Okay, I've got Cakes 175 running, and I have an Acekard 2i. What do I need to do to play that on my N3DS emuNAND at latest firmware?
I have the cakes for TWL_CARTRIDGES and TWL_SIGNATURES and have enabled them, but my N3DS doesn't even detect anything in there. This card works on my DSiXL (Pippa Funnel).
Thanks!
EDIT: What's up with almost half of the time Cakes loads up with just black screen? Not that it's not working, most of the time that it ends up black, I can just press A and notice a shift in the backlight, where it loads to emuNAND homescreen shortly. So it does load up, but for some reason forgets to display anything. Sometimes it really does freeze though. I know because when I press A, nothing happens, no shift in the backlight, nothing to indicate something happening in there. When this happens, I end up having to hold the power button for something like 10 seconds just to shut it down.
You also have to have the TWL firmware in your "cakes" folder named "twl_firmware.bin" as well. Not to mention the "twl_firmkey.bin" or "twl_cetk" file. If you only have the cetk file, and you're running A9LH, you'll want to place the TWL firmware in a different folder, boot, move it to "cakes" with CTRXplorer, and reboot by entering "System Settings" and exiting. Cakes can't decrypt on first boot with A9LH systems, but it can on a warm reboot. There's a complete Cakes 175 on a certain iso site if you're having trouble getting the needed files. It's in the "CFW Discussions" forum. Though it has almost been knocked to page 2 at this point (leave a comment if you'd like to see it stay on the front page). Of course, the "AIO A9LH Configurations" archive has it too. You just get 6 extra copies per system type (it's meant to be one-step drag-and-drop, so every boot manager included needs it's own copy).
I have an AK2i myself, and it's working fine with Cakes 175 on my N3DS XL. I've reverted to the "Deep Labyrinth" update, though. "Pippa" works, but took longer to load because of extra code that is no longer needed.
I'm also wondering what you're using as a boot manager as well. I'm having no issues with a black screen. It boots every time for me. I run BootCTR9. You might want to try it (it's in the aforementioned "AIO A9LH Configurations" archive, as are several other boot managers -- there's a stripped copy without any firmware files, but I'd recommend the full version if you can find it).