Flash Carts Are The Portal To The DS Homebrew World

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[@Nedyarg1100]

It may be a legal grey area but I personally have no issue pirating a game if its not for sale anymore. I'd rather "risk jail time" over spending $200 to get pokemon platinum from a collector.

[@Sparkette]

Nintendo is a shitty anti-consumer company anyway so I'd have no qualms pirating even a new game from them.

[@DE23]

The only people getting arrested for piracy are people who run from sites lol

[@charlesswansonii9319]

@@Sparkette Remember: It's always morally okay to pirate Nintendo games. James Stephanie Sterling said so, and Thank God for them.

[@itsjustjosh2493]

I've lost my old copy of pokemon platinum so I agree with this statement

[@tacokoneko]

there is no risk of jail time. if you do a little research you will see that in the entire history of copyright law, there doesn't appear to be a single person in the USA who was actually _arrested_ for only illegally _downloading_ copyrighted files - everyone who was actually arrested appears to have been caught in the act of selling the files to others to make an actual monetary profit. This is because literally so many people pirate tons of movies and music, way more than even people using narcotics, that even the US government realizes they don't have the resources to prosecute all of us.

[@GoGoSkate]

The problem with "ROM Piracy" is that these systems are so old the creators don't sell the games themselves anymore, so if you buy a cart from someone you CANT say you supported the developers because they won't see a penny of that money. The collectors will. Save your money and download games they stop selling

[@akiradkcn]

This

[@keisui89]

exactly how i feel about it , the developers literally dont produce and sell the games anymore , so legally buying the game just goes to third party sellers . so unless you really want a physical version , downloading the discontinued game on the discontinued console is , in my opinion , more than fine to do

[@garburias]

Even if I prefer to collect the actual games, I agreed with this statement lol

[@GrandCorsair]

Those games can be super pricy too. I haven't checked in a while but I wanted a copy of chulip but the cheapest one was $200. I give up a long time ago.

[@GrandCorsair]

@xg223 I the context of how those games that are being sold matters. Sometimes getting it legally also has flaws. Like how they completely butchered the silent hill collection. Imagine if that was the only way you could ever play it legally. Or like Nintendo's online service. What if the only way to play Star fox 64 was to buy their pricey expansion pass? There is also cases where some games are altered or censored for content or because copyright issues. Then you have little things. Like pokemon stadium you can't use pokemon from your Gameboy file like you can on an emulator. Transfering pokemon being a large chunk of the content. I'm mostly talking about games where playing it in it's original form isn't possible.

[@shadowedfate151]

At some point I felt bad about pirating old games that arent for sale at retail stores anymore... That point ended after I wasn't able to find those games easily and had bills to pay

[@Etsa]

Especially if you buy it used the creators or copyright owners don't even get any money.

[@underthetreeproductionsOffical]

I admittedly pirated roms that I actually own a physical cart of so I could download rom hacks to it and play them on the actual system using a flash cart

[@ArchinaGM]

I like having a physical collection of games to play so I don't mind buying the originals. Then a couple weeks back I got the urge to play some Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games and after messing around with my childhood Blue Recuse Team cart I wanted to get my hands on Explorers of Sky. ...£80 for the cart. I promptly went online to research flashcarts and bought two good carts off of a reputable Aliexpress seller for £6.

[@profl0g1c38]

@@underthetreeproductionsOffical you could dump the rom from your own cart... and thats perfectly legal. well, actually im not sure if this is possible with the ds, but its really easy on 3ds

[@JC20XX]

@@profl0g1c38 very ways to dump ds and gba games with a flashcart

[@LaskyLabs]

My dad got us R4i cards back in the day when he had read some news about rampant piracy and the devices used to allow it. Obviously he very quickly got us some. I played so many games I never would have because of that lol. He also did movie encodes of like, cloudy with a chance of meatballs and what not so we could watch it on our DSes. Wonderful man he was.

