r/DSiBrew • u/theda_bara_ • 5h ago
Games & Software What if you could use the DS as a sign up clipboard?
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r/DSiBrew • u/MemmoMan88 • Dec 31 '19
Welcome to DSiBrew! This subreddit is dedicated to homebrewing the Nintendo DSi and DSi XL handheld game consoles.
You can ask for help about a problem by just posting something on here!
You can also use this subreddit to promote your own DSi homebrew applications!
Enjoy!
r/DSiBrew • u/SteveW_MC • Jun 11 '23
Do NOT follow a video guide! Information may be out of date and could result in bricking your device!
This is an offshoot of my 3DS CFW Pokémon guide, focusing on the DSi instead. But since DSi is frankly a lot simpler, I’m just calling this a full on Megathread. This guide assumes you have already completed the steps to hack your DSi as explained in the link at the top.
Comment any missing items, questions, or if anything is incorrect/out of date.
TwilightMenu++ is an application for the DS&DSLite (via the r4 flashcart) or the DSi/3DS (via CFW). When opened, it looks and functions like the DSi menu. It allows you to access and play Roms via a prettier interface. This should let you run NDS, NES, and SNES games without any additional plugins.
NDS Forwarder for DSi lets you forward DS roms onto your normal Home Screen without having to open TwilightMenu++.
GodMode9i lets you dump saves from cartridges, create roms from cartridges, restore saves to cartridges, and more.
PKMN Chest lets you migrate Pokémon from Gen 1 up to Gen 5. Also lets you edit and hack in Pokémon.
Where do I find games & DSiWare? See the /r/Roms Megathread.
How do I migrate my saves in? Wherever you store your rom files, there should be a folder labeled saves. Copy the .sav to roms/nds/saves/ (or whichever rom type you want to save to) and name it the same as the ROM but with the “.sav” extension instead of “.nds” or whichever romtype it is.
Can I still play online? Yes. You must use an alternative DNS service like kaeru to be able to play online games with friends for DSi
Gen 5 games not working?: If you get an error when playing a Gen 5 Pokémon game that says the “DSi binaries are missing”, that is OK. The rom is playable, but the “DSi features” won’t work. The feature is: “Black, White, Black 2, and White 2 can utilize the camera when using the Xtransceiver, and they and Pokémon Conquest can connect to WPA and WPA2 protected wireless networks, when played on a DSi or 3DS.” To fix the issue, you must find a new ROM dump and replace your .NDS file in your ROMS folder with the new one. This will not erase your save file.
WFC events: It is possible for you to access Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) Event Pokémon for Gen 4 & 5 games, even without hacking your DSi. This video explains how. This article explains further. You can use PKMN Chest to erase your event cards to re-roll for more cards. However you can just inject events directly with PKMN Chest, which is much easier.
The PokeWalker is a pedometer accessory that came with the release of HeartGold & SoulSilver. It is possible to interact with a physical PokeWalker using your ROM copies of HG/SS. You must have a game cart with IR in your DS game slot. Source
Fantastic YouTubers that talk about emulation, hardware hacking, roms, retro hardware, etc.
Edit: formatting and clarification.
Last Updated: 2023-06-20.
v1.0.5
r/DSiBrew • u/theda_bara_ • 5h ago
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r/DSiBrew • u/maxamusmillian • 3h ago
on my old DSi I had unlaunch installed along with twiliight menu, how should i go about transfering my SD card onto my new DSi XL?
r/DSiBrew • u/Big-Main539 • 20h ago
r/DSiBrew • u/linux_transgirl • 16h ago
Are there any video player with subtitles? I like watching subbed anime and would like to do that on the dsi. However, the low resolution and bitrates needed for video would make hardsubs unreadable
r/DSiBrew • u/rekunote • 1d ago
Hey everyone! Last month, I relaunched RexiMemo, a Flipnote community I’ve been building and improving since mid-2023. My goal is to keep the spirit of Flipnote Studio alive, give DSi users a place to continue sharing their creations, and make the community more accessible to newcomers.
RexiMemo brings together the classic DSi experience and a growing range of website features, making it more than just a place to upload and watch Flipnotes. From creating animations right in your browser to recovering old Flipnotes from archived data, there’s plenty to explore!
Flipnote Web Editor

You can create entire Flipnotes directly in your browser, with a 256×192 canvas, two drawing layers, drawing and selection tools, frame-by-frame animation, playback controls and more. When you're finished, you can prepare your creation and send it straight to the upload page. The editor is available to logged-in users with a primary console linked to their account.
Flipnote Studio NDS Port (Original DS)
Patch a legally obtained USA-region Flipnote Studio ROM into a playable .nds file using the web-based patcher. A RexiMemo account is required, but you don’t need a DSi, 3DS, or linked console.
