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How to use our NDS ROMs

The Nintendo DS is the second best selling console ever produced, second only to the Sony Playstation 2. The system features dual screens, which works well for games in the RPG and adventure genre and therefore we saw a lot of great games in these styles. Good examples are Suikoden Tierkreis and Pokemon Soul Silver.

R4 3DS Emulator is a freeware software app filed under console emulators and made available by Master for Windows. The review for R4 3DS Emulator has not been completed yet, but it was tested by an editor here on a PC. R4 Gold pro is DS mode cartridge from www.r4i-gold.com. Its revised Wood kernel supports DS gaming on 3DS, DSi and DS.

The best way to play our Nintendo DS ROMs is by using a flash cart such as R4 card or or SuperCard DSTwo. Flash carts for the NDS are very user friendly and it's as simple as downloading a game and transfering it via USB. We've embedded a video showing the details of how the SuperCard DSTwo flash cart works and you can also check out this comparison of them.

Another way to play is by using the DeSmuME Nintendo DS emulator. It's quite a mature emulator and at this point runs most of the DS games we have for download. The process is also quite simple so it's highly recommended to try out DeSmuME if you do not have an actual Nintendo DS to play on.

  1. Latest R4DS Kernel,R4DS V1.18 Firmware Download,Wood R4 1.62 Kernel Download and Wood R4 Firmware. 3- R4 DS V1.11 Kernel (English /French /Korean.
  2. The R4i Gold SDHC card is considered as the best R4 3DS card on the market with its backward compatibility and top reliability. This can work with all consoles because it was designed to work with R4 DSi and the consoles manufactured before this.
  3. Free Games for Nintendo R4 3DS Flash Cards and N3DS Emulators Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog and New Friends This game is a good pet simulator for having pets and living with them.
  4. The original R4 Card was released for the Nintendo DS and is compatible with the newer Nintendo DS lite systems as well. When the R4 DS Card was created, there was no single DS card that worked in the DS game slot 1, and the R4 made playing DS homebrew games and applications a breeze.
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As we know, it is very easy to use a R4 3DS card to play free NDS games without any risk. So how to play DS games freely on 3DS without a flashcard ? How to play ds games on 3DS via NDS emulator, Homebrew or CFW? Today, we will show you a guide to hack 3DS by using homebrew and CFW.

Playing free DS backup games on 3DS

There are three methods for you to enjoy free DS games on a Nintendo 3DS New2DS console. Just keep reading our following steps:

1. Hack DS games with R4 3DS card

This is the, easiest and best way to play DS backups games. But which R4 3DS card to choose for playing free NDS games in 2019?

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There are too many choices, just as R4i GOLD 3DS PLUS, R4i Gold Pro, R4i SDHC 3DS RTS, R4i Gold EU 3DS, R4i SDHC Dual Core etc. All these flashcarts supports 1000+ DS games freely on 3DS New2DS XL.

What’s more, all these R4 3DS flashcards support DS homebrews, Cheat function, RTS etc. In addition, R4 3DS card is super cheap and easy to use, the price is lower than 20 USD, most importantly, the R4i 3DS card has a good quality, it can support 99% DS games without any limit.

How to run free DS games with a R4 3DS ?

That’s quite simple, firstly, just prepare a Micro SD card, and format your SD card by FAT32, then go to the R4 official website to download the kernel.

If you have got a R4i Gold Pro card, then you will have a R4 kernel V4.0B, then unzip the kernel, you will have 4 files, then put all of them to the root of your micro SD card. Now you just need to download some free DS games from nds-passion.xyz. Then put the game ROMs to your micro SD card, finally, just enjoy your free games without any limits.

2. DS emulator hack DS games

When you get Homebrews on a 3DS console, you can use this NDS emulator for Nintendo 3DS devices, that is 3DeSmume. However, it’s not as good as a R4 3DS card.

First, the official website hasn’t updated for several months, and it only works on a New3DS console, and the speed is not that good. It’s currently a fully interpreted DS emulator, which means the performance is not so great. So, we do not recommend this method for you.

How to use 3DeSmume to run free DS games ?

