Jamie's 3DS Guide

A small static site documenting a modded Nintendo 3DS, made by Kev for Jamie: installing apps, custom themes, online play, and playing DS, GBA, SNES, Neo Geo, Game Boy, NES and Genesis games. Written for someone with no prior homebrew knowledge. Dark mode only.

Structure

A homepage that acts as a searchable launcher, plus one page per topic.

Page	Covers
index.html	Search + topic cards + quick answers
apps.html	.cia vs .3dsx, FBI, Universal Updater
games.html	Virtual Console injections (NSUI) per system, with emulator fallbacks: DS, GBA, SNES, Neo Geo, GB, NES, Genesis
menus.html	Rosalina, Luma config, payload menu
themes.html	Anemone3DS, Theme Plaza
files.html	FTP from Android, SD card transfers
hshop.html	hShop and the 3hs client
cartridges.html	Dumping 3DS carts to CIA (GodMode9), DS carts to ROM (GodMode9i), Home Menu icons via NDSForwarder
online.html	Pretendo (Nimbus), NetPass
safety.html	NAND backup, Checkpoint, care rules
links.html	Guides, app pages, communities

Search filters the topic cards on card text plus each card's data-keywords, so typing a console or game name ("gba", "pokemon", "neo geo") finds the right page without knowing what it's called. / focuses the search box.

Hosting on GitHub Pages

No build step. Plain HTML, CSS and one JS file.

1. Settings → Pages
2. Source: Deploy from a branch
3. Branch: main, folder / (root)
4. Save. The site appears at https://<user>.github.io/3ds-guide/

Screenshots

Slots render as labelled placeholders until the image exists, so the site is usable as-is and improves as images land in img/.

Already filled:

File	Shows	Source
universal-updater.png	Universal Updater download list	Universal-DB (GPL-3.0)
anemone.png	Anemone3DS browsing Theme Plaza	Universal-DB (GPL-3.0)
ftpd.png	ftpd showing its IP and port	Universal-DB (GPL-3.0)
snes9x.png	Snes9x in-game with cheats menu	Universal-DB (GPL-3.0)
nimbus.png	Nimbus switching to Pretendo	Universal-DB (GPL-3.0)
fbi-install.png	FBI installing a CIA	GameBrew (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3hs.png	Browsing hShop in 3hs	hShop showcase (3hs is GPL-3.0)
rosalina.png	Rosalina menu open mid-game	Luma3DS README (GPL-3.0)
nsui.png	NSUI building a CIA from a ROM	GameBrew (CC BY-SA 4.0)
twilight.png	TWiLight Menu++ game list	RetroGameBoards forum post
open-agb-firm.png	open_agb_firm game selection	meltymods
godmode9-cia.png	GodMode9 building a CIA from a cartridge dump	cfwaifu
ndsforwarder.png	NDSForwarder generating a Home Menu icon	renge-record-book.com

All slots are filled. If you ever need to replace one with your own capture, press L+Down+Select for Rosalina, choose Take screenshot. Images land in /luma/screenshots/ on the SD card. Rosalina writes one file per screen. The site's CSS expects the stacked 400×480 format used by the Universal-DB images, so combine top and bottom, or just use whichever screen is clearer. No resizing needed.

Attribution

Screenshots are credited in the page footers; most are from Universal-DB (GPL-3.0). See the Screenshots table above for the source of each individual image.

Console this documents

Old 3DS · firmware 11.6.0-39U · Luma3DS v13.4 · boot9strap 1.4, set up following 3ds.hacks.guide.

Adding a topic

1. Copy any topic page as a starting point (they share style.css / app.js)
2. Add a .topic card to index.html with a data-keywords list covering what someone might actually type to find it