Play DS Games from your 3DS Home Menu!! (Easy) transcript

In this video, I'm going to show you the easiest and fastest way to play DS games from the home menu of your 3DS. It's super simple and it doesn't even require Twilight Menu. Of course, for this guide, you'll just need your 3DS modded. So, if you haven't done that already, I'll have my guide linked in the description if you want to get started over there. The only part that will be taking our SD card out of your handheld is to set up the actual games.

Everything else will be done directly on the 3DS. So, let's get started. We'll be starting over on the computer. So, plug in the SD you use to mod your 3DS. And if you do already have DS games set up, for example, if you use Twilight Menu, you can use those same ROMs. So, you can actually skip this step. But to set up your NDS games, we're going to make a new folder on your SD card, just call it ROMs. Go inside, and for future reference, inside of your ROMs folder, you can have as many folders with all sorts of different games for different consoles that you can use with other emulators.

But for this one, we're focusing on NDS. So, inside of here, this is where we place our games. So, I have my Smashlike NDS folder here. I have a few NDS games. They do need to be NDS format, but it's very simple. Just put them in the folder that we just made. All right, they're in there, ready to go. And that's literally it for game setup. Now, we can eject our SD card and plug it into our 3DS or 2DS in my case, and continue.

So, over on your 3DS, we are going to be using Universal Updater. So, if for some reason you don't have this, I'll have a link in the description below. It'll take you where you can use FBI to scan a QR code and get it installed, but you should have it. So, let's head in. And this does require the internet, but it is also possible to get the NDS forwarder generator manually as well. So, I'll have that link below, too.

So, here to make it easy, just click the search icon and type NDS. Okay. And we're looking for this whale here. Also, shout out to Mechanical Dragon and Epic Pekman for making this. So, use your D-pad to navigate to it. Press A and you should see NDS forwarder. 3DSX. Click on that. Are you sure you want to install? Yes. And it should be pretty quick. If we go over there, and it succeeded. So, now we can hit the home button.

Close your software. Because it was not a CIA file, we need to go into the homebrew launcher. and we'll find it in here. Should be near the bottom. NDS forwarder generator. Also, if you guys want a faster way to install 3DS games, you should check out my custom install video. It's so much quicker than the special shop. But let's go into NDS forwarder generator. And then here it is all the folders on your SD card. So, we're going to navigate to ROMs.

Or if you have it titled differently, just go to where your NDS games are. go inside and then you can install them individually or you can press A on install all NDS. I'll do that. Do you wish to install forwarders? Press A on yes and it will go through and install them to your home menu. I almost said Wii menu. I've been making too many Wii videos. Install complete. Press okay and the home button. And new software has been added.

Let's see. We now have all of our games. I just beat Pokemon ZA and now I want to try Soul Silver or Heart Gold. You guys let me know which one is better in the comments. But this is a super simple way to get your DS games on your menu. And the only limitation with this forwarder generator method is that you're limited to 40 DS games on your menu that you can install. But if you're hoping to install more, there is a way.

I'll have my video guide for Yanbf in the description for you to check out there. But it's super simple. you load in. And the first time you load one of these games, it's going to take a little bit longer, but anytime after that, it'll be much faster. And if you guys are interested in using Twilight Menu, which does give you the ability for the widescreen patch and a few other settings, I'll have my video on that linked below as well, but this will be normal for the first load.

And now we're loading into the game. So, that probably took like 30 seconds. It'll be quicker on the second run through, but I hope this video helped you out. If it did, I'd appreciate if you hit that like button. That helps me out and it's free. If you guys do need help with anything, check out my Homebrew Help Discord. There's a ton of great helpers in there. But remember to be respectful. But I hope you have fun playing your games.

Stay funky and happy modding.