: It handles the boot-up sequence and hardware checks.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Copyright laws vary by jurisdiction.
Note: The Nintendo DSi BIOS files are different and larger. If you dumped from a DSi, the hash will not match the DS Lite hash—that is normal for DSi-emulation, but standard emulators prefer the original DS BIOS.
Place nds-bios-arm7.bin , nds-bios-arm9.bin , and firmware.bin in your MelonDS executable folder. Open the emulator and go to .