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Soft reset in homebrew is and uncommon and not very reliable feature. I think they abandoned it between OS V3 and EOS. No cart has an in-game menu for homebrew and the DSONE and DSTWO are the only carts with any in-game menu worth mentioning at all. I’ve never had crashes with the in-game menu with the exception of sometimes when restoring a save state (which is sort of expected given how they are implimented). Do you know which games you are getting this with?

For now, I've experienced it only with Pokemon Black, Naraba World, and Titanic Mystery. None of it are games I play a lot... But I thought I should test with different things. Interestingly, since I wrote that post, I can't reproduce the crash any more... Maybe the cart wasn't inserted quite properly before? IDK...

However, I agree this cart is a really good bargain at this point. I am liking it more and more. Thank you very much for pointing out to it!

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yeah most carts bypass the menu
Is it for some technical reason, or just deliberate choice from the devs?
I would actually prefer starting it from the menu, but it is not a deal breaker either way.
 

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For now, I've experienced it only with Pokemon Black, Naraba World, and Titanic Mystery.

I've heard of some stuttering on pokemon black/white on other carts that I was unable to reproduce with any cart I own. My hunch is that it's related to SD performance but I don't have

Is it for some technical reason, or just deliberate choice from the devs?

Deliberate choice by the developers, There is a flag you can set in the cartridge header the triggers autoboot. Many older carts chose to enable this. The only thing you are really missing from the home screen is the ability to boot GBA games. You can use https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Simple_GBA_Mode_Switcher to do that from within the flashcart's kernel. If you really want access to
 

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For now, I've experienced it only with Pokemon Black, Naraba World, and Titanic Mystery. None of it are games I play a lot... But I thought I should test with different things. Interestingly, since I wrote that post, I can't reproduce the crash any more... Maybe the cart wasn't inserted quite properly before? IDK...

I thought I had an issue with the in game menu crashing and then it seemed to disappear. After some experimenting I'm leaning towards it being WHEN in game you call up the menu. It seems to crash when called during the intro sequences of games but is OK when the actual game is running.
 

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Many of these services, like Alibaba, NewEgg, (even GameStop), and old-time catalog services, *Dr. Nimrods health supplies and the random Elvis painting or dragon statues type trash that Tom Bosley used to pitch for (on US TV) are what in business terms are called drop shipping sales. These were popular, as they were a way to offer many items without putting out the overhead for the stock. This has become almost a common business practice today.

In years gone by catalogs were put together with your name (as a retailer) on them, to give out at your established business location, but the items didn't actually come from you. They were shipped from various warehouses around the world, often with your return address attached to the items when shipped, as though you [your company] actually sent them. They would include another catalog with the order, with your return address, for an additional fee from you.

Essentially they were using your clientele to sell to. In addition, many mail-order businesses would buy mailing lists, curated by constant maintenance, aimed at very specific sales interests. Now our cookies on our browser provide this info to your search engine/browser/etc. You would purchase the list for a limited mailing, they would include an address in it that would allow them to track how often the list was used. These lists were several hundred USD $100-500 depending on your target market, for 3-4 mailings only.

These lists were gold for the direct mail marketing campaign, regardless of what you sold, product or services.

Sorry for the wall-O-text but the study of how marketing has changed since the advent of the 'net is fascinating and provides insights into what works and what doesn't. The techniques used today by the 'net are/were the very same as used in a modified format, years ago for real-time mail order and other business marketing.

* Sorry, there is a Real Dr. So and so but I couldn't recall his name, my wife once worked for them for a short time, so Nimrod it is...
 

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Today I've got a new problem. Some games, like Final Fantasy IV, Dragon Quest IV, and New Super Mario Bros seem to crash at loading some stuff... I mean, the screed goes blank (dark) and stays like that forever. In Finally Fantasy IV this happens when I try to load a saved game, in Dragon Quest IV when a map should be changed, and on Super Mario Bros during game loading after a lost life... I thought it might a problem with my DS Lite itself, but then I tried to load an official cartridge, Zelda Phantom Hourglass, and everything works fine...

Maybe I could try to buy a different sd card, but I am using a Kingston currently, and I never had problems with those. I mean, it is not a fresh one, it was used on other devices before, but still, my laptop doesn't show any problems on the card... But is it worth a try?