[@eve__________]

Sounds like he grew up playing video games and just wanted y’all to experience what he did but even better. Sounds like he was a great dad 🫡

[@LaskyLabs]

@@eve__________ he did not. Most games gave him a headache. His generation was just before the rise of *pinball* arcades. He was just a great dad. Not a gamer but he was great.

[@Sparkette]

There's another really cool thing you can do with some DS flashcarts that you didn't mention: you can reflash them (or even just flip a switch on some of them) for something called "NTR Boot". What does this do? Well, every console in the 3DS family has an undocumented feature built into the boot ROM that allows it to load firmware from a DS cartridge instead of the internal memory. This was presumably added so Nintendo can use it as the equivalent of a bootable USB for repairing bricked consoles. But now that hackers have figured out how to trick the boot ROM (which, btw, can't be patched) into booting firmware without a valid signature, we can use this feature to unbrick our own consoles and even install custom firmware on them.

[@vivimannequin]

Link me

[@silence___]

Ide like a link too. I plan on buying and modding a 3ds soon, my dsi doesn't cut it

[@KopperNeoman]

The signature IS valid. It's valid because the signature check code is retarded, but it's still valid.

[@scipio2234]

Don't do this there are way and safer ways of hacking a 2ds/3ds without a DS cart this ain't 2017 anymore, just look up hack 3ds on yt

[@rebellesunis]

I bought my Wii U JUST for homebrew. And to record Nintendo DS games (much better than in an emulator, specially with some of the games).

[@Damaniel3]

The timebomb carts (at least the ones shown as examples in the video) can install a replacement kernel/frontend called YSMenu that removes the timebomb (which is just a software 'feature', not a hardware one). Once you've done that, they're perfectly serviceable cards that work as well as any other.

[@LilyBloomVee]

Honestly, the Wii or even Wii U had a pretty good home brew history, with the Wii the bigger one than the Wii U. The Wii home brew scene is worth looking at and giving shoutouts for.

[@grumpywolfgaming]

Wiiu = best nintendo homebrew console.

[@luhgarlicbread]

@@grumpywolfgaming I would say that the Nintendo Switch is, although I’be never used a modded Switch or Wii U.

[@LilyBloomVee]

@@luhgarlicbread To be fair, the Switch hasn’t nearly enough happening in the Homebrew scene than the OG Wii, even the Wii U currently has more than the Switch in terms of availability.

[@luhgarlicbread]

@@LilyBloomVee Can you boot linux on a Wii U?

[@Verse28]

@@luhgarlicbread nope, but the Wii U can play all Nintendo games except Switch, run retroarch, bloopair, and more

[@gamechep]

I'm also very grateful to the people who translated Ace Attorney Investigations 2 which was only released in Japan. Man, was I blown away by that. Oh, and to those too who translated Touch Detective Part 3, which again was released only in Japan on the 3DS. I highly recommend everyone to play both of these games; there's a reason they got fan translations. (Their prequels are available outside of Japan)

[@leandrabarros3582]

The Ace Attorney fanbase are the most dedicated fans I have ever been a part of aside from maybe Dragon Quest. Its so cool seeing the community putting sleeves up to bring these japanese only games to everyone, and it inspires fans all over the world too!

[@sangan3202]

also Jump Ultimate stars which is a smash bros of a bunch of shonen jump characters, its really fun and granted it doesnt exactly require you to read but it saves you from getting stuck in menus

[@leandrabarros3582]

@@sangan3202 Jump is super fun! I just have to learn how to play so I don't fail on every single stage challenge lol

[@ewoutverheij4745]

I never knew about touch detective until I found it by coincidence on Hshop in the translated games section, i'm surprised by how obscure the game still seems to be. Tons of game reviewers I follow never seem to mention it.

[@gamechep]

@@ewoutverheij4745 I know, right? For me, it came pre-installed in the R4's SD card, which really took me by surprise when I grew up and realized how many good games there were in comparison to the bad ones. Unfortunately, Nintendo isn't officially present here in India; never was. So piracy was the only way back then. Now I can buy eShop gift cards on PlayAsia and buy games that way. 😊

[@KIxYOSHI2077]

Holy this brought back some childhood memories. Pretty much everyone with a DS and a slight bit of knowledge about the good old world wide web had them here. We called them "schummelkarte", basically German for "cheating card", as you could actually use cheats in a lot of pirated games. Damn those were some good times.

