OK, my first participation in the GBAtemp forums, so, howdy everyone
I received my Sky3DS+ today, and after lots of tinkering, I have an issue I don't understand, and I haven't yet found people having the same problem.
Here's the deal: some games just won't be loaded by the Sky3DS+ on my French 3DSXL console. Most games are OK, but some games don't want to work, and when it's time to cycle to those games, the 3DS returns to the previously working game.
One of the games posing me problems, for instance: Sonic Generations (for instance the EUR version you'll find on NitroRoms, it's one of thet wo versions I have)
I also had the problem with Luigi's Mansion 2, until I re-downloaded it from NitroRoms, and then it worked... I can't say it's working in the case of Sonic Generations though, a dozen unsuccessful attempts showed me there must have been another issue.
I tried with 3 different SD cards (4, 8 and 8 GB, Sandisk, formatted to FAT32 with Windows 7's default settings, the cards were previously successfully tested as good on all of their surface with the H2testw utility), same deal every time.
I also noticed that, while recognized games have a .sav and .cfg file that are created and contain data, for my non-recognized games, the .sav and .cfg files are empty.
I tried with downloading the game from a different source (including community torrent sites with "the game works!" comments, although found to work by Gateway3DS users, not Sky3DS users), just in case, but to no change during the tests.
Just in case, I also downloaded it straight to tFhe SD card instead of a hard disk, and extracted it from there, no change.
I tried a dozen times without success, with two pairs of firmwares. The default original firmware of the Sky3DS+ (version 1.00), and the new version 1.10 downloaded from their website (I checked there was the addition of a settings.txt with "FIRMWARE_VERSION=110" to see the update had really worked.) And, 3DS side, with a 8.something firmware, and later on, when one of my sons randomly clicked one of the games I added to Sky3DS+ (for Pete's sake!!) with firmware 10.1.0-10E.
The latest firmware doesn't need a gamelist.bin anymore, but I still placed it just in case, heh, no change.
At this point, I'm pretty much baffled, I don't know what to do next. Try trimming the .3ds file, who knows ?
If you have suggestions, I would be most grateful