Hardware GBA [EZ Flash Omega DE-B (Blue)] Mode B - RAM Option Pak does not work

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Hoping to get the attention of @EZ-Flash2 with this

I've tried every available kernel for the EZODE-Blue (as available on the ezflash.cn and linked filehosting website) and so far have been unable to get the Mode B - DS RAM Option Pak to work.

The Rumble Mode B Option Pak shows up on my DS correctly, but setting to RAM or Link in the Mode A menu, and switching to Mode B, will only launch the game in NOR.
(Or show "There is no Game Pak Inserted" if the NOR is empty)

Even setting the RAM mode and switching to Mode B, memtestARM (https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/MemtestARM) does not detect the RAM.

In my opinion, there is a missing option for Mode B, enable the Option Pak modes or present the NOR flashed game.

Let me know if there is anything more that I should try

Thanks!
 
I have this exact same issue as well, I was wondering if the feature broke between kernel updates but I see you already eliminated that. Game Link has been working for me so far.

Also another issue, the instructions say to write the large GBA video roms to the NOR to play them but actually pretty much all the ones tried wouldn't run from NOR and booting from the SD directly was what worked, only the smaller gba video roms seem to require NOR flashing, which is the opposite of what was advertised and instructed. Just make the kernel open source so other people can make the fixes and features we want since they want top do it themselves anyway.
 
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I tried booting in safe mode and updating the kernel again to see if maybe the auto update detect was the fault but same result. Test card showed no issues either. RAM Mode B just acts as game link mode.
 

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