Insert the Cooking Coach or Classic Wordgames retail cart by itself and boot it up. If all went well, you should now see two blue screens with the text "dslink ... connecting ...". Congrats.
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Insert the Cooking Coach or Classic Wordgames retail cart by itself and boot it up. If all went well, when the cart tries to load your save you should now see two blue screens with the text ...dslink ... connecting ...''' Congratulations. Now you can start creating dsi-mode hombrew code and send it via WiFi to be run on your DSi.