Turn your computer into a Nintendo DS download station

Posted on August 18th, 2006 at 8:12pm; there are 34 Comments :D

DS download station As those who’ve been lucky enough to stumble into a shop carrying them knows, various outlets across the country (and indeed the world) have fancy download stations that let you download demos of various games onto your Nintendo DS for some sampling.

Only problem is that going to these places is usually a bit of a chore, and of course you don’t want to be doing it in a place like Mansfield — home of myself — where you’re likely to get your DS mugged off you the second you whip it out. So what’s the answer? To turn your PC into a download station of course!

It’s surprisingly simple looking, although probably not recommended for those who don’t know what they’re doing as it looks like your wireless can’t act as its usual internet-able self while in DS mode, even though it’s revertable. It comes as a six-step guide and even has complementary photographs so you can see what you need to do.

If you’re feeling brave and the list of steps doesn’t scare you too much, by all means give it go. If you’re successful (or not) and wouldn’t mind sharing how it went, it’d be nice if you could share some specifics in a comment such as exactly what is available for download. I haven’t done it myself so I don’t know.

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Comment 1 of 34 by stan:
Posted on August 21st, 2006 at 3:42pm GMT

That actually looks really easy - shame I don’t have a DS. Could it be jimmied to allow transfer of full games, I wonder? I have no idea of course, but I suspect not.

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Comment 2 of 34 by Ryan:
Posted on August 21st, 2006 at 6:40pm GMT

I’d _assume_ not since I’m not sure the DS has enough room onboard to take a full game, but then I don’t know how exactly it works. Maybe it just streams the game or something.

What we need is someone adventurous like Huz to give it a go! ;D

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Comment 3 of 34 by Sam:
Posted on August 26th, 2006 at 3:05pm GMT

its a shame that you can only download the demos and no the whole game

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Comment 4 of 34 by Greg:
Posted on May 11th, 2007 at 5:20pm GMT

Hey I have one of the required network adaptors, but when I go to update the driver and select the proper folder it keeps saying “The wizard could not find the software on your computer…” I’ve tried this on a couple of computers and keep getting the same result. I’m using a brand new Linksys WUSB54G ver. 4 network adaptor and have not even installed the linksys driver. I’ve also tried downloading the ds driver a couple of times to no avail. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

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Comment 5 of 34 by Ryan:
Posted on July 15th, 2007 at 12:01pm GMT

I Have Posted The Solution To Your Problem (Greg) On http://www.jkwtv.co.nr as it allows longer messages than this one does. My solution worked for me and i’m using a linksys adapter. Not the same as Greg’s but it’s still Linksys

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Comment 6 of 34 by Riku98523:
Posted on August 20th, 2007 at 12:28am GMT

I have some demos but i just put them on my Flash card :) its easier than going out and buying a network card.

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Comment 7 of 34 by rachel:
Posted on August 26th, 2007 at 11:16pm GMT

tetris is the game

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Comment 8 of 34 by stucky123:
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 at 9:13pm GMT

WE’RE STUCK!

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Comment 9 of 34 by Jin:
Posted on October 8th, 2007 at 12:51am GMT

cool site

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Comment 10 of 34 by mollie:
Posted on April 12th, 2008 at 10:32pm GMT

how do you turn your computer into a downloading station?

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Comment 11 of 34 by be happy:
Posted on June 7th, 2008 at 9:16am GMT

what i dont understand a thing about this, i just want free games.

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Comment 12 of 34 by Helpful:
Posted on June 10th, 2008 at 8:52pm GMT

hey,well i know that to get the like games to your ds/lite.
u get a little card called a DSR4 which you put into your computer and then you can get the games through wireless. Good luck if you get one!

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Comment 13 of 34 by Pratheche:
Posted on June 12th, 2008 at 4:07pm GMT

I want DS Download MarioKart from the computer

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Comment 14 of 34 by Hershey:
Posted on June 29th, 2008 at 11:54pm GMT

If you have the Wii all you have to do is download the ninendo channel for free. Every month they have new game demos

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Comment 15 of 34 by steven:
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 9:48pm GMT

this sucks you cant download your ds on the computer and play two players.

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Comment 16 of 34 by 448444444448544456345648234654:
Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 11:30pm GMT

can you still play ds games after bilting it in to an computer???????????????

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Comment 17 of 34 by breanna:
Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 9:04pm GMT

i really want to have a computer on my nintendo ds

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Comment 18 of 34 by Kudders:
Posted on September 20th, 2008 at 12:22am GMT

why can you not download the whole game?

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Comment 19 of 34 by nusha:
Posted on October 5th, 2008 at 2:31am GMT

it sucks

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Comment 20 of 34 by katie:
Posted on October 29th, 2008 at 7:40pm GMT

Hi so how do u do it

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Comment 21 of 34 by Hoppyfred:
Posted on November 4th, 2008 at 2:27pm GMT

Err…Somebody said before they got the DEMOs on their flash cart. How? Because hopefully having the demos willl be legal ;)

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Comment 22 of 34 by vinnie:
Posted on November 10th, 2008 at 10:46pm GMT

Hello there; I was wondering if it is possible to download my ds games into my computer? I figure it must be as I see all the free nds game downloads on the internet. I have the R4 and would like to put my ds games on it do you know how to do that? Or is it just easier to download the freebees?

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Comment 23 of 34 by Camillo:
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 2:40am GMT

well i have never ever had a Nintendo in my whole life and here is my chance to have one! thank you

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Comment 24 of 34 by Camillo:
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 2:41am GMT

i love a Nintendo and now i want a Nintendo on my computer aswell

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Comment 25 of 34 by Camillo:
Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 2:45am GMT

I really wanted a Nintendo on a computer to try it i will do anything to play this game please let me

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Comment 26 of 34 by Xbox Man:
Posted on December 28th, 2008 at 6:42am GMT

I tried it, it works great, but the range is still limited my the DS, so you can’t broadcast long range.

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Comment 27 of 34 by footballer:
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 12:30pm GMT

please i wanted download mariokart to ny nintendo

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Comment 28 of 34 by KG:
Posted on January 24th, 2009 at 7:26am GMT

I pretty much dont get it!, ir did this and it just dont work.

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Comment 29 of 34 by ryan:
Posted on February 5th, 2009 at 6:12pm GMT

will this cause any virus’s

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Comment 30 of 34 by chris:
Posted on April 5th, 2009 at 4:16am GMT

i hope this works

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Comment 31 of 34 by Eliah:
Posted on April 17th, 2009 at 12:31am GMT

SO COOL!

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Comment 32 of 34 by Will:
Posted on May 21st, 2009 at 1:49am GMT

OK, so I have an Atheros AR5007EG Card, and it doesn’t work! HELP!!! :(

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Comment 33 of 34 by taylor:
Posted on May 21st, 2009 at 3:09am GMT

meh. flashcards are the way. I use M3ds Real

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Comment 34 of 34 by Anonymous:
Posted on June 27th, 2009 at 4:12pm GMT

I hope it works

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