Super Nintendo On Your DS

SNES On Your DS:

Ok, this is going to be a fairly straight-forward "How-To" post enabling you to play Super Nintendo games on your DS. The first and foremost thing is to already have some type of media storage cart for your DS (see Getting Started if you need help in that area). Once you have the proper provisions set before you, you are ready to get SNES for your DS.

Downloading the Emulator

First things first, you need to get a SNES emulator made to specifically run on a DS. There are a couple options presented here:

• snesDS
• Snezzi DS
• SNEmulDS

I would have to say that the SNEmulDS trumps the others in that it most reliably emulates the games on the DS. Of course, it is not without its shortcomings and downfalls, it is still prone to errors and will not run all of the game flawlessly. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to check which emulator performs the best with its counterpart rom. With that being said, it is possible to have all of these emulators on your DS if you wish to switch between and try which one works best. Pick one of the above sites to download the emulator from.

Now, once downloaded extract the files and put them on your MicroSD card in the root directory in a folder named (this is very important) "SNES" exactly. The folder must be called "SNES" or it will not work properly. So, at this point you should have all of the extracted SNES emulator files in a newly created folder titled "SNES" located in your root directory of your MicroSD card.

Downloading the Roms

Ok, so now you in theory have a working SNES emulator on your DS, but of course what good does that do you without any games? There are plenty of ways to get bulk assortments of SNES roms, (Note: Due to ESA Law, you must own a physical copy of the game to legally download it). With this in mind, here are a few of many links that will provide SNES roms to download:

• Dope Roms
• Cool Roms
• RomNation
• Rom Hustler

These are just a few of the many many sites in which provide rom downloads. So find a rom to your liking, download it, and if necessary extract the rom from the zip file in which it is contained.

Putting the Roms on Your DS
Once you have the emulator located in SNES folder, all you must do from here is quite simple. Drag the rom you recently downloaded (an .SMC file) and drag it into the same SNES folder in your MicroSD card. That's the short and long of it really, SNES games are pretty small compared to the DS counterparts, so if you got a decently sized card you should be able to store a whole slew of SNES games for ultimate nostalgia. Once this is all said and done, go ahead and put the MicroSD into your storage cart and viola! You should see the SNES directory you labeled from the computer, click on it again to see the games held within.

A short final note, when you first start up the emulator for the first time it will prompt you to create a save file, do so. Also whenever you begin a game in which you have not played on your DS it will prompt you as well to create a save file, again do so. So there you have it, hopefully by now you have a working SNES on your DS. Congratualtions!