Hardware Ds Lite occasionally crashes on DLplay and pictochat.

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Hi people. I have a DS Lite that i like to play a few download play games on with friends, and my download play and pictochat keep crashing.(clock freezes, empty grid etc) i can host dlplay games and people can join too.
Is there any fixes?

(I will not be able to reply until tomorrow)
 

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The firmware chip got corrupt somehow, causing those features to not work in the DS menu.
If you have a flashcard and DSi, you may be able to work around the corruption by running dumps of DLPLay and Pictochat from a DSi console, on your DS Lite, via TWiLight Menu++.
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/download-play-pictochat (See "To run both on flashcard")
 

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The firmware chip got corrupt somehow, causing those features to not work in the DS menu.
If you have a flashcard and DSi, you may be able to work around the corruption by running dumps of DLPLay and Pictochat from a DSi console, on your DS Lite, via TWiLight Menu++.
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/download-play-pictochat (See "To run both on flashcard")
If the firmware chip is the culprit it would be easy to check by inserting another one.

FlashMe might be an option -- though I don't know if it could potentially do harm if the chip is damaged hardware side (not only data corruption).
 
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The firmware chip got corrupt somehow, causing those features to not work in the DS menu.
If you have a flashcard and DSi, you may be able to work around the corruption by running dumps of DLPLay and Pictochat from a DSi console, on your DS Lite, via TWiLight Menu++.
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/download-play-pictochat (See "To run both on flashcard")
Thank you, ill try and do that later.
The wierd thing is that it works whenever i have my flashcard in, but not whenever it is not inserted.
 

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The firmware chip got corrupt somehow, causing those features to not work in the DS menu.
If you have a flashcard and DSi, you may be able to work around the corruption by running dumps of DLPLay and Pictochat from a DSi console, on your DS Lite, via TWiLight Menu++.
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/download-play-pictochat (See "To run both on flashcard")

Unfortunately i think i have a wierd flashcard, and i cannot get TWiLight Menu ++ to boot. I used my 3ds' dlplay.nds and pictochat.nds on my R4 cards main menu, and it fails with error code 1. Im not sure if the wifi card is bad, as now some of my games crash when hosting a dlplay lobby.
 

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