Homebrew [DS(i)/3DS] TWiLight Menu++ - GUI for DS(i) games, and DS(i) Menu replacement

[RocketRobz]

The .NDS I have Pokemon roms and Mario party and Mario kart but it doesn't show them cus only reaches to there idk why

Can you show a screenshot of your ROM folder displayed on your PC from the SD card?

 

[Nikokaro]

@RocketRobz , I am happy to report that dsiware games now work perfectly.
I re-installed the latest full version of TwilightMenu++ and now these games start after 2 seconds of white screens, without the dreaded need to wait a minute...
I can confirm that Memory Pit is sufficient to use these roms*, without the need of Unlaunch and Hiya.
Thanks again, lad, for generously (and for free) putting your inventiveness and genius at the disposal of all of us.
Good luck, and see you next time...

*Note: unfortunately few roms (e.g. Exidia, Zenonia, AiRace Tunnel) crash after a few images, and before you can even start. Do they need anti-piracy patches?

 

[RocketRobz]

*Note: unfortunately few roms (e.g. Exidia, Zenonia, AiRace Tunnel) crash after a few images, and before you can even start. Do they need anti-piracy patches?

No. DSiWare do not have any AP measures.
Those particular ones crash because of a weird configuration set by the DSi Camera app, which is why exploits such as Flipnote Lenny are preferred over Memory Pit for an Unlaunch-free experience.

 

[Nikokaro]

Brief update: as suggested to me, I used Flipnote Lenny as an exploit and now the three dsiware games mentioned before work too.
The only exception I've found so far involves Dr. Mario (US and EU versions) freezing on 2 white screens.
I guess that copy and paste procedure on Flipnote has to be repeated every time from scratch, right?

I had fun making a short clip on how Flipnote Lenny works, if anyone is interested....

 

[Faran Maqsood]

Ever since the 24.5.0 update my DSi boots to a white screen. I am using Hiya cfw with twilight set to auto boot. I have tried re-installing both hiya and twilight from scratch after formatting the SD card. 24.4.0 boots fine but 24.5.0 and up boot to a white screen either through auto boot or booting through hiya cfw. I read through all the posts and noticed a few people had simillar problems with no apparent solution. I might be missing something here but I have tried everything I could think of, including booting twilight menu without the settings.ini file but I get the same white screen on boot. I have a US DSi and a EUR DSi both on 1.4.5 if that helps in identifying the problem? I would really appreciate any help you guys can give.

 

[EfrainHunterFTW]

Can you show a screenshot of your ROM folder displayed on your PC from the SD card?

Sorry for the late reply it was late at night I fell asleep here u go what u asked for

 

[totakeke95]

Ever since the 24.5.0 update my DSi boots to a white screen. I am using Hiya cfw with twilight set to auto boot. I have tried re-installing both hiya and twilight from scratch after formatting the SD card. 24.4.0 boots fine but 24.5.0 and up boot to a white screen either through auto boot or booting through hiya cfw. I read through all the posts and noticed a few people had simillar problems with no apparent solution. I might be missing something here but I have tried everything I could think of, including booting twilight menu without the settings.ini file but I get the same white screen on boot. I have a US DSi and a EUR DSi both on 1.4.5 if that helps in identifying the problem? I would really appreciate any help you guys can give.

I have the same issue, Rob told me to remove settings file from /nds folder, but this still doesn't fix it.

 

[Pk11]

Ever since the 24.5.0 update my DSi boots to a white screen. I am using Hiya cfw with twilight set to auto boot. I have tried re-installing both hiya and twilight from scratch after formatting the SD card. 24.4.0 boots fine but 24.5.0 and up boot to a white screen either through auto boot or booting through hiya cfw. I read through all the posts and noticed a few people had simillar problems with no apparent solution. I might be missing something here but I have tried everything I could think of, including booting twilight menu without the settings.ini file but I get the same white screen on boot. I have a US DSi and a EUR DSi both on 1.4.5 if that helps in identifying the problem? I would really appreciate any help you guys can give.

I have the same issue, Rob told me to remove settings file from /nds folder, but this still doesn't fix it.

There's been a few people people having that issue and we're not really sure why yet... It seems to be caused by the "Default" DSi skins and a few 3DS skins though, so switching to any other skin should fix it.

https://github.com/DS-Homebrew/TWiLightMenu/issues/1902

 

[RocketRobz]

Brief update: as suggested to me, I used Flipnote Lenny as an exploit and now the three dsiware games mentioned before work too.
The only exception I've found so far involves Dr. Mario (US and EU versions) freezing on 2 white screens.