[@weaseloaf58]

I’m impressed how rapidly your quality is evolving. I did not even recognise you at first as the “gamecube mini guy”. Great video, keep it up! :)

[@STICKOMEDIA]

The R4 Upgrade Snoopy Revolution looks pretty dope But yea the homebrew scene for the ds is amazing, It's crazy to see it still getting games like Super Mario Galaxy DS and Sonic Adventure DS, just impressive

[@JerKKeR]

TBF it has the wood kernel on it, which is probably the best R4 Kernel out there

[@Man_of_Oil]

Fantastic video! You gotta talk about DSi modding, it's actually criminally underrated how much you can do now on a DSi with just an SD Card and some custom firmware

[@professional_lurker]

Remember kids, it's always morally correct to pirate out of print games, and extra correct to pirate any Nintendo product.

[@CalcProgrammer1]

I had the Datel Games n Music card, which was designed to run homebrew and play music. With the SD slot you could load all sorts of homebrew, but not pirated games. I used that thing a ton for homebrew, videos, music, and emulators. I also had the GBA Movie Player cartridge, which had a CompactFlash slot for additional homebrew storage. There were programs that could use either card for file access and I remember trying to write my own file manager as well to move files between the SD and CF cards.

[@Shin3y]

I commonly see unfortunate collectors excited to receive their new ds game, only to receive a cart with an SD card, often they don’t know that these are fakes and meant for pirating and home brew. As a home brew lover, and games collector, I like seeing videos like this thy cover what these types of carts are meant for

[@Cheesepuffet]

with flashcards that have time bombs, there’s almost always a way to remove it through replacing the internal files! you can almost certainly find a tutorial on how to do so as long as you have one of the more popular ones

[@Lithobraker]

I did not expect to see Altered Platinum in this video! So far, I've only ever seen it when I searched for it specifically... I would appreciate credit- either in a credits section or the description, alongside credit for the Mario Kart DS hack you showed- but it's still awesome! This was a pretty great video too. I still have a couple of old flashcarts and DSes, which I sometimes use to play my hack and others on the go. It's still a surreal experience to see my hack running on an actual DS, even after several years of development.

[@MarcoDotIO]

Oh god I remember the whole controversy with Gateway bricking 3DS consoles because people were pirating their firmware; and that Gateway had a form of really hostile DRM that would brick any pirated version of their firmware. Those were the days.

[@TyphinHoofbun]

Yeah, I bought a couple Gateways back in the day, but then the whole drama exploded and it was just... I guess it makes sense that it's big money, so you're gonna do stuff to protect your income, but it was just such an incredibly crap thing to do that I felt bad for ever supporting them. Nowadays you can do everything without a card, you don't even need Cubic Ninja or anything else, you can just use the browser or the sound player or a number of other entry points, based on what version you're on. Watching the different exploits being found and developed was amazing.

[@btarg1]

Modding your 3DS also allows for playing all this homebrew and more since its more powerful, I would really recommend it!

[@ESquadProductions]

Love your channel dude! Can't wait for it to hit 100K. Keep up the awesome work. Also 7:54 had me laughing so hard dude :D

[@ZeldaAmis]

I have a few DS flashcarts with two main things I use it for. One, I have a piece of software that allows for the backup and restoration of both saves and the ability to legally back up ROMS from GBA carts in the second slot (For the DS/DS Lite). And two, one of them has an inbuilt switch to assist in one method of modding 3DSes, which I do quite often

[@MrCarlosj0]

I had quite a few of those. PAR, R4, Supercard CF GBA, and one other CF adapter I forgot it's name. Times were tough but also fun.

