kurzih Posted March 12, 2022 Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Anyone interested about digital only Nintendo DS(i) games: most of the DSiWare game entries have now been added to the database, initially there was just a few dozen of them and now there's a few hundred This is what's on the menu (didn't add applications or "samples" of full games) - some still missing from the database, but please feel free to contribute them - I don't think I'll add anything more myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DSiWare_games_and_applications Recommended emulation with Launchbox: Retroarch/MelonDS Core (needs a special setup & boot from DSi Nand/Firmware and some files in Systems dir). Most games work pretty well, unless requiring the DSi Camera. Note that MelonDS's DSi emulation is a WIP. Edited March 12, 2022 by kurzih Quote
SiriusVI Posted June 28, 2023 Posted June 28, 2023 On 3/12/2022 at 11:33 AM, kurzih said: Anyone interested about digital only Nintendo DS(i) games: most of the DSiWare game entries have now been added to the database, initially there was just a few dozen of them and now there's a few hundred This is what's on the menu (didn't add applications or "samples" of full games) - some still missing from the database, but please feel free to contribute them - I don't think I'll add anything more myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DSiWare_games_and_applications Recommended emulation with Launchbox: Retroarch/MelonDS Core (needs a special setup & boot from DSi Nand/Firmware and some files in Systems dir). Most games work pretty well, unless requiring the DSi Camera. Note that MelonDS's DSi emulation is a WIP. Does a solution exist to somehow add individual DSiWare games to launchbox and have them launch in MelonDS. Every tutorial I found to achieve this is too inconvenient (such as having to add a retroarch instance for EVERY game one adds to the platform.) Quote
kurzih Posted June 28, 2023 Author Posted June 28, 2023 Not sure how much things have evolved today, but back then I could start individual DSiWare files with No$GBA (direct emulation, not with Retroarch). Would be nice to have it in Retroarch.. Quote
SiriusVI Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 On 6/28/2023 at 5:30 PM, kurzih said: Not sure how much things have evolved today, but back then I could start individual DSiWare files with No$GBA (direct emulation, not with Retroarch). Would be nice to have it in Retroarch.. Are you sure? From what I found, that is not possible. You CAN launch individsual DSi games, but DSiWare games need to be installed do a nand file and then must be launched from the internal DSi menu. Same with MelonDS. Do you remember how you set up the emulator to launch DSiWare games directly? Quote
kurzih Posted June 29, 2023 Author Posted June 29, 2023 Yes, you can start them individually - I'm afraid I don't remember all the steps I took to get there. Here's my basic setup: And in Launchbox no command lines needed. I use dsiware .nds files as roms and they start directly skipping the DSi Menu. I did dump the nand from my own Nintendo DSi console. There are some incompatibility issues with saving if I recall. Quote
SiriusVI Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 Oh OK, so I's need to find a way to convert the files to .nds. Thx. Quote
rexryan Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 15 minutes ago, SiriusVI said: Oh OK, so I's need to find a way to convert the files to .nds. Thx. Archive has a DSI set in NDS, Maybe faster to download than convert. Quote
SiriusVI Posted June 29, 2023 Posted June 29, 2023 44 minutes ago, rexryan said: Archive has a DSI set in NDS, Maybe faster to download than convert. I'd prefer to convert them.... but I don't know how. Need to find a tutorial online. Quote
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