Hacking Emulation Homebrew What were your favourite DS Homebrew from back in the day?

MikeyTaylorGaming · 2026-07-20T07:42:14+0100

I'm thinking of making a video about the original R4DS cartridge as it was my very first delve into any kind of messing around with consoles and felt super nostalgic finding it under the bed yesterday! Also makes for a good excuse to re-shell, & re-battery my 2 consoles ahaha.

I recall a few things that blew my mind about it over time like, working out how to convert movies to watch on the DS, MSN messenger, Modding ROMs then putting them back together to play on OG console, and homebrew (emulators mostly). Probably the biggest thing was an SD card for released that it was so small it could fit in a DS Cartridge

So, I wondered what some of your personal favourite things to do with your R4 (or any of the other thousands of flash carts) were?

It'll be difficult to show off MSN messenger of course, but I've got a VGA video filmed from one of the first phone cameras 18 years ago on an old channel I can steal all footage from for that

Also, I take it this is probably the best place to download the files to get it working again after all these years, right? https://linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/

Any help or feedback appreciated!

Pk11 · 2026-07-20T09:05:03+0100

linfox's a good site, though https://sanrax.github.io/flashcart-guides/ is what I'd recommend. Linfox mostly has the official kernels for carts and doesn't have anything there newer than 2011, for some carts it'll be the same, but sometimes there's a better option for the kernel. Its just files on the SD so if there are multiple options you can try and see which you like.

I wasn't super around "back in the day" but some older homebrew that come to mind for me as cool are Colors! (first in the series that went on to be officially published on the 3DS, Switch, etc), Portal DS, DScraft, NitroTracker -- and of course emulators particularly Game Boy

Nikokaro · 2026-07-20T12:40:09+0100

Regarding old DS homebrew games, the fantastic full port of *Lemmings* and the fun rhythm game *Video Games Hero* come to mind. But there is much more. NeoDS and JEnesisDS are still incredible.

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