Another look at the Nintendo DSi in 2019 - Softmodding , Homebrew and DSIWare | MVG 

2-3 hours to discover and code this? Damn, sometimes you just need to get a system in front of the right person to get something awesome achieved.

When i saw the Touch Bomberman icon i knew.. R4 CARD!

Modding tutorial starts at 6:22 However the history beforehand is definitely interesting

I give this man a ten Nintendo Lawsuits out of Ten!

Watching these fantastic videos convinced me to buy old consoles just for the fun of unlocking them :^)

I modded my Dsi back when Hiya and Unlaunch were first released and you had to manually edit your nand. That was fun.

I always thought that the "i" on DSi was for "internet"

I got my grandma's DSi from when she passed... I should back up the really nice photos that my sister took way back when and try this out sometime.

MVG is synonymous to the highest quality of uploaded materials. Smart guy, there's no doubt about it.

Recently bought and modded a DSi, and it has now become my preferred way to play DS/DSi games! I've even dumped some saves from cartridge (using a 3DS) and put it onto the DSi's SD card, and it is awesome! The DS Lite, I have to rely on a cartridge, the 3DS the screen resolution is not the same as the DS, plus the SD card is inside the case. The DSi has the same resolution as the DS, and the SD card is easy to get to. Perfect for the job of running DS and DSi games.

i was trying to soft mod my dsi 3 months ago but I never got flipnote This video is a blessing thank you so much

Thanks MVG; I purchased a DSi XL and didn't realize how good DS games look on it. I've been playing them on my New 3DS and they definitely look more crisp on the DSi XL. Thanks for the videos; I look forward to them every Monday!

All the time I’ve spent on flipnote hatena... it was like RU-vid before RU-vid!

YESSS!!! You listened to me last stream! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

“DSi Camera is the ONLY application able to access the SD card” DSi Sound: am I a joke to you?

I got my DSi (Pokemon Black Edition) for 17$ and everything was working perfectly fine. The guy even gave me a hard pouch for it.

Love to see some recognition for one of my fave systems. Nice job!

Well well well... totally missed that exploit. Thank you so much!

Been using an R4 for years with my DSi, never knew there was CFW for it though!

Love to see how GBARunner2 has changed over the last couple years! Still lots of work to do in many games, but for a hypervisor built from the ground up it's impressive.

i was about selling mine,but now i keep it :)

I got a DSi two weeks ago to find out that softmodding this DSi is impossible because mine didn't have FlipNote Studio. Now I can revisit the scene. Thank you so much for this info!

I worked on a DSi game - hell of a fun system to work on. :)

I got a DSi XL to see how good DS games looked as playing DS games on a 3DS never looked right. A few game trades later and I was playing my new-to-me DSi XL and was loving DS games all over again. Light weight, easy on my aging eyes-the system is awesome! Unfortunately, the SD card slot won't hold a card for modding but that's ok. Great video!

WOO! Thanks for the upload MVG! Makes me glad I held onto my DSi!

Just grabbed my DSi. I'm about to hack this thing.

I had NO IDEA there was a Homebrew scene for the DSi, I thought a flash card was the best you got. Doing this right away for that Gameboy emulator!

Went on to search for an old 8 GB SD Card and my trusty release DSi as soon as I saw your video a couple of weeks ago. Best thing I've done with the little guy, much better than forking out cash for a R4, I just knew the DSi should be able to load homebrew directly from its SD port, guess someone else thought about it and made it into reality. Kudos to those guys! And thank you man for bringing this to light! My DSi is now enjoying the constant use it didn't have since 2013.

Awww yeah! MVG always a great way to start the week.

This is perfect! I always wanted to check out Dark Void Zero but was about a year too late.

I got a DSi for my 6th birthday. I still have it for memories. it's nice.

I guess my dsi is gonna be my main system now. It's always been hardware wise my favorite model matte finish and button/stylus placement was flawless, idk how they had that and made all the changes to 3ds models and didn't learn.

