How to Hack Your Nintendo DS for Easy Backups and Single-Cartridge Playback

How to Hack Your Nintendo DS for Easy Backups and Single-Cartridge Playback

Earlier this year we showed you how to back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. Many of you wrote in asking when we would do a guide for your other gaming darling, the Nintendo DS. You asked, we listened, and now we're back with a start to finish guide to backing up your Nintendo DS games. We'll be swapping out the bulky external hard drive for a nice slender micro SD card but the basic premise remains the same.

So what do you need to get started with this backup magic? For this guide you will need the following items:

A Nintendo DS or DS Lite unit with power cable on hand.
A Flash cartridge (which we'll refer to as a flash cart from here on) such as the AceKard2i or the SuperCard DSTwo. The Acekard2i is $23.95; the Supercard DSTwo is $38.95.
A micro SD card and card reader. 2GB+ is more than sufficient for most people.
A wireless router.
Nintendo DS game cartridges to back up.
A computer—we'll be using a Windows PC for this tutorial.

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