Testing the new EZ-Flash Parallel

neon_xeon · Jun 14, 2024

@EZ-Flash2
CRITICAL BUG, it seems the kernal does not finish loading after launching the game, so if i launch a new nds game, it says do not turn off power, but after it launches the game, if you turn off the console within 30 seconds, the entire __EZDS folder is corrupted(block level corruption) and the only way to fix it is to completely reformat the memory card, moving back and forth entire game library you had on the sd card.. PLEASE FIX this, it is extremely annoying, either prolong the message of "do not turn off power or do something else.

EDIT: It seems it is fixable by using windows explorers Tools - Check file system for errors(chkdisk) it will fix the corrupted __ezds folder into a file which you can delete and then restore the __ezds folder from the firmware zip, still annoying but at least i don't have to reformat the sd card.

4d1xlaan · Jun 14, 2024

Only ezflash can manage filesystem corruption on read...

GiSWiG · Jun 28, 2024

@EZ-Flash2 Is this Parallel issue with not being able to close the lid ever going to be fixed or is it even possible? I got the Parallel because the Omega DE and the Junior have worked out great for me. How about letting us know how its going like what happened this week while trying to fix it?

I see your activity and you have been responding to question about your other products but its crickets on the Parallel.

Just give it to us straight!

Crystal_tofu · Jun 28, 2024

neon_xeon said:
@EZ-Flash2
CRITICAL BUG, it seems the kernal does not finish loading after launching the game, so if i launch a new nds game, it says do not turn off power, but after it launches the game, if you turn off the console within 30 seconds, the entire __EZDS folder is corrupted(block level corruption) and the only way to fix it is to completely reformat the memory card, moving back and forth entire game library you had on the sd card.. PLEASE FIX this, it is extremely annoying, either prolong the message of "do not turn off power or do something else.

EDIT: It seems it is fixable by using windows explorers Tools - Check file system for errors(chkdisk) it will fix the corrupted __ezds folder into a file which you can delete and then restore the __ezds folder from the firmware zip, still annoying but at least i don't have to reformat the sd card.
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something similar happened to me awhile back while using game yob, it worked fine for awhile until suddenly crashing,
assuming there was a mistake on my end in terms of the rom hack i was playing i booted it backup only for the emulator to crash again via just opening the emulator and selecting the rom directory, when opening the rom directory in file explorer, sure enough the entire thing was corrupted and i found out it wasn't the rom hack by booting it up onto my 3DS via TWLM++ and using gameyob there.

4d1xlaan · Jun 28, 2024

if ezflash actually cared about making a worthwhile product, they'd make a card that can actually run in dsi mode

Sinrion · Saturday at 11:57 AM

GiSWiG said:
@EZ-Flash2 Is this Parallel issue with not being able to close the lid ever going to be fixed or is it even possible? I got the Parallel because the Omega DE and the Junior have worked out great for me. How about letting us know how its going like what happened this week while trying to fix it?

I see your activity and you have been responding to question about your other products but its crickets on the Parallel.

Just give it to us straight!

At this point, just assume it's a dead product and they maybe bring a "new version" of it (because you can't Flash the card itself).

stl25 · Tuesday at 6:04 PM

Considering no mention of what progress is on fixing the sleep mode bug or any other bugs for that matter, I think it is safe to say this cart got the EZ Flash Reform treatment and has already ceased production. I got some vague message regarding productions line issues (short for a new cart probably needed). Seeing as it has been over 2 months with no updates or real conversation with the community, it is safe to assume EZ Flash Parallel was laid to rest on 20240425 coinciding with the last kernel activity. Not sure I would classify any kernel releases as updates since I feel AP should have been more or less ironed out within a couple kernel revisions (as AP fixes are established and ancient knowledge).

ebussy_foot · Tuesday at 6:31 PM

Personally, anyone who has a DSi or 3DS should be trying TwilightMenu++ first before they buy a flashcart. Because you probably don't need one. I know a lot of people like to talk about compatibility but that must honestly be a handful of games at this point and most of these flashcarts (especially YSMenu) are going to have trouble with at least a few games anyway. The TwilightMenu++ compatibility list hasn't really been updated since version 0.5X so promptly ignore that. I've actually completely beaten games it says are incompatible.

