nintendo ds rom dumps, almost

Posted Dec 22nd 2004 9:13AM by Phillip Torrone
Filed under: gameboy hacks

it's nintendo ds week here folks, well, not really, i'm just trying to get a few nintendo posts up as things "start" to develop. over on the gbadev forum, it looks like someone dumped the rom of metroid prime, at least the start of it. why is this good? one, figuring this out will get us all started on developing games, content, applications and more. and two, i know i'd like back up my roms the ds cartridges are tiny and bound to get lost, ideally i'd like to store them all on one big ole' monster card.

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1. hey can anyone tell me site that will have nintendo Ds Roms downloadable and please dont tell me to search ive tried google, yahoo, altavista, nine Msn, Ask jeeves, lycos ive tried loads please tell me a direc site to where i can download roms for Nintendo Ds... oh and email me at Yoshiman4000@hotmail.com

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by dude

2. If you just search GOOGLE for "nintendo ds roms" you will find sites that have 100+ games dumped and waiting for download...

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nintendo ds roms

3. Not only most of the DS games have been dumped, but also now you can play them on the NDS with a special backup kit! http://www.gameboy-advance.net/nintendo_ds/neo-flash/neoflash-review.htm And dump that Darkfader made was not "clean"

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by nds list

4. http://darkfader.net/ds/ !!!

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by DarkFader

5. Yes, Metroid has definitely been dumped. Fake dumps of Mario and Sonic have been floating around, but DarkFader from gbadev.org is the only one who can dump DS cards, and he has only released Metroid. How do I know it definitely has been dumped? I have the files here right now. If you do manage to find a dump, it will need to be extracted with DarkFader's tool (www.darkfader.net/ds). I can already view the maps and models, it's only a matter of time before full-blown level editors and such are released.

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by fabrenz

6. cool for backing up, but just for that. no doubt an emulator will follow (if there isnt already, im not up on this stuff), but how will you play the games? maybe something that tracks the mouse position over the bottom screen, but then what about buttons? it'd be kinda tricky doing it all with one hand, but who knows...actually, hunters with a keyboard and mouse could work pretty good...

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Jeremy p

7. im kinda curious if theres going to be a way to have a program on a laptop that uses the wifi card to start a game or something like that istead of having to have a game in the ds start the game off in a pc with a wifi card download and join the game with out a card something like that

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by john

8. Nitro's claims are a little shakey. They've missed deadlines and have been known to talk a little trash. It seems like the real work is being done by http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ - they'd probably be a better place to lend your programming props if you're feeling philanthropic. The developing saga is summarized here: http://www.themodgods.com

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Brett Jackson

9. well this is good, very good, yes good! now, maby with the hack that alows you to play gbc (game boy color) cartridges. it may be easyier to acess the DS. i sorry if i sound like a moron, i understand very litle of all this, personaly i like the PSP (playstation portable) if you dont know what that is google it.

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by Dr_x

10. #9 well without searching Google my first choice would be to look at http://www.nintendodsroms.com

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by free

11. i have real roms from resident evil ds to nintendogs i have a total of 36 roms all working i have tried them on passme 1 and 2 (flash cart)both with srt10 firmware 1.3 and 1.4 if anyone want a copy of these commercial roms id be happy to help just email me @ joeioa13@aol.com

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by joe

12. In case you need an emulator to preview roms on PC all of them are reviewed at http://www.ndsemulator.com with game compatibility listed. Best one IMO is DeSmuME.

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by roms nds

13. #9. have you tried http://www.nintendodsroms.com - that would be my obvious first choise if I would not be using Google search.

Posted at 3:33PM on Sep 3rd 2006 by ds.roms

14. Hey guys,does any1 know where i can find trainers or patches for ds roms?I heardthat instead of gameshark there are patches for roms

Posted at 4:08AM on Mar 24th 2007 by FunkyFIsch

15. can sumone give me a good website 2 download DeSmuME games i wud be really gratefull fanx

Posted at 9:38AM on Apr 15th 2007 by killz

16. Go buy an M3 Simply and a 4 gig MicroSD, visit www.frozen-roms.net and downlaod whatever "Back up" you want - I was getting 300Kbps+ speeds too - no torrents!. I currently carry around over 40 playable "back ups" on one card. A whole lot of games...errr "back ups" running on a NDS for under £30GBP.

Posted at 12:43AM on Aug 13th 2007 by Jamie Sanger

17. There are really good homebrew guides at http://www.tehnetwork.com since you are looking for them

Posted at 8:18PM on Aug 13th 2007 by Eric

18. hey guys an awsome site for loads of free downloads is http://www.romsite.net LOADS of free downloads with a limit of 80 megs. a day for download, but can download large roms 80+ megs.

also if you have a wireless connection you can reconnect your connection you can lownload more as if its another day. :) I have over 70 working games, have fun gaming

Posted at 5:12PM on Feb 3rd 2008 by UrBstFrnd

19. #16 - this is not good advice; the 4GB Micro SD is an SHDC card, and the M3DS Simply (like most DS flash cards) doesn't support them - so the biggest card you can use is 2GB.

If you want SDHC support, then get a M3DS Real, DSTT, CycloDS or the new SuperCard ONE (it has SDHC on the packaging). These all definately support SDHC.

Posted at 3:48AM on Feb 28th 2008 by Peter

20. #19 - There are 4gb micro SDs that aren't SDHC. They just happen to be quite rare. The minor issue is that the 4gb non-sdhc tends to be a little unstable in most carts, including the M3 simply.

Posted at 2:28AM on Feb 29th 2008 by bobert

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