Hacking Cheats gone missing[SCDS2]

[StarWallace]

ok i haven't used my DS is quite some time... but i recently decided to update my SCDS2 firmware and apply the 1.4.1 hack so i could start using it again.

after i ran the hack and copied my new firmware 1.07 over (i also added the SNES emulator, but i would think that would be irrelevant...). Now there are a few select games that my usrcheat.dat doesn't seem to show cheats for anymore... I know they are in the data base, because before the update i had access to the cheats for those games (Tales of Innocence, LOZ:Spirit Tracks, and Dragon Quest 9). I have also tried my Acekard 2i and i was able to access the cheats there...

so why is it that i cannot access these cheats anymore? (Other games work just fine)

edit: i tired rolling it back to 1.04 that i had before but i still got nothing... i also found out that cheats dont work for dementium II either

 

[StarWallace]

bump. anyone?

 

[MF Tlaxcala]

Did you enabled the games in R4cce?

 

[StarWallace]

r4cce? sounds like something to do with an R4... but this is a supercard... i'm not sure i understand what your talkin about...

 

[MF Tlaxcala]

r4cce? sounds like something to do with an R4... but this is a supercard... i'm not sure i understand what your talkin about...

Your database is usrcheat.dat right? Now, you can edit your database with R4cce. Google it somewhere, it's easy to find. This editor is not only for R4, but for many other flashcards like EDGE, Acekard, yours, etc. In R4cce you can enable games in the navbar or by clicking on the game that containing codes on "Game Enable".

 

[StarWallace]

interesting, i can't believe i've never come across that in my two years of flash cart usage...

well regardless i tried it, i did an enable all and it didn't help sadly.. (tho im not sure how it would have since they had worked just fine before and i never had to do that...)

 

[MF Tlaxcala]

interesting, i can't believe i've never come across that in my two years of flash cart usage...

well regardless i tried it, i did an enable all and it didn't help sadly.. (tho im not sure how it would have since they had worked just fine before and i never had to do that...)

Uhmm.. Then try to download another version of usrcheat.dat and look or it works then. (Also, maybe the games must be enabled in R4cce..)

 

[StarWallace]

EDIT: ok i figured out why other firmware were not working, i didn't realize that i had to copy the 1.4.1 firmware patch over each time i changed the firmware. i am now running 1.06 but still have no access to the cheats. Also, i figured out that it's not that some games are missing cheats, it's only TOI that is missing cheats (the other games i mentioned don't even have cheats in existence XD). I assume this has something to do with the fact that it's a copy of the game that was patched with the AbsoluteZero english translation patch... but it bothers me because it worked flawlessly before i ever updated my DSi and DSTWO firmwares.

ok let me summarize what i have tried since the problem started:
-backed up my DSTWO cart
- copied DSTWO 1.07 firmware update over and ran the DSi firmware 1.4.1 patch
- updated my DSi
- went to go any play TOI but found that my characters were dieing almost instantly in battle because of a lack of cheat codes (thanks to infinite health they are at far to low of levels to survive at the point of the game im at)
- plugged my micro sd into my comp again and copied the old usrcheat.dat back into the _dstwo folder *
- i tried to turn my cheats back on on the DSTWO but they were magically not there
- i downloaded a fresh db from cheats.gbatemp.net and tried again; still nothing
- i tried my AceKard 2i to see if the cheats still worked there and they did, based on the exact same fresh usrcheat.dat
- i went back to the DSTWO and tried some other games and only Nostalgia and ridge racer had cheats actually visible in the list
- i posted this topic and waited for some help (actually i did a search of the forum first

)
- i then copied DSTWO firmware 1.04 back to my card (copied from my back up of my card prior to all this) but still saw no cheats
- when you suggested the R4cce, i went and downloaded it and gave it a shot. i explicitly enabled TOI in the database and copied the saved file to my card but still saw no cheats (and nostalgia still DID show it's cheats despite being disabled)
- i then did an enable all in the cheat db, still this did not work
- i tried moving the TOI cheat entry to the top of the cheat db (via r4cce) and still saw no cheats
- i tried installing firmware 1.06 and was given an error (the standard nintendo error please turn off and try again blah blah blah)
- i tried multiple time to get the card to respond when turned on (i cleaned contacts of the cart and SD card, i did the wait 10 seconds for the card to initialize, i did cold restarts) all to no avail. the card was bricked so to speak.
- i put 1.07 back on and got the same thing
- i put 1.04 out of my backup copy back and and got into the cart first try.

* the reason the usrcheat.dat had been deleted is because i copied the new firmware over using my mac. the mac has no ability to combine folders together, so if the folder already exists the only option is either to completely replace or cancel the copying, i chose to completely replace. After this first copy of the new firmware, i started to use only my windows virtual machine for copying files because windows only overwrites files that already exist.

as far as i can tell, DSTWO no firmware updates will work for me at all (which is odd because this whole issue began after starting the card into firmware 1.07 for the first time and then promptly launching the new DSi firmware patch) all i can get to work is my old copy of 1.04 (i believe at some point i may have tested a fresh copy of 1.04 and got the same error, tho i'm not sure if i did or not).

so right now i am stuck in a backed up copy of 1.04 and have a complete lack of cheat codes on most of my games. contrary to that, my updated Acekard 2i (i also ran the firmware patch for my acekard and have had no problems) is working on a fresh cheat database and is able to display cheats for all games INCLUDING tales of innocence.

(i've also tried my DSPhat but gotten no better results.)