Homebrew [NDS] Forwarder CIAs for your HOME Menu

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what happens when you start forwarder cia (game from home menu)?

Did the forwarder CIA work before, or did you just start the flashcard?

Ok the reason the cia forwarder apps didn't work was becouse i'm an idiot and only installed them on emunand ...
It works perfectly now
 

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I gave it a shot, and the forwarder just got stuck on a white screen after launching. After that, my 3DS wouldn't recognize the flashcart anymore. I think it got bricked, because my DS lite won't recognize it either. Ugh.
Guess that's what I get for getting dirt cheap flashcarts.
Strange, because the forwarders don't brick flashcards.
 

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Strange, because the forwarders don't brick flashcards.
I'm not blaming it on your forwarders, merely stating what happened.
I probably screwed up with the package that I was supposed to copy to the flashcart or something along those lines. I'm gonna try formatting the SD and seeing if that revives the flashcart.
Thanks for the quick answers, BTW.
 

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@Bobesh8

Just wanna report in that the flashcard you've recommended to numerous people (and to me) came in, and I put the microSD from the old flashcard into the new flashcard. I tried Black 2 (since it was the only forwarder .cia still installed) and it worked the very first time. Maybe I was just unlucky and had a bad flashcard. Regardless, thanks a ton for all your help!
 
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I'm getting a white screen with "? Menu" sd card icon at the middle. I'm not sure which part I did wrong?

Edit: I'm using an r4isdhc.com cart with YSMenu as the default
 
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Is your .DAT file in the flashcard's microSD card?

Yeah it's inside the Games/ folder, same path as the ROM i generated it from. What's the flashcard SD supposed to look like? I copied over the TTMenu/ and YSMenu.nds from the "DS Game Forwarder Pack" to the root of my SD card, and removed my original TTMenu folder.
 

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Yeah it's inside the Games/ folder, same path as the ROM i generated it from. What's the flashcard SD supposed to look like? I copied over the TTMenu/ and YSMenu.nds from the "DS Game Forwarder Pack" to the root of my SD card, and removed my original TTMenu folder.
The .DAT file should be in the root of the microSD.
 

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Ah i see. What about the generated NDS? Also - how do we customize it such that the .DAT are in a subfolder?
 

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Ah i see. What about the generated NDS? Also - how do we customize it such that the .DAT are in a subfolder?
You don't need the generated .NDS file. For loading the .DAT files in a subfolder, in Forwarder3-DS, type in a letter and then the / character in the .DAT name, and create the folder with the letter as it's name.
 

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Alright, cool. However it's loading the YSMenu file list, the YSMenu.ini says Autoboot /Games/127PHO.nds even though there's no file like that in my SD? I have 0127 Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney (US)(M2).nds though, which is the one I'm trying to load.
 

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Alright, cool. However it's loading the YSMenu file list, the YSMenu.ini says Autoboot /Games/127PHO.nds even though there's no file like that in my SD? I have 0127 Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney (US)(M2).nds though, which is the one I'm trying to load.
Using Forwarder3-DS, change the game path to where your ROM is in the flashcard.
 

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