my 2007 dslite still holds a charge seemingly forever.

It's no surprise the DS was such a hit. A great library of games, two screens, long battery life and backwards-compatibility with the GBA made for a system that you could take anywhere, and play almost anything that you'd want to. Plus, local area multiplayer without the need for WiFi is a feature that has taken many hours of my time in the past.

Nintendo System with Homebrew: *exists* Doom Porters: _it's free real estate_

Excellent video. Also, for $25 the DS Lite is SUCH a steal!

FlashMe? Haven't heard of that in a while, I remember building the flashing tool with a toothpick and aluminum foil! Good times.

Nintendo also said the switch "WASN'T" a successor to the 3DS... history repeating itself

That epic gamer moment when you make a video and your r4 has a time bomb

I still can't believe just how timeless the DS Lite design remains. It still looks sleek and modern. Its D Pad is also my favorite due to its sponginess. I've got like 4 stashed out cuz I know they're getting their due mileage for years to come.

Fun fact:Jenesis DS was actually used with permission by Sega for Sonic Classic Collection. Being okay with fan projects is one thing but a company officially using a fan emulator with permission is honestly just impressive.

The DS still holds a place in my heart.

I actually found my DS lite with 4 games at a yard sale a few months back for $10. I have an R4 in slot 1 for my NDS games and some homebrew and an EZflash in slot 2 for all my GB, GBA and NES games. It's a real beast.

Mate, just wanted to say that I've been loving your content - it's just so inspiring what human ingenuity can achieve. Great to see you breathing life into these old platforms and telling the history of how all this happened.

I Just Picked Up a DS Lite at a Pawn Shop for $10 and im Loving it.

man.... the homebrew and hacking scene those days... they were so chill. WAYY less drama, and just plain fun to run these hardware flashcarts especially the GBA

I've been using the same R4 card on my DS since 2006, and I love it. Some of my favourite "apps" include: -DSReader - a great ebook reader with plenty of options. -nesDS - NES emulator that lets you rewind games in real-time. -Colors - a nice art program. -ZXDS - ZX Spectrum emulator, which uses the bottom screen as a virtual keyboard.

everyone gangsta until someone boots to the actual Touch! Bomberman Land game from the ds menu

It took me 12 years to get one. I've been wanting that system since 2004 when I was a small boy.

I'd love to see you talk about 3DS homebrew! Good memories with ds lite too. :D

1:48 yusss, Radiant Historia!! That game is quite the unknown gem. I hope more people will get to play it

lol i find it kinda ironic how in 2011 my parents bought me a homebrew chip instead of any actual games, still had hella fun with that megamind game, barbie, m&m game, super Mario 2, weird hamster game, and a whole lot of other really weird games

Oh the memories. The DS lite is still my favorite. Because of the gba port oof

Got my first DS Lite two months ago. Never owned a DS. This console is the bomb!

Your voice is really relaxing. Listening to my favorite youtuber while learning about my favorite console!

i love how this channel inspires me to mod my consoles again. Things have changed so much since the simple days of the PS2 with constant firmware updates i always worry im gonna end up with a banned or bricked console

Other youtubers: "No we won't link any homebrew sites because they're illegal!" MVG: "Anyways here's how you can hack your DS, which homebrew you should install, Obamas Credit Card and the next lottery numbers"

I used to mod my DS and 3DS so long ago, I’m so glad you did this episode. Excellent work, can’t wait to see the 3DS video.

Fascinating to hear about the history of hacking the slot 1. Late in the Ds's life was so great for the homebrew community! This was my childhood (with the great Acekard)! Moonshell was the ultimate app for a kid who didn't have a mp3/media player. It turned the NDS into something comparable to phones at the time, playing back midi/mp3s/and video files. There was also this awesome homebrew mega man game, that was short, but was tons of fun and it included a level editor. Oh, and Lemmings, allowing all of the retro level packs and more to run on the NDS! Thanks so much for covering this!

These videos about crack protection, homebrew, modding, and all around console facts and hsitory are quickly making this one of my favorite channels. Thanks for producing this amazing content

Moonshell was so much fun back in the day. It really opened my eyes to what homebrew was. I had a ps1 that could play burnt discs and I played some emulators on the og Xbox but it felt different seeing what was possible on a handheld in 2005. It was really exciting and a ton of fun, and a great community

I've loved my OG launch DS the games and the chat and everything, and nearly 10 years ago i got my first R4 card it blew my mind on what the DS could do and the homebrew community. When Quake DS released i gave it a go instantly.

I really appreciate that when you replay SD content, you do it with scanlines and an old style TV as the borders. I just think that's really cool and that I should mention it, so, thanks.

I literally just bought my friends DS lite off of him yesterday to do homebrew, and was having a hard time finding a good video on it. You are the best there is!!

You deserve a lot more views and subscribers. Your videos are always well informed. Top notch quality, thanks.

Take a shot everytime he says n-i-n-t-e-n-d-o d-s

Excellent instructional video MVG. Loved the DS Lite, bought it when it first came out. Been running the R4 on the 3DS as of late and it's very impressive.

