Hey man, I saw your posts on the 8.1j thread. If you have the ability to run gateway on 8.1 you can get ninjhax working pretty easy through emunand by using BBM, Cubic Ninja Rom/Cia and 9.2j(must be new 3ds ver.) in cia form.
Eventhough the New 3DS XL is more powerful, I still feel like the DS Lite was a more polished system. It's a real shame that it never got an XL variant keeping the GBA slot. You'd have to go on AliExpress and buy an ML shell to give a DS phat the unofficial "DS Lite" treatment, and that's the best we'll ever get I'm afraid.
@Jayro, I don't see whats so special about the DS ML, its just a DS lite in a phat shell. At least the phat model had louder speakers, whereas the lite has a much better screen.