Hacking Converting .NDS to .CIA

[TheIronFire]

Hi everyone

I was having a question that (possibly) might not have an easy answer. Basically to cut a long story short, I have a few pokemon roms (all of gen 4 and 5) that I'm wanting to convert from a .NDS file to a cia for installation on CFW. However one or 2 of the things I have tried to date give me a glitch cia (either that or I don't know how to use the command line tools), and I was wondering what other utilities exist for this kind of project.

I have been using the tools found here:

https://github.com/ahezard/nds-hb-menu/releases

Is there any other ones out there?

Cheers

 

[KunoichiZ]

You can't convert .nds to .cia. Otherwise, I'd have my home menu filled with DS games and DS flashcarts wouldn't need to be a thing anymore.

 

[hacksn5s4]

You can't convert .nds to .cia. Otherwise, I'd have my home menu filled with DS games and DS flashcarts wouldn't need to be a thing anymore.

well you can with demos and some homebrews

 

[KunoichiZ]

well you can with demos and some homebrews

He's not talking about demos or Homebrew. He means ACTUAL games, such as Pokemon. :/

 

[Ryu Kenshin]

No one can do this yet, maybe you can TheIronFire

 

[Temarile]

The best you can get is forwarder cia's. They're on your home menu but load from the inserted flashcard :/

 

[Iamapirate]

I bought an R4i 3DS Gold + 8GB card ~3 years ago for less than $30. Can probably do it a lot cheaper, now.

 

[Davidosky99]

You can buy a dstt + a 16 GB microsd(more than enough) for around 15$

 

[Deleted User]

It's being worked on, so be patient

 

[The Catboy]

Buy an R4i Gold, problem solved.

 

[Swiftloke]

Here's an explanation of why not.

 

[Thunder Kai]

Buy an R4i Gold, problem solved.

And make forwarders cias

 

[upfromtheskies]

It can't be done, but you can get a DS flashcart for under $20

 

[hacksn5s4]

he can also just download a ds emulator on his pc or phone and thats free