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The R4 3DS Newsletter


Play TI99 Games On The Nintendo 3DS With DS994a and the R4 3DS card

Great news today for all of TI99/4a owners.  DS994a is a TI99/4a emulator for the Nintendo 3DS, DS Lite and DSi.  You'll need an R4 3DS card or R4 3DS Dual Core card in order to use this (and many other) emulators.  

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There have been several updates one after the other, with better compatibility, increased speeds and more features.  Great work by a developer who clealry has a love for this system.

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Emulator Features:

  • Cart loads up to 512K Banked (+40K of GROM unbanked)
  • 32K RAM Expansion
  • SAMS 512K memory Expansion for the DS and 1MB for the DSi (and above)
  • Save and Load State
  • High score saving for up to 10 scores per game
  • Full mapping of any of the 12 DS keys to any combination of TI Joysticks/Keyboard
  • Disk Support of 90K and 180K using the standard TI Disk Controller (you need 994adisk.bin - see BIOS files below)
  • No Speech Synth yet (but games requiring the Speech Synth will run/play - just no voice)

There have been a few updates since release and the latest update details are below.

You can download the latest Version 0.7 from the github: https://github.com/wavemotion-dave

V0.7: 24-Jan-2023 by wavemotion-dave

  • New TI99 Keyboard Layout - select in Global Options or on a Per-Game basis.
  • Better DSK vs ROM handling - remembers last directory for each.
  • SAMS 1MB enabled for DSi and above.
  • Fixed save/load state for Mini-Men, SuperCart and MBX Carts (only SAMS save/load is non-functional right now).
  • Other cleanups as time permitted.

V0.6: 21-Jan-2023 by wavemotion-dave

  • Re-write of the CPU core. It's 20% smaller and 20% faster.
  • Added ability to list disk contents so you can see what programs are on it.
  • Added write-backing of .DSK files. When they chagne the file is written out in the background.
  • Added SAMS 512K expanded memory support - must be enabled in OPTIONS on a per-game basis.
  • Added new cartridge types to support SuperCart 8K, MiniMemory 4K and Milton Bradley MBX carts (with and without special 1K RAM).
  • New splash screen... new logo icon... a fresh start!

Previous updates below:

V0.3: 7-Jan-2023 by wavemotion-dave

  • Improved speed 8% across the board
  • Fixed spirte cut-off at top of screen
  • Fixed X in control mapping so that it toggles P1 vs P2
  • Added PAL (along with default NTSC) support
  • New splash screen and logo
  • Other minor cleanups as time permitted

V0.2: 6-Jan-2023 by wavemotion-dave

  • Increased bankswitch support to 512k
  • Fixed IDLE instruction so games like Slymoids works
  • Improved speed by 10-15% across the board...
  • Other minor cleanups as time permitted