Hacking can anyone help an old member?

[YeeHaH]

hi all. this is weird but i sent my sons ds to nintendo to fix as is wouldnt charge anymore. they fix it and say it needed a new fuse. ok so i get it back and am happy to see it now charges the battery again. But when try my g6 or m3real no games run they load and then i get just black screens. All of my original game carts run fine. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JKR Firefox]

hi all. this is weird but i sent my sons ds to nintendo to fix as is wouldnt charge anymore. they fix it and say it needed a new fuse. ok so i get it back and am happy to see it now charges the battery again. But when try my g6 or m3real no games run they load and then i get just black screens. All of my original game carts run fine. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

Backup everything on your cards.

Format the memory card and put everything back on.

 

[YeeHaH]

i tried that but still same problem. the thing is both the g6 and m3 work fine on my daughters ds but not my sons that i just got fixed.

 

[JKR Firefox]

i tried that but still same problem. the thing is both the g6 and m3 work fine on my daughters ds but not my sons that i just got fixed.

Did they by any chance, replace the entire DS?

 

[budrow66]

Wow thats a tuff one. I would try 1:Backing up the info on the card 2: Reinstall firmware 3: Then putting your backed up info on the card minus the old firmware.
Hope it helps...

 

[JKR Firefox]

Wow thats a tuff one. I would try 1:Backing up the info on the card 2: Reinstall firmware 3: Then putting your backed up info on the card minus the old firmware.
Hope it helps...

Echo?

QUOTEBackup everything on your cards.

Format the memory card and put everything back on.

 

[YeeHaH]

nah its the same ole ds with mario sticker on the front. i thought maybe they upgraded firmware to stop flash carts from working. im thinking of flashing the ds but would rather not as i havnt done this before and not even sure if it will help.

 

[budrow66]

Wow thats a tuff one. I would try 1:Backing up the info on the card 2: Reinstall firmware 3: Then putting your backed up info on the card minus the old firmware.
Hope it helps...

Echo?

QUOTEBackup everything on your cards.

Format the memory card and put everything back on.

Reinstall firmware not just stick it back on ther from backup
It worked when my M3 wouldn't work on my wifes DS.

 

[tKo HaXoR]

I think flashing your ds will help unless they upgraded the firmware to block Flash Carts, then flashing your ds might brick it. IDK really..

 

[DarkRey]

just do a full format and put the latest firmware in it (sakura)

 

[YeeHaH]

well thats something i havent tried yet sakura that is. will try it now.
Thankyou everyone for your feedback it is most appreciated. hopefully i will get it back in action soon

 

[YeeHaH]

unfortunately sakura didnt help. rom loads then screens stay black

 

[DarkRey]

try different microsd?
or flashed it

 

[Chrono_Tata]

Could be problem with the contacts, try the paper/tape trick (stick some paper on the side of the card opposite the contacts). Doubt they made a firmware that makes flashcarts useless or we'd already have caught wind of it.

 

[YeeHaH]

its definately not the flash card. i have tried 2 m3reals and a g6 all dont work. they work perfectly on another ds.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Have you tried the trick with pulling the cart out while in PictoChat, see if it gives a different colour then any previously mentioned. With Ninty having a hard-on for flashcarts at the moment it's possible they've worked on a new bios to combat them.

 

[Blackout]

Pulled from the GameSpot forums. See if it matches any of them

"There are indeed slightly different firmwares. When you remove a cart while in Pictochat, a color will appear on your screen. This shows when your DS was made, and it's model.

* v1: Pictochat freezes/no colour appears
* v2: two grayish blue screens
* v3: two dark green screens
* v4: two golden yellow screens
* v5: two magenta screens (DS lite units have this)
* v6: two dark blue screens (The newest DSes have this)
* iQue: two dark green screens (This is the Chinese DS)"

 

[VatoLoco]

This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe try FatD's soft-flash method.

Configure all settings not done on initial startup (GBA screen, Auto-boot (MUST BE ON), region etc.), remove the battery for about 15 seconds (10-20) to clear volatile data, go through initial setup. When it prompts you to press A to turn it off, use the power switch instead. Insert your flashcard.
you will lose access to pictochat and download play until you complete initial setup (undoing this softmod), though. The process is fully reversible by booting into the firmware menu and redoing the settings.

It might get your cards to boot

 

[YeeHaH]

well my screens go magenta when i pull out the cart during pictochat. I tried FatD's soft flash method and that didnt work either. game still loads up then 2 black screens.

i think i will have to change the firmware....

 

[Chrono_Tata]

Erm... have you tried the paper trick I suggested yet? It's possible that when they repaired your DS and put it back together the contact pins in the DS shifted a little from where they were before, so it's not touching the flashcarts' contacts properly. Commercial game carts are built better so they are more likely to touch the contacts. That might be why your commercial games work but flashcarts don't.

Since your screen flash magenta, doesn't that mean it's the old firmware? That means it shouldn't be a problem with the firmware and it's probably not necessary to flash it.