Nintendo 3DS Homebrew Is Now Possible With The R4 3DS Card.
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2011
by Mark Thompson
I wanted to wait before I wrote this article about Nintendo 3DS homebrew. You see, I had tried the R4 3DS Card on the Japanese 3DS system, but I wanted to wait, see, and find out if the R4 DS Card will work on the new Nintendo 3DS when it hits North American shores. And I am happy to report that as of today, I have had the chance to test the R4 3DS Card and the new hand held from Nintendo and they work perfectly together. All of the same homebrew games, homebrew applications, and most importantly, all of the emulators I have used on my DSi for the last year and a half are working just fine. Without a hitch in fact.
All of my Snes emulators, NES, ZX Spectrum, C64 and countless others are working on the Nintendo 3DS with the r4. All of them, naturally, load up in DS mode, because the 3ds R4 is using the DS compatibility in the 3ds for the time being, in order to enable the running of all homebrew games and applications.
What is homebrew? I have written a number of articles about it here on SearchWarp, so I would recommend that if you want a full detailed review of what it is, how it work, etc... that you take a look at one of the articles I have online already. But in short, homebrew games are like freeware games for your computer. They are made without the intention of selling them. They don't lack in any way, in fact some of the best games out today are open source and freeware. The developers create these bits of homebrew software in their spare time, for anyone and everyone to enjoy and play. You can download them, put them on the micro SD card for the r4, and enjoy them. You can also share them with friends (providing they are also able to load them up on the console) and, as I said, they are all free of charge.
As for emulators. They are software programs, created to run on your 3DS, or DSi, but they enable the system to emulate, or mimic the actual system it was intended to emulate. So nesDS will essentially turn your Nintendo 3DS into a portable NES system. You'll be able to load and play all of the NES games out there, and use the built in controls on your hand held in order to be able to play the games. SnesDS, a Super nintendo emulator for the 3DS works the same way. It emulates the Super NES system, and enables your hand held to load all of the games that were created for and released for that console. Emulators have been commonplace on PC's and MAC computers for years, way back since the old 486 days. But with the processing power of these new hand held systems, they too are able to emulate the older consoles.
In my testing with the r4i 3ds and r4 ds card, I was able to load up every single one of the emulators on my Nintendo 3DS console, just as I had been able to do on my DSi XL system. All of the homebrew games and applications were also fully compatible, so I feel like selling my DSi in order to help pay for my Nintendo 3DS is no longer an issue. I had wanted to hold on to it to make sure that there was some type of r4 3ds card that would work just the same way the my r4 ds card worked on my older console. And I am happy to report, it does.
What is homebrew? I have written a number of articles about it here on SearchWarp, so I would recommend that if you want a full detailed review of what it is, how it work, etc... that you take a look at one of the articles I have online already. But in short, homebrew games are like freeware games for your computer. They are made without the intention of selling them. They don't lack in any way, in fact some of the best games out today are open source and freeware. The developers create these bits of homebrew software in their spare time, for anyone and everyone to enjoy and play. You can download them, put them on the micro SD card for the r4, and enjoy them. You can also share them with friends (providing they are also able to load them up on the console) and, as I said, they are all free of charge.
As for emulators. They are software programs, created to run on your 3DS, or DSi, but they enable the system to emulate, or mimic the actual system it was intended to emulate. So nesDS will essentially turn your Nintendo 3DS into a portable NES system. You'll be able to load and play all of the NES games out there, and use the built in controls on your hand held in order to be able to play the games. SnesDS, a Super nintendo emulator for the 3DS works the same way. It emulates the Super NES system, and enables your hand held to load all of the games that were created for and released for that console. Emulators have been commonplace on PC's and MAC computers for years, way back since the old 486 days. But with the processing power of these new hand held systems, they too are able to emulate the older consoles.
In my testing with the r4i 3ds and r4 ds card, I was able to load up every single one of the emulators on my Nintendo 3DS console, just as I had been able to do on my DSi XL system. All of the homebrew games and applications were also fully compatible, so I feel like selling my DSi in order to help pay for my Nintendo 3DS is no longer an issue. I had wanted to hold on to it to make sure that there was some type of r4 3ds card that would work just the same way the my r4 ds card worked on my older console. And I am happy to report, it does.
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