I use the R4 3DS Dual Core, while friends I know have the R4i Gold 3DS and we’ve all been happily playing our Snes emulator ?ģ. Unfortunately I don’t have any other 3DS Homebrew Cards, so I can’t say whether or not the emulator will load and run on them. While other cards will work too, I am sure, these are the two cards that I personally have tried the emulator on – and can say for certain that it will work. You’ll need a 3DS Homebrew card like the R4 3DS Dual Core or R4i Gold 3DS. If you do however have a Nintendo DS or Nintendo DSi, the emulator will work on that as well.Ģ. But if you don’t, you will definitely need to go and get one. If you’re reading this post, I think it’s safe for me to assume that you already have your Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 3DS XL system. What You Need To Be Able To Use The 3DS Homebrew Snes Emulator:ġ. And countless other amazing games that have come out for this monster of a system that to this day offers games that were not only great graphically, but offered up some of the very best gameplay of their day – and they still hold their own against the games of today to boot. All of the great 16-bit action of Super Mario Bros or the racing action of the very first Mario Kart game ever made. Who wouldn’t like to play all the amazing games we grew up with. So it came as no surprise that a SNES emulator would be one of the first things developed by the DS and 3DS Homebrew scene.Īnd why not. Emulators for the Super NES surpass downloads of emulators for other classic consoles by a huge margin. The SNES also happens to be one of the most emulated systems too. It brought with it some of the most iconic games and characters that live on today on systems like the Gamecube, the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo Wii U. It cam in during the 16-bit era, following the success of Nintendo’s NES. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or SNES for short) was truly one of the greatest video game consoles ever created. Once you’ve loaded up the NESDS Emulator, you can then use the menu within the emulator to select the game you want to play and sit back and enjoy your retro 8-bit NES games on your Nintendo 3DS.You have to select the GAME menu on the main R4 3DS screen and then once there, choose the NESDS file and load it up. Fire up the Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL or Nintendo 2DS with your R4 3DS and MicroSD card inserted.Once you’ve copied the emulator and all of the games you want over to the micro SD card you can take the micro SD card and put it in to your R4.
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I don’t have any links to download NES games or ROMS of any kind. You’ll have to find digital copies / roms of the games you already own on your own. Put your NES roms into the NES folder on the micro SD card.You can do this by plugging in the micro SD card reader / writer that came with the R4 3DS card (or similar flash card) Copy over nesDS over to the root directory of your MicroSD card.I’m going to assume that you have already downloaded the emulator from the link I put at the start of this tutorial. The fist thing you’ll need to do, is download NES DS.
Having said all that, let’s get the how to in full gear. Develop NES games and test the games on the emulator much faster than burning the game to an actual ROMĪlright.Load NES Rom hacks and NES game hacks that you can then play on your 3DS.Load and play homebrew NES games and applications.Play virtually every single NES game released.The NESDS Emulator which you can download here.A micro SD card (I recommend a nice 16GB one for plenty of space for games and retro roms).A Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS or NEW Nintendo 3DS system.
Before I get started on NESDS and how you can use that 3ds homebrew app to play NES games on your Nintendo 3DS, let’s get the list of things you’ll need to have in order to do so out of the way.