Flame · Tuesday at 6:56 PM

ebussy_foot said:
Personally, anyone who has a DSi or 3DS should be trying TwilightMenu++ first before they buy a flashcart. Because you probably don't need one. I know a lot of people like to talk about compatibility but that must honestly be a handful of games at this point and most of these flashcarts (especially YSMenu) are going to have trouble with at least a few games anyway. The TwilightMenu++ compatibility list hasn't really been updated since version 0.5X so promptly ignore that. I've actually completely beaten games it says are incompatible.

100%.

but its a case of people who just don't know about TwilightMenu++ or some people like me who like collecting scene stuff. in this case, I thought it was going to be a decent product. how wrong was I?

stl25 · Tuesday at 8:20 PM

ebussy_foot said:
Personally, anyone who has a DSi or 3DS should be trying TwilightMenu++ first before they buy a flashcart. Because you probably don't need one. I know a lot of people like to talk about compatibility but that must honestly be a handful of games at this point and most of these flashcarts (especially YSMenu) are going to have trouble with at least a few games anyway. The TwilightMenu++ compatibility list hasn't really been updated since version 0.5X so promptly ignore that. I've actually completely beaten games it says are incompatible.

TWiLight Menu++ is indeed a great choice for DSi/3DS users although I have not played any games to completion yet using it so the fact that you have should give people confidence that they will have an enjoyable experience with most games. I have collected a trove of flashcarts over the years and usually use AK2i (AKAIO) or Wood on OG R4 and r4ids.cn carts. YSMenu is great from a games boot compatibility standpoint, but I would expect some AP issues may arise on a handful of games. But one thing is certain the EZP is UN-Paralleled in its status as an underwhelming cart in terms of overall performance for the price.

Crystal_tofu · Tuesday at 9:42 PM

stl25 said:
TWiLight Menu++ is indeed a great choice for DSi/3DS users although I have not played any games to completion yet using it so the fact that you have should give people confidence that they will have an enjoyable experience with most games. I have collected a trove of flashcarts over the years and usually use AK2i (AKAIO) or Wood on OG R4 and r4ids.cn carts. YSMenu is great from a games boot compatibility standpoint, but I would expect some AP issues may arise on a handful of games. But one thing is certain the EZP is UN-Paralleled in its status as an underwhelming cart in terms of overall performance for the price.

TWLM++ does have some issues with AP, specifically towards rom hacks and it's understanding why, because obviously vanilla games are priorty, but if one really wanted to play ds rom hacks on real hardware including dsi and 3ds i'd reccomend an acekard2i, if not just use TWLM++

4d1xlaan · Tuesday at 10:51 PM

Crystal_tofu said:
but if one really wanted to play ds rom hacks on real hardware including dsi and 3ds i'd reccomend an acekard2i, if not just use TWLM++

or the best of both worlds, twlmenu++ on acekard 2i

ebussy_foot · Tuesday at 11:44 PM

Crystal_tofu said:
TWLM++ does have some issues with AP, specifically towards rom hacks and it's understanding why, because obviously vanilla games are priority, but if one really wanted to play ds rom hacks on real hardware including DSi and 3DS I'd recommend an acekard2i, if not just use TWLM++

Considering TM++ still gets AP updates for rom hacks and flashcart kernels don't this is actually far more likely the other way around. Regardless, you can just AP patch the ROM yourself either way.

