Comments on: e-Reader for Nintendo DS

By: nupanick

nupanick — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:30:50 +0000

I can’t get the custom cards to work, I printed them onto index cards at maximum resolution after shrinking them with firefly’s program. I’m not sure if it’s related, but I compared it to an actual e-reader card and I think it’s a little bit too big at 1200 dpi… does anyone know how to stop getting “read error” every time? Or have a PDF of the cards at the right size?

By: theceng

theceng — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:04:35 +0000

i was just wondering how to connect the e-reader between 2 GBA’s. I tried but i couldn’t figure out how to connect it to the pokemon ruby/sapphire versions in order to scan pokemon from cards onto the e-reader and then transfer it to the pokemon game. If anyone knows how to do this please email at theceng@hotmail.com

By: fat cat

fat cat — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:47:12 +0000

I tried it out and It’s awsome. It’s graphics are a lot better on DS And I don’t know why.

By: Celia Finsel

Celia Finsel — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:20:05 +0000

There’s another simpler hack for this that requires less disassembly of the e-reader. Because the port extender is just a *little* too long to allow the e-reader to fit in the DS, you can take off the back cover to the unit, leave the optical assembly attached but gently flip up its circuit board and remove the two screws holding the port extension. You don’t really need to do anything more. Leave the port assembly in, put the optical card back down, and put the back on again and the port assembly will slide back just enough to let the e-reader work in the DS just fine. Just did it with my son’s unit, works like a charm, took about 2 minutes, tops. No power tools needed, less mucking about with the innards, and all essential parts still in place.

By: swimgod

swimgod — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:45:55 +0000

hey,
i was the first one to think of this hack :P
but i had a better way,
you can remove the port extender with a screw driver, so your E-reader doesn’t get messed up at all :D

anyway glad to see someone else realize this works ;)

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:39:24 +0000

I would take my e-reader apart to put it in my ds, but I still might use it to get those things for mario 3. The link probably won’t work anymore if I did that, so I’m just going to use it in my gba player or gba.

By: uplink12

uplink12 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:15:56 +0000

Amz!!!

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:11:29 +0000

Looking at my first comment, I can see that I did word it a bit confusingly. My bad.

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:09:56 +0000

Oh, I know full well that GBA stuff works on the DS, but I had just plain accepted that I’d never be use an e-Reader on it. Not any more!

In fact, I was playing some king of fighters EX 2 on my DS earlier today (living up to my screen name I guess :)

By: Mr dan

Mr dan — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:36:14 +0000

Is there any way to connect a DS to a GBA(SP) in order to play multiplayer games (GBA ones)?

By: Caitsith2

Caitsith2 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:25:24 +0000

danadamkof: The nintendo ds is completely compatible with gba related things, since the gba archetecture is built into the ds cpu. the only thing not included in the ds cpu is the gbc/dmg cpus. (would have costed more to maintain full backwards compatibility.)

The original japanese ereader, which doesn’t have the link port, is the only one that needs no modification whatsoever to work with the nintendo ds system. The japanese ereader plus is just a port of the us ereader, and as such, has the same link port passthrough, and as a result, needs to be modified for ds use.

In the absolute worst case, where you don’t have any means whatsoever to open your ereader, and you don’t mind not being able to use the link port connection on the original gba (the kind that needed an afterburner kit to have decent lighting), you can just cut/grind the link port connector off altogether, as it is just a passthrough.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:40:21 +0000

that ’7′ near the upper lefthand corner of the picture is really taunting me…

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:00:01 +0000

Interesting, I was pretty sure this was 2006, not 2004.

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:44:31 +0000

Sweet hack!! I always wanted to try this but I only have a DS; e-Readers are really cheap used at GameStop, so I may well try this out.

By: Caitsith2

Caitsith2 — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:45:43 +0000

Don’t forget that there is also homebrew dotcodes available at http://www.caitsith2.com/ereader/index.htm under the save section.