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3DS:DS games/Widescreen

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Revision as of 06:15, 8 August 2025 by Aspect X (talk | contribs) (added troubleshooting)

This guide will allow you to run your digital DS games in widescreen.

Info icon Only some games are supported. A list of supported games can be found here.

Instructions

Section I - Installing TWPatch

What You Need

Instructions

  1. Open the Universal-Updater application (the blue down arrow icon)
  2. Use the D-Pad to navigate between applications and the A button to select an application
  3. Use the Search to look for and select TWPatch
  4. Under Available Downloads, select either TWPatch.cia or TWPatch.3dsx, then press A again to install it
    • CIA files will appear on your HOME Menu in a gift box after you exit Universal-Updater
    • 3DSX files will become available in the Homebrew Launcher application

What You Need

  • The latest release of TWPatch (the .cia file)

Instructions

  1. Insert your SD card into your computer
  2. Copy TWPatch.cia to the cias folder on your SD card
    • Create the folder if it does not exist; it is for organization purposes
  3. Insert your SD card into your console
  4. Power on your console
  5. Launch FBI
  6. Navigate to SD -> cias
  7. Press A while TWPatch.cia is selected, then select Install and delete CIA(s)
  8. Wait for the process to complete
  9. Exit FBI

What You Need

  • The latest release of TWPatch (the .3dsx file)

Instructions

  1. Insert your SD card into your computer
  2. Copy TWPatch.3dsx to the 3ds folder on your SD card
  3. Insert your SD card into your console
  4. Power on your console

Section II - Installing the Patch

  1. Launch TWPatch
  2. Press Y + B to open the patching menu
  3. Navigate to Widescreen patch (384x240 16:10), then press A to select it
    • Optionally, you may want to enable GPU scaling (blurry, no filters) for a less pixelated widescreen.
  4. Press B, then press START to begin creating the patch
  5. When finished, press SELECT to close TWPatch
  6. Power off your console
  7. Insert your SD card into your computer
  8. Move TwlBg.cxi from sd:/luma/sysmodules/ to sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/TwlBg/
    • If the TwlBg folder doesn't exist, create it.
  9. Rename TwlBg.cxi to Widescreen.cxi
  10. Eject your SD card and insert it into your console
  11. Power on your console while holding SELECT to boot into the Luma

Section III - Enabling Widescreen

  1. Launch TwiLight Menu++
  2. Navigate to your game of choice
  3. Press Y to bring up per-game settings
  4. Navigate to "Screen Aspect Ratio:" and set it to "16:10"
  5. Press B, then launch your game

  1. Launch your forwarded game of choice while holding Y to bring up the ntr-forwarder menu
  2. Navigate to "Widescreen" and toggle it to "On" with A
  3. Press START to save

Troubleshooting

All of TWL_FIRM (DS mode) is in Widescreen

Delete TwlBg.cxi in sd:/luma/sysmodules/