The first time the R4DS came out, I was like, “Wau… there isn’t a Slot-1 flashkart at the first place?” and promptly bought 1 from the first batch. If I remember correctly, it was only RM 60 (USD 17), sans the microSD card. Nevermind the fact that I own a lot of original DS games [...]

This Kid Icarus stuff is rather tough. No wonder I have got no love towards platformers. However, the “I’m Finished!” message had me in chuckles the first time it appeared after the character plunged to his death. I still think it’s due to a programming issue (deliberately or otherwise) that doesn’t allow the player to [...]

The last ROM Report was written like months ago, on how to run Sega MegaDrive games on the Nintendo DS. Pretty retro stuff huh. Well, in this edition of The ROM Report, we’ll take a look at something that I can relate better, running an all time favourite PC game of mine, Quake II on [...]

Thanks to the EZ 3-in-1 Expansion Pack running in my Nintendo DS’ Slot-2, I finally get the chance to play GBA games that are previously sold-out on Play-Asia. Running a game in NOR mode is like having the actual cartridge itself and I can pop the Expansion Pack into my Gameboy Micro and start playing. [...]

Some of you might remember Nintendo’s late last year announcement that it will be collaborating with AM3 to introduce the first ever official Slot-1 flashcart for the Nintendo DS, the D3Vision. It looks like anybody who is interested will need not wait any longer as Play-Asia has already listed the D3Vision to be on sale [...]

As the title mentions, there is a problem when it comes to running Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games on the Nintendo DS: the emulators have not found a way to produce sound! It’s a rather quiet experience playing Sonic the Hedgehog but even though the lack of sound is a shame, the game runs really fast [...]

The ROM Report is a series of articles that I started writting back when Nine Over Ten 9/10 was on Blogspot. The gist of the articles is mainly on retro games from consoles such as the NES, SNES, Megadrive, etc and how to run them on the Nintendo DS courtesy of emulation from a rich [...]

Issue 48 of the excellent (but expensive, at least over here in Malaysia) Retro Gamer magazine did a spread on the Spectrum 128. It got me curious because you can hardly find one over here, and mentioning Spectrum will more likely conjure up colours of the rainbow than the thought of a computer. Despite the [...]

Someone actually asked me on how to install Beup, a MSN client that runs on the Nintendo DS. I figured that this would make good material for nineoverten.com’s inaugural original Homebrew article. And it’s also a chance to try out really cool stuff. Prerequisites There a couple of things you would need to run Beup: [...]

The idea for the 10th Edition of The ROM Report came to me when I was talking to a couple of my colleagues about 80s cartoon series. I remember being glued to the tube and being fed a diet of Thundercats, Transformers, Centurions, and Spiral Zone. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was also a favourite series [...]