How to Get Box Art


  1. Download version 0.6 of TWiLightBoxart
  2. Extract TwilightBoxart-Windows-UX.zip and run TwilightBoxart.exe
  3. Click Detect SD
    • If it doesn’t find the correct SD card click Browse... and select the right one
  4. 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 version 0.6 of TWiLightBoxart
  2. Extract the .zip
  3. Open TwilightBoxart.ini in the extracted folder in a text editor
  4. Type the path to your SD card after SdRoot=, then save the file
    • On macOS this is /Volumes/ then the name of your SD card
  5. Open the terminal
  6. In the terminal, type cd  then drag drop the folder with TwilightBoxart.CLI in it onto your terminal
  7. Run chmod +x TwilightBoxart.CLI
  8. Run ./TwilightBoxart.CLI
  9. Say Yes if it shows your SD path correctly
  10. 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.