@“treefroggy”#p106575 There’s an R4 style menu option, but that’s kinda the ugliest of the flashcart menus. Personally I use the DSi theme and organize my folders by genre to keep things navigable. I’m still not 100% a fan though. They used to have a Wood R4/Acekard UI option but it was removed because of data corruption issues. I’m hoping it eventually returns because that was peak flashcart UI in my opinion.
How did you sort by year? Did you use a script to add the years to filenames or something?
@“treefroggy”#p106575 Oh yeah I went full dumb with it. I made a spreadsheet and added columns for region and release date for that specific region. I used Wikipedia and went through alphabetically against my existing ROM folder.
I‘m using the basic skin myself, but I changed the primary user color to the mint from the previous owner’s red. If I get bored enough I might try to poke at the custom icons as well, I didn't realize that was even possible.
@"connrrr"#p106598 I made subfolders within the nds folder per year, then placed the ROMs in the respective folder. I was worried that the top-level /saves directory wouldn't work but found that each of the new yearly folders started creating their own /saves directory. The files within each folder are alphabetically still, since I only have around 35 per year right now.
On the note of organizing your roms, if you‘re like me and dumping whole romsets on the thing, organize them into folders. Twilight Menu doesn’t seem able to display that many files at a time, and will just skip a bunch in the middle.
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@“dracula”#p106630 I changed the primary user color to the mint from the previous owner’s red. I
yeah, I made mine blue to match my DSi matte navy blue model, and there's also an option in twilight to change the color of the opening Nintendo logo to blue, so I did that. very slick.
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@“dracula”#p106630 I made subfolders within the nds folder per year,
I have mine set up so that it's just the year folders on the root. everything else that isn't DS games is in the "other" folder. Since I'm primarily using my DS for DS games, and the folders are kind of slow, I want to minimize the time spent clickin through folders.
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@“dracula”#p106630 the top-level /saves directory wouldn’t work but found that each of the new yearly folders started creating their own /saves directory. The files within each folder are alphabetically still, since I only have around 35 per year right now.
yeah that is one thing I mentioned on twilight menu discord.... having per-folder saves is kind of an oversight, but it works.
I usually don't arrange them by release *month* within the yearly folders. They can just be alphabetical lol. If something released in Q1 1995 vs Q4 1995, that's ok. For the hundreds of ROMs, it would take forever to rename each one with a date code at the front. The only exceptions have been when a console ROM loading software I have doesn't allow for folders, like PSIO or OPL, which is already a smaller, curated list, then I may add datecodes to each game.
My lime DSi‘s system colour is magenta!! It’s a candy-coloured contrast!! 
[img width=270 height=170]https://i.imgur.com/fB8btjt.png[/img]
@“treefroggy”#p106674 I saw the option to change the Nintendo logo but didn’t try it out. I’ll have to play with it and see how I like it.
I didn’t think to just remove the other folders and drop my yearlies into the root. I’m only using this for DS as well, so that makes more sense than keeping the empty folders for every other platform.
I did a side by side of Dawn of Sorrow running on my new DSi and on my New™ 3DS and it was super validating to my expectations of how much better these games look on original hardware. I’ve slowly been adding more original handheld hardware into my collection and loving it.
My DSi came in the mail today! It‘s beautiful. I need to get an extra SD card to actually do anything with it, but I’m enjoying just holding it.
One of the things I didn‘t expect would happen is going to play certain games on the DSi and realizing I preferred the experience of emulating them on my phone. It’s only been the case for a couple of touch only games, specifically Infinite Space and Animal Crossing: Wild World. They feel very natural to play as a mobile game, and single-handed is perfect while standing on a bus or something.
3.5 weeks after ordering a DSi on ebay, it has finally shipped, 1 day before the expected arrival date. Feel's like I might be getting scammed…
One day I will play _Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box_, but today, is not that day.
edit. just kidding got a dhl tracking link :)
I now have my DSi XL in my backpack for day to day game action. Started a new game of Dragon Quest V this morning. This replaces the switch that I've been carrying with me.
@“fivedollardare”#p107590 it‘s probably Sakurai’s mention in his video about Meteos that planted the idea, but playing that one made me wish it had a modern mobile port. I hope that as (if?) foldable phones become more of a thing that we see more developers revisiting DS ideas.
@“dracula”#p108595 I'm just skimming the Meteos Wikipedia page. What an odd legacy. They put out a new release almost every year for a while there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteos
@“hellomrkearns”#p108616 oh wow. And then poof. I wonder why it stopped. It has the potential for more crossovers and that kind of tie-in to make it hit big.
I think the main reason it went away was because all the versions they made without Sakurai kinda sucked.
I got my Nintendo DSi!
It's lime green and looks pretty excellent.
Sadly, the R button is unresponsive so I think I'll take it apart and give it a clean on the weekend. There's either pencil or gunk on some of it which is kind of grossing me out haha. The shoulder buttons not responding seem like a pretty common problem with the DSi, is the XL the same?
I got TWiLightMenu and ULaunch up and running. It's pretty simple to set up, but I don't fully understand all the menus and settings.
This is the guide if anyone is curious: https://dsi.cfw.guide/get-started.html#requirements
So far I've played 3 holes of True Swing Golf. I've made my avatar the man in the cowboy hat and white slacks. I gave him the wild personality, but he isn't that psyched when I get PAR.
I also downloaded Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Arkanoid DS.
I've been playing some Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor since picking this up and it reminded me of two things I love about this era and platform.
First, the subtitles of games following a "D" "S" naming structure.
Second, games that integrated the hardware you are holding with the story and characters.
For those who haven't played Devil Survivor before, the main characters are given "COMPs" that act as their main way of interacting with the world and doing demon stuff, but they are visually just DS units. I've mostly left this game running and my DSi has been a weird portal into another world each time I open it up. It's been far more interactive of an experience because of that integration with the story.
@“dracula”#p108977 is it the physicality of opening the DSi up or that there isn't an OS overlay when woken from sleep, or maybe both??
@“connrrr”#p108980 Probably both. I've generally been so elated playing a console that feels modern but does not suffer from extended load times. Granted my two main experiences these last few weeks have been SMT and Mario Kart, but everything just goes.
I think the lack of an OS overlay is huge too, for similar reasons we talked about in the [PSP Aesthetic Appreciation thread](https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1620-psp-aesthetic-appreciation-thread) before. Having a device that we were meant to carry everywhere with us that doesn't have the baggage of our phones feels so freeing. I've also been occasionally poking at Mario Kart Tour but our phones have everything else attached to them where the DS is just an escape.