Looool, I remember softmodding my dsi XL using ugopwn to both downgrade and install sudokuhax XD man its easy now dude. Awesome vid dude!!!

This is an excellent video. A Supercard DSTwo can actually emulate the extra RAM of a DSi to turn it into a DS RAM pak if for some reason you want to use the DS Opera instead of the DSi version - Not to mention that it can load guides and play back video in Moonshell as well!

I fixed up some japanese dsi consoles i bought a few months ago. A few of them had broken screens and scratched touch-pad membranes. They have been sitting around and now i can get some use out of them. Thanks for the heads up Modern Vintage Gamer!

I have fixed quite a few DSi Japanese broken systems to have for backups. I have a nice number of them and am blown away by this Mod! I cannot thank you enough for letting everyone know about this!

Literally just found my dsi in a drawer yesterday. Perfect timing lol here we go again

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! Really good video! Did this on my DSi as well!

Flipnote Lenny is honestly one of the coolest hacks I've seen..

It's like you're reading my mind. I just ordered a DSi before I went to bed last night. I wake up and you've produced a Homebrew DSi video, you rock @Modern Vintage Gamer !

Damn now I need to buy a new SD card... Mine are all in my other Nintendo consoles after your previous videos XD

Just plugged in my dsi the other day to see if it works, gonna mod that soon

Thinking about checking this out. Missed out on pretty much all the DS line of systems. This looks like an easy place to dive in, thanks a lot for all the info in your videos, they are always a worthwhile watch.

I still use my DSi to play Wild World (which I recently acquired) and pokemon Soulsilver.

I remember buying the blue DSi XL. I loved that thing. Definitely my favorite DS model. I wish this hack existed 9 years ago.

It appears to be time to revisit the DS library. This should be fun. 🏀⛹️

I remember around the time the DSi shop went down, I looked to see if it was possible to run dumped DSiWare and was supremely disappointed to find it couldn't be done. I don't know when someone figured it out, but I'm so happy to hear it! DSi really does have amazing screen quality that brings everything in the library up a notch and beats playing DS games on 3DS any day, so to be able to put the downloadable games back on it where they will look their best is wonderful! Plus, some DSiWare has been delisted over the years and isn't even obtainable on 3DS (Go! Go! Kokopolo shown at the end as an example, pleased to see that shown in the video like it was answering a question I hadn't asked yet).

Looking at this video because my R4 started to have problems recently and I was so glad to find another way to homebrew that doesn't require the use of the R4 slot!

Alright, time to resurrect my old DSi

dont ever delete flippnote studios

I have so many good memories with my DSi. The only reason I wanted one was because the hinge to my DS lite broke, but I ended up liking the DSi so much more. I loved being able to watch Flipnotes, and having the ability to browse the web lol

OMG finally someone breathes new life onto the DSi, I knew there was potential but nobody seemed to be able to hack it outside the R4, thanks for the video man

Recently picked up a N3DS SNES Edition & softmodded it. Backed up my NDS & 3DS libraries to a 128 SD card & also have Retroarch & TWiLight menu++ installed!

Really nice video as always. I have learned alot about DSi softmod thanks to you. Thank you for all your great content. Cheers mate!

installed memory pit + hiyacfw yesterday lol, nice to see a viseo from you about it

I have to say - love your videos, and the frequency of them (not to mention the sheer quality!). Keep it up!

Hey I have a modded DSi! I specifically bought one from eBay last year to softmod it.

Will you do a video on the 3ds/new 3ds?

My son bought a padded aluminum carry case at Goodwill for $5. When he got to the register he opened it and there was a mint PSP and DSi in the case. The person at the register said it was a package price. So $5 it was for the whole lot. We already had a couple PSPs and DS's so we din't anything with them yet. Looks like it's time to play around with them. Thanks for the video. Excellent as always!

