

(up to disk4) and copying them to the SD card root.This state of affairs was established at the beginning of the mass personal computer market with the Commodore PET, TRS-80, and Apple II, and was accepted as something of a fact of life. dsk files by renaming them disk1.dsk, disk2.dsk, etc. And by the way, you should be able to load additional. If you do intend to do that, you’ll probably have to use the computer to copy software over to the disk. I haven’t tried loading any software on it. Shut the DS down, run the “normal” Mini vMac again, open the disk image and repair using that. If you get any “this disk requires minor repairs” error, don’t hit OK, it won’t work. Rename the blank disk’s file to “disk0.dsk”, then copy both it and vMac.ROM to the “vmac” folder on the SD card.ĭone! Now just use your flashcart’s launcher to run MinivMacDS.nds. Then safely shutdown the virtual machine (Special -> Shut down) and proceed to the next step.Ĭopy the files. Run Mini vMac (on your computer), open the System Startup disk and the blank one (you should get prompted to initialize it if not, single-click it and go to Special -> Erase Disk), run the Installer (it’s on the System Startup disk) and follow the instructions. dsk) and vMac.ROM (capitalisation is most likely important, so rename it if necessary).

Then, extract the “normal” Mini vMac to a folder on your computer, along with System 6.0.8 (install Aladdin to extract it you want two files: System Startup and System Additions), one of the blank disks (choose a size from the. First, extract Mini vMac DS (you should put the “vmac” folder on your SD card’s root and extract the 2MB binary to it the ui_gfx folder should also be there). * vMac.ROM (probably illegal to distribute, but grab it from here anyway)Įxtract. * either The Unarchiver (if you’re on a Mac), an older version of StuffIt Expander (5.5 or 7.0 should suffice, see here) or some other software that can extract StuffIt files, if you somehow manage to find it * System 6.0.8 (get it from Apple: disk 1, disk 2) * the “normal” Mini vMac (get it from the official site under Linux, run the Windows version with Wine) You will need the following (skip down for an alternative resource): nds files) and a computer running Windows, Linux or OSX. Obviously, you need a Nintendo DS capable of running homebrew (via a flashcart + SD card the flashcart must support. This guide is a mess, but I’m leaving it here for historical reasons.