[@prestongower7800]

This video is really hitting home for me I'm glad you made this video instant follow bro

[@APersonm]

Really good video, keep up the good work Bringus!

[@Kippykip]

1:35 THAT'S MY SHOP LISTING LMAO! I took that photo 😂

[@EdoVro]

I grew up with the R4, when I was like 4 my Dad called me and my sister down cellar and asked us to pick games to download, then sometime later he gave us each an R4. Then at like 10, I learnt how to add my own games to it and added a bunch of emulators and ROM hacks. Played through the entirety of Super Mario Bros 3 MIX on it. Great times.

[@SumeaBizarro]

Notes from someone who used a lot of different flashcarts for a long time during it's hayday. 1: "Each show up as a random game to..." is technically (in)correct. Most flashcarts before DSi came out had their own icon title and description that showed up in DS and DS lite menu and they worked fine. DSi changed this with very, VERY heavy handed anti piracy measure where ALL of the DS titles that were released before DSi launched were white listed in system firmware of DSi. To fool this, flashcart manufacturers had to use barely illegal amount of game metadata to fool DSi specifically to boot their card, which nintendo also countered with more updates, and flashcart manufacturers countered with new updates. This trend though helped to push flashcart sales more underground because what was before completely legal product to sell and buy became now partially pirated software on cart and was bigger no-no to anyone wanting to try sell their stock. I am personally unsure which was the vector; whitelisted games or new games after DSi released that included unique header and security info just for DSi systems. DS and lite to this day run anything you put into their slot. 2: Praising GBArunner. It is good, great, absolutely mad given what it actually is instead of emulation, which is somehow getting DS-mode to run GBA software "natively". This said, if you give it right and compatible game, yes all is good, but give it a too big game, or just a game more advanced if you will and it will break down or not run at all, slow down, sprite flicker and whatever else - and updated do not change this it has been left where it stands for couple of years. Also joke about eliminating people's purchase back in 2010-2015 by software that was released mostly after DSi hacking took off, which in itself took off from 3DS hacking is being a bit cheeky. It is great but it is not perfect, just try mother 3 or something like that. Slightly adding; Mother 3 has audio issues with lagged playback of effects and a lot of crackle in audio and crashing to black screen after the intro, at least for me. Rhythm Heaven also becomes unplayable because of the audio issues, laggy sound effects do not fly and some music breaks down entirely with mishmatched timing in elements of music making it sound - wild. Karate Man is unplayable just because the SFX gets played back late. Shin Megami Tensei GBA version does not save and attempting to play Mother 1+2 just crashed the whole DS not just the game. - Which is to say; Do not dump your perfectly good GBA emulator or 3DS GBA converts, you will miss them very fast if you plan to play more than two completely compatible games, and even though there is no updates I wasted a lot of time testing these second time to make sure they happen consistently, and they do. GBA slot flashcart is still what you'd want for DS or use more powerful device with full fledged emulator, or convert your legal backups into 3DS GBA Virtual Console titles and play them that way. Couple notable homebrew things I remember: Colors! for DS. This was very great drawing suite for DS and even used DS/lite's pressure sensitivity of the screen for simulating brush pressure. This tool is actually upgraded and available officially for 3DS and I think iPhone too, at some point? The 3DS version does not have pressure sensitivity as that was removed from DSi onwards, and no game officially is pressure sensitive, it is mostly just a hardware quirk I think that was exposed and usable on older DS models. Crayon physics was also great. It combines drawing with 2D physics toys or goldberg machines and is great fun especially for younger me. Also note from smuggler to another, and you may think you don't need it before you see it's results: TRIM YOUR ROMS. All ROM dumps of DS games are in full sizes of the ROM used, so 4mb up to 512mb. The actual game data though does not fill this but "The Scene" seemed to deem always full dumps, and it is left to smugglers and third party PC tools to "trim" the unused bits from ROM files. It usually is not much but some edge cases can trim even 100 megabytes from 256 or 512 roms that were not filled completely. You will still save collectively good few megabytes and given DS flashcarts do not officially go further than 16 gigs, saving space can be useful. You can also use now TWiLightMenu++ on many DS flashcarts that was initially made as 3DS DS mode menu, as this with other things (NDS-bootstrap) lets homebrew 3DS and DSi consoles run games and homebrew from the internal SD card with better-than-GBARunner compatibility. A hacked 3DS can do most of DS homebrew stuff through this but some homebrew will not work. Rip TGM-DS compatibility. Oh yeah someone cloned the third Tetris Grandmaster game for DS and it is *illegally* good.

