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Discussion in 'Technical Help' started by Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009.

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  1. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    Hello,
    I have just bought a new Nintendo DS Lite in Singapore and they gave me this website to get games off.
    My NDS is loaded with 50 games on an R4 and i have the USB plugged into my mac and i am dragging and dropping the downloaded ROMS into the driver and then into my NDS but they do not appear on my NDS??

    Could anybody help me with this i am working on a MacBook but i don't believe this should affect the ROMS or am i wrong?

    Look forward to hearing from you.
    Many Thanks!
    Rose
    (Australia)
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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  2. n3m3s!s

    n3m3s!s Active Member

    I'm not trying to be mean, but did read the instructions manual that comes with the nds???
     
    n3m3s!s, May 2, 2009
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    sounds like you haven't extracted the roms.
     
    Loonylion, May 2, 2009
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  4. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    Hey there,
    I did read the manual but nowhere in it did it talk about downloading and adding ROMS???or did it??
    Have i missed something!
    off to get manual now.... ???
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    the manual isn't going to say anything about roms.
     
    Loonylion, May 2, 2009
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  6. n3m3s!s

    n3m3s!s Active Member

    your right... stupid sugestion... :-[
     
    n3m3s!s, May 2, 2009
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  7. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    cool didn't think they did i remember clearly reading them from front to back on the way home.
    By the expression "extracting the ROMS" does this mean they turn into the .rar files because that is what they turn into once i click on them from the download manager?
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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  8. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    The RAR file is an archive. It's used to compress files to make them smaller when you download them. You need to extract them to get the real file back out.

    Here's a tutorial:
    https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php?topic=3880.0
     
    TirithRR, May 2, 2009
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  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, they are stored and downloaded as rar files, (rar is like zip, only better) and you need a program to extract the actual rom from the rar file. You need a program like stuffit expander to extract the files from the rar.
     
    Loonylion, May 2, 2009
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  10. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    I have got these download options which one am i to choose?

    Mac OS X applications
    p7zip 4.65 (7-Zip Archiver)
    Lame 3.98.2 (MP3 Encoder/Decoder)
    ALAC 0.1.3 (Apple Lossless Decoder)
    FLAC 1.2.1 (Lossless Audio Encoder/Decoder)
    WavPack 4.50.1 (Lossless Audio Encoder/Decoder)
    Shorten 3.6.1 (Lossless Audio Encoder/Decoder)
    Camino 2.0 Beta 2 (Web Browser, optimized for Intel Core 2 Duo)
    Portable Camino 2.0 (Portable Web Browser)
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I would say none of them, google 'stuffit expander'
     
    Loonylion, May 2, 2009
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  12. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    Cool will do!
    Cheers!
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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  13. Rosemoverit

    Rosemoverit Member

    ;D ;D ;D
    Awesome!
    Thank you so much everyone for your help!
    Stuffit Expander worked a dream!
    I really do appreciate that you were all willing to help me!
    Cheers!
    Rose

    x
     
    Rosemoverit, May 2, 2009
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