My 2023 guide to New Super Ultimate Injector

[TheRogueMaverick]

I've been using New Super Ultimate Injector to overhaul my virtual console library of games on my 3DS, and have found that there's lots of information to be learned and understood if you want to do it properly. The problem is, this information isn't always readily available or easy to find, and is rather niche, so I've had to do some of my own research on things. There are still lots of people asking questions or seeking help with NSUI without getting an answer. And although I don't know everything, I thought I'd just share here what I've learned and maybe it can help other people who are also trying to use NSUI. This guide assumes the use of Beta 28, as that is the latest (and likely the last) version. If any of my information is straight up incorrect, or this guide would better belong in a different forum, please let me know.

For starters, the download links for both Beta 27 and Beta 28 (on this site, at least) are disabled for unknown reasons. But you can find NSUI on Gamebrew or archive.org in either of those versions.

This guide will exclusively cover injecting NES, SNES, GB, GBC, and GBA games. Game Gear is also very straightforward so I won't need to cover it. I'm not sure how Famicom Disk System injection works unfortunately.

Credit to Asdolo, of course, for making this great software.

One thing I was curious about was the options for the Nintendo emulators, particularly for GB/GBC. I have the option for the standard version, one with link cable emulation at the cost of suspend points and one marked GBC Virtual Console (Alt). I know Pokémon Pinball GBC had digitized Pikachu sound samples that only play correctly in the link cable version. Is it possible that works in the (Alt) version?

(Had to shorten the OG post because of new account limits, haha!)

 

[nacl]

I'm getting an error using this on Mac with wine about a missing library.xml

(assuming you have wine installed from homebrew which you probably do if you're getting that error message)

* download wine-mono-9.1.0-x86.msi 
(can't link bc new account but it's on wine's official website)

* run

wine64 uninstaller

from the terminal
* click the install button and install the latest wine-mono .msi file (if you have older versions installed, remove those)
* click "okay" and it won't let you click apply but that didn't matter for me
and also after clicking "okay" and closing the wine64 uninstaller program i opened it up again and clicked "modify" on two msi files that were shown as installed, idk if this changes anything, probably not but if the other steps didn't work do this too and then close the wine64 uninstaller and you should be able to run the nsui program now just right clicking from finder

 

[Bageena]

Is anyone else having an issue with GBC games? I get errors that the CIA's can't be created due to invalid icons when using the ones it finds in the database. I am having a hard time finding usable replacements.

 

[daemonspudguy]

I haven't been able to get the font to work. I've tried multiple versions from different sources yet NSUI remains convinced that it isn't a TrueType font.

 

[FanNintendo]

Is there DS inject for 3DS? not forwarder or the Twilight Menu++ Thanks

 

[daemonspudguy]

I haven't been able to get the font to work. I've tried multiple versions from different sources yet NSUI remains convinced that it isn't a TrueType font.

Update: of all things, a Windows Vista VM made the whole thing work. I'm at a loss for words.

 

[choconado]

Is there DS inject for 3DS? not forwarder or the Twilight Menu++ Thanks

I doubt it. both gba and ds run on native hardware inside the 3DS so like, injection feels unnecessary for most

 

[leenktri]

For those using mac and have the library xml error popping up, install dotnet 4.5 and dotnet 7 using winetricks.

 

[jeltemreal]

I'm getting an error using this on Mac with wine about a missing library.xml

I just used VirtualBox tbh

Post automatically merged: Sep 17, 2024

I'm getting an error using this on Mac with wine about a missing library.xml

I just used VirtualBox and it worked fine tbh.

 

[smoknsalmnvick]

I’m on windows and have been receiving an “unhandled exception” error message. It says the meta start tag on line 17 position 10 does not match the end tag of head, line 93 position 7.

What am I doing wrong here?

 

[Pancho32]

Thanks for the guide

 

[Ninja-Eule]

What ghosting value would you recommend for GBA games?

 

[LexDG]

Can someone explain if this uses STANDALONE mGBA or if it opens in retroarch.

 

[anotherthing]

if it opens in retroarch.

It uses the RetroArch mGBA core, if I remember right.

 

[HexaGone]

I need a GBA emulator for o2DS, but...
- GBARunner2 has those glitched lines at the bottom of the screen
- NSUI doesn't work with most romhacks, hasn't been updated in 2 years, and can only be downloaded through this thread???
- open ABG firm is scarily complicated
- apparently MGBA doesn't run well at all
What should I do?

 

[FanNintendo]

mGBA recently got updated standalone few days ago v0.10.5