Datel Action Replay DSi "USB Device Not Recognized" on multiple PCs

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!

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WeTheTurtles said:
I have windows 10 64bit 4 gigs of RAM I have virtualbox from the link you gave me with the ext pack installed and I have winxp as a Guest OS.
but the unknown device wont show up in the usb connections.

You need to have the AR plugged in and the Guest OS shut off. You have to add the AR device to the USB filter. You add the USB device to the USB filter from Guest OS settings.

Now goto the USB settings on the VM of Windows XP.

Left click on the add usb device icon (that is the one with the green plus sign) and pick the unknown device we saw earlier.

In your case it should be listed as Datel DSi AR HW Prog [0100].

If you don't have the CD anymore, you will need to download the code manager program from the guest os.

http://us.codejunkies.com/support/article.aspx?article_id=445
or directly
http://us.codejunkies.com/support_downloads/Action-Replay-DSi-Code-Manager-PC-software.zip

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Dionicio3 said:
What does it being 32-bit have to do with anything? I'm on 64-Bit windows 10 and the code manager works fine.

Having a 32bit Windows OS limits you to 2GB of RAM. And you can't install most XP drivers on a windows 10 32bit system.

And people have to resort to using a VM when the 64bit windows won't use the 64bit drivers for whatever reason.

Last edited by how_do_i_do_that, Apr 26, 2017

Hacking Datel Action Replay DSi "USB Device Not Recognized" on multiple PCs

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