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Hacking Arkanoid DS Padle

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

MikeyTaylorGaming · 2026-07-20T06:42:14+00:00

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!

Thread starter DjoeN
Start date Dec 26, 2007
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DjoeN

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Dec 26, 2007

Today i recieved my Arkanoid DS Padle

It's just AWESOME!

Screens and youtube movie:

http://www.ndss.nl/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2147&p=30154#p30149

(sorry, forgot how to implement youtube on the forum

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foob

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Dec 28, 2007

nice piece of hardware!

lagman

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Looks really funny, that's how Arkanoid was meant to be played

Code:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/XSu3ql2VGOE[/youtube]

Godot0102

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Dec 30, 2007

Does this work with other games?

monopoman

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Dec 30, 2007

Yeah original controls FTW anyone thats old school enough to have played this game at the arcades knows what its all about.

Icarus

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Dec 30, 2007

I didn't know you could get them seperately. Where did you get it from ?

anime_junkie

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Dec 30, 2007

That's cool. I want one. XD

soliunasm

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QUOTE(Icarus @ Dec 30 2007 said:
I didn't know you could get them seperately. Where did you get it from ?

Looks like it's from Play-Asia because those are the stickers you get with every package.

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