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iTouchDS

iTouchDS

M3-Adapter Team

Info

These carts are made by the same team as the M3 DS Real cart. They advertised RTS support in their stock kernel, similar to the M3's RTS support in its Sakura kernel. As the cart is M3 hardware at the end of the day, it's compatible with M3 loaders such as M3DS YSMenu and M3DS Pico-Launcher. Thanks to LifeHackerHansol's work on M3DS flashcart-bootstrap, the iTouchDS now has a way to autoboot both of these kernels.

Setup Guide:

  1. Format the SD card you are using by following the formatting tutorial.

  2. Download the iTouchDS YSMenu 7.06 package.

  3. Next, extract the contents of the downloaded kernel zip to your SD card.

  4. Place any .nds game ROMs you'd like to play into the Games folder.

  5. The files on your SD card should now look like this:

    • M3DS

  6. Insert the SD back into the cart, plug the cart into the DS, and see if it boots into the menu.

Themes

Looking to change the default theme? Check out the YSMenu themes repository at themes.flashcarts.net!

Kernel Info

Pico-Launcher is the game menu for the DS-Pico (an open source DS flashcart by the LNH team) and other supported carts. Combined with Pico-Loader, it can be used as a full kernel, and supports almost all retail DS games. It features a material-inspired user interface, and an extremely fast loader.

Soft-Reset & RTS Not Supported

Note that Pico-Launcher/Loader currently does not support soft-reset. If this features is important to you, consider using YSMenu.

RTS is only supported on the stock kernel, provided at the bottom of the page.

  1. Format the SD card you are using by following the formatting tutorial.

  2. Download the latest Pico Package for M3DS Real.

  3. Extract the pico_package_M3DS.zip file with 7-Zip, or your native file manager app.

  4. From within the extracted files, copy the following files/folders to your SD card root:

    • _pico folder

    • _picoboot.nds

    • boot.eng

    • boot.gb

    • boot.jp

  5. If you'd like to be able to use cheats on your games, download a cheat database.

  6. You will need the usrcheat.dat file from the download link in the post. Copy this file into the _pico folder on your SD card.

  7. Create a Games folder in your SD card root, and place any .nds game ROMs you'd like to play inside.

  8. The files on your SD card should now look like this:

    • M3DS

  9. Insert the SD card back into your cart, plug the cart into your DS, and see if it boots into the menu.

Tip

If you'd like to use RTS (Real-Time-Save), you can also use the cart's stock kernel, provided below. Do keep in mind though that game compatibility won't be as good as YSMenu or Pico-Launcher, and the RTS feature itself can be hit-or-miss.