The greatest DS pirate alive 😎

We all love the 3ds/2ds and Ds right? But the consoles are so expensive now you can barely afford to get games (especially not popular ones)!

Well don’t worry child for the greatest DS Pirate™ is here!

Step 1: YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR 3DS/DS MODDED!!! Obv I won’t leave high and dry so here are guides! I also recommend having a 32GB SD card at the minimum

3ds: https://3ds.hacks.guide/get-started.html

Dsi: https://dsi.cfw.guide/get-started.html

Step 2: now if you have your 3ds modded you probably have Hshop which is your personal mall for all 3ds games! Idk what the Dsi gets considering that Ghost-shop was discontinued but it doesn’t matter…(hopefully)

Step3: now obv the Hshop doesn’t have DS games so how do we get those??? https://vimm.net/ OFC!! This site has roms for all different kind of game consoles! I can’t recommend any other website bc they’re all flooded with ads! Little disclaimer: You do need to spell the name of the game correctly or else you won’t it.

Step4: connect your SD card to your pc and download whatever DS game you want! Certain games only exist in Japanese so you’ll need to look for translations online on your own and (if you’re lucky) there’s a translation!

Step5: now just pop the .nds file into your nds folder that’s in your rom folder on your Sd card, eject the Sd card (done my right clicking and choosing “eject”) and pop it back into your 3ds/ds!

Step6: now on your 3ds the ds games won’t show up on your homescreen! Super annoying right? Well just open your universal updater and look for “nds forwarder” (the blue icon that kinda looks like a sd card) and download it! Once downloaded open homebrew where you’ll find it at the very bottom! Open it and click “roms”, then click “nds” or whatever one you downloaded and click your file! It should be downloaded onto your homescreen!

For Japanese roms: you got a Japanese rom but don’t have an easy way to patch the rom with its English translation (created by fans)? Don’t worry! Just use this site! If your patch is a .bsdiff file and the site won’t let you select it try renaming it to a .bdf file! It’s very picky! https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

Here are two of my favorite Japanese games that I play in English as proof (even if you can’t see the English text…I’m too lazy to take more recent pics)