This wikiHow teaches you how to play a downloaded version of a game on a classic Nintendo DS. In order to play downloaded games on your DS, you will need an R4 SDHC card, a microSD card, and a computer on which you can download the game files. Nintendo 2DS and New Nintendo 2DS XL systems play Nintendo 3DS games in 2D only. Some games are only playable on New Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS XL and New Nintendo 2DS XL systems, and are not compatible with other systems in the Nintendo 3DS family.
It’s been years since the original 3DS launched. There’s an updated version with better 3D , improved controls, and of course, a wealth of excellent games to play. There’s also a 2DS XL that can do everything its 3D brother can do, aside from 3D.
Below, find our 12 favorite games for the 3DS and 2DS. All of these games will play on the original 3DS, the 2DS, and the New 3DS.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you’ll decorate and expand a house, fish and catch bugs, and assume a number of mayoral duties—all while you make a bunch of new, quirky friends. Who knew that a sleepy town of anthropomorphic animals could be so fulfilling?
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A Good Match For: Self-directed gamers with a strong, child-like sense of wonder and a penchant for creativity. You’re given a house and a whole town to play with, along with charming villagers. What will you do with it all, how will your personality shine?
Not a Good Match For: Those who want something fast-paced. This isn’t a game you’ll want to run in, and most of the exciting things tend to happen “tomorrow.” Anything worthwhile requires patience in this game.
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Fire Emblem: Awakening revolves around two things: Complex tactical combat and sweet, sweet romance. It’s a turn-based tactical role-playing game like Final Fantasy Tactics or Devil Survivor, but with a twist: As your combatants fight alongside one another, they can fall in love. If you keep them paired up, they’ll boost one another’s stats, and they can even get married and have kids together. Without all the love and marriage, Fire Emblem: Awakening would be an immaculately designed, rewarding, and difficult strategy game. With all the love and marriage, it becomes one of the best strategy games on any system, and certainly one of the best games on the 3DS.
A Good Match For: Strategy fans, people who like games where loss carries real consequences, romantics, micromanagers, matchmakers.
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Not a Good Match For: Those who want-paced action, uncomplicated rules, unchallenging games, or main characters who have feet.
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The latest Phoenix Wright game is the best one yet, and that’s saying something, given the generally high quality of Capcom’s long-running series of comical lawyer-simulators. One part detective game and one part visual novel, Dual Destinies tells the tale of defense attorney Phoenix Wright and his can-do subordinates Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes as they embark upon zany adventures in the name of justice. The new game is a great entry point for the series, as knowledge of past games isn’t required, though there are still plenty of fun callbacks for longtime fans. Phoenix’s world may be trapped in a dark age of the law, but Dual Destinies is a 3DS bright spot.
A Good Match For: Wannabe detectives, anime fans, people who like jokes, hawk-enthusiasts.
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Not a Good Match For: Those who want a lot of action--Phoenix Wright games involve a lot of reading, and the new one is no different.
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Purchase From: Available digitally from the Nintendo eShop.
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There hasn’t been an action role-playing game quite like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds in more than 20 years. What began as a remake of the Super Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is now one of the most delightfully charming adventures available on any game platform. The perfect melding of the old and new into something better than the sum of its parts.
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A Good Match For: Old-school role-playing fans looking to recapture the magic of the 2D era without sacrificing fidelity — and just about everyone else.
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Not a Good Match For: Sub-humans. People allergic to joy.
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Sequels don’t all have to be bad. Take Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. It’s a follow-up to sequel to the 2001 GameCube game that will make players chuckle, as Mario’s skinnier brother suck sucks up ghosts using a souped-up vacuum. More than that, though, it’s a new installment that successfully adds multiplayer and new mechanics—love that Dark Light!—in ways that don’t ruin an already-fun experience.
A Good Match For: Sidekick lovers. Sure, he’s a big ol’ fraidy-cat in this game but Luigi gets to amble through an exceedingly clever set of designs in Dark Moon. Whether it’s things like pulling away curtains to reveal coins and secret passages or stunning a handful of ghosts to suck them up all at once, Luigi feels resourceful in a way that’s not possible when he’s playing second fiddle to Mario.
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Not a Good Match For: Those who want to leave previously explored environments behind. This Luigi’s Mansion makes you backtrack and revisit various levels a lot, without offering up compelling reasons for doing so.
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At long last, a (sort of) new Metroid game! Metroid: Samus Returns is a remake of the 1991 Game Boy game Metroid II: Return of Samus, and it’s a worthy remake at that. It’s still got that lonely feeling of exploration, those dense and secret-filled alien caves, and that killer soundtrack. The game sticks to the unusual concept of the Game Boy game, too, but with some new tricks that encourage a more active playsyle and make it harder to get stuck. Samus Returns is a good Metroid game, and a great way to revisit a pivotal story moment for the series.
A Good Match For: People who like exploring and discovering secrets, people who hate Metroids.
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Not A Good Match For: People who hate backtracking, people who love Metroids and would never want to see one harmed.
