TWiLight Menu++

How to Get Box Art

  1. Open TwilightBoxart in a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, or Vivaldi)
    • Firefox and Safari work too, but instead of writing to the SD card directly they give a .zip to extract to sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/boxart yourself
  2. Click Choose SD card folder… and select your SD card
  3. Optional: Change the size, border, etc options to your liking
  4. Click Scan and download
  5. Make sure box art is set to be shown in TWiLight Menu++ Settings
  1. Download the desktop app for your OS from the TwilightBoxart releases page
  2. Extract the .zip and run the app
    • On macOS, first run xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine TwilightBoxart.app in a terminal, as the app is not notarized with Apple
  3. Click Detect SD
    • If it doesn’t find the correct SD card click Browse… and select the right one
  4. Optional: Change the size, border, etc options to your liking
  5. Click Start
  6. Make sure box art is set to be shown in TWiLight Menu++ Settings
  1. Download TwilightBoxart-DSi.nds from the TwilightBoxart releases page
  2. Copy it to your SD card and launch it from TWiLight Menu++
  3. Pick your cover size and border with the D-Pad or the touch screen, then press A to start
    • The console connects to your WiFi network and downloads its box art by itself
  4. Make sure box art is set to be shown in TWiLight Menu++ Settings
  1. Download a png box art pack from GameTDB, under the S Covers (png) category
  2. Extract the .png files to sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/boxart
  3. Make sure box art is set to be shown in TWiLight Menu++ Settings

To add your own box art: Place them in sd:/_nds/TWiLightMenu/boxart.

  • Can either have the game’s TID (ex. ASME.png), or the filename (ex. SM64DS.nds.png)
  • Must be in .png format, with the recommended size of 128x115 and maximum of 208x143
  • If your TWiLight Menu++ configuration has Box Art viewing set to Cached, the image size must be 44 KiB or below. You can use a tool like tinypng to compress the images to an acceptable size

Individual box art can also be downloaded from GameTDB, under the S Covers (png) category.