Hacking Another "please help me with my ewin2 thread"

[akira181]

I've got an NDS Lite and I'm confused on a few things with the Ewin, I'm hoping someone here can help.

I bought my DS in Hong Kong and it came with an Ewin2. After reading around this site, I managed to find the software and firmware needed to run it. I'm currently using Ewin Tools 1.31 and firmware 1.92.6 (I read the newer firmware was buggy).

I don't use any of these PassMe cards but my Ewin2 still gets detected and runs games fine. I got some games on the card like Mario Kart, Brain Age 1, Resident Evil Dead Silence and they work fine. The shop-keeper may have flashed the firmware on the DS without telling me before I bought it (he did that with cousins PSP), which may be why I don't need the PassMe card.

What I'm confused with is Ewin Tools. When I used it to patch Brain Age 2 and put it onto the memory card, it shows up on the DS Ewin screen but when I go to open it, it loads up but then just shows 2 white screens and nothing happens. This happens with quite a few games and ticking "Force Start" doesn't make a difference. Why is this and what can I do to fix it?

Is this because I don't have a PassMe card or am I doing something wrong with Ewin Tools?

Hope someone can help and thanks in advance!

 

[omgitssatan]

Make sure you HAVE ticked the force access box and put the rom onto your card, making sure a non-working one isn't already there. Then usually you should not have a problem as long as you press A or Y. Sometimes if you touch the icon it doesn't load properly. If none of these work then upgrade to 1.96.8R as I have no problems.

 

[akira181]

not logged onto here in a while. Thanks for the help but I found out what the problem was.

For some reason, you have to use the matching ewin tools with the latest firmware. Once I got the newer firmware installed, everything started working fine.