#Nintendo dsi xl homebrew portable
#Nintendo dsi xl homebrew psp

So hereвЂ™s my attempt a very concise and quick guide on making one yourself. There is an abundant amount of information about modifying the older Nintendo DS Lite and DS phat but no centralized place for making the modification on the Nintendo DSi XL/LL. The reason for writing this guide is because IвЂ™ve actually not seen too many guides on doing this. Recently I was feeling a bit nostalgic and decided to try my hand at taking a cheap Nintendo DSi XL that I bought from eBay and modifying it to become what some would call a Gameboy Macro XLi. I thorough enjoy getting electronic devices to do things beyond what they were meant for.

#Nintendo dsi xl homebrew psp

Without a large back catalog they probably won't gain much traction (just look at how much of a failure the PSP Go is since it doesn't have a UMD drive).Modding has always been a hobby of mine. A major new console would more than likely change the hardware in a radical way, if you don't have either 2 screens or don't have one as a touch screen the DS games are nearly unplayable. Now Nintendo has the DS (and Lite) that can play games from 2001-present and the DSi that can play physical games from 2004-present along with downloadable games. Even though Super Mario Land wasn't exactly the most advanced games, no was it that long but it still was fun. And when the games are cheap ($30 when they were new, and you can get them for $10 max used) that gives the average person a huge game library without much initial investment. Few consoles can play 18 years of games without any emulation. The GBA SP (along with the first GBA) could play games from 1989 to 2007.

#Nintendo dsi xl homebrew portable

For example the Game Boy Advance SP had perhaps the largest library for any portable game console.

Backwards compatibility is key for portable games. The DS is on its way to become the most successful dedicated videogame system in history, already at 110+ millions units sold in 5 yea The games are not ugly to most people owning a DS, and actually most people don't care about that.ДЄnd don't care either about highlighting shortfalls. Instead, this is aimed at older people that don't care one bit about these silly technical things, and just want to entertain themselves. But this isn't aimed at the tiny group of people that care about this. I'm skeptical that this is going to do anything but highlight the shortfalls of the system it being both the oldest and the slowest architecture on the market. Wouldn't this just have the opposite effect for the DSi? As it is the DSi has a rather low resolution and I'd be worried that increasing the screen size will just make games 'bigger and uglier'. One of the comments that came out from people reviewing the PSP Go was that the screen looked 'sharper' because it was smaller with the same resolution as the PSP 3000. Wii and DS are in the entertainment business, and thus are sold as such, their value is in the entertainment realm, and this is what determines their price, not technology.ДЄnd in the same way, the 'modern consoles' are far from being capable of the same things as the DS, so this argument is void. The problem with what you're saying is exposed in the end: from a technical perspective.Д«ut the DS and the Wii are NOT sold as technical objects, they are NOT in the technology business. From a technical perspective, that falls pretty far short of the major consoles. The DS, on the other hand, is running substantially weaker hardware than current consoles, with graphical capabilities roughly on-par with the Nintendo 64. A laptop could be set up to run a 64-bit OS with 8 gigs of RAM, store a half terabyte of data and render DX11-level graphics smoothly at 1280x800 or higher, which is what many full-sized desktops are used for today. Except that the DS is far from being capable of the same things as modern consoles.