View DSi photos on your cellphone!

[stardust]

I own an AT&T MotoRAZR V3xx cellphone. Since I didn't have another SD Card handy, I simply pulled the microSD card out of my cellphone and inserted it into an SD adapter that lets me plug it into a standard sized slot. After backing up all of my DSi data and loading some m4a AAC files onto the chip, I am done playing with it, so I remove the memory card and cram the chip back into my cellphone.

Lo and behold, while I am searching through my photo album on my cellphone, I am able to view my DSi photos as well. All of the photo data is stored in "F:\DCIM\101NIN02" (replace "F" with the drive letter for your card reader).

Actually, you can copy them to your computer if you have a card reader, but if you try to put your own photos into the DSi photo sub-directory, even if you manually resize them to 640x480 resolution, the system will tell you that the image cannot be displayed

Edit: Hmmm, apparently, the DSi uses some type of embedded data in the image to verify that it was created on the DSi. Simply opening the properties dialog in Windows XP and clicking "OK" is more than enough to render any image saved on your SD card permanently unreadable in the DSi photo channel. Come on, Nintendo, this is completely unacceptable!!! You'd better use the write-protect tab to be on the safe side before you start probing around on your SD card, especially if you're using WindowsXP/Vista