This week we have the pleasure of talking to Jenn Cutter from OpenAlpha.tv on the Nintendo DSiXL. Specifically we're interested in running homebrew on the new handheld. Jenn shares with us a few notes:

OLD STYLE CARTS:
If you didn't flash your system, you had to use http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/superkey_jj.htm as a slot one passkey so that you could read roms from a slot two GBA cart like http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/sd_jj.htm. You also had to run a program (http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/sd_ss.htm) to prep things on the card before you could use them in your system. These eventually got replaced by homebrew solutions that only required slot one cards (a DS cart with either onboard space or a slot for microSD) but often still required a PC-based program to use properly.

Now there's a slot one all-in-one solution, just drag and drop: http://www.acekard.com/ (However it MUST be the 2i for the DSi XL)

Akaio (Open Source Loader to use on it) http://www.normmatt.com/forum/ -- can use http://akaio.gbatemp.net/ since it will redirect there anyway.

http://akaio.gbatemp.net/nloaders/ - to get the update to run on the DSi XL, MUST BE RUN ON A Lite or regular DS FIRST

http://www.acekard.com/skin.php - yay pretty skins.

Homebrew discussed include Shooting Watch and ScummVM DS.

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