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How to View Regular Text With Moonshell

The Nintendo DS has always featured a strong community of amateur developers who produce "homebrew" applications. Moonshell is an application for the Nintendo DS that displays pictures, videos and text that are located on the Secure Digital card. The GNU license covers the usage and modification of Moonshell. Moonshell is included as the default media play on many commercial flash cartridges, and is available for free online.

Things You'll Need

Nintendo DS
Commercial flash cartridge such as M3, R4, etc.
Flash memory card

Instructions

- 1
  Plug your flash memory in to your computer and open it up in Windows Explorer.
- 2
  Copy the desired text file to the root of the flash drive. If your flash drive has drive letter "E:" then the path to the file should be "E:\yourfile.txt."
- 3
  Unplug the flash drive after the copy and insert it in to your flash cart. Turn on the Nintendo DS and let it boot in to Moonshell.
- 4
  Use the directional pad to navigate to the files on your card and select the text file with the "A" button. Use the Up and Down buttons to scroll by line, and the Left and Right buttons to scroll by page. To open the bookmark menu, use either the "X" or "Y" buttons.

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