[@magicjack4076]

I had one of theses on my ds as a kid that my dad did for me, loved it

[@noodlemandan]

You’re fast becoming my favourite guy to watch on KZbin. Keep up the quality content

[@Evo2920]

Same bro!

[@OlivierGrasakaolo]

Really like your tone, great work. Thx !

[@donrosario3]

you have a good sense of humor cracked me up a few times and i wasn't expecting it :D

[@Hopalongtom]

The DS Port of Lemmings was my favourite homebrew port, but I actually used the moknshell2 launcher to just read books on the go too!

[@danielcrowley162]

Cool vid. I was planning on attemtping to make a game on DS that way I can improve my programming skills, and this seems like the best way to test said game on physical hardware.

[@QuinceTart10]

I wanna see Wii U or 3DS modding next. I know, Wii modding is easier (I guess) and also that Homebrew channel song, but you already showed it a few times.

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

Wii U is annoying but not that hard.

[@Jumwad]

The 3DS is surprisingly easy to mod!

[@LennyQUMFIF]

Wii U also has homebrew music

[@Lanausse]

@@Jumwad FUCK. I wanted to say that

[@QuinceTart10]

@@LennyQUMFIF Nice!

[@emmayu4343]

Nice job!!!! I am fully stunned !

[@ayzendi5089]

7:54 💀 this video was amazing, u got a sub

[@thomasduke3]

I am honestly im surprised you aint go more subs. I love your videos

[@pangboi3453]

I love how old the ds is and how smoothly it still runs.

[@Ermelber]

Fantastic video. I absolutely love the DS, I've dedicated my entire life to modding and making homebrew for it. A slight correction about GBARunner2, it's not emulation but an hypervisor, the GBA code is ran natively (with a few caveats) using the DS hardware! If you want to check something out, try Super Mario Galaxy DS (which i helped making) from Jesse and CTGP Nitro (MKDS mod)

[@BringusStudios]

Omg I remember seeing screenshots for SMG DS back in the day... I didn't remember if they were mock-ups or actual screenshots but I'm glad to know it's a real thing now. And yeah I realized that after I did some more reading, it wouldn't make any sense to emulate GBA since the hardware is already there to begin with. Very cool stuff

[@Ermelber]

@@BringusStudios ahah yeah, that one you've seen is probably Pablo Belmonte hoax, we actually have a working demo that works on real hardware. I don't think we'll ever finish it but still shows what the DS is really capable of (you can see that from that portal ds port too)

[@sangan3202]

oh sick you worked on that? i tried it a bit and it blew me away

[@JyuzouNT]

I had one of those R4 clones back in the day (at the end of the DS's lifecycle. That one had a random game pop up in the main menu. My original R4, CycloDS Evolution, and Edge flashcarts all had their original logos pop up in the menu.

[@JC20XX]

Someone else remembers the Cyclo DS! I think I still have mine somewhere.

[@JyuzouNT]

@@JC20XX it's my best flashcart at the time. It was the only one that allowed real-time saving and loading, as well as in-game menus and text readers (convenient for FAQs).

[@SuperFromND]

i bought myself a DS flash cart a few months ago, and i regret not getting one sooner! it's worth owning just to play the fan translation for ace attorney investigations 2 (it's called prosecutor's path if you're interested); that translation is done so seamlessly that it feels like an official release oh and if you have a soft-modded wii lying around, there's a piece of homebrew (very creatively) called the Wii DS ROM Sender, which you can use to turn your wii into a DS demo kiosk that sends out demo ROMs for download play (something you used to be able to do with the Nintendo Channel back in the day, and something that a few games can do as well!)

