Comments on: 3DS Hack Guide

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:17:31 +0000

In reply to Jake.

Use the Twilight Menu for simplicity, is the best way to emulate all GB systems and old Nintendo systems; for GBA you can inject direct to your 3DS or use “open_agb_firm”, these are more complex ways.

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By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:05:47 +0000

Hey Russ, what is the best way to play GB, GBC and GBA games on the 3DS?

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:04:21 +0000

Right now it may be a good time to revisit 3DS (well the big N might say no and send ninja assassin squid but hey), as we now have perfectly functional Virtualboy emulator. Also I recently came to learn we can use cheats to make NDS games look and play sooo much nicer thanks to alternative scaling, widescreen hack, and analog control.

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By: Davs

Davs — Sun, 07 May 2023 19:39:50 +0000

Hello! (Some help here)
First I just wanted to say thank you for the guide. It was very helpful, a lot of details, and thank you for providing all the tips with the guide, and video.

I just have a question if someone can help. I was able to setup Twilight Menu++ without inconveniences, and the games are running great.

However, everytime I start any game, I need to press start 2 times to access the game that I select. For example, I select Pokémon Platinum, then a black screen appears in the lower screen and it tells me to Press Start, and then some letters appear after and the same happens: Press Start and the game loads.

I do not know if this is normal or if this is something that can be fixed to load the game without pressing Start twice?

Thank you in advance.

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By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 04 May 2023 10:36:34 +0000

In reply to Graham McDonald.

Graham, these are great tips, thank you very much! I am about to start tackling retro game emulation so this advice is very helpful. I’m still going to try RetroArch just because I’m curious to see how it fares today. Thanks again!

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By: Graham McDonald

Graham McDonald — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:11:10 +0000

Edit. when launching the Twilight Menu app hold start or select to display native resolution

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By: Graham McDonald

Graham McDonald — Mon, 01 May 2023 11:53:14 +0000

Hey Russ, Really like how you filled in a niche and your ytube/website has gained a serious hold in the over saturated retro scene. If you don’t mind (and don’t take offence), I would like to add my own 2 cents on my own personal experience with the 3ds, who knows might even help out a fellow retro gamer in a future video. 1. my personal experience with emulators- I use a) mGBA (for gb,gbc,gba) b) snes9x for SNES c) TemperPCE for tg16 d)VirtualNES for NES – all of these standalone emulators I run through the Homebrew launcher (.3dsx files) – This has the advantage of not taking up icon limits (300) and runs them just as good as the .cia apps. However I run Picodrive (megadrive and SMS) through the .cia app, as according to their own literature i believe it runs CD games better than the .3dsx file (sorry cannot remember exactly). I have experimented with retroarch a few years ago and found it to be extreemly buggy and annoying so I steer well clear. The above emulators run these systems really great and are good for large rom libraries as they can be scrolled through really quick (unlike twilight menu that takes ages to scoll through large rom libraries (place in folders like atari 2600 to find games quicker). Twilight menu – if you hold start or select when launching a DS game it will play the game in Native resolution (smaller on screen but no blur). Twilight menu play DS games natively (no emulation, takes advantage of backwood compatibility) – exactly the same as when launching a DS game on 3ds (ie hold start or select when launching a DS game on standard 3ds to display correct resolution). Also noticed you finally bought one of the finest consoles in history (shame the producer of this fine console has serious anti-consumer arrogant policies). I have a 2 white n3ds, a black n3ds (unlike NA they are not to hard to find EUR region ones over here) and a top screen IPS majoras mask n3dsxl. And the n3ds is by far IMO the best console I own – the only recomendation i would highly recomend is getting some faceplates – I have the smash bros and monster hunter 4 plates (and other not so good ones), cannot underestimate how faceplates change the entire feeling of the 3ds – just do it. A limitation of FAT32 file system is the maximum 4GB file size and it will not let you copy 4GB files like Donkey Kong country, however a work around is to extract the 4gb file directly to the sd card (first need to compress file (add to archive) and then extract directly to sd card) – I have not read about this anywhere and feel more people need to know about this – .3ds file are superior as they work on emulators as well) – only works on windows 10 or 11 and 7-zip (not winrar)
On a final note thanks for reading my ramblings (i get the feeling you will actually read this as you have responded to my ytube comments (the difference between a good ytuber and a bad ytuber IMO, is weather or not the listen to their audience). Usually only post comments when i drink beer and am drunk – it’s hot here and is just what we do over here – Take care. I am located in Perth Western Australia

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