came up with the cheapest card reader ($19.36) called the DSTT and even offered free worldwide delivery. This is the direct link to the card reader page and I will check regularily to see if it continues to be the best deal -
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10289~r.58207939 This size card could potentially hold hundreds of games. They obviously have smaller memory cards available for less.
That's it for cost, everything else is all FREE.....forever!!!
Step 2
Once you receive the card reader and memory card you will need to set up the memory card. Your card reader may or may not come with the software needed to do this. What you're basically doing here is putting some info on the memory card so it knows what to do when it put in the card reader and then into the DS.
If it still isn't working after this, send me a post and I will attempt to help people individually.
Step five of the process on the link tells of adding media to your DS card. This bring us to the next step in our process.
We can now add games to the memory card using the above process. This step involves downloading the games. Game files on the internet are more commonly known as ROMS
The best way to download these ROMS is by torrent download. You can simply search for individual ROMS or download them in packs. I prefer using http://thepiratebay.org/ to download the ROM packs, search for joda and you will see the various packs available for download. When the download opens, you will have a list of all the games in the pack allowing you to choose the ones you want to actually download. As all games ever made for the DS will be in these packs so please note that many of the games will have multiple files as there are different language version of the same game. All these ROMS are in number order so if you regularily search for joda, you wll easily see when a new pack has been added for download. (remember you should only download ROMS of games you already own.)
If this section has gone over your head because you don't know about torrents, please see my guide to torrents.
Once these ROMS have downloaded you will have to extract the files using winzip or winrar. Again, for those who are unsure of this process, please see the guide. Once extracted, locate the .NDS file of the game you want (each game will have several files, for cover pictures e.t.c, it's the one with the extension ending in .NDS which is the actual game) and drag this to your game card using te process explained in step 2.
Step 4 That's pretty much it, once the games are on the memory card, it can now go into the cartridge and then into the NDS.
If everything has been done right, when you turn the NDS on you should get a menu of games after a few moments and simply select the game you want to play, the DSTT will immediately create a save file so the game can be saved in the same way as if you were plating the original and after a few seconds the game will start.
Conclusion
This should be a simple process which may have been harder to follow if you haven't used torrents or been involved in extracting files before. Follow the guides to these and please let me know if things aren't working out as you hoped. The guides are specifically written with DS games in mind and follow a step by step guide so putting all the processes together should allow for you to be playing these games in no time.
I invite anyone to leave a post if anything is unclear or confusing and if you leave an email address detailing the problem I will strive to answer everyone individually.
Thanks for reading.
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