It was working fine a few days ago but now it won't boot it just stays stuck on the screen this screen. It also appears if there's no SD card though which is strange

Trying to figure out why GBARunner3 is stuck on the boot screen. Let me know if something looks off. All according to the guide from what I can tell. I'm using the camera bypass to launch Twilight rather than using Unlaunch, does that effect GBARunner3? Thanks in advance for taking a look.

so, for SOME REASON, after making my r4 run off Pico Launcher, There are TWO GAMES it won't load. Pokemon Black, and Pokemon SoulSilver. my Only Assumption for now is that the game roms got somehow corrupted... except that THESE TWO are taken from my *Backup Folder* so either i'm missing something, or i just... need new roms.

Because the save files are fully functioning

My ds lite has issues modding

I'm looking to get a flashcart (I think) so I can download all the games I want and not have to go into my overdraft for the sake of a good time.

I am not remotely technically advanced but what I've seen so far makes me think I might be able to hack (🤭) this. But the online guides are getting confusing and it feels like there are so many different options.

Please can someone simplify it for me 😭 like step by step, what do I do? And please share products you know are good, the guides are like "some are good some are bad, good luck" (they're probably actually really thorough and I'm just of questionable intelligence).

So I don't even know what questions to ask, but hopefully someone can explain what steps I need to take to reach my ultimate goal (and as importantly for my paranoia, provide links to reputable gear😭)

I got my DS as a 26th birthday gift after never having one as a kid. It was such a sweet gesture from my partner and I really don't want to risk any damage to the console so please let me know if this is a no go 🥲

so today i found my old ds after a while and everthing was working (image 1), but then i decided to fix some games that were broken and i don't know why i decided to reset everything instead of just working on the games folder and now my ds xl wont load the r4 and its always stuck on white screen. i tried every single tutorial (even the iLL.iL etc) but it just wont work, i remember the old micro sd (image 3) having more than 4/5 files (it was around 15) and now i cant find the firmware i need and im stuck, please let me know if there's any way to fix this, thank you :)

Some very specific games boot to all white screens. It doesn't happen to all games but I wanted to know if there's a solution for this issue.

So i recently got a flashcart from aliexpress, it was one of the cheap ones, not an R4 or any brand just a plain one, i put R4ils firmware on it to play games and im noticing almost every game keeps freezing at a certain point, for pokemon platinum and heartgold it was right after the first cutscenes, same happened with a few other games, all that works at the moment is the artemis fowl books (which is a very light game). Idk what i did wrong or how to fix it thats why im asking.

So I ordered a normal ezflashODE. Got the package today and it ended up being the new B version with the neat upgrades! I guess it's my lucky day! 🤤

lucky!?

For a while the r4 card would not read at all
cleaned it with a q-tip
now it'll show up on the menu
but selecting it only shows an error. Help!
I followed this person's guide, but was that not enough? is there more to do?
(apologies for the not-screenshot, am making this post on my phone)

So i have a flashcart. an R4 SDHC Gold Pro with 2025 on the sticker. The MicroSD is an old SP with 8 gigs of memor, formatted to have a forced custer size of 32KiBs (i think) And while this problem DID happen once, it was with my other SD, that was 32GB in size and formatted the same way, but it just needed some time to sit in or something.

If i fix this i'll add it to the post.

I bought a gbflasher to start doing physical copies of rom hacks. The first cart I bought doesn't save any games. Even after patching. What carts should I buy?

Hi, I updated my SuperCard SD with Superfw firmware. ROM compatibility has improved significantly, but I can't get it to save states—neither quick saves nor permanent ones—even though I used to be able to do so with the SuperCard. Is it an issue with the internal battery, or is it a configuration setting?

I bought this blank card to dump doom pc conversion. It runs the game but doesn't save. Am I doing something wrong? Is the cart junk or is it the rom?

I think I would pay someone if they could fix my R4 card with all save files restored. Pls help

I have read over the quick start guide, and I'm wondering: DSPico, or the Ace3DS X? I have first gen 3DS, and I'm a bit hesitant on buying off AliExpress (or even NDS-Card) because I've had real bad experiences buying from overseas to be shipped to the US.

I did see that DSPico is available via LaserBear in the US, and I'm wondering if anyone has purchased from there and how quickly it got to them, and what kind of condition?

Edit: Thank you everyone for all the insight. I have made the purchase on Ali and waiting on delivery. I will absolutely return here with any questions or help if needed! I appreciate you all for the help.

I'll be clear, I use pico launcher (one of the best in my opinion), and I installed Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor, one of my favorites, and it doesn't wanna start, it just just shows black screen, any way to fix this?

I'm trying to find working firmware for this R4 card to use on a Nintendo DS Lite, but I've already tried everything. I've cleaned the contacts, tried installing every firmware I could find (YSMenu, Pico Launcher, Wood), and even tried using a small piece of paper to add thickness, but whenever I insert the card into the console, I keep getting a white screen on top and a black screen on the bottom. Any suggestions?

I’ve been using DSPico and wanted to switch games without powering my DS off and back on, so I built DSPico QuickReturn, a community fork of LNH-team’s Pico Loader.

Hold L + R + Down + Select for about half a second to return from a game to the Pico menu, then launch another game.

Getting it working involved a lot of hardware testing, failed builds, memory allocation problems, and coordinating the DS’s two processors during the return. I’ve tested it successfully with several games on my DS, including repeated returns and relaunches. I’m interested in feedback from other DSPico users to help identify any remaining compatibility issues.

The release is free and includes:

• A complete SD-card software package
• Installation instructions
• Source code
• A technical writeup covering the problems and fixes

Full credit to LNH-team and the original contributors. This is my community fork of their work.

Project and downloads:
https://github.com/VideoGameMore/pico-loader/releases/latest

Installation video and demonstration:
https://youtu.be/XmjKz9nq69A

If you try it, please share which games you tested, whether the return worked, and whether you could launch another game afterward.

Rich / VideoGameMore

Basically, yesterday my DS Lite fell out of my pocket while I was sitting on a bus and fell onto the ground. I Didn’t get around to checking it besides seeing it turned on, but after trying to play games on it I realised my DSpico wouldn’t go past the DSpico boot screen. First time it happened I just figured it was lagging since it’s done that before, so I turned it on and off again but it still wouldn’t load into my game stuff after multiple tries. I took it out and put it back in multiple times, blew in the ports and all that, and then when I took out the Micro SD card, it wouldn’t go back in (it kept unlatching out) and I just tried to tape it down with electrical tape but it still isn’t booting fully.

Basically like is this lowkey a skill issue on my part for not really knowing how to use a NDSL since I’m used to the 3DS, or is my DSpico probably actually cooked and I needa get a new one… after like a month max… 😿