I hope that if you talk about the Dsi/3ds you HAVE to cover *TWiLightMenu* 🤩, especially if you are going to talk about the Dsi, where you can run ROMs and homebrews *without any flashcard* in the more powerful TWL mode using Unlaunch and Hiya CFW... The Dsi has a lot of potential!

You didn't run Doom on the DS? BOOOOOOO!! 😛

Love the shirt mate 🤘

Just has to be said. I've watched a few of your videos now and I'm so impressed by the effort you put in. Even down to the set dressing you clearly put some effort into in each and every video. You've earned a sub. Genuinely great content presented very nicely!

Such a great device. Amazing design and lots of fun to have even years after its release. Perfect review!

I remember that the DS was THE Homebrew machine. Instead of only hacking to run roms it had a really big library of homebrew. The programmers loved that device!

I dont know how much time I spent with the Mario Paint Composer Homebrew on my ds...

Love your channel because you have the knowledge to speak about things and know what's what. Thanks for your time bud.

Oh boy am I glad you are doing a video on the 3ds. I've been with that community for years and have hacked so many 3ds I can't even count. Having a fresh breath of life for that community would be amazing and maybe a few more ports of games and tools will be made. Very excited for that video.

Definitely my most favorite and often used homebrew for this system was MoonShell2, a multipurpose media player that actually used the ActImagine video codec used by a lot of DS games to run rudimentary video playback. The quality was terrible, and things were bitcrunched horribly, but it worked! And it could go over 125% of the DS Lite's max volume without distortion. For an MP3 player before the 3DS, it was a godsent.

I got a nearly perfect condition ds lite from a car boot sale, and took the buttons from a broken silver one, and put them in my black one. It looks really good!

I love these homebrew videos that show off what each system is capable of. You really go through the research and put all that information together in a video and it teaches me a few things I didn't know about. I'm on the verge of selling my DS Lite because I have many homebrew'd systems and I never use the DS lite at all. My 3DS replaces my DS lite, being capable of playing GBA and DS games natively. As well as emulating snes and sega genesis perfectly. And I only plan on getting another 3DS if anything were to happen to my current one. Bottom line, I don't need a DS lite personally but I agree that it's a great homebrew system, it kept my busy back in the day.

I found my ds lite in a bag in garage , fulling working and with every piece included ✨

Excelent video! Just a quick note: The kernel used on these bootleg R4 carts have a timebomb inside, so after a time (few months in general), the cart becomes unusable (that's the reason R4SDHC releases a new model every year). However, some users from GBATemp Forum created a custom kernel for these carts, with better interface, better compatibility and without the timebomb. The DS is a very good console to emulation, despite the slowdown problems, it's a good Way to play retro games on the go. Some other good emulators for the DS is NitroGrafx (Turbografx-16/PC-Engine), Lameboy (Game Boy and Game Boy Color) and nesDS (NES).

DS lites are going up in price now, honestly just get a 2ds on sale for sixty bucks. Homebrew for the 3ds is amazing

Your intro music style reminds me of the classic animated movies like the 1986 Transformers. Love it.

You sound, and make content like those tech shows. Its really clean and clear, and describes things perfectly. You should have more credit. It looks like you put a lot of work into this.

I remember that a few years ago I used a DS lite with an app to make graphics from math equations during college

Can’t wait for the 3DS video. That was the first console I witnessed the entire progress of the hacking scene in real time.

This is my favorite channel on youtube. Keep up the quality work.

Cant wait to see you at the expo

Before emulators and ports on Android with more recent phones, the DS Lite was my favourite device for the task by far. It was so capable, light, and a pleasure to use.

Quake and Quake II run semi-decently, and they even work with mods and network play! You can even play a network game between WiiQuake, DSQuake, and PC Quake.

Please adress the timebomb problem regarding these cards. The fix is easy too.

i just wanted to say i love your videos man there my only break from boredom thank you so much for them.

DSi homebrew is interesting as well. Not sure that there's enough to talk about to make a video, but worth looking at.

I hope you talk about the SuperCard DSTWO(+) brand of Flashcards that actually have an on-board CPU that add to the DS' processing power making SNES emulation much better and even GBA emulation through Slot-1 a possibility. Great video as always!

Loved the nds homebrew scene. Brings me back....

Paid $5 for a DS Lite. BIG steal. Definitely gonna be doing some homebrewing on it. Especially came with 6 games.

DS had a phenomenal homebrew scene once the slot 1 devices came out. Man those were the days. Most (all?) of the R4 clones use compatible firmware so play around with what's available online.

Love the Pokémon Black representation in the back, such an underrated gen.

Can't wait to see you at the expo man!

I had a couple of flashcart setups, one was called the G6 4G which used the GBA slot (I had the flashcart for my gameboy micro anyway) and it used a pass through chip in the DS game slot. To write roms to it it used proprietary software and a GBA to usb adapter. The next card I got was called the M3 ultra and that was really cool, jumping to micro SD like the R4 Gold, the convenience of just drag and drop blew my mind back then. It was a setup that served me well, I had a web browser on it, a homebrew ipod app with the scroll wheel functionality, and of course lots of games. It essentially made my DS into a smartphone way before smartphones were widely adopted.

