Gvaz said:
gonna try the danny phantom linked but idk if it will work since my dsi xl can already see the card fine
edit2: doesn't work. Says this card cannot be updated and has a HW of 8080 and a card id of 0fc2
No i'm afraid you can't update the internal firmware on these, they come with 1.4 from the factory. If you try to update them, you'll get the error message you've already encountered.
If you put in in a DS Lite it should say "Acekard 2" in the next box right of the Acekard icon, while a genuine Acekard 2i will display "Acekard 2i" in this box even on a DS Lite. This is the reason you can't update them, they are a fudged clone of the Acekard 2/ 2.1