


Unfortunately, it seems the ones we’ve got are knockoffs and therefore proved challenging to find firmware for. They’re popular and supported by DSLinux. The first cards I tried were the R4 cards we had. I purchased a SuperCard SD from Ebay to provide some extra RAM, which apparently is quite useful, since the DSLite has only 2mB of it on it’s own.The SuperCard SD I bought had 32mB extra RAM bringing the total up to some 34mB, wowee. R4 Card (Knockoff, says R4 SDHC Revolution for DS on the card)ĭSLinux runs on a bunch of devices, luckily we had some R4 cards and an M3DS Real around the place which are both supported by DSLinux.Running Linux on a Nintendo DSLite is at best a few hours entertainment for the masochistic technologist, and at worst a waste of your time.īut, I do rather enjoy running Linux on things that should not be running Linux, or at least attempting to do so. Lets answer that right away: Running Linux on a Nintendo DSLite is at best a few hours entertainment for the masochistic technologist, and at worst a waste of your time. When I posted about my success on Mastodon, someone helpfully asked “Has it have any use tho?”. I recently bought a gorgeous pink Nintendo DSLite with the sole purpose of running DSLinux on it.
