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The Nintendo DS is homebrew heaven. There are dozens of mod chips for the DS. And many, many forums and libraries for homebrew applications. There's several development wiki's and some must have applications.

This is not a tool for piracy. If they want to stop piracy, they need to stop the people who are dumping roms. And you won't find tools to dump roms quite so easily. Attacking the companies that make legitimate devices lazy and anti-customer.

You are using some out-dated hardware. I suggest you take a look at the M3 Simply. It is Slot-1. Takes MicroSD, comes with a MicroSD USB adapter for loading games to the MicroSD, and has built in pass-key with no slot2 requirements whatsoever. I have a 1GB card and it has played every DS game I have tried. http://www.modchipstore.com/M3-DS-Simply-Slot-1-so lution-homebrew-backups-microsd-16418.html http://www.modchipman.com/m3-simply-ds-slot-p-1546 .html

"Play all your backups plus store 100+ games directly on your Xbox"

There's a place selling modified Xbox's for about $450 that does all of this stuff that I've been considering.

For the most part, a modified Xbox would be my "dream TV box". Sit it in the living room (it's about the same size as the DVD/VCR combo machine - thicker, but not as long), and I could have an archive of my legally purchased DVD's. As a guy with 2 kids who are always trying to ruin the DVD's with their grimy little fingers, this would be a great machine for my household.

"Here, kids - want to watch 'Blue's Clues on a Deserted Island and Joe Dies Horribly' again? OK - let me just use the remote on the Xbox." Boom - there goes my XVID ripped DVD movie on. Originals are kept safe, kids are happy.

I'm kind of dissapointed we haven't seen a company come up with a solution like this. A Cappachino sized device with the same capabilities, running Linux so I could FTP/SSH into it for upgrades/other mods would sell like hotcakes. (And as an avid fan of hotcakes, I know what I'm talking about.)

Price of a Windows XP copy:
here
Price of a PLaystation 2:
here
as you can see is not that much more expensive, so you can devote your Linux Box for Linux games and completely rule out the other OS. Also you have to purchase Wine, windows upgrades, etc.
Porting games to Linux is much more appealing since full advantage of hardware can be taken. It has to be appealing in economic terms.

Here you go

USB ModChip

This modchip claims to circumvent the DVD region code.