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[ChronoCrossfangirl2002]

hello, i just finished modding a copy of pokemon platinum and naturally cheats don't show up in twilight menu, i wanted to know if there was a way to force it to as i wanted to force GBA Slot insertion encounters without the need of a gba game

edit: nvm, all you have to do is replace the header.bin with one from an unmodified copy and you're good!

 

[PlantedWave5190]

I know I already asked this in another discussion, but does an emulator for the Philips Videopac G7000/Magnavox Odyssey² exist for the Nintendo DS(i)? I know I can emulate the system on my 3DS using RetroArch.

Speaking of RetroArch 3DS, are any of its cores better than the emulators provided with TWiLight Menu++'s Virtual Console addon? These are the systems I want to emulate on my 3DS:

• Atari 2600
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• Atari XEGS
• ColecoVision
• Game Gear
• Intellivision
• NeoGeo Pocket/Color
• Pokémon mini
• SG-1000/SC-3000
• WonderSwan/Color

As for the other systems, I can use the following standalone emulators:

• NES/Famicom - VirtuaNES
• Super NES/Super Famicom - SNES9x
• Master System/Genesis/Mega Drive - PicoDrive (Also offers SEGA/Mega CD and 32X)
• TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine - TemperPCE (Also offers TurboGrafx/PC Engine CD and SuperGrafx)
• Game Boy/Color - mGBA (Also offers Game Boy Advance, but only for certain games, I use open_agb_firm for most games)

 

[Pk11]

I know I already asked this in another discussion, but does an emulator for the Philips Videopac G7000/Magnavox Odyssey² exist for the Nintendo DS(i)? I know I can emulate the system on my 3DS using RetroArch.

Speaking of RetroArch 3DS, are any of its cores better than the emulators provided with TWiLight Menu++'s Virtual Console addon? These are the systems I want to emulate on my 3DS:

• Atari 2600
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• Atari XEGS
• ColecoVision
• Game Gear
• Intellivision
• NeoGeo Pocket/Color
• Pokémon mini
• SG-1000/SC-3000
• WonderSwan/Color

As for the other systems, I can use the following standalone emulators:

• NES/Famicom - VirtuaNES
• Super NES/Super Famicom - SNES9x
• Master System/Genesis/Mega Drive - PicoDrive (Also offers SEGA/Mega CD and 32X)
• TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine - TemperPCE (Also offers TurboGrafx/PC Engine CD and SuperGrafx)
• Game Boy/Color - mGBA (Also offers Game Boy Advance, but only for certain games, I use open_agb_firm for most games)

Last time I looked into it, the Atari, Coleco, and Intellivision emulators by wavemotion (in TWiLight Menu++) were overall better than anything for 3DS native. GameYob DSi is probably still the best way to play Game Boy games on 3DS unless you want better scaling. (notably, Game Yob 3DS port runs worse and is missing features compared to recent forks on the DS side)

For everything else you're probably better off with 3DS emulators. NesDS has weird scaling, SNES runs terribly in DS mode, etc. Not sure about Game Gear, I don't remember how good S8DS is.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

Not sure about Game Gear, I don't remember how good S8DS is.

I played the Game Gear versions of Sonic 1 and 2 on my DSi via S8DS, and upon startup, the SEGA jingle is distorted. Probably just an emulator issue, but other than that, these played fine.

Post automatically merged: Jan 29, 2026

Anyways, for the first question I asked, has anyone created a Philips Videopac G7000/Magnavox Odyssey² emulator for the Nintendo DS(i)?

 

[Onepunchbruh]

Hey so I wanna do gba mod with my broken ds lite, I want to know if this (attachment) resistor will be ok for the ds single screen mod? If you have info on it plz let me know

 

[spoofiya]

DSi camera crashed, photos vanished - any possible recovery left? (deep dive already done)


Hi everyone. I'm posting here because these photos mean a lot to me and I want a true second opinion from people who really know the DSi filesystem.


I'll keep this factual and list everything I've already tried.


system

• Nintendo DSi (no SD card was present when photos were taken)
• Camera app now crashes immediately on activation
• HiyaCFW + Unlaunch installed after the issue (nothing was formatted)

What happened

• I took photos using the DSi camera in the past
• At least one photo appeared as the top-screen background on the HOME Menu
• Later, the camera app began crashing as soon as it tried to activate
• Eventually the camera app reported no photos

What I've already checked

• Extracted NAND and browsed it using GodModegi
• Checked:
• title/00030004 (camera-related titles)
• title/00030017 (HOME Menu)
• shared1, private, and system data
• Found private.sav and public.sav in title folders
• Mounted NAND and saves using ninfs + macFUSE
• Camera photo directories appear empty
• No camera image data found anywhere in NAND

Important detail


• The HOME Menu did show my photo as a background at one point, which makes me think cached data existed even after the camera broke.

