Snes On 3DS – Nintendo DS R4 Emulators
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The R4 3DS Brings Retro Fun!
Getting your retro game on is easier than ever on your Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS system. All you need is either the Nintendo R4 DS, the R4i SDHC or the newest R4 3DS Cards and a few freeware emulators to play your old classic retro games, in a pocket sized system. Just which games and consoles can you play? Read on for the short list of some of the best emulators for the Nintendo R4 DS cards.
Let’s do a system by system run down of the very best of the emulators we’ve had a chance to try. We would also love to hear from you, so you can let us know which games and systems YOU like the best. We have our favorites, and there are 4 old classic console systems that we love being able to play on our Nintendo hand held.
Snes on 3DS – Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
This 16-bit game console was the leader when it came to the console wars of the 90′s. With a slew of unique games, excellent graphics and sound to rock out to. Some of the best games for 16-bit systems came out for the Snes. Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi’s Island, Uniracers, and a whole lot more. So many games were released that it would be hard to pick even a top 10 list of favorites. They were just that good.
In order to play your SNES games on your DS, DSi or 3DS, you’ll want to get yourself the SnesDS emulator. You can download it from our downloads section. While there are others, such as SneMuleDS, SnesDS has so far proven to load the games the best, and offers pretty fast emulation – even for those graphics and hardware intensive games that other Snes emulators have problems with. Using it is easy too. Copy over snesDS.nds to your R4 micro sd card, make a folder on the card called GAMES, and put your games in there. When you power up your R4 3DS or Nintendo R4 DS, just select the snesDS.nds file and it will load up just as any other game would. Except you’ll see a menu and a list with all of your games on there that you can pick from and play right away!
Nes on 3DS – Nintendo Entertainment System
When the NES first hit the video game world, it took it by storm. After the massive collapse of the video game industry after the Atari 2600, no one ever thought that another games only system would do well enough to justify putting it on store shelves. Oh boy were they every wrong. While the Atari 2600 died, the Nes system flourished. Gaming computers “disguised” as computers were the big hit. Systems like the C64, Atari 520, Amiga, and others. The NES showed that there was plenty of room for a games only video game system in the living room. Their secret? No one really knows, but we’re guessing it had a lot to do with top quality games that were miles beyond better than any other computer or game system could provide. The moment when you first put in that Mario World cartridge, and started to play, was like nothing else before it. Gone were the bleeps and beeps and choppy graphics. In their place were games filled with colors, sprites and amazing music.
Playing NES games on your Nintendo 3DS or DSi needs only the nesDS emulator. Much like SnesDS, nesDS is also one of several emulators available. It too has proven that it’s by far the easiest to use, and the most fun to play because it does emulation without bugs, glitches or slow downs. Every single game we’ve tried had worked right out of the box.
Setup is essentially the same for both of these emulators. The archive you download will come in .zip format, which you’ll have to uncompress on your PC or MAC. Inside the archive is where all the goodness is. You’ll find snesds.nds in the Super Nes emulator zip file, and nesds.nds in the NES emulator zip file. Copy one, or both, over to your micro SD card. As mentioned in the SnesDS part of this post, you can create different folders for your different emulators. One could be SNES GAMES while the other is NES Games. This isn’t a must of course, but it sure does help to keep things organized when you’re trying to load up and play the game you’re looking for.
Why would you want to play Snes on the 3DS? Because it’s fun, that’s why. Some of the best games ever made came out for these early game systems. In fact, if you spend some time looking back at the history of some of your favorite games today, you’d be surprised at just how many of them had their very first series on either the Super NES or the NES system. That’s pretty impressive! Characters, game story lines, everything, can be traced right back to their roots. Check the video below for a tase of some SNES action on the Nintendo DS lite.
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It may look just like a big square bit of wood, but what’s inside that thing? Why it’s a sega saturn system. With an LCD Screen to boot, so you can take your own wooden sega saturn console anywhere you want to get in some retro fun. This masterpiece was created by one of the regulars over at Benheck.com modding forum. From what we’re reading it was paid for, so it’s going in to one lucky gamers hands. He commissioned the work, so that he can sport his one of a kind console.It comes complete with custom Sega Saturn branding on the back side of the LCD screen itself. A little bit weird I suppose – since we’re so used to seeing the official branding on them. But then, this is not your ordinary Saturn though, right? So why not put the Saturn car company logo on it
No matter, the system looks great as it is, and a true piece of art in our opinion. We wish there were a saturn emulator for the R4 3DS and Nintendo 3DS system, but until there is, playing some old cool Sega Saturn games may be the way to go – and it’s even cooler on a custom console.
(via gamesetwatch)
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Neo Geo On DS and 3DS
Well, if you’re here you probably know all about the Neo Geo and now you want to play Neo Geo on DS or your Nintendo 3DS. Great! It can be done, and done very easily for the ultimate portable Neo Geo Console. There are a few things you will need in order to be able to take those great old Neo Geo Games and play them on your Nintendo DS or Nintendo 3DS system.
First, you’ll need either an R4 3DS card, which is for the 3DS and DSi, or the original R4 DS which was made for the DS and DS lite. Then you’ll have to go and download the Neo Geo emulator, called NeoDS.
You can download it here.
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Installation Of Neo DS on R4 3DS
Installing neo dS is identical on either of the DS cards. First we’re assuming you’ve already downloaded the emulator from the link above. If not, do it now. Make a note of where you saved it on your PC of course, because you’ll have to extract the .zip archive.
- You can use a program like 7-zip (freeware) in order to Extract the compressed file on your PC.
- There are number of files in the archive that you will want to use. First of all the “NeoDS.nds” file. This needs to be copied over to your micro SD card that you will be using with your R4 card. There is also a tool for converting all of the neogeo games you have so that they will work on your DS. Conversion takes just a minute or two, so it’s no big dead. For this you’ll want to use “NeoDSConvert.exe” Details on the conversion are covered in the readme.txt file, but it is self explanatory to be honest.
- You will also need the Neo Geo rom files, the firmware if you will of the Neo Geo system itself. You can download this from the web, often it’s called something like NeoGeo.zip (we’re not able to provide the link) and you WILL need this for the emulator to even start. Without it you won’t be able to play your games.
- The games themselves come in .zip format too. Fatal Fury may be called ffury.zip etc…
- Every game you download has to be converted. NeoDS uses a special format, so the games will need to be in that format for them to load. As we said earlier, converting is just a quick one step process and the games will be loading in no time. Does Neo Geo on
DS Work With Every Game?
The truth it, some games just won’t work right. But the majority of games play absolutely perfect. This is no different than any other emulator to be honest. There is always the odd game that just isn’t emulated properly. Having said that though, as we mentioned, most of the games work just fine.Unlike emulators on the PC, where the resolution of the monitors is so high that when you go full screen with the Neo Geo emulator, you get huge chunky pixels instead of nice smooth graphics, on the DS and Nintendo 3DS, you won’t have any issues with that. The resolution on the screen is just about the same as it would be on your TV set in the case of the DS. What you end up seeing is exactly how the game was meant to be seen.There are no more steps. The only step thats left is for your to play some of the most amazing home and arcade games ever to be created. The Neo Geo was THE arcade system in its day, and when it came to home arcade conversions, there was nothing better than the Neo Geo. Now you can have all of the fun you used to have – on your Nintendo 3DS with the R4 3DS cards!Top
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