You need to set a DSiWare ROM (which isn't Dr. Mario) as a donor ROM to run Dr. Mario.
Did TWLMenu++ show a two-page message about setting a donor ROM?

 

[RocketRobz]

Sorry for the late reply it was late at night I fell asleep here u go what u asked forView attachment 307384

Hmm, I have no idea why it's only showing either a few of those, or none at all.
Try re-installing TWiLight Menu++ by deleting the "TWiLightMenu" folder in "sd:/_nds/", and installing it again.

 

[EfrainHunterFTW]

Hmm, I have no idea why it's only showing either a few of those, or none at all.
Try re-installing TWiLight Menu++ by deleting the "TWiLightMenu" folder in "sd:/_nds/", and installing it again.

I've done that several times and still nothing even re adding the roms after deleting everything and still the same

 

[RocketRobz]

I've done that several times and still nothing even re adding the roms after deleting everything and still the same

So you re-installed by doing exactly what I said then, and not just installing it again without deleting it first?
If so, then re-format your SD card by following this guide: https://dsi.cfw.guide/sd-card-setup.html
If the issue persists, then try another SD card.
If the issue still persists, then I'm out of ideas.

 

[Nikokaro]

You need to set a DSiWare ROM (which isn't Dr. Mario) as a donor ROM to run Dr. Mario.
Did TWLMenu++ show a two-page message about setting a donor ROM?

Indeed. The first time I clicked on the Mario icon it gave me that message, then pressing Y on another rom I set it as a donor. Then I clicked on Dr. Mario and the game immediately freezes and prevents reset and console shutdown.

 

[RocketRobz]

Indeed. The first time I clicked on the Mario icon it gave me that message, then pressing Y on another rom I set it as a donor. Then I clicked on Dr. Mario and the game immediately freezes and prevents reset and console shutdown.

Dr. Mario boots on my side.
What did you set as a donor ROM?

EDIT: Never mind, just reproduced the issue.

 

[Nikokaro]

Dr. Mario boots on my side.
What did you set as a donor ROM?

In order: Frogger, then Devil Band and finally Air Hockey. With all of them it crashes. It is the European version of Dr. Mario (A little bit of...). By now I've already deleted the American one, but it gave me the same issue.

 

[RocketRobz]

In order: Frogger, then Devil Band and finally Air Hockey. With all of them it crashes. It is the European version of Dr. Mario (A little bit of...). By now I've already deleted the American one, but it gave me the same issue.

The white screen crash will be fixed in the next nds-bootstrap version.
In the meantime, set Nintendo DSi Sound as a donor ROM.

 

[Faran Maqsood]

There's been a few people people having that issue and we're not really sure why yet... It seems to be caused by the "Default" DSi skins and a few 3DS skins though, so switching to any other skin should fix it.

https://github.com/DS-Homebrew/TWiLightMenu/issues/1902

R4 Original (Default)
Saturn theme
Gameboy theme
Relaxing Blue (DSi theme)

None of tye themes I've tried work for me. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. I did notice that in the settings.ini file:

Theme = 0, remains unchanged regardless of what theme is selected. Changing this did not fix the white screen issue for me but it struck as a bit odd.

Regardless, 24.4.0 has been working great for me. The only reason I wanted to update was for the updated AP patches (Summon Night X eng patched rom doesn't seem to work on this version). Thank you to everyone involved in developing this project.

 

[Nikokaro]

Also Absolute Brickbuster unfortunately does not work. After the initial logo it says there is an "error, save data is corrupt" (or something like that), I tap and then everything repeats endlessly. For a lover of the Arkanoid genre is a real tragedy ...
Unfortunately the Japanese version is unobtainable.

 

[RocketRobz]

Also Absolute Brickbuster unfortunately does not work. After the initial logo it says there is an "error, save data is corrupt" (or something like that), I tap and then everything repeats endlessly. For a lover of the Arkanoid genre is a real tragedy ...
Unfortunately the Japanese version is unobtainable.

Every "Absolute" title except "Absolute Baseball" uses the otherPub path instead of the dataPub path used by most DSiWare titles.
Next nds-bootstrap version will redirect the path to dataPub in those games in order to fix the error.

 

[Tyvar1]

I have a Switch and a 3DS and wondering what runs best?

MelonDS on switch vs TWiLight Menu++ on the 3DS?