Nintendo DSi

Linker

• My current linker is a DSTTi
  • Bought here
  • Firmware TTi 1.4 Upgrade (9 Septembre 2009)
  • TTMenu OS v1.17a12 (Français) (21 décembre 2009)
  • Skin: Red Samba
• Menu: Using YSMenu
  • Followed Instruction in YSMenu0903211700.zip
  • Set menu character to FRA.

Games

The Legends of Zelda - Spirit Tracks

• Save game on the original cartridge are 1MB in size, not 512kB (as obtained by Rudolph's WIFI backup tool, or savreceiver's tool)
• These savegames are not recognised by the default DSTTi TTMenu.
• To still be able to play with these backup, use YSMenu!
• According to here, the best linker for this game seems to be AceKard2i (AKAIO 1.5 and latest loader)

Backing up SAV

Two tools are available for making back-ups of savegame from original cartridges:

• Using SavSender / SavReceiver
• Using NDS Backup Tool - WiFi and a FTP Server

These tools only works on a DS Lite. They do not work on the DSi. Both tools require first to setup the WiFi connection on the DS Lite.

Setting WiFi on DS Lite

To setup WiFi on the DS Lite, you need to configure the WiFi Router, and then configure WiFi in a game that requires WiFi connection (eg. Mario Kart).

• Configure the WiFi Router
  • Enable channel B.
  • Broadcast the SSID
  • Disable security on the WiFi network (no WEP, no WPA, etc).
• Configure the Nintendo DS Lite
  • Start a game that requires WiFI (eg. Mario Kart)
  • Go in WiFi settings, and choose/configure accordingly.

Using SavSender / SavReceiver

This requires to run SavSender on the DS Lite and SavReceiver on the PC.

Configure SavSender:

• SavSender needs to be installed on the Linker in the following folder structure:

/DATA
/DATA/savsender-1.1b.nds
/DATA/Settings/savsender.conf

! IMPORTANT: follow this structure exactly. Same letter case, same extension, same everything !

• Content of file savsender.conf:

 www.xxx.yyy.zzz<CR>
 5000

www.xxx.yyy.zzz is the IP address of the receiving PC.

! IMPORTANT: Only one Carriage Return (explicitly indicated above by <CR>). So no Carriage Return after the second line. Use port 5000 (tried port 12345 but with a 2nd CR, and got Connected to AP and then error Error opening config file).

Configure SavReceiver

• Enter IP address (of current PC!) and listening port

Finally start SavReceiver, follows the tutorial and you'll get the .sav files on the PC (note that you might need to disable the Windows Firewall on the PC). These files must be copied back on the Linker but with a filename that match exactly the name of the corresponding ROM. So if for instance the ROM is called Super Mario Bros (EU).nds, then the .sav file must be renamed to Super Mario Bros (EU).sav.

NDS Backup Tool - WiFi

Also known as Rudolph's tool.

The procedure is explained in details here

Here my configuration files:

• file ftpd.ini (on the FTP Server, in same folder as smallftpd)
• file NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.ini (on the DS, in same folder as NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.nds)

If needed, change the server IP address and port number.

./ftpd.ini ([{{#filelink: ftpd.ini}} download])

{{#fileanchor: ftpd.ini}}

[application]
left=242
top=244
[server]
port=8080
max_connections=10
auto_run=0
[passive_mode]
pasv_min_port=5000
pasv_max_port=5010
use_pasv_url=1
pasv_url=account.dyndns.org
[user_0]
user_Login=test
user_Password=test
user_Simultaneous_Connections=3
user_Inactivity_Timeout=120
permission_Path_0=/
permission_Type_0=LRW
directory_Virtual_0=/
directory_Physical_0=C:\TEMP\SAV

./NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.ini ([{{#filelink: NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.ini}} download])

{{#fileanchor: NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.ini}}

#
# NDS_Backup_Tool_Wifi.ini
#

ServerIP	172.19.3.4		! FTPd IP address
ServerPort	8080			! FTPd Service Port
#FileDir	/NDS_Backup		! Home Directory

FTPUser		test		! FTPd Logon User name
FTPPassword	test	! FTPd Logon password

SaveFile	0			! Saving size : 0:auto, nnn:Save File Size(KB)

#Trim					! Rom Triming Backup

Note that the file are not rounded to 512kB when saved, but the linker will normally pad it as necessary. If not you'll need to pad the file yourself manually.