Customization
Customizing Your DS Setup
Part of the appeal of homebrew is making the console feel like your own. Customization spans the software you see every time you boot and the physical look of the handheld itself.
Software Themes
- Many launchers support skins or themes that change fonts, colors, and layout of the game list.
- Custom boot splashes and icons let you replace the default art with your own images.
- Reorganizing games into folders, with box art, turns a plain list into a tidy library.
Box Art and Metadata
Front-end menus can show cover images if you supply them in the expected folder. Adding box art is purely cosmetic but makes browsing a large collection far more pleasant.
Physical Customization
On the hardware side, the DS family is friendly to modification. Replacement shells come in countless colors and finishes, and swapping buttons, the d-pad, and the stylus is straightforward. More ambitious owners fit brighter or higher-quality screens. Each of these has its own page in this wiki, since some are simple cosmetic swaps and others are advanced soldering jobs.
Keep Backups
Before applying a new theme or replacing system files, copy your working setup to a computer. If a customization misbehaves, restoring the backup is far quicker than rebuilding the card from scratch.