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^^ what it said up there. i have m3ds real with the hacked sakura fw and a a-data 4gb microsdhc class 6 which i heard its a great card (psh still cant play twewy....). when i try to load dawn of sorrow, i get a white screen on the top and a white screen on the bottem. and nothing else. it just stays like that. i already formatted like 3 times but it still doesnt work. i dunno why but i can play castlevania portrait of ruin perfectly fine with no freezes what so ever which is weird as its the number one troubling game for flash carts. please help me.
 
all 3 of the games u mentioned works fine on my a-data 4gb..Castlevanias..TWEWY...
try the stand alone m3real firmware to see if it works..
 
i already tried that. ive had the m3ds real fw at first and ive found that twewy and castlevania dos didnt work. twewy would freeze in the first cut scene and castlevania dos would give me the two white screens. i tried the m3 sakura fw to see if i could solve these problems but so far it still doesnt work. got any other suggestions? could it be the m3 real card itself thats causing these problems?
 
hmm i guess that is a possibility. ive already downloaded from 4 different sites. i used to own twewy but right now its in the hands of my cousin who wont be back for a long time. is there a way to find out if my m3ds real is defective? i got this one from RealHotStuff and it hasnt been 90 days yet so im thinking about getting it exchanged.
 
well im glad to see im not the only one who gets white screen on dos. im getting a cyclo ds soon. im not going to format til then. if dos works on the cyclo, then i think its teh m3 real thats having problems. if not it might be my micro sdhc card.
 
WTF? i just used HDtach on the a-data microsdhc card i just got back from newegg (the last one i had broke under warranty) and i only got like 11.7 mb/s

is the reason it is going so slow the reader? (sandisk mobilemate sd+) i got like 20-22 mb/s using the reader that came with my real before it broke.

if it isnt just the reader, that would be a big reason why the castlevanias arent working properly.
 
hmm i also use the sandisk mobilemate sd+ but i dont think the reader really affects anything except it might corrupt the game or in my case the one that came with the m3ds real corrupted my micro sdhc card and i had to reformatted it like 3 times.
 
I just got my M3 and have an a-data 4gb class 6 card. I have the exact same problem. Start of DoS and where on other games it flickers white on both screens, it just stops dead on white frozen. Also I've had several freezes just playing through the beginning of Portrait of Ruin. Usually when talking to someone and they are about to pop up a menu (such as wind and the shop keeper).

I took this benchmark using my cheap Dynex reader. The values seem low to me, but then I'm new to this.

SiSoftware Sandra

Benchmark Results
Device Index : 4053ops/minute
Endurance Factor : 94.70
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : Generic Mini SD Reader 4GB (USB)
Platform Compliance : x86
System Timer : 3.58MHz

512bytes Files Test
Read Performance : 32597ops/minute, 271.64kB/s, 1.81X
Write Performance : 3019ops/minute, 25.16kB/s, 0.17X
Delete Performance : 4832ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 6504ops/minute

32kB Files Test
Read Performance : 14581ops/minute, 7.59MB/s, 51.84X
Write Performance : 2779ops/minute, 1.45MB/s, 9.88X
Delete Performance : 4853ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 5092ops/minute

256kB Files Test
Read Performance : 3201ops/minute, 13.34MB/s, 91.05X
Write Performance : 1118ops/minute, 4.66MB/s, 31.80X
Delete Performance : 4388ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 1728ops/minute

2MB Files Test
Read Performance : 433ops/minute, 14.43MB/s, 98.53X
Write Performance : 138ops/minute, 4.60MB/s, 31.40X
Delete Performance : 3376ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 233ops/minute

64MB Files Test
Read Performance : 14ops/minute, 14.93MB/s, 101.94X
Write Performance : 6ops/minute, 6.40MB/s, 43.69X
Delete Performance : 557ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 9ops/minute

256MB Files Test
Read Performance : 4ops/minute, 17.07MB/s, 116.51X
Write Performance : 2ops/minute, 8.53MB/s, 58.25X
Delete Performance : 125ops/minute
File Fragments : 1.0
Combined Index : 2ops/minute

Endurance Test Status
Operating System Disk Cache Used : No
Use Overlapped I/O : No
Test File Size : 32MB
Block Size : 512bytes
File Fragments : 1

Endurance Benchmark Breakdown
Repeated Sector ReWrite : 160kB/s
Sequential Sector Write : 690kB/s
Random Sector Write : 3kB/s

Drive
Total Size : 3.74GB
Free Space : 3.74GB, 100%
Cluster Size : 4kB

Opinions or ideas for solutions would be great. Thanks.
 
i kno. life is unfair. thats why i bought a kingston 2gb made in japan micro sd card for all my troublesome games like castlevania and twewy. yay. also im still in suspicion that it is m3ds's fault as well. when i pick up my new cyclo, im going to test if dos works on my a-data card using cyclo ds.
 
triple-sevenz said:
i kno. life is unfair. thats why i bought a kingston 2gb made in japan micro sd card for all my troublesome games like castlevania and twewy. yay. also im still in suspicion that it is m3ds's fault as well. when i pick up my new cyclo, im going to test if dos works on my a-data card using cyclo ds.
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Yeah. All the problem games like Castlevania and TWEWY work perfectly with my 1GB Kingston, but fail on the A-DATA.

Using Sakura w/ the triple loader. Haven't tested to see if they work properly on standalone M3 Real firmware.
 
see my a-data 4gb and my new sandisk 8gb is mainly for other games, music, homebrew, and movies. ill stick to my kingston for troubling games.
 
I also have problems with castlevania dawn of sorrow with my m3 and 4gb SanDisk micro sd hc card. The game starts fine but after a while some rooms somehow get "corrupted" and soon as I want to enter these rooms the game freezes. Then I have to re-format the card and copy all the files over again. I didn't test if it runs fine with the old m3/g6 firmware but sakura just somehow messes up my game over and over ...
 
ok although it could just be me, i just found out that in my case, it is the m3ds real's fault that i cant load castlevania dos or stop twewy from freezing on the first cutscene. i just got my cyclo ds evolution today. using the same a-data 4gb class 6 card that was having trouble loading those games on the m3ds real, i was able to load them perfectly on my new cyclo. but yea like i said it could just be me but its weird how i can load it fine on the cyclo. after the successful loads, i got paranoid so i put the a-data card back on the m3ds real and tried to load dos and it still gave the two white screens. i think the m3ds real might be at fault.
 
triple-sevenz said:
ok although it could just be me, i just found out that in my case, it is the m3ds real's fault that i cant load castlevania dos or stop twewy from freezing on the first cutscene. i just got my cyclo ds evolution today. using the same a-data 4gb class 6 card that was having trouble loading those games on the m3ds real, i was able to load them perfectly on my new cyclo. but yea like i said it could just be me but its weird how i can load it fine on the cyclo. after the successful loads, i got paranoid so i put the a-data card back on the m3ds real and tried to load dos and it still gave the two white screens. i think the m3ds real might be at fault.
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Have you tried running 'em with the M3 Real 3.9 loader?

Not the one in the triple loader, just stand alone M3 Real 3.9
 

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