Hacking Does this card have a time bomb?

[Rj.MoG]

I can’t find any info indicating if this card has a time bomb or not. If it does could someone help me out in disabling it? Or tell me if it doesn’t? Thanks in advance

EDIT: I set my date to 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The cart worked perfectly fine with the stock kernel regardless of what the date was set to. Thanks for the help either way!

 

[The Catboy]

Testing for a timebomb is actually easy. Have the cart running the official kernel and set your system date to any time past September in 2019. If it has a timebomb, it will tell you that your kernel has expired.
That cart does have a timebomb and there's no method to remove it from the official kernel. The only method to avoid the timebomb is to use Retro's files
https://gbatemp.net/threads/retrogamefan-updates-releases.267243/

 

[Rj.MoG]

Testing for a timebomb is actually easy. Have the cart running the official kernel and set your system date to any time past September in 2019. If it has a timebomb, it will tell you that your kernel has expired.
That cart does have a timebomb and there's no method to remove it from the official kernel. The only method to avoid the timebomb is to use Retro's files
https://gbatemp.net/threads/retrogamefan-updates-releases.267243/

Thanks for this! I was trying to use this but couldn’t get any of the files to boot. Do you have any advice as to which set of files would be the right ones?

 

[The Catboy]

Thanks for this! I was trying to use this but couldn’t get any of the files to boot. Do you have any advice as to which set of files would be the right ones?

You should use the files from the folder named "R4i-SDHC." You will have to rename the "Ysmenu.nds" to "R4.dat."

 

[Rj.MoG]

You should use the files from the folder named "R4i-SDHC." You will have to rename the "Ysmenu.nds" to "R4.dat."

I keep getting "Can't Open _DSMENU.DAT" no matter what I name the ysmenu file. Even if I name it that I still get that error. It just uses wood 1.62 My file structure by default is

__rpg
_dsmenu.dat
changelog.txt
readme.txt

Even loading ysmenu.nds from the kernel itself just gives me a white screen. Regardless of if I use the R4i-SDHC files or the R4SDHC files.

 

[The Catboy]

I keep getting "Can't Open _DSMENU.DAT" no matter what I name the ysmenu file. Even if I name it that I still get that error. It just uses wood 1.62 My file structure by default is

__rpg
_dsmenu.dat
changelog.txt
readme.txt

Even loading ysmenu.nds from the kernel itself just gives me a white screen. Regardless of if I use the R4i-SDHC files or the R4SDHC files.

Try the R4-clone folder. There's really no risk in trying different folders