Hello, I have researched a bit how to run NDS roms without flashcart and as I can see there are many ways and guides, but some of them are outdated, or under performing (games lag, crash or cant save the game) and other problems. So what is the ideal way, today, to run NDS roms on 3ds without flashcart? Any help is appreciated
Install TWiLight Menu++ Updater (link below) and run it on your 3DS to install TWiLight Menu++ and nds-bootstrap.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...-ds-i-games-and-ds-i-menu-replacement.472200/
Use the tab labelled "Set-up (CFW 3DS/2DS users, via Updater)"
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-3d...-ds-i-games-and-ds-i-menu-replacement.472200/
Use the tab labelled "Set-up (CFW 3DS/2DS users, via Updater)"
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That one's a shitty Chinese clone with time bomb and bad Rom support
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I've had mine for five years and it hasn't blown up. At all, and still works perfectly.
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Well I didn't really expect my cart to randomly blow up and cause a black hole kek
Why buy a flash cart when TWiLightMenu plays almost everything worth playing already, and with pretty much all the other perks of a flash cart like cheat support? Unless some ROM you really want to play doesn't work on TWLMenu or you're wanting the homebrew support, I don't see the point anymore (and I own multiple flash carts, barely have a use for them now outside of sticking them in the old DS Lite).
I have my own flashcart, but I'm having trouble keeping it running without problems. My 3ds sometimes randomly decides to stop reading from it and my game just crashes. I've heard it's because they are manufactured smaller than usual cartridges, so I added some layers of tape as recommended, but it's still doing it. I don't want to deal with it anymore since it's been giving problems since the start, so I was looking into other alternativs.
Anyways, thanks for your help. It's really appreciated. I will take a look at Twilight Menu++
Anyways, thanks for your help. It's really appreciated. I will take a look at Twilight Menu++
nds-bootstrap's current compatibility supports MORE than 99% of the whole NDS library with at least close to cart speeds (that's "at least", almost all games run at cart speeds). Now, either use TWiLightMenu OR Forwarders (which is what I use), both work great and since they are both frontends for nds-bootstrap they can play pretty much any game you could want without any issues unless it's a less known game with weird mechanics/programming.
You can use SD card alone for nds-bootstrap (which is both TWiLightMenu and Forwarders) and almost every game works perfectly fine at close to or exactly at cart speeds, while you can also use a flashcart as well even if not needed, in which case ALL games become 100% playable (but for pretty much every single one of the good games you don't need it at all).
You've had the one listed as and stamped with 2019 right on the card, for five years? Something tells me you don't even have that card.
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I didn't know they made an MSU cart for the Genesis.... I knew about the SNES one and the library for that is rather large but the Genesis one has very few games+1
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@Psionic Roshambo, The Doom NES cartridges, a few batches were made. One was given to AVGN as seen in his Doom video.+1
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