Installing DS Game Maker

It may be troublesome to find and successfuly install DSGM with the official DS Game Maker webpage nonexistent and with DSGM requiring a specific version of the PAlib library.
Fortunately, this convenient guide provided should give you everything you need to get started on the path to coding homebrew!

  1. Completely uninstall Devkitpro and delete its folder
  2. Download and install devkitpwn and follow instructions included in the README.txt
  3. Download and extract DSGM_5.20_Working.rar to C:\

devkitPwn is a program that will totally pwn devkitPro and installs the correct version of PAlib for the current version of DSGM.
source: gbatemp.net/threads/latest-palib-downlaod.325514/

DSGM_5.20_Working.rar is the pro version of DSGM that doesn't require an internet connection to authorize usage.
source: github.com/jadaradix/dsgamemaker

Credits:

YoshiInaVoid - devkitpwn
James Garner - DSGM
and to colt05-usr for poviding the working dsgm files

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