#dsi

[kissme-again]

Wikipedia on a DSlite

[nullkunst]

POV it's 2009 and you're playing peak

[melonramune]

2025-08-22

[dreamy-yyy]

Priest Copia playing on the DSi 🌻 I just wonder what he's playing

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[cabysoft]

[that-ipod-robotgirl]

my Nintendo DS Video Conversion process!

Hi! so I wanted to organize my thoughts a little bit about something that I like doing!

So, I have a silly little hobby of finding youtube videos that I enjoy and downloading them Off Of Youtube (i use Parabolic, a free and open-source program) before then converting them to a strange and unusual format to be played solely on the Nintendo DS family of systems.

This weird format is known as .dpg, a special rework of MPEG-1 video and MP2 audio smushed together in an unholy manner created for the Nintendo DS by homebrewers, and you need a specific program to convert anything to it properly (DPG4X) which is entirely free to download.

Before doing THAT, however, I need to shrink down the resolution of the video itself. Most videos are MUCH larger than the DS's resolution of(and i kid you not) 256x192 (very tiny!!!!!!). They are also not usually in the 4:3 aspect ration typically reserved for VHS tapes and other standard definition content. This requires a bit of stretching and resizing done in another free and open-source program, Kdenlive!

After they’ve been successfully shrunken down and rendered barely comprehensible, THEN dpg4x can do its work(btw, both of these processes take an obscenely long time. Which may be because my computer is an Optiplex from 2011.) Finally, we are left with a often tiny (usually not.) file with a .dpg suffix.

These files range in size depending on the length of the source video; the highlighted video above is just about 1 gigabyte in size and is approximately 2 hours long.

How they are actually played is through a flash-cartridge, (mine is a generic R4, because it was cheap because it was very easy to get working) and then through a much-loved, very awesome piece of software known as Moonshell. This program is something like a psuedo-operating system replacement for the DS, which allows for reading TXT and EPUB files(badly), a voice recorder, image viewer, and even an MP3 player! Plus the UI is gorgeous!

and presto~! My total collection of youtube videos is something like... ~170 individual files if not more, with a combined file size of a little bit over 30 gigabytes!

[kittyushankas]

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