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The Mario Kart formula wasn’t broken so you can’t say that Nintendo needed to fix it. What they did need to do, though, for the franchise’s 3DS debut was find a way to add new elements that would tap into the device’s key features. Hence, the addition of glider wings, aerial sections, submersible karts and underwater detours. You can steer using the gyroscope while airborne and the will get the benefit of a nice 3D pop when you’re soaring or submerged. Just goes to show that your wheels don’t have to be in the ground for a Mario Kart to still be great.
A Good Match for: Bumper car addicts. The wild unpredictability of Mario Kart races are what make them so fun. Just like the theme park staple, there’s only a loose connection to these vehicles and actual real-world automobiles. Until Toyota includes a forcefield as a standard option, that is.
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Not a Good Match For: Those who want customization choice. While the ability to swap out bodies and add on details is a new one in MK7, new parts get doled out to you automatically.
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Could the sixth Professor Layton game really be the best one? It’s at least the best one on the 3DS, trumping the already-impressiveProfessor Layton and the Miracle Mask as it caps off the Layton series’ prequel trilogy. (In terms of timeline placement, think Star Wars… this game is the Revenge of the Sith, but just way better).
Professor Layton games present a mix of exploration-based, story-heavy adventuring mixed with lots and lots of brain teasers and other puzzles to solve. In this game, which you can enjoy with no prior knowledge of the others, Layton and friends are trying to unlock the power of an ancient civilization and are doing so in a game that actually plays out as a series of short adventures nestled within one grand globe-spanning episode. The game is more open-world than its predecesors—not quite Grand Theft Layton, but nevertheless set in a rich world full of colorful characters with lots of things to do and more player choice regarding in which order you’ll do them.
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A Good Match For: People who like puzzles and thinking—and who want a game that unlocks new puzzles every day for a year following its release date.
Not a Good Match For: Fans of the earlier Laytons on the Nintendo DS who want a swift-playing 12-hour adventure with minimal chatter. There’s a lot of story in this one and at least double the play time.
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For years, Majora’s Mask was the “cool” Zelda game, the one the hip kids all said was their favorite. Now it’s been re-released on 3DS, and we can all play it and see… oh, hey, the hip kids were totally right, this game is amazing. It’s not much like any other Zelda game, but that’s a good thing. Don’t let the time constraint or the freaky moon stress you out. It’ll all be fine…
A Good Match For: Anyone who didn’t play it the first time around, anyone who did play it the first time around.
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Not A Good Match For: The easily stressed, those who hate having a time constraint, anyone who didn’t like it the first time around.
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BoxBoxBoy knocks its excellent predecessor BoxBoy off this list by doing something very simple: adding another box. It has the same sublime puzzling as its predecessor but with more complex mechanics and some fresh ideas. (Honestly, if you like this game you should also play the first one. Consider this entry a BoxBoy omnibus.) Like the first game BoxBoxBoy starts simply, asks little of you and then, soon enough, has taught you moves that would have seemed like wizardry mere minutes before. It feels a lot like playing Portal, and yeah, we know that’s a bold statement.
A Good Match For: People who like brain-tickling games, people who like solving puzzles, fans of boxes.
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Not A Good Match For: People who hate boxes, people who need their games to be in color.
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Purchase From: Available digitally from the Nintendo eShop.
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For 20 years now, Pokémon games have presented fantasies where people collect, battle, and grow alongside powerful monsters. In the latest tropical-themed iteration, Pokémon invites you to leave your worries behind and grab yourself a lei. Familiar monsters now have cooler Alolan variants, and surprisingly fresh Island Trial challenges have replaced tired, old gyms. But what really sets Sun and Moon apart is the love and care the developers have put into depicting what it’s like to actually own a Pokémon. In Sun and Moon, what’ old is new again. The new Ultra Sun and Moon expands on and enhances the original game significantly, with new moves, better customization, more quests, and more Pokémon.
A Good Match For: People who love pets, collecting, and charming stories.
Not a Good Match For: Still not really the game for Jason Schreier, aka those looking for a mature, nuanced story.
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Of course, it’s a Super Mario game that validates the decision to base Nintendo’s newest hardware around glasses-free stereoscopic 3D. Even with the gameplay as familiar as always, the mid-air blocks and moving hazards seem more dreamlike and surreal than ever, floating somewhere between the device and your brain.
A Good Match For: Folks who need a little bit of help. 3D Land riffs on the play-assisting Guide features that Nintendo’s been putting in games for the last year or so with the Super Tanooki Suit, which makes you nigh-invulnerable
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Not a Good Match For: Those who want the rug to stay right where it is. If Super Mario 3D Land’s rug is warm nostalgia, then it gets ripped out from you once you finish it the first time. A whole new level of challenge opens up for subsequent playthroughs and there’s nothing warm about it.
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How has this list changed? Read back through our update history:
Update 8/27/18: No changes.
Update 12/01/2017: We’ve added Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon in the place of the original Sun and Moon.
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Update 10/04/2017: We’ve added Metroid: Samus Returns in place of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
Update 2/14/2017:Pokémon Sun and Moon makes an overdue debut on this list, bumping off its predecessor Pokémon X & Y.
