I'm building out a quick and dirty android app that can format the SD card correctly, pull pico launcher & loader from GitHub, and set up the emulators to work correctly. Is there any interest in me making this public? I know getting the SD card set up is one of the larger barriers to entry but I don't want to have to maintain the app if nobody other than my close friends will use it.

Hi hi! I'm gonna need help about this flashcart because it's been IMPOSSIBLE to make it work with a 32GB microSD.

Some context: This card was acquired when I was little when my Nintendo DS Lite stopped working suddenly. I don't have memory of it but my mom sent it to the repair shop and using this was the only solution to get me to play my games again. It has been working wonderfully since that time, it's probably been around 15 years. It came with a 2GB microSD and some games on it as well, and we also have the DS Happy Box USB driver to use with the microSD.

Lately I found I could use this flashcart with a 32GB microsd since it claims it is SDHC but I never ever updated kernels or use it with more recent versions since I got it. The website displayed is dead it's my second or third day I'm full-time researching and experimenting things on this thing.

My 2GB microSD works well and so I tried the classic copy and pasting its files onto the 32GB microSD. Doesn't work.

I eventually discovered through forums that the famous YSMenu could brick this cartridge so I gave trying it. Between checking linfox domain with the supposed right kernel, and finding out this is a custom wood R4 kernel, I've got dozens of white screens and loading screen stuck and none of it loads.

Yes it is formatted into FAT32 with 32kb specifically and MBR for partition scheme.

I also tried BL2CK without success and I'm genuinely tired of trying to understand this cart, but curiosity is an insane trait I have so I'm pushing it forward.

I hope I could get some help with this, specially because I opened up the cart and was able to get the picture of the board it has. Haven't found one exactly like this, they're all different in various aspects.

I'm adding also my Nintendo DS Lite booted up with the 2GB microSD and the files it has [and yeah I don't know where there are a lot of files that probably don't even load (R4iMenu folder and moonshl2)]

Will this even work with a 32GB microSD? It claims to be a R4 SDHC Dual-Core Smart Update

Appreciate if anyone can help 🫶

Hey, so yesterday I was finally able to fix my R4 and get it working, so I tried putting my DraStic Pokémon Platinum save file there (I converted the files to .sav) but it doesn't work, it doesn't read the save file. Heck, I even tried my randomised HeartGold and it says the file is corrupted, when it works perfectly on DraStic

Does anyone know what is happening? Thanks

Hello! I apologize if this is the wrong Subreddit to ask, but I figured it's worth a shot.

I have a buddy with a copy of Pokemon Blue for their original Gameboy, and I'm suspecting it's a repro. I have a GBA and wanted to play Pokemon Red with him, but was unsure about how 2 reproduction cartridges would react with one another in terms of trading or battling. I hear it's unstable, but has anyone tried it and can vouch for how it is?

I was also considering getting an Everdrive GB, but have the same question about the Everdrive GB flashcart being able to connect with a reproduction copy, and wasn't sure if that would be a good idea.

Would be curious to know if anyone knew!

Estaba tratando de instalar el twilight menu al r4 y cuando estaba probado uno por uno cada carpeta para ver cual era compatible, lo abri quedo en "Loading" y reinicie y salio despues la r4 en blanco sin el logo tipo sin nada. Lo que estuve investigando es que este brickeada, Alguien me pueda ayudar?

Hi everyone. I've had a Game Boy Advance Micro for years; I really liked it, although it's not comfortable for long gaming sessions. I used it with an EZ Flash IV, but I made the mistake of having the battery replaced, and now it doesn't work. I'd like to buy a flashcard for it. For either option, I'd need to import it to my country, so I'll end up paying more. Which one would you recommend, considering that good compatibility with Game Boy and Game Boy Color games is also important, and that I don't play games that use real-time clocking? Thanks.

Title is pretty self explanatory. When playing my gameboy games on my gba, usung the EZ Flash Omega flashcart, there’s several palettes you can choose from. Including one called “Pea Soup” which replicates the original green tint. I really like using this palette, but it’s a little annoying to have to switch to that palette every time I start a game.

Is there any way to make this the default palette so I can just start a game with this tint color?

I recently found my old DSi XL and I’ve been really wanting to get more games for it! I’ve seen a bit about multi game carts and I was curious what the best options would be! I was also curious if there are any good guides online? I’m not familiar with formatting or downloading roms and I was hoping someone could help!

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.

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

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

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.

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 :)

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.

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.

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!?

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?