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So what do you need to get started with this backup magic? For this guide you will need the following items:. For this guide, we purchased and tested two NDS flash carts. There are more than a half dozen flash carts on the market with varying features like hardware emulation, media playback, and more. We researched flash carts and selected one from the more economical end of the price scale and a premium cartridge to see if the build quality and features were worth the increase in price.
All flash carts were ordered from ModChipCentral. They've got excellent prices , reasonable shipping, and all of our orders—we made two just to make sure our first expedient delivery and great customer service wasn't a fluke—arrived promptly.
The flash cart market is rife with cheap imitations and outright scams so it's worth using a merchant somebody can vouch for. Rather than overwhelm you with the specifications of the two cartridges we ordered—you can read their product pages for those—we'll help you choose a flash cart based on your needs. These aren't the only flash carts on the market, but they are the ones we were able to test extensively and can give you some insight on.
If you just want to back up and play your Nintendo DS games and don't really care about emulation, media playback, or other fancy features, the Acekard2i is for you. It's a solid cartridge, it has a development community behind a robust cart-specific operating system called akAIO, and for basic playback as well as homebrew-based emulation you'll be just fine.
If you want to back up and play your DS games and use enhancements like cheat codes, real-time saving, as well as playing games in emulation like Gameboy Advance and SNES games, and you'd like to enable movie and music playback, the SuperCard DSTwo is for you. Once you get your flash cartridge in the mail, you'll need to load and update their software.
The process differs between the two carts we're covering, so if you've got the Acekard2i, go here ; if you bought the Supercard DSTwo, jump ahead to here. After this setup, the instructions are the same for both. Setting Up the Acekard2i: Download the Acekard21 loaders. Extract it to the root of your micro SD card. Download the WiFi update. Your games will go here once you've backed them up. If you intend to use the Acekard2i in a Nintendo DSi that is has been updated to menu version 1.
Download the Acekard2i update for the 1. Extract the contents to the root of your SD card. You cannot update the flash cart from a DSi unit with system menu 1. When it is in a compatible DS unit launch the Acekard flash cart like a game and navigate to the root of your micro SD card. Even though the update takes under 30 seconds, plug your NDS into the wall to play it safe so you don't lose power at a critical moment.
Once you're done setting up up the flash cart—whether you had to update for menu 1. Run the "game" and you'll be greeted with the akAIO menu as seen below. Now you're ready to set up your DS for game backups, so skip the SuperCard DSTwo setup below and jump straight to the instructions for setting up your Nintendo DS for game backups below.
You'll pay almost twice as much for the SuperCard DSTwo over the Acekard2i, but the increase in price also increases the ease of setup, and the bonus of some really cool in-game cheats and hardware emulation. Extract the contents to the root of your micro SD card. It already comes updated for system menu 1. At this point, regardless of which cartridge you picked, you're now ready to play NDS backups. The problem is we don't have any backups yet, so we need to grab some of our game cartridges and create some.
Before we can start backing up our games, however, we need to do a quick setup. From this point forward the guide is flash cart agnostic. Unless explicitly noted all instructions apply to any flash cart. At this point you'll need your Nintendo DS or DS Lite, your wireless router, the game cartridges you want to back up, and a computer to back them up to. We'll be using a Windows 7 PC. First, configure your router. Unfortunately Nintendo never really got on the secure-wireless bandwagon when it came to the Nintendo DS line.
If you're running your wireless access point wide open, you're all set. If you're using encryption stronger than WEP you'll have to temporarily crank it down to old-school—and insecure —WEP security. You can change it back as soon as you're done backing up your games. Second, make sure your NDS can connect to the wireless router. If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled game start the game and use it to configure your wireless settings—the NDS and NDS Lite lack a system-menu option for configuring it without a game.
If you don't have a game with Wi-Fi play that would allow you to configure things, that's okay. You have a flash cart now that we can run some homebrew software on.
Load up your flash cart and browse to the DSOrganize folder. Launch the DSOrganize. Once loaded, go to Configuration, then click the start button to navigate across the tabs until you reach the last tab with the Wi-Fi symbol on it. Use one of the three available slots to set up your Wi-Fi information and save it. Finally it's time to download and configure the backup tool.
Download a copy of Backup Tool 0. BT comes with a copy of smallFTP, which is perfect for the task ahead.
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