The port is still in development, so some features are missing or may not work correctly; camera and photo import are also unavailable due to hardware limitations.
Flipnote Hatena recovery
Still have the 16-character FSID from your original Flipnote Hatena account? RexiMemo can search surviving Flipnote Hatena archives for Flipnotes linked to your FSID, allowing you to recover them!
Archived data is incomplete, so not every Flipnote may be recoverable.
Sudomemo Migration
Moving your Flipnotes over to RexiMemo? Use the migration tools to transfer eligible Flipnotes in a single file, instead of uploading them one by one.
Scheduled Flipnotes/Premieres
Prepare a Flipnote in advance and schedule when it will make its public debut. You can manage upcoming Premieres through the website.
Collaborations, Contests & more!
Invite another creator to share credit on a Flipnote, take part in weekly contests, vote for entries, earn Stars, customise your Creator's Room theme, and use Discord integration for Tickets and optional notifications.
A big part of RexiMemo is keeping the Flipnote Studio and DSi experience working while building new tools around it. You can still enjoy the classic way of making and sharing Flipnotes, or try newer browser-based features.
I'm continuing to develop the site, so feedback from people who make, watch, or collect Flipnotes would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to hear what you think, what interests you most and what you'd like to see next!
Check it out: https://reximemo.net/
Whether you're still animating on your DSi, have old Flipnotes you'd like to recover, or just miss the Flipnote community, you're welcome to come take a look. 💜
r/DSiBrew • u/Vertecedoc • 1d ago
I’ve been working on Readmanna, a fork of ds-mangaman that turns the DSi into a portable reader for manga, comics, and books. The idea is to make it feel a little like carrying a tiny Kindle in your pocket.
The original ds-mangaman was a great starting point, but its workflow had some limits: processing PDFs could take a long time, and the finished book was bundled into a single ROM. With a book around 300 pages, starting up could take as long as 10 minutes.
Regardless ds-mangaman is a great! homebrew and im glad that the creator made it public.
Readmanna changes that workflow. Convert a PDF or a folder of page images on your computer, then copy the prepared book to your SD card. The reader app and your books are separate, so you keep one Readmanna ROM and can add or change books without rebuilding the app. The finished books are ready to open from the DSi’s book selector.
It also has seven zoom levels, so you can fit a whole page across both screens or zoom in to read smaller text. Rotate pages to read upright or sideways, then pan with the stylus or D-pad. There’s a page selector for jumping ahead, and Readmanna remembers your position, zoom, and rotation for each book.
Also you can go to any page you want by pressing B) showing a menu for going anywhere you want
Rendering is faster because page images are prepared on the computer before they reach the DSi. That lets the reader use prepared images at common zoom levels instead of doing all the resizing itself. There’s also a compact 256-color export option. Depending on the source and export settings, I’ve seen books shrink from around 300 MB on the original ds-mangaman to 50 MB on readmanna.
PDF conversion happens on your computer; the finished books are what you read on the DSi. The project is open source, and I’d love to hear what people think or what features you’d like to see next:
r/DSiBrew • u/gorambrowncoat • 1d ago
Hi
I have a hacked DSI and a non hacked DSI XL. I would like to hack the XL too and share the SD card between the two. The idea being I can pop it in the XL when im using the device at home and pop it in the nonXL when I go outside and want to put something in my pocket.
Does that work? If so, does everything work or just the homebrew stuff? Like does the original, non-exploit, pit.bin file work for both consoles or will the camera gallery not work in one of the consoles?
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r/DSiBrew • u/diegoagogos • 1d ago
Hello, I decided to use the camera app on my dsi to take a selfie with a friend, and now going to the sd card menu on the camera wont boot twimenu anymore. Is there any way to fix this?
r/DSiBrew • u/Vertecedoc • 1d ago
I’ve been building Digraph DS, a graph editor and analysis workbench for the Nintendo DS and DSi. It grew from the kts-nds foundation, and the engine work developed during Digraph’s creation has since been brought together in Devy, a reusable Rust, Bevy, and BlocksDS runtime.
That engine work goes well beyond the original foundation: Devy brings together framebuffer and layered 2D drawing, hardware 3D, touch input, gestures and strokes, SD-card storage, NitroFS assets, sprites, audio, cooperative tasks, time and RTC support. It also comes with host-side tools for preparing assets and scenes.
Digraph DS puts those capabilities to work as a real graph editor. The two screens have different roles: edit and manipulate your graph on the touchscreen, while viewing analysis results on the other screen. You can create directed and undirected edges, move and delete vertices, set source and target vertices, and pan and zoom around larger graphs.