[@BringusStudios]

That is absolutely sick, I need to download that ROM sender and try it out

[@TheDudeWithNoName]

Man, i can't get enough of your content, great stuff!

[@Splomf]

Btw, for the DSi, you can softmod the console so you don't need a flashcart, just an SD card with the right files and all your game cart backups.

[@draga_]

a lot of homebrew will just work on flashcarts unfortunately

[@Anophis]

I still have a bunch of R4's and other brands, as a young teen those were so cool, playing music and such on your ds and using luna browser

[@chimaeraarts]

Also shouts to Jens for making the Colors! app and utilize the pen sensetivity function of the DS/DS lite touch screens.

[@IIdankII]

Hey I actually have a Supercard DSTWO and I LOVED that cart. Hands down one of the best carts on the market. It deserves a video on its own because of how different it was to most. For one, the CPU (in a DS card wtf?) allowed for GBA AND SNES emulation. It had some really good features which included live game pausing, savestates, and a live decompiler and action replay if I remember correctly.

[@KaitouKaiju]

I still have mine

[@Misakachichan]

I USE MINE TO THIS DAY!! I actually have been playing a lot of GBA lately on it! Still works with my 3ds. The Snes emulation wasn't that bad!

[@Aeduo]

I had a GBA port (slot 2) flashcart before the slot 1 ones got widely available. And yeah it was pretty jank for running legit games but it was a powerhouse for homebrew. The extra RAM and fast disk access helped a lot with a lot of things. Played a bunch of Quake on there.

[@TDAdvocate]

The timebomb can also be bypassed by installing YSMenu as the kernel instead of whatever garbage they tell you as the software is typically what actually does the fake bricking to the cart.

[@enzomedici2749]

my older brothers had the r4 ones. Also funny thing is that they thought they would get the 3ds but the got the ds lite which is kinda funny for their reaction 😄

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

Just got my r4 and it's great, love the homebrew community

[@rustkitty]

Maybe rose tinted glasses, but I don't remember that the DS had bad 3D controls for looking up. Sure it suffers because you could only use either of the shoulder buttons as your single action button but that's different. I remember playing Metroid Prime Hunters and later Dementium 1 & 2 and having a blast.

[@runed0s86]

it only works okay going forward

[@gronk2102]

theres this ds game called “moon” or something that is basically a HL1 clone that controls pretty good

[@hdofu]

As someone who was there just have to name a few of the greats; Tetris the Grandmaster: Shirace, Lemmings, Still Alive, Lockjaw, Scummvm, Aguna, Colors (fun fact, the DS has pressure sensitivity on the touch screen, the dsi and 3ds would have this disabled later) and Moonshell, Also hearing you mention slot 2 loading, god... that takes me back to the nightmare that was rom patching and pass-through, Also lol the Gateway getting in is a funny choice as it was a very special pair of cards that has a history with the early days of 3ds homebrew.

[@KopperNeoman]

Gotta check to see if ScummVM 3DS is up-to-date. Gotta have support for that Quest for Glory rando!

[@gamingislife3332]

What interesting to me about this is. I completely forgot I had some expirence with home brew.. prior to this video I was looking into this community more and more because I find it interesting from both a gamer and tech nerd perspective. I was thinking to myself that I should do this to my Xbox 360 which will be a fun project. And then I saw this and I remember when I was younger. I had a ds lite in red and one day my godfather found out I had it. So the next trip he took to the state he got me the r4 card and loaded a bunch of game to it. I often credit the ps2 for my love of gaming but thinking about it. It all started with a ds lite and a r4 card. Crazy nostalgic trip

[@ArcadeStriker]

Here where I live in Venezuela, it actually was more common to see people with flashcarts than original DS games lmao

[@xqawas]

Flipnote studio was one of the best "Games" i have ever played as a child

[@wrexhammusic]

I had a DS flash cart when I was young. Now, I've got a DSI I modded in 2019 using the new exploit. Also, a 2DS I modded a few years later to play games I download from a website for free.