Used this exploit on my DSi XL the moment I saw the article on wololo. As always, great video MVG. It's cool to know how the exploit actually worked.

Shutterbug is such a fitting name, given that it exploits the DSi Camera!

"Touch! Bomberman Land" _WINK WINK_

I literally Just modded my DSi like a few days ago using a video. You read my friccin mind. I love you and your videos

I remember when I got the DSi when I was like 11 or 12. I spent a solid week using the camera to take fun pics of all my Pokemon figures I used to have. Spent a lot of time in Flipnote Studio too. Man, good times...

Damn, it took around 11 Years to fully hack the dsi... I was so happy when i finally installed cfw to it. Funny that the 3DS wasn't nearly that strong

I'm struggled for an hour because camera app on my dsi LL keep freezing. turns out I had to update the firmware to 1.4.5J ( I have a japanese version) after that I can install unlaunch flawlessly. If your dsi firmware is under 1.4.5x (any region) Just connect to the internet and update. It's work fine for all of my japanese dsi and dsi LL.

Your homebrew console videos are insanely good, please keep them coming. Bought a used DSi as a birthday present to myself by the end of your video.

I had no idea there was a DSi XL. They're surprisingly cheap in my country too. Definitely picking one up. :)

Couldn't mod my dsi cos of the store, but now i can. thx

1:31 Well, since they added an SD port and an Internet browser, I doubt they removed the GBA slot for security concerns

THANK YOU SO MUCH! ima get on this now. I've always been using R4I carts. Didn't find any other method of homebrew for dsi till now. Instead I did my wii. But that changes with this

To me, the Nintendo DSi is the ultimate version of Nintendo DS. This is the last handled by Nintendo that I appreciate so much, and sometimes I take it out of the cupboard, during holidays, to play again some great DS games and a few games downloaded from the DSi Ware when it still worked. Thank you very much for this video, I didn't know that this console could be hacked, and it's pretty interesting to discover this, and to think about all the things I can do now with this amazing device. Previously, I thought that only PSP could be hacked. By the way, my PSP Slim and PSP Go are still very useful even after all this time. But concerning the Nintendo DS, I only knew the existence of the R4 cards to transfer all the DS games you wanted into it, and I didn't consider this as a real hack but just piracy. Fortunately, thanks to you, now I know it's possible on DSi, even if I don't know if the same stuffs are available by this way compared to a PSP Custom Firmware. Nevertheless, it's very exciting. To conclude this comment, I wanted to say that I follow your channel since a few times (a few months approximately), and I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of your work, at each video I could watch. You succeed to share your passion with your viewers/subscribers, you give many interesting information about the devices you talk about (history, features...) and you even provide tutorials to people who could be interested in hacking their consoles. Even though I'm a French guy, with a bad level in English, I've never been disappointed by one of your videos, and finally it's not a problem at all to follow your content easily (when the topic is interesting it's easier ^^). So, quite frankly, I wish you all the best for the future 👍

This console was my childhood. Had a DSL and I used to play NDS Undercover, GBA version of NFSU, NFSC Own the City, Original Asphalt, etc. When I got my 3DS, I kept playing around with relatives using the camera.

awesome video MVG love your content so much! id ask if you are gonna make a 3ds video but I know you either will or are making it now lol. Keep up the good work :)

Hell yes! Gives me a reason to pull my old DSi out of the closet and dust it off. I have to agree with u about twilight menu as well. Great piece of software. I placed it on a couple of 3ds system I had when I modded them. It does DS games great, but with my experience it seems to struggle with quite a few snes titles. Also is off with a few gba titles as well. This may be user error on my part, but I cannot seem to get my titles up and running. Hopefully this becomes rectified with future updates. Seems like I'm hating on it, but I'm not, I recommend to everyone to put it on D's DSi or 3ds if u choose to mod. It's a fantastic piece of software for a script kitty like me to use. Thanks also to MVG as always for another great video. You and a couple of other RU-vidrs inspired me to mod all my softmoddable systems. Only thing I have left is my og Xbox. Having problems with my xplorer360 not allowing me to drag n drop the splinter cell exploit onto my thumbdrive. Hopefully I can figure this out. Anyway, I'll STFU. Thanks again!