My question


Given:

• camera crash on init
• empty camera data directories
• photos no longer visible anywhere in NAND

Is there any remaining technical path to recover original DSi camera photos,


or does this indicate the photo files were deleted/invalidated due to corruption?


I'm okay with hearing "no" - I just want to be sure nothing was missed.


Thank you for reading and for any insight you can share.


I asked chatgpt to write this out for me so It would be clear and concise. I apologize for Ai slop.

 

[RocketRobz]

DSi camera crashed, photos vanished - any possible recovery left? (deep dive already done)


Hi everyone. I'm posting here because these photos mean a lot to me and I want a true second opinion from people who really know the DSi filesystem.


I'll keep this factual and list everything I've already tried.


system

• Nintendo DSi (no SD card was present when photos were taken)
• Camera app now crashes immediately on activation
• HiyaCFW + Unlaunch installed after the issue (nothing was formatted)

What happened

• I took photos using the DSi camera in the past
• At least one photo appeared as the top-screen background on the HOME Menu
• Later, the camera app began crashing as soon as it tried to activate
• Eventually the camera app reported no photos

What I've already checked

• Extracted NAND and browsed it using GodModegi
• Checked:
• title/00030004 (camera-related titles)
• title/00030017 (HOME Menu)
• shared1, private, and system data
• Found private.sav and public.sav in title folders
• Mounted NAND and saves using ninfs + macFUSE
• Camera photo directories appear empty
• No camera image data found anywhere in NAND

Important detail


• The HOME Menu did show my photo as a background at one point, which makes me think cached data existed even after the camera broke.

My question


Given:

• camera crash on init
• empty camera data directories
• photos no longer visible anywhere in NAND

Is there any remaining technical path to recover original DSi camera photos,


or does this indicate the photo files were deleted/invalidated due to corruption?


I'm okay with hearing "no" - I just want to be sure nothing was missed.


Thank you for reading and for any insight you can share.


I asked chatgpt to write this out for me so It would be clear and concise. I apologize for Ai slop.

Seeing as the photos don't appear in the NAND now, have you made a NAND backup before the issue started to occur (like before you installed Unlaunch)?
If not, you'll need to use data recovery software on your NAND. PhotoRec might be the best one, in this case.

 

[k66]

What I've already checked

• Extracted NAND and browsed it using GodModegi
• Checked:
• title/00030004 (camera-related titles)
• title/00030017 (HOME Menu)
• shared1, private, and system data
• Found private.sav and public.sav in title folders
• Mounted NAND and saves using ninfs + macFUSE
• Camera photo directories appear empty
• No camera image data found anywhere in NAND

Have you checked twl_photo.img ? It's 32MB, and the photos saved in the system are inside it.
ninfs to mount nand.bin(DSi NAND backup), OSFMount to mount twl_photo.img,

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Hey so I wanna do gba mod with my broken ds lite, I want to know if this (attachment) resistor will be ok for the ds single screen mod? If you have info on it plz let me know

As far as I know, there are several ways to modify it (DS Lite single bottom screen display), and some methods don't require resistors, just need to jump wire. Some methods may be outdated, so you'd better check again.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

My DSi XL has a problem with the game card slot. When I power on my system and launch TWiLight Menu++, the Nintendo logo appeared, even though nothing is inserted. That's not normal behavior. The Nintendo logo was not supposed to appear on boot unless a slot-1 card is inserted.

I know on the stock DSi Menu, the game card icon says nothing is inserted, but in TWiLight Menu++, it shows up as slot1, despite no game card being present at all.

EDIT: After re-installing Unlaunch with the splash and sound enabled, I thought my system was bricked, because when I powered it on to go to the stock DSi Menu, it hung on two white screens, signifying an invalid game card inserted, even though I haven't inserted any game. Does anyone else have the same problem with the slot-1 on their systems, or is it just me?

 

[k66]

The Nintendo logo was not supposed to appear on boot unless a slot-1 card is inserted.

Hardware issues?
Use a flashlight to check if the pins in the slot-1 are bent.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

Here's the pin layout of my DSi XL's game card slot. I had to drive a toothpick into it to expose the contacts and use a flashlight to see them. Getting a good shot of the slot is not an easy task. Anyways, can you find what's wrong? I tried everything I could: cleaning with isopropyl alcohol, poking at every contact point, removing and reinserting game cards, no luck.

