Hacking Flashcart Organizing Tips?

[Dangy]

I get major OCD when it comes to organizing my flashcart, so I thought I'd see how you guys organize your flashcart for some ideas.

I usually use tag's like:

[HOMEBREW] Games
[HOMEBREW] Apps
[MEDIA] Photo
[MEDIA] Music
[MEDIA] Text
[MEDIA] Video
[NDS] ROMs
[EMU] NES
[EMU] Sega


Other than that, I try to have a clean-looking skin, so I can find what I'm looking for without having to look through the skin itself.

 

[Rydian]

Other than that, I try to have a clean-looking skin, so I can find what I'm looking for without having to look through the skin itself.

Tell me what skins you have!

I use Moonlit Night and K Frax.

 

[Crass]

I am lazy. I put all my commercial ROMs in a folder called !games so it show up at the top of my R4 file list. Under that I put all my homebrew .nds files in a folder called !homebrew. All the other subfolders that are required for homebrews are placed on the root as they should be. I keep my GB/GBC roms and NES roms in seperate folders on the root as well. Basically Im not a stickler for neat organization, I just try to keep things simple and reduce the amount of folders/button presses required to launch a particular game/homebrew.

Edit: As far as themes go, Ive used this one exclusively for the past 2-3 years: http://www.ndsthemes.com/themes/details/t/e7212a3072

 

[Atashi]

I don't have too many things on my flashcart, but I've organized them into a few categories:

Apps - applications, homebrew or otherwise, such as music programs, ds browser, that sort of thing.
Faves - my favorite games
Games - the other games I have
Retro - 'old school' retro games, and a colecovision emulator
Retro->GBA - gba games
Utils - utilities, like the wifi backup utility, touch screen tester, flashme, etc.

As for skins, I just use one skin that I've made myself to match my DS. I swapped the shell for a transparent grey one, and made a 'black and white' skin with a techno theme.

Cheers!

-Atashi

 

[Dangy]

Other than that, I try to have a clean-looking skin, so I can find what I'm looking for without having to look through the skin itself.Tell me what skins you have!

I use Moonlit Night and K Frax.


Woah, I love the K Frax skin, I wish I had an AK2. Maybe I could convert it to YSMenu.

Right now I'm just using a skin I made in Photoshop, it's just a simple black and white abstract skin. I'm really too lazy to upload it.


QUOTE(Crass @ Feb 16 2010, 01:00 AM)

I am lazy. I put all my commercial ROMs in a folder called !games so it show up at the top of my R4 file list. Under that I put all my homebrew .nds files in a folder called !homebrew. All the other subfolders that are required for homebrews are placed on the root as they should be. I keep my GB/GBC roms and NES roms in seperate folders on the root as well. Basically Im not a stickler for neat organization, I just try to keep things simple and reduce the amount of folders/button presses required to launch a particular game/homebrew.

Edit: As far as themes go, Ive used this one exclusively for the past 2-3 years: http://www.ndsthemes.com/themes/details/t/e7212a3072

I know what you mean. You're the functional kinda person.

Does the !Games trick work for YSMenu?

 

[Crass]

Yep, the exclamation point in front of the folder is an old trick Ive used since back in the DOS days.

 

[Dangy]

Yep, the exclamation point in front of the folder is an old trick Ive used since back in the DOS days.

Thanks for the tip, works great, and looks better than a 0.

 

[House Spider]

Would a . work?

 

[Dangy]

Would a . work?

Never tried it. I think ! looks fine anyway.