💾 A custom DS flashable cartridge

The homebrew scene for retro consoles is known for their distribution methods, where usually the developers create reproductions of the original distribution media and insert their games inside.

Even though this has existed for a variety of systems (such as the Sega Mega Drive) for a while, this sort of distribution hasn’t existed for the Nintendo DS. It’s true that the R4 and EZ-Flash have existed for a while, but these have a different goal than a reprogrammable cartridge would have.

At one point I stumbled across LNH-team’s work; they had built the DSpico, a flash cartridge (like the R4 or EZ-Flash), but this time being open source. By making this open source, they enable people to create modifications of the cartridge in order to add or (in my case) remove features. This is what gave me the idea to build a reprogrammable cartridge that would work on the DS.

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