[@BrentBlueAllen]

I still have my R4DS in my DS Lite, and yes the DS battery still has some charge left after years of non-use

[@noxturne16]

i’m a kid who missed out on games actual games because my dad had a friend who gave me an EDGE homebrew flashcart, still a fantastic cart that works 10 years later and i was able to add a lot more games when i found it

[@charakiga]

6:22 Hey! I’ve got this card, I still use it commonly today! Especially to play Mario kart ds.

[@Rosekyu]

i remember that my sisters friend gave her one of these and it had a bunch of different games on it like mario kart ds,monster high,pokemon platinum,pokemon soul sliver,animal crossing,plants vs zombies even gardening mama. we still have it but can only play it on the ds no other version of it but we dont have a charger for it anymore i never understood it until now

[@bes03c]

Time bomb carts can also be subverted with custom firmware. Since the flash carts are all clones of each other, there are basic customer firmwares that work.

[@kurokoro]

I just use my hacked 3ds to play gba/ds/emu's ect with twilight menu hb channel or forwarders nowdays but boy using a flash card to play roms ect on a DS sure brings back old memories, I still have a flash card around somewhere...

[@mpixl9965]

I was incredibly surprised to see a gateway blue card pop up in the wild again! I have a gateway modded launch 3ds i used to play all my games on before things like luma came out and i never saw someone else with one, so seeing it here is pretty cool.

[@BringusStudios]

Gateway was awesome back in the day! I have some great memories getting it up and running and seeing the homebrew launcher on my own 3DS for the first time. Other than needing my phone to generate a QR code and then run a hotspot so it can send a payload to my 3DS... Good times 😄

[@Men_Am_I_Right]

@@BringusStudios Insane production value on this video btw.

[@R3DMSR]

Man, I remember when using mi DS as a portable music player, that was great at the time.

[@deezgod45]

bro my dad got me one, and man i loved that. being able to play all the lego batman’s plus whatever other game. i remember my cousin had one and he took ours, and he gave us his and it was broken 😂. but yeah r4 is fire

[@piratebear3126]

I remember getting my random R4 off Amazon in like 2016. Enjoyed getting back into the DS library, although its biggest contribution for me was modding my 3DS so I could do portable emulation. Wildest thing when I was deep into DS homebrew was that Quake was a more mature port than Doom at the time. QuakeDS is a seriously impressive DS port.

[@LoveBbyJay]

I love how in the thumbnail the SD card is clearly upside down to go into the DS cart

[@alvesvaren]

I got a DSi XL, it was amazing, I still use it sometimes

[@itsTomate]

I remember buying our DS xl off a kid and it came with a 1001 in 1 cart

[@GuilhermeLimait]

You tgot my subscribe after the old Spice mine raft creation. Nice work man!

[@OctoDizzy]

Damn, you're ballsy. Great content, very funny!

[@Reft_01]

I had a DStwo cart for a while with nearly everything possible loaded on it. I remember playing the vector graphics star wars arcade games on one of them but not much else

[@Mrshoujo]

I bought a DS Lite on a Black Friday just for plugging in an R4 and an EZ Flash for the GBA slot and running Japanese games. In particular for Heartcatch PreCure DS games. Tamago-chi It's pronounced with a long O. The firmware I use for my R4 is by Yellow Wood Goblin last time I checked and it works seamlessly with the GBA EZ Flash cartridge in the other slot. I hope that sidesteps the time bomb if my R4 has one.

[@theboxofdemons]

Holy shit nitrotracker on the DS brings me back to my DS homebrew days. The app DSOrganize had a built in IRC client and that's where I made many friends I still have to this day.

[@blitz-o-byte]

I RELATE SO MUCH TO THAT BEGINNING OH MY GOD I got my ds lite and then the next time i went to the stores there was the brand new shiny dsi ... and it got worse when they released the black and white pokemon dsi. oh how badly i wanted that one...