 

[Tofu_mommy]

Here's the pin layout of my DSi XL's game card slot. I had to drive a toothpick into it to expose the contacts and use a flashlight to see them. Getting a good shot of the slot is not an easy task. Anyways, can you find what's wrong? I tried everything I could: cleaning with isopropyl alcohol, poking at every contact point, removing and reinserting game cards, no luck.

The other pins that are behind the toothpick on this picture are good too, right?

 

[k66]

Here's the pin layout of my DSi XL's game card slot. I had to drive a toothpick into it to expose the contacts and use a flashlight to see them. Getting a good shot of the slot is not an easy task. Anyways, can you find what's wrong? I tried everything I could: cleaning with isopropyl alcohol, poking at every contact point, removing and reinserting game cards, no luck.

Check the 'white plastic block' on the cartridge insertion detection switch.
Try pressing it lightly with a toothpick.
If it can't be reset, the slot-1 needs to be replaced.
If it can be pressed, disassemble the DSi to check if the motherboard has a short circuit.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

Check the 'white plastic block' on the cartridge insertion detection switch.
Try pressing it lightly with a toothpick.
If it can't be reset, the slot-1 needs to be replaced.
If it can be pressed, disassemble the DSi to check if the motherboard has a short circuit.
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So that was the culprit! I need to get that fixed. I might need to wait until the weather gets warmer in my area so I can go to a console repair shop and ask them to get my DSi XL fixed.

I pushed that switch down on my white DSi (non-XL) and I replicated the issue, and when I let go, game card detection works proper on the system.

Post automatically merged: Feb 13, 2026

While on topic of that game card detection switch, do any 3DS/2DS systems have it? I checked my original DS's game card slot, and can't find that switch. Maybe that and the DS Lite don't have it?

 

[k66]

So that was the culprit! I need to get that fixed. I might need to wait until the weather gets warmer in my area so I can go to a console repair shop and ask them to get my DSi XL fixed.

I pushed that switch down on my white DSi (non-XL) and I replicated the issue, and when I let go, game card detection works proper on the system.

It seems that the cartridge insertion detection(DET) switch is used independently in the TWiLightMenu++ (for example, on the DSi Splash Screen & DS classic menu).

The original DSi system seems to use different detection methods (when only the DET switch is pressed, it still shows that the cartridge is not inserted). It might have double-check.
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The probability of that switch being damaged is very low, maybe you should check the slot-1 pins again.
Some flashcards can easily break or bend the slot-1 pins.
If there is a problem with the pins, the slot-1 needs to be replaced.

 

[Tofu_mommy]

So that was the culprit! I need to get that fixed. I might need to wait until the weather gets warmer in my area so I can go to a console repair shop and ask them to get my DSi XL fixed.

I pushed that switch down on my white DSi (non-XL) and I replicated the issue, and when I let go, game card detection works proper on the system.

Post automatically merged: Feb 13, 2026

While on topic of that game card detection switch, do any 3DS/2DS systems have it? I checked my original DS's game card slot, and can't find that switch. Maybe that and the DS Lite don't have it?

Consider sourcing a replacement slot in the meantime so a shop has the part you want replaced.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

I went further and turned on my white DSi with its DET switch held, and it booted into the launcher. It didn't freeze. Maybe my DSi XL's launcher is corrupted in a way that refuses to boot unless a valid game card is inserted?

 

[k66]

I went further and turned on my white DSi with its DET switch held, and it booted into the launcher. It didn't freeze. Maybe my DSi XL's launcher is corrupted in a way that refuses to boot unless a valid game card is inserted?

Is your DSi XL currently having the problem of showing a white screen on startup after installing or uninstalling Unlaunch?
Can holding A and B while turning on the power enter unlaunch?
If you cannot enter unlaunch,You might need an ntrboot card.
You can try using safe unlaunch to fix the launcher's TMD first. Or restore the NAND backup.

 

[PlantedWave5190]

Turns out it was Unlaunch the whole time! After uninstalling it, the stock DSi menu on my XL now boots properly! Now I might need to go through the softmodding process once more if I want to re-install Unlaunch... no problem, I'll follow the tutorial on the DSi CFW Guide site.

EDIT: I just realized while booting into TWiLight Menu++ with Memory Pit, it still thinks an invalid game card has been inserted. So it's definitely the game card slot that's faulty.

 

[kyrusdemnati]

apps not opening via hbmenu. switch v1 20.1.1/ AMS 1.10.2/S​

is there a fix how can i install games?

i have updated latest version of atmosphere and bootloader. (deleted old ones from sd card and uploaded the new ones) i used the HATS package when i open an app it just crashes and i need to reboot

any tips? thanks