nds-bootstrap loader: Run commercial NDS backups from an SD Card

nds-bootstrap:

Thanks to the work of ahezard, Gericom, Apache, Robz8, _catcatcat, and shutterbug2000 and other contributors, we can now load NDS games from the SD card, without any flashcard/SLOT-1 card.

Don't expect high compatibility, but do expect many, many updates.

:arrow: Compatibility listing:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LRTkXOUXraTMjg1eedz_f7b5jiuyMv2x6e_jY_nyHSc/edit#gid=0

:arrow: The official Discord server for nds-bootstrap:
https://discordapp.com/invite/7bxTQfZ

:arrow: The thread for the recommended loader (by Robz8):
https://gbatemp.net/threads/twloader-ctr-mode-nds-app.448375/

:arrow: SRLoader for softmodded DSis (by Robz8):
https://gbatemp.net/threads/srloader-nds-app-for-dsi.472200/

:arrow: If you're more of a forwarder person:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/nds-forwarder-cias-for-your-home-menu.426174/

:arrow: Link to the releases page:
https://github.com/ahezard/nds-bootstrap/releases

:arrow: Anti-Piracy patch list by Robz8
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ap-patch-preservation.477536/

Also, thank you to our testers:
Historian
JoshuaDoes
thejsa
Alerdy
PokeAcer


Also, a video thanks to Robz8:


And another thanks to Alerdy:
 
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Yeah i think its a good idea to fix the multiplayer we could have way more people playing ds games online. since you know how to make dsi games work with this it wold be cool to get dsi games working with nitrohax.
 
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Yeah i think its a good idea to fix the multiplayer we could have way more people playing ds games online. since you know how to make dsi games work with this it wold be cool to get dsi games working with nitrohax.
Some multiplayer games work. Just recently played MKDS with friends. Worked perfectly fine, even though some of us had the US version and others had the EU version.

I think there'll be more games with working multiplayer, when the creators figure out how to get faster loading speeds. But for now, I think they already did an awesome job. Before nds-bootstrap came out, no one thought it would ever be possible to play DS games from the SD Card.
 

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nds-bootstrap v0.7.1: Ferb-ruary release

NOTE: The SDK1-4 DSiWarehax release is marked as v0.6.2 Rev 01.

SDK5 build:

What's new?
  • Most DSi-Enhanced games are now supported!
    Now you might ask "Why is it called the Ferb-ruary release?".
    Well, because Phineas and Ferb: Ride Again is one of the (now) supported DSi-Enhanced games, and also, it's an nds-bootstrap release in February!
  • ROM loading from RAM returns! 16MB ROMs or under, will be loaded into RAM.
Bug fix
  • Wireless has been fixed! Download Play is confirmed working.
    Remember, this fix is only for SDK5 games for now.
SDK1-4 build:

Bug fix
  • Fixed bug where loading was slow for games that use DSi WRAM as cache.
 
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Sweeeet baby jeesus solatorobo loads! (its got some studdering problems but it loads! and runs, i cannot test saving as i dont have a eeprom 512kbit type donor cart just a flash 2mbit cart
 
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This update sounds great but I am still having a problem with the previous release. I am trying to get Pokemon white to run and it sorta does. But when it boots I get an error about saving and I am told to restart. My donor cart is Zelda phantom hourglass and my donor rom is Mario kart.
Any help would be appreciated
 

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This update sounds great but I am still having a problem with the previous release. I am trying to get Pokemon white to run and it sorta does. But when it boots I get an error about saving and I am told to restart. My donor cart is Zelda phantom hourglass and my donor rom is Mario kart.
Any help would be appreciated
It works without a cart inserted, but you won't be able to save.
 

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The game won't even let me start.
 

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I just tried the Sonic Colours Single-Cart-Multiplayer and it works. Thank you very much for your awesome work.
 

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In addition to the warning i made in the previous post, as i said some time ago, some of the games do freeze if you put it in sleep mode or the home button been canceled out. If anyone has been play testing games, check to see if sleep mode freezes the game or not.

EDIT: and i mean any game.
 
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Some multiplayer games work. Just recently played MKDS with friends. Worked perfectly fine, even though some of us had the US version and others had the EU version.

I think there'll be more games with working multiplayer, when the creators figure out how to get faster loading speeds. But for now, I think they already did an awesome job. Before nds-bootstrap came out, no one thought it would ever be possible to play DS games from the SD Card.
Altwifi works with mario kart ds but local play doesn't work.
 
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You probably tried Single-Cart-Multiplayer. That one doesn't work. But Multi-Cart-Multiplayer, either with people using an original cartridge or nds-bootstrap, does work.

I have tried Mario kart ds in multicart mode and it gives me communication error regardless of who is the host. The 3ds using nds-bootstrap freezes with a black screen and the other a dsi running the official cart shows communication error press A to exit.

Any fix? Single player mode works perfectly. I did copy the save from the cart however using the same save with the same cart on a flashcard works fine.
 
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I have tried Mario kart ds in multicart mode and it gives me communication error regardless of who is the host. The 3ds using nds-bootstrap freezes with a black screen and the other a dsi running the official cart shows communication error press A to exit.

Any fix? Single player mode works perfectly. I did copy the save from the cart however using the same save with the same cart on a flashcard works fine.
Wait for bootstrap to fix wireless for SDK1-4 games.
 
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I have tried Mario kart ds in multicart mode and it gives me communication error regardless of who is the host. The 3ds using nds-bootstrap freezes with a black screen and the other a dsi running the official cart shows communication error press A to exit.

Any fix? Single player mode works perfectly. I did copy the save from the cart however using the same save with the same cart on a flashcard works fine.
I don't know. When I was playing with two other friends, we had two European systems of the 3DS family (tm) using the US version of MKDS via nds-bootstrap (one using the CIA of TWLoader and the other one the 3dsx build) and another, unhacked European system of the 3DS family using an original EU MKDS cartridge. And that just worked. If you aren't, try running the US version of MKDS on the nds-bootstrap side. Every other combination shouldn't matter, since we practically tried everything else.
 

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