Use Archive.org to discover. Play to preserve. And if you love the game, buy an original copy on eBay to support the history of the medium.
The Nintendo DS defined a generation with its clamshell design, resistive touch screen, and microphone-enabled oddities. Ten years from now, when the last working DS Lite’s hinge cracks and the last original battery swells, the only place to play The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass —to actually blow out a candle via microphone, to close the DS to stamp a map—will be a .nds file served from a non-profit’s servers in San Francisco. nintendo ds roms archive.org
A DS ROM on its own is a corpse. The emulator gives it life. The Internet Archive’s DS collection exists in symbiosis with: Use Archive
: If you just want to relive the story without playing, there are thousands of "longplay" videos showing full walkthroughs of games like Pokémon SoulSilver A Note on Legalities and Ethics Archive.org The Nintendo DS defined a generation with its
If you are looking to preserve or play these games, the "No-Intro" sets are the gold standard for ROM preservationists. They are verified dumps without hacks or viruses. You can often find "No-Intro Nintendo DS" packs on Archive.org which contain every officially released game.