This way is only compatible with New 3DS/New 3DS XL/2DS XL devices and you should get homebrew installed on your machines firstly. Then you just need to run the DS emulator for New 3DS, 3DeSmume. It is coming from DeSmuME, can be launched through the homebrew launcher directly, but it has a slower speed on N3DS.

How to play ds roms via sd card using 3DeSmume? It’s very easy. Run the 3DeSmume on your homebrew launcher, I suppose you know how to homebrew 3DS. Currently, both exploits Ninjhax 2.9 and Freakyhax are popular to use for setup homebrews to Nintendo 3ds. They are working on the latest 3ds v11.8.0-41U/E/J.

3. NDS-bootstrap

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If you are running a CFW on a 3DS, you can use Nds-bootstrap plus TWLoader to load DS ROMs from the 3DS SD card. However, this method doesn’t support most of DS games, take up large space on your model and gave save is a trouble.

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This mean requires you installing CFW firstly, so you can run the NDS-bootstrap to load ds files from 3DS sd card. How to setup a CFW to your 3DS? In 2018, many flashcarts cam support you install Boot9strap and 3DS CFW easily with NTRboothax, they are the R4i B9S, R4i Gold 3DS Plus, Ace3DS X.

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What is Nds-bootstrap ? It is a WIP project that allows people to play their Nintendo DS Homebrew & ROMs on a Nintendo DSi or on a Nintendo 3DS natively using an SD card without using a flashcart or an emulator. Even though compatibility isn’t perfect yet, it can still play a handful of games. The current latest version is v0.6.0.

In order to use this, you’ll need to get a frontend. Here are some frontends that we recommend:

TWLoader is a CTR-mode GUI that looks and feels like the Nintendo DSi menu, but the theme can be changed to R4 or akmenu/Wood.

nds-hb-menu is another 3DS frontend, but based off the Nintendo DSi homebrew menu.

SRLoader is a port of the famous TWLoader to the DSi.

  1. Download TWLoader. You can get it from the latest release page or download latest 7z version from here: https://github.com/Robz8/TWLoader/releases/latest
  2. Extract the files to a folder and move TWLoader.cia to SD:TWLoader.cia
  3. Open sdroot folder and move _nds folder to SD: root.
  4. Move your .nds files to your desire location. Default: SD:romsnds. You can change default location following this steps.
  5. (IMPORTANT!!) This step is required. If you aren’t connected to the internet, an error screen will appear if those aren’t installed.
  6. Install TWLoader – TWLNAND side.cia and TWLoader – TWLNAND side (part 2).cia to SysNAND (also to EmuNAND, if you have EmuNAND).
  7. Install SD:TWLoader.cia to the NAND your are using (SysNAND or EmuNAND)

If you want to load roms from SD follow this steps:

  • Put every .nds file on your nds folder. Default location is SD:romsnds
  • (Optional) TWLoader auto download boxart from the Intenet. If you want to use your custom boxart, follow this steps:
  • Create (or download) your .png file that’s 128×115.
  • Name the .png file to the same filename as the game, but with .png added to the end. (ex. your rom is name game.nds, boxart will be game.nds.png)
  • Save it to SD:_ndstwloaderboxart.

R4 3DS VS Homebrew emulator

So which method is the best to play free DS games on a 3DS or New3DS New2DS ? It’s obvious that Buying R4 3DS from Mod3dscard is better than the other methods. Here are all the reasons:

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  1. The R4 3DS is more easy to handle, there don’t have any risk to run DS games with a R4 card. To hack DS games by CFW and emulator is more difficult. It’s not a good solution for the beginners.
  2. The R4 3DS card has a better compatibility. It works perfectly on a Nintendo New3DS, New2DS, 3DS, 2DS, DS, DS Lite, DSi. However, for emulator and custom firmware, they have the limits for Nintendo consoles. What’s more, a R4 3DS flashcart supports more DS games freely, on the contrary, the CFW and emulator have a bad performance for game playing.
  3. The R4 3DS cards have more functions, just as cheating, RTS and homebrews, in addition, R4 3DS supports also GBA and SNES games with an emulator.
  4. All R4 3DS are On Sale in Mod3dscard Site, which supports Shipping from USA and France.