The app includes 27 graph-analysis algorithms, covering reachability, shortest paths, cycles, topological order, Euler trails, DAG paths and kernels, game-theory analyses, bipartite matching, spanning forests, core numbers, dominators, cuts and disjoint routes, and feedback sets. It also includes component analyses such as weak, strong, and unilateral components; loops; articulation vertices; bridges; and source and sink SCCs.
Results are visual, not just text. Component analyses can show both the original graph and a quotient view across the two screens. You can swap the result view to the touchscreen and explore it independently. Analyses stay active while you return to editing, and the app reports when an algorithm’s requirements aren’t met. DAG transformations can be previewed before you choose to apply them.
Digraph DS supports graphs with up to 200 vertices and 20,000 stored edges. Dense-graph rendering uses caching, clipping, and level of detail to keep interaction responsive; those display shortcuts don’t remove edges from the graph or its analyses. You can also generate complete or random graphs, save named projects to SD or a flashcart, and check runtime and memory statistics in the app.
The current app is v0.5.10. Digraph DS builds as a Nintendo DS ROM. Desktop frame-preview and Android library builds are available as development groundwork; a desktop window and installable Android app are still future work.
Digraph DS: https://github.com/Vjarkjan/digraph-ds
Devy engine: https://github.com/Vjarkjan/devy
kts-nds foundation: https://github.com/ChristopherJMiller/kts-nds
I’d love to hear what graph problems you’d explore on a DS, and what you’d like to see next.
r/DSiBrew • u/Wide_Association3996 • 3d ago
Hello so i made project where i ported Warcraft 1 on nds. Game is fully playable, and almost every aspect of the game was finished, it's fully playable on every nds and 3ds system.
You can download it on itch.io https://wsbcpl.itch.io/wards
If you liked my project you can also donate me, I will do other projects in near future

r/DSiBrew • u/Visible-Eye8387 • 2d ago
For context, .gb games don’t show up on my home screen and I can’t seem to find gameyob anywhere, can anyone help?
r/DSiBrew • u/DarkWaIker • 3d ago
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Mentre riaprivo un vecchio DSi che mi è stato regalato, nella lista dei giochi trovai un file che pesava approssimativamente 700kb. HO provato ad avviarlo e mi sono apparse scritte che sembravano indicare un aggiornamento o qualcosa di simile.
Non sembrava stesse facendo nulla quindi sono tornato nel menù dal tasto di accensione. Quando poi provo ad aprire la cartella con giochi etc mi dà schermo bianco... Sono disperato ooo PLS help.
r/DSiBrew • u/BusEnough1760 • 3d ago
Im trying to mod my DSi but don’t know the inquiry number how do i find it
r/DSiBrew • u/BusEnough1760 • 4d ago
Ok so today i got a Nintendo DSi for 30€ but it came with parental control the guy doesnt know the password or the question after u don’t know the password does someone know a way to factory reset everything ?
r/DSiBrew • u/Mundane_Cheesecake27 • 6d ago
Hey i I’m running into a weird issue with my SD card and hope someone can help.
I have an SD card with separate folders for my ROMs: GBA, NES, NDS, etc.
When I plug the SD card into my laptop, the GBA and NES folders work perfectly and show all of my games. But when I open the NDS folder, it shows up as completely empty, even though the games should be in there. Loaded the game onto my DSi, everything's still there. No issue with save files, so I assume the game is still on the SD card, just not showing up.
Not a major issue now, but I'm hesitant to add new games in case it ruins it.
Additional context: NDS folder doesn't have ay sub-folders (GBA, NES are split by alphabet). Thinking this might be the case but when I give it some time to load, it's still empty.
Hey guys is there any way to play Persona Q on the DSi ? Through Homebrew or a port or something. And are there any other persona games for the dsi ?
r/DSiBrew • u/R4iid3_nX • 6d ago
Tengo la DSi liberada con algunos juegos, pero me molaría oír más recomendaciones
r/DSiBrew • u/Just_An_NPC02 • 7d ago
r/DSiBrew • u/R4iid3_nX • 7d ago
Buenas. Estoy buscando a ver si hay algún emulador de Nintendo 64 o algún port del Zelda Ocarina of Time o Majora's mask para DS. Ya que existe el Mario 64, preguntaba si habría algún otro juego que pueda funcionar
r/DSiBrew • u/Lazy-Cartoonist-1460 • 7d ago
I hadn’t played my ds in a while but I just heard about modding. I don’t want to permanently mod my DSI so I just bought a modded game card and it worked good for about 2 hours. Now it does this (see pictures below) how could I fix this? The file it changed into is non-deletable and it says I’m not the correct owner. Can anybody help please?