Hello everyone. Let me start off by saying I just signed up for this website, so please excuse me if this is the wrong section to post this. I am sorry in advance if it is!
As the title says, I am having some problems with a recently purchased Gateway 3DS flashcart. I purchased it used from someone on Reddit, so I have no choice to return it to the retailer for a possible replacement. I am at least wanting to try to fix the issue before I ask the guy I bought it from for a refund, because I feel this can be fixed. Please read below to understand what I am talking about.
The main problem I am having is when I put a .3ds rom file of a game onto my microSD Card and put the card into the Gateway Card, it recognized that the game is there when I press select to see a list of all the games on the microSD card. But when I select the game and try to open it, it gives me the error message "The game cart was removed." I google'd this issue, and I see other people are having it too. Many people are saying it has something to do with SPI, so I ran the diagnostic option on Gateway and sure enough, "SPI Test" and SPI Read Test" both failed. I tried a lot of things to fix it. I tried sticking a small piece of paper in-between the microSD card to push down on it; didn't work. I tried a different SD card reader; didn't work either. I don't have another microSD card to test with, but if I did I would have tried that too. I don't really know what else to try to fix this.
Oh, and here's the weird thing. The very first game I downloaded was Pokemon Omega Ruby and it runs perfectly fine, granted I haven't actually played the game for more than 5 minutes yet. It doesn't have the "The game cart was removed" error at all. This really confuses me, considering the SPI tests are failing. I am hoping this can somehow be fixed, seeing that one game runs fine but all others don't. Any help will be appreciated. If there's some sort of information that I haven't already provided that is necessary to find out what the issue is here, please ask and I will happily provide what I can. I really want to fix this issue. It took two weeks for me to receive this flashcart and I would much rather avoid having to wait that long again to get a new one. Thanks in advance!
**Quick Edit**
I forgot to mention, the Gateway Launcher.dat version I am using is the latest version, which is 3.2.1 Public Beta. I have considered trying a lower non-beta version, but I figured I'd ask here first before doing anything else.
As the title says, I am having some problems with a recently purchased Gateway 3DS flashcart. I purchased it used from someone on Reddit, so I have no choice to return it to the retailer for a possible replacement. I am at least wanting to try to fix the issue before I ask the guy I bought it from for a refund, because I feel this can be fixed. Please read below to understand what I am talking about.
The main problem I am having is when I put a .3ds rom file of a game onto my microSD Card and put the card into the Gateway Card, it recognized that the game is there when I press select to see a list of all the games on the microSD card. But when I select the game and try to open it, it gives me the error message "The game cart was removed." I google'd this issue, and I see other people are having it too. Many people are saying it has something to do with SPI, so I ran the diagnostic option on Gateway and sure enough, "SPI Test" and SPI Read Test" both failed. I tried a lot of things to fix it. I tried sticking a small piece of paper in-between the microSD card to push down on it; didn't work. I tried a different SD card reader; didn't work either. I don't have another microSD card to test with, but if I did I would have tried that too. I don't really know what else to try to fix this.
Oh, and here's the weird thing. The very first game I downloaded was Pokemon Omega Ruby and it runs perfectly fine, granted I haven't actually played the game for more than 5 minutes yet. It doesn't have the "The game cart was removed" error at all. This really confuses me, considering the SPI tests are failing. I am hoping this can somehow be fixed, seeing that one game runs fine but all others don't. Any help will be appreciated. If there's some sort of information that I haven't already provided that is necessary to find out what the issue is here, please ask and I will happily provide what I can. I really want to fix this issue. It took two weeks for me to receive this flashcart and I would much rather avoid having to wait that long again to get a new one. Thanks in advance!
**Quick Edit**
I forgot to mention, the Gateway Launcher.dat version I am using is the latest version, which is 3.2.1 Public Beta. I have considered trying a lower non-beta version, but I figured I'd ask here first before doing anything else.