Crystal_tofu · Wednesday at 2:11 AM

ebussy_foot said:
Considering TM++ still gets AP updates for rom hacks and flashcart kernels don't this is actually far more likely the other way around. Regardless, you can just AP patch the ROM yourself either way.

that's the thing, AK2i afaik doesn't have issues with rom hacks based on roms that need AP patching (Ex. HGSS)
and yes you are correct i could, AP patch it myself but there's this caveat to where AP patching the base rom via the scene tool
then patching the base rom with the rom hack causes issues, and if attempted the other way around by applying the rom hack patch first 9 times out of 10 scene tool will fail to recognize the compatibility for AP patching and like one stated above it's best to install TWLM++ on a AK2i to mitigate a lot of potential issues like that entirely, aka. best of both worlds

ebussy_foot · Wednesday at 3:53 AM

Crystal_tofu said:
that's the thing, AK2i afaik doesn't have issues with rom hacks based on roms that need AP patching (Ex. HGSS)
and yes you are correct i could, AP patch it myself but there's this caveat to where AP patching the base rom via the scene tool
then patching the base rom with the rom hack causes issues, and if attempted the other way around by applying the rom hack patch first 9 times out of 10 scene tool will fail to recognize the compatibility for AP patching and like one stated above it's best to install TWLM++ on a AK2i to midigate alot of potential issues like that entirely, aka. bwst of both worlds

True. If you're using a YSMenu based cart this is the other way around. YSMenu is hilariously bad with hacks.

Janni9009 · Wednesday at 9:13 PM

Sinrion said:
At this point, just assume it's a dead product and they maybe bring a "new version" of it (because you can't Flash the card itself).

Evidently it's possible due to the save-type bricks literally erasing the flash. Main issue is the lack of any source code, especially for the FPGA (which would be needed to fix at least the atrocious SD I/O speed and corruption issues, and also allow for stuff like DSi-ntrboot). Also EZTeam never ended up releasing that unbricker...

ebussy_foot said:
True. If you're using a YSMenu based cart this is the other way around. YSMenu is hilariously bad with hacks.

Any romhacks that run on YSMenu have to have specific support. It pretty much can't run any retail(-like) game it's not aware of.

Crystal_tofu · Wednesday at 9:36 PM

ebussy_foot said:
True. If you're using a YSMenu based cart this is the other way around. YSMenu is hilariously bad with hacks.

i recall using YSMenu back in 2018 but can't remember why i stopped, but seeing your point and the many before yours...
..yeah i can see why now lmfao

ebussy_foot · 2024-07-04T03:40:15+0100

Crystal_tofu said:
i recall using YSMenu back in 2018 but can't remember why i stopped, but seeing your point and the many before yours...
..yeah i can see why now lmfao

It's a real damn shame that 99% of currently produced carts are YSMenu carts. There's the Ace3DS Plus/X (which is decent if not with a few issues of it's own) and the... Parallel. If only we could go back in time and tell the Chinese to clone the crap out of the Wood compatible carts instead of the YSMenu ones. Or hell, even the BL2CK carts. The only one you can buy new still is the R4DSPro and it's resoundingly meh. It's compatibility is great but the cart itself has a lot of issues. Why did we get stuck with YSMenu bros?

:gun:

Janni9009 · 2024-07-05T03:20:03+0100

The Ace3DS+/X and R4iLS clones are actually pretty solid, the best currently available option even. Only really have 2 main issues with them, missing AP patches for B/W/2 (easily solved by using DSJ's cheatDB), and a lack of argv (can work around using hbmenu or TWLMenu). Other than that they run fullspeed and have a decent DLDI for homebrew.

ebussy_foot · 2024-07-05T03:27:53+0100

Janni9009 said:
The Ace3DS+/X and R4iLS clones are actually pretty solid, the best currently available option even. Only really have 2 main issues with them, missing AP patches for B/W/2 (easily solved by using DSJ's cheatDB), and a lack of argv (can work around using hbmenu or TWLMenu). Other than that they run fullspeed and have a decent DLDI for homebrew.

You're not wrong. But I'm also comparing them to the options we used to have too.

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