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Update 10/6/2016: BoxBoxBoy replaces Boxboy. It will likely stay on the list until it is usurped next year by BoxBoxBoxBoy.
Update 8/12/2015: List mainstay Pushmo has been edged out by the upstart BoxBoy.
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Update 3/2/2015:Mario & Luigi Dream Team and Bravely Default step aside to make room for The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate.
Update 11/26/2014: The big fall update is.. there is no update. All 12 games on this list have held strong in the face of some worthy challengers. Good show, games.
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Update 4/02/2014 : We’ve made a Layton swap, subbing Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy for last year’s Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.
Update 2/21/14 : We’ve retired Project X Zone to make room for the fantastic JRPG Bravely Default.
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Update 12/11/13 : We’ve launched a newly redesigned Bests and have taken the opportunity to swap out some old games with some new ones. Resident Evil Revelations, Kid Icarus Uprising and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have made way for new additions Pokémon X & Y, Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.
Update 08/28/13: Today saw the announcement of an all-new Nintendo handheld called the 2DS, which will play all the games in the 3DS catalog without the 3D. In honor of this news, we’ve given the Bests list for the 3DS an once-over. And what do you know, it sure seems like it’s time for one Mario game to take the place of another. Out you go, New Super Mario Bros 2. And hello to Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.
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Update 07/05/13: Nintendo’s handheld continues to build an impressive library of titles. Two of the latest releases are so good we think they deserve a spot on this Bests list. Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Project X Zone jump onto the list, knocking off Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars and Ketzal’s Corridors.
Update 04/18/13: Why should Mario get all the fun? Somebody at Nintendo decided that he shouldn’t, because there’s a ton of enjoyment to be had in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, which joins the 3DS Bests list. So, say a fond farewell to Cave Story 3D and shake hands with Nintendo’s other adventuring plumber.
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Update 02/26/13: The call has sounded! And it says “Fire Emblem is pretty great!” Who are we to ignore the call? Of course, one game has to get the boot to make way for Intelligent Systems’ fine RPG. So, wave goodbye to Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition and say hello to an addictive new handheld experience.
Update 11/14/12: We’ve added the newest Professor Layton to our Bests list for Nintendo’s stereoscopic portable. Whether you’ve sporting the original 3DS or the newer, super-sized version, these games will make the most of the handheld.
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Note: While some games on this list are download-only, most if not all of them can be purchased through the 3DS’ online store. If you buy any of these games through the retail links in this post, our parent company may get a small share of the sale through the retailers’ affiliates program.
The Nintendo DSi was engineered to take the Nintendo DS gaming experience beyond plug and play. If you have a Wi-Fi connection, you can use your Nintendo DSi (or DSi XL) to go online and buy 'DSiWare'--smaller, inexpensive games that can be downloaded to your system. Visiting the Nintendo DSi Shop is easy, and downloading games is a snap. Here's a step-by-step guide to accessing, browsing, and purchasing titles on the Nintendo DSi Shop.
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- On the bottom menu, select the 'Nintendo DSi Shop' icon.
- Wait for the DSi Shop to connect. Make sure your Wi-Fi is on. Learn how to enable Wi-Fi on your Nintendo DSi.
- Once you're connected, you can see which apps and games are being showcased on the DSi Shop under 'Recommended Titles.' You can also view notices and updates under the 'Important Info' header. If you'd like a more personalized shopping experience, tap the 'Start Shopping' button on the bottom of the touchscreen.
- From here, you can add Nintendo DSi Points to your account if you'd like. DSi Points are necessary to buy most games and apps on the DSi Store. Learn how to buy Nintendo Points for the Nintendo DSi Shop. You can also adjust your shopping settings, view your account activity, and look back at your purchase and download history. If you had to delete a game you bought and downloaded in the past, you can re-download it for free here.
- If you'd like to continue shopping for games, press the 'DSiWare Button' on the touchscreen.
- At this point, you can browse games according to price (Free, 200 Nintendo Points, 500 Nintendo Points, or 800+ Nintendo Points). Or, you can tap 'Find Titles' and search for games according to popularity, publisher, genre, the newest additions, or simply by entering the name of the title.
- When you find the game or app you'd like to download, tap on it. Note the number of Points that are necessary to download the game, as well as the game's ESRB rating. You should also make note of how much memory the game download will require (measured in 'blocks'), as well as any additional information the publisher would like you to know about the title.
- When you're ready to download, confirm by tapping the 'Yes' button on the bottom screen. The download will commence; don't turn off your Nintendo DSi.
- When your game is fully downloaded, it'll appear at the end of your DSi's main menu as a gift-wrapped icon. Tap on the icon to 'unwrap' your game, and enjoy!
The Nintendo 3DS's online market is called the 'Nintendo 3DS eShop.' Whereas the Nintendo 3DS can download DSiWare, the Nintendo DSi can't access the eShop or its library of Game Boy or Game Boy Advance games on the Virtual Console. Learn more about the Nintendo 3DS eShop and how it differs from the Nintendo DSi Shop.
What You Need:
- A Nintendo DSi
- A working Wi-Fi connection
- A valid credit card or Nintendo Points Card for purchases.