How to mod a ds lite to play games

buy an R4 with a 1 gig micro card from a website. i bought mine from dealextreme.com but i think they are sold out from there.

The R4 isnt the only option:

You could get the R4 with a memory card, or you could get the M3 simply with a memory card or you can get the G6 real with internal memory.

Believe it or not, i've had my hand on each type! Each one works well but the ones that require memory cards are a bit more hassle. Try the G6 real, its probably the handiest (and is the newest on the market).

It'll come with software that you just copy onto the cart. Then you make an "NDS" folder and place games in there

animaX wrote:

Each one works well but the ones that require memory cards are a bit more hassle. Try the G6 real, its probably the handiest (and is the newest on the market).

Not so really. the only added "hardship" is inserting a mini sd card into the R4 card. And dropping a couple of files onto it. Easy peasy.

Not to mention the ones with the internal memory are confined to that memory. You can't expand at all.

Getting an r4 which uses mini sd cards to store the games means you can have as much memory as you want. Just buy another mini sd. Which are only 12 euro for 1gb. So you can have an absolute crap load of memory if you want. I hear people say "on you only need 1gb!". That's total bull. I have 1gb card full of games and another 1gb card full of homebrew and every emulator available. I plan on getting another for media and then another for more games.. (or maybe even just the one 2gb card..might make more sense?!)

One of the guys over on the Nintendo forum put a pack together with everything you really need to get one going. Including some emulators and hard to find programs.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055145053

If you can't get an r4, an M3 Simply is more or less the same thing.

animaX wrote:

A few points:

First, the R4 and M3 carts sometimes have poor build quality whereby the miniSD card will not latch into the cart, or will not pop out. The R4 that i have suffers from this (i have to use a tweezers to get the SD card in and out!)
Secondly, miniSD's are soon to be outdated and replaced by a new type of card.
Thirdly, you can get a 2gb G6 real and that is plenty! You cant tell me that you have more than 2gb of games that you play regularly!
Fourthly, if you were to somehow lose or damage your SD card then the cart is no use

By the way, i'm not biased! I actually use an M3 in my ds

I've heard about some issues with the mini sd spring alright. I can say though, I've now put together 8 or 9 r4 cards for people in the last year and they've all worked without a hitch so far. Including several of which were given to kids (Probably the best endurance test any electronic device can get!)

2gb is indeed not enough for me. Especially with some games coming in at 120mb or so. It's like buying hard drives really. The more space you have the better. I'd go mad with being confined to a certain amount and that being that. Currently I have 2gb full and that's all games,apps and homebrew. I'd like to have some media, like maybe a whole season of a tv show on me too. That'd easily take up another gb. Films, after being compressed, usually clock in at 400mb or thereabouts. 4 films and that would be your 2gb almost full. Not to mention then there's quite a few games coming out soon. And even some music. (Be nice not to have to carry my mp3 player too)
2gb is not going to allow for that choice. 4-5...maybe two 2gb mini sd cards and an r4 should do all of that.

If you lose or damage the sd card you can easily buy a new one. I buy mine from China. €12 delivered for 1gb. €23 for 2gb. And if the Chinese are still making stuff for the GBA, I can't see them suddenly stopping production of mini sd any time soon.

If you lose or damage a G6 you'll have to buy the whole thing again. So I wouldn't really filter that argument into a choice.

I'm not biased myself. I've never used a G6. Just the limit on the memory wouldn't really be acceptable to me. Especially on those 2 hour bus trips to college :mad:

Each man to his own i guess!! But i know where you're coming from 01S1N. I have a psp and initially i had a 1gig card but it wasnt big enough. Now i have a 4gig and its still not big enough! Having said that, psp games are much bigger

realhotstuff are pretty good. Or you could just get an M3, G6 real or CycloDS from modchipstore

i got mine last week from dealExtreme.
no problems, like niall mc said no springs used now.

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

a dilemma will arise over ownership of the games

There surely will be when you buy an R4!!

~Marky~ wrote: »

Is there not a new r4 card comming out soon that can hold 32 gigs?

I think the new cart has a capacity of 32gigabits not gigabytes! Thats around 4gigabytes i think

Hi Lads,

Very new to the DS (Actually haven't bought it yet) but the girlfriend is looking for one.

Is the DS mod the same as the DS lite mod?

Is there a place I can read up on modding them?

Is it basically the same as the psp where it's a soft mod and no need for the mod chip?

do the new ds have new firmware that makes it difficult to mod?

like i said I'm new to the ds so any help would be appreciated!

oh ya has to be pink [Roll Eyes]

Just got an R4 and the documentation says it supports 4GB microSD