Can't wait for the 3ds version of this video

@ModernVintageGamer Hey dude im a long island native so i'll be seeing you at the cradle of aviation in august then. Cant wait

Man I still have my r4 from 2009 it does not work any more but I kept it for memories your vid brought me back lol

I sold my r4 and ds lite a couple years ago and now im getting it back for my 2ds...hella nostalgia trip

Using a flashcart to hack a 3DS and carry all my DS games is my favorite thing ever. Bought a 3DS just for that. I'll have to check out some classic DS homebrew too! I love carrying my entire NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, VB, Genesis, MS, TG16 (and more) libraries with me all on a single cart!

DSx86 is one of my favourite emulators on the DS, i can run almost any PC game from the 80s, and early 90's think Wolf3D etc.

This takes me back. I had one of the earlier R4 clones and a crimson red DS Lite. At the time, there weren't really any good homebrew games that I can remember being good enough to keep on my expensive 2GB Micro SD card. If anything, the coolest part about the homebrew scene was the "applications". I can distinctly remember having a homebrew MP3 player that looked like an iPod, a Voice-Over-IP (SIP) client, a video player, and a fairly functional web browser. You have to remember that this was before smart-phones were a thing and, as a 12 year old, I felt like a super bad ass being able to make phone calls, watch movies, listen to music, and browse the web from a device with a touchscreen that could fit into my pocket! The fact that the DS was never "meant" to do any of those things was the ultimate cherry on top. The feeling of having "hacked" the DS had a huge impression on my young mind; I consider it to be one of just a few reasons why I ended up in the Cyber Security industry. Anyways, nice video. I also really enjoy your other content which talks about how each of the platform's security protection was eventually defeated.

Thanks for a great nostalgia video! Many wonderful memories of RaLink-WiFi-card transmission hacking, among other random things.

There was a Portal game back in the day that I had for the DS Lite. It was a sidescroller and a ton of fun!

I made a whole album using NitroTracker on a DSTwo cart. The album got publish under Piko Piko Detroit. I made my own sound effects that I got from old Nintendo games & used them all in Nitro Tracker.

Really interesting. I have a spare DSi, I may try something like this on that. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

GBA Back Up Tool is a must have IMO. Its a great way to swap game saves between my carts and RetroArch when i do some retro gaming on my HDTV.

I did run some homebrew on my DSi using an R4DS card. Those were good times! And I did try out DSLinux on it as well. It was pretty cool, and it was kind of a shame that the project died so fast.

Ugh. I wish Nintendo would stop ending Emulation. I heard they're killing game preservation. Nintendo 3DS, huh?

I have a DS lite that hasn't been used in over a year, grabbed it to play for a bit of nostalgia, expecting it needing a charge. Turned it on and behold the green light of greatness! True build quality

Great video, thanks MVG

I used to have ScummVM on my DS-lite back in the day so I could play my favourite game of all time (The Secret of Monkey Island) on the train :)

Now you can't even find a ds lite for less than $40 usually...

I can't believe it... That little card full of games my dad gave me for one of my birthdays was pretty much homebrew! He gave me an R4 Revolution released in 2017.

My uncle bought a DS Lite for my grandfather back when it first launched. My grandfather only used it once and it has been at near full battery ever since.

my fave was running windows 3.0 on the ds and being able to play some windows 3.0 games and 80's some 90's dos games

You should take a look at "colors!" for nintendo DS. I still use it for drawing. Also, theres a "portal" port for DS wich I think is very good. I never thought that the DS was capable of running something like that. The NEOGEO emulator is also very good but you need to convert the rom first.

My childhood is the Nintendo DS Lite because it was my first game system ever!

Awesome video! I just got back into DS home brew by purchasing an AceKard 2i 😄

Great video. Recently purchased a New 2DS XL. So can't wait for the 3DS homebrew video.

Just got a originale ds for just 2$

Awesome content bro 🍻

When I was very young, my parents bought a TT Games flash cartridge from someone who put some games on it. I thought it broke when we got a DSi after my DS Lite broke but I eventually realized it was because of protection and bought another DS Lite to use it again a few years ago.

Have you ever considered doing a homebrew episode for the Dreamcast? I have played around with the NesterDC homebrew and its actually really good, especially since you don't have to modify your system to use it.

When you cover the 3DS, make sure you make a point about how utterly terrible Nintendo's antipiracy methods were and how easy it was for people to literally download games straight from Nintendo's own servers via FreeShop/Wii U USB Helper/etc

I used to sit in the tech building of the college I attended with my Electric Blue DS and play Mario Kart and Animal Crossing between classes. Having come from a family which couldn't afford a computer during my childhood and adolescence, which caused me to miss out on early online gaming, it was incredible to be able to hop onto the college WiFi with this wonderful little Nintendo device and race people in Japan. It's a shame that the lower screen on the Lite yellows considerably over time. Thank you for the video and information.

literally using the exact same model r4 card. Absolutely the best use of 25 bucks I can think of