I thought I had an issue with the in game menu crashing and then it seemed to disappear. After some experimenting I'm leaning towards it being WHEN in game you call up the menu. It seems to crash when called during the intro sequences of games but is OK when the actual game is running.

Yes, I think I've started to notice similar behaviours, too. But I am still not sure about the consistency of it... Especially after experiencing the above.
 

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Maybe I could try to buy a different sd card, but I am using a Kingston currently, and I never had problems with those. I mean, it is not a fresh one, it was used on other devices before, but still, my laptop doesn't show any problems on the card... But is it worth a try?

The problems with SD cards that can cause issues in game aren't generally things that will show up on a computer so it's very much worth trying a different card or reformatting you existing card (FAT32 with 32kb cluster/allocation unit size). I'd try the reformat first because having larger allocation units can really help with read performance but failing that, the card itself could just be kinda slow.

It is also possible you got a bum unit and no amount of fiddling with it will help but it would be a bit weird for a manufacturing defect to cause the issues you describe.
 

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I've heard of some stuttering on pokemon black/white on other carts that I was unable to reproduce with any cart I own. My hunch is that it's related to SD performance but I don't have



Deliberate choice by the developers, There is a flag you can set in the cartridge header the triggers autoboot. Many older carts chose to enable this. The only thing you are really missing from the home screen is the ability to boot GBA games. You can use https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Simple_GBA_Mode_Switcher to do that from within the flashcart's kernel. If you really want access to
IIRC most DS flashcarts have an option to boot slot-2 already built in.
 

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oh and also a few questions
a) does anyone know a korean version of the dsone EOS?

As far as I know there isn't a Korean language available. Interestingly there is a lang_kor directory under languages but the actual menu text in it is in English. I have no idea if the fonts in the directory include the Korean character set but my guess would be no. I tried activating it by manually editing my config but was not able to get it to work.
 
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As far as I know there isn't a Korean language available. Interestingly there is a lang_kor directory under languages but the actual menu text in it is in English. I have no idea if the fonts in the directory include the Korean character set but my guess would be no. I tried activating it by manually editing my config but was not able to get it to work.
thats what i thought when i dug into the firmware, though i needed some files file to copy into for korean support
 

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I ordered one of these and finally arrived, I actually own the original too so I wanted to compare them and to my surprise, this clone version might actually have better build quality?

I mean, it still cheap plastic but the build seems to be more accurate to normal DS cards, like the clone one actually has all the pins unlike the original, and something odd I notice with flashcards is that they don't fit well on New 3DS. Something about that slot is too tight for flashcard, its near impossible to make the original DSOne to fit on a New 3DS but the clone version does fit it almost flawlessly.

Its practically better than the original in that regard, the biggest downside is the lack of proper stick and the fact that getting them is almost a gamble, mine seems to work perfectly fine tho.
 

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The problems with SD cards that can cause issues in game aren't generally things that will show up on a computer so it's very much worth trying a different card or reformatting you existing card (FAT32 with 32kb cluster/allocation unit size). I'd try the reformat first because having larger allocation units can really help with read performance but failing that, the card itself could just be kinda slow.

It is also possible you got a bum unit and no amount of fiddling with it will help but it would be a bit weird for a manufacturing defect to cause the issues you describe.

This actually makes sense, thanks. However, in the meantime I think I have noticed a pattern, but I'm not sure if THAT makes any sense... Anyway, the only times any problems at all occur, is when I use a non-default theme. If I just change it back to default, it won't be fixed right away, but if, after setting back to the default theme, I leave it off for a few hours, the next time I turn it on, it's all nice and dandy again. So I thought that non-default themes maybe add some weight to the firmware, affecting performance. But even if so, your suggestion still makes equal sense, IMO. I should probably try it.
 

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It's like $5, pretty cheap.
Though I'd be more interested in some way to fix my DSTWO than getting a DSONE.
 

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It's like $5, pretty cheap.
Though I'd be more interested in some way to fix my DSTWO than getting a DSONE.
The DSONE and DSTWO are essentially the same. It's just that the DSTWO has that MIPS CPU on board that uses a lot of energy. There's really no use for those built in emulators any more.
 

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