Nintendo On Your DS

NES On Your DS

Being a Nintendo DS owner myself as well a huge fan of Nintendo in all of its forms (spare Virtual Boy i.e. instant seizures) one of the many reasons I wanted to hack my DS was to incorporate the old nostalgic NES games onto my DS to play and brag to girls about anywhere I happened to go. With this quick tutorial on how to add Nintendo to your DS, you'll be picking up girls in no time, I promise.

This tutorial is going to assume that you already have a proper storage device cart (See the "Getting Started" section if you need to) to transfer the necessary files to make your NES dreams come true and have the ability to play it anywhere you go.

So let us take a look at where to go to obtain a Nintendo for your DS:

Acquiring the Emulator:

First things first you need to obtain an emulator for the NES specifically made to be used on your DS. You have a couple choices but the one that has worked for me very very well, especially in comparison to the others out there is the nesDS emulator. You can download that emulator here at their site at nesDS.

Before you download it however, pop your MicroSD card into your computer via USB stick and create a new folder in the root directory of the card. Name this folder "NES", make sure that it is named exactly "NES" (without the quotes of course) or it will not recognize the files properly. Once you have your NES folder created, download the nesDS emulator and extract all of the files from the download into this folder. At this point the nesDS emulator and all of the necessary files should be in the NES folder on the root directory of your MicroSD card.

Acquiring the ROMS