Did this to my DSi, worked perfectly! This is amazing! Edit - To anyone wondering literally everything is in the description, and after you follow the first two links the third one is a super simple to follow step by step guide to get things like Unlaunch and HiyaCFW working

I was looking to mod my ndsi for longer, but mine was on the newest firmware... TY!!

I always love these homebrew exploit video's. Also the low amount of dislikes is amazing. This must be a nice community that's following your channel.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for not walking through the steps. So many other homebrew channels will do this, and not only do they get outdated, but their misinformation has caused bricks in the past. Not very likely with this exploit, but still.

It has happened a number of times now that I clicked one of your videos in the suggestions because I wanted to know more about the topic, then some time in the video you go on camera and I'm "oh, it's one of his. cool". Time to subscribe

The i in DSi stands for individual now? I'd heard "dual screen internet" and I'd heard "dual screen improved" but "individual"?

I have a Nintendo dsi xl(With the 25th super mario bros anniversary) with 64gb ,format the sdcard to FAT32,it worked for mine

this has become my new favourite handheld as of 2019.

My modded dsi xl is probably my most played system. There was some excellent homebrewing going on and it emulates many things well. Going to try HBMenu now. Thanks!

I got a DSI XL when I was 6. The good old days..

I did this before watching probably literally for cave story since I already had another dslite with r4 lol, but the small improvements are nice, not to mention my dsi was the one I had first. btw The GB and GBC emulaters work but how do I save with them?

Inspired by this video, I bought a DSi xl and followed the instructions in your video. So happy I can now play all the games from my childhood again (from all the different systems ) on one handheld. Thank you very much!

Your original video about the DS Lite made me interested in picking up a DSi, which I did (Sadly wasn't able to exploit it since it didn't have Flipnote). Well, finally got it modded! I did need to update my DSi first though. What a hassle, changing my routers settings and stuff. It was still on 1.2E , which didn't want to work. Thank you so much, keep up the great content!

4:29 I can confir, having he dsi xl with its latest firmware and that same card that is compatible.

I love mine, and I still use it. Currently playing Animal Crossing Wild World on it. I have the Metallic Rose DSi XL.

Good to see Nitrotracker installed :) The DS Lite and DSi are amazing for homebrew (particularly ZXDS, the best Speccy emulator on any platform!), but it's great to see this new hack and new possibilities.

Another awesome video .I only got a DSiXL recently and had been really enjoying it with Homebrew .I was lucky enough to have flipnote already on it when I got the device :)

It's worth noting that ALL DSi XL have IPS screens.

For the longest time, I had completely neglected he DSi. Recently got one (matte blue, probably bought in November 2012 originally), and now I think it's the best way to play DS and DSi games. The 3DS's screen is problematic, as its resolution, at 1.25x higher, causes DS and DSi games to look soft/blurry. But on the DSi, it is native resolution for both DS and DSi games, so they look perfect. It's no less convenient than the 3DS, just put the games on an SD card.

I got HiyaCFW with TWiLight Menu++ installed today. I'm having a great time with it, mainly with loading unreleased games and prototypes of games onto it. I might use GBARunner2 to play Diddy Kong Pilot later on.

I've had a ds since I was like 3 or 4. I have hacked it this year with memory pit exploit! Now the device I had so many memories and pics on is even cooler. I love my dsi to bits, I'm glad that now even at 13 I can get so much joy out of it!

I thought DSi standed for _internet_

Hell yeah man, i modded my DSi when it was pretty low key thing.. Awesome

That hack method is so easy even I could have figured it out. Hilarious! Great vid, I had no idea there was so much depth to the "older" DS versions before the 3DS.

Love the technical aspect of these videos, very interesting stuff!