[@KamesJerr]

My uncle gave me one of those R3DSReal carts when I was a kid and it wasn’t until recently that I spent like 2 days figuring out how to put games on it so now I have loads of DS and GBA ROMs

[@numberoneappgames]

wow, nice collection. Your hand is huge. :D

[@HeyhoBrando]

I remember my little brother got a psp and my mother got me a ds. Because I really wanted it and oh man I had a blast

[@cayder7485]

It angers me console homebrew isn’t common knowledge

[@LandonEmma]

WOW I HEAR UNDERATED SPIRIT TRACKS MUSIC!

[@erickalvarez6486]

I have a Chibirobo rom which is a game that only released in Japan and is kind of a continuation of first Chibi Robo in the Gamecube

[@taylord727]

3:05 😂 Thank you for that!

[@WillThat]

I had a Cyclo DS Evolution back in the day.

[@LexoAstonov]

Quake plays Fantastic on the DS and runs at full 60 fps most of the time. I'm also glad that you showed Nitrotracker. It is awfully underappreciated. There's also a music player that looks like ipod.

[@marshallleevalentine]

The DS homebrew scene was my favorite era. I was deeply involved in the M3 scene back during the best years

[@blackcrasanblade]

i had a DS and a DS flash cart it work still just say and newer microSD cards worth using it for community indie games are fun

[@majorseamen7446]

had my first earthbound playthrough on the ds snes emulator lets say everything but music was messed but and somehow final part of the game was even more scary

[@StuckOnAFireHydrant]

I actually liked playing COD on the DS lite. I didn't find the controls bad or anything for a 3d game. I remember back in the day on the jungle map (and a few others) you could gitch into the map and just shoot across the map, through the map etc, good memories. Def gonna fix my old ones hinge now. Had no idea portal was on there (both those versions you showed). Now if you played on the Wii you are a different type of monster.

[@bensosnowski1128]

How do you fix the hinge? That seems to be a major weak point as my ds lite as a broken hinge and the two others I own have a crack in the exact same place

[@FoxyAnimater]

I'm considering making a second screen accessory for the steam deck so that you can play Wii U/3DS/dsi/ds games the way it was intended to be played on the far superior hardware.

[@stephenjerome7793]

For real😂😂😂 I had an action replay and I don’t even know where it came from.😂

[@pneumatiquenoir]

funfact that 3D portal homebrew was made by smealum, who would later pretty much kickstart the entire 3DS hacking scene (also making an enhanced port of his Portal homebrew to the 3DS)

[@Bane_Amesta]

Interesting, so there's a 3DS version of Portal somewhere huh...

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

I still own my ds lite, and i absolutely love that tiny thing! :D

[@Lady8D]

Wait what?! I had no idea my DS was so old! I STILL play on it!

[@iamjimb]

just downloaded an ereader for my r4, it's called dslibris it's very nice. I love reading on the ds I genuinely think it's my favourite way to read now

[@jonstechchannel]

I had an action replay back in the day

[@AzureOtsu]

I managed to make a 90s jungle track with nitrotracker

[@PommeDeterre949]

where i live in the uk its nearly £10 per gallon which is around $11

[@MarioMasta64]

also an interesting thing is flashcarts arent the only ds cart to use a microsd card there are carts called dsision that were officially licensed and let you download movies and stuff to a microsd also on 3ds you can use a real cart with an ir sensor in it (heart gold, soul silver, black, white, black 2, white 2 theres more but theyre really finicky about it) and twilightmenu to play the games with ir ability

[@blackcrasanblade]

true i have a DS but i use it to keep old music on it i had CD for and copy them over to the microSD

[@yelir64]

To be honest, I don’t know much about music production in general and this is all way over my head. *Proceeds to drop the sickest beat I’ve ever heard*

[@BringusStudios]

OOF I can't take the credit for that one, it was built into the app... but indeed it is sick

[@Razori314]

6:32 that line got me laughing good! 🤣🤣🤣