Hacking DS doesn't like a flash cart on some games

fraust

Member
OP
Newcomer
Joined
Dec 10, 2006
Messages
13
Trophies
0
XP
71
Country
United States
Been having issues running the dark spire in my ds, so I stuck the flash cart in another and it works fine. Is there a difference in a 1 year old ds, and maybe a 2yr old one, or maybe in the colors as far as hardware goes? The black ds I have is the one acting funny with the cart, but it works 100% fine in other games.

Also is there a way to clean the pins on the inside of a ds? I switched because my older one was not recognizing my flash cart and I would have to blow into the ds to get it to work, but it boots fine every time in the black ds.
 

fraust

Member
OP
Newcomer
Joined
Dec 10, 2006
Messages
13
Trophies
0
XP
71
Country
United States
yup both lites, and I can confim it over and over, was driving me crazy trying to figure out why my game was freezing, then it ran fine in the other ds. But I had been using the ds to play all my games for over a month with no issues.
 

Glacius0

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Nov 27, 2005
Messages
604
Trophies
0
Age
38
Location
The Netherlands
Website
Visit site
XP
205
Country
Netherlands
The only logical explanation I can think of is that the cartridge is not making proper contact with the DS. Try cleaning the contacts both on the cartridge and in your DS. You can also try stuffing a piece of paper in between the cartridge and the slot to force it to make more contact.
 

fraust

Member
OP
Newcomer
Joined
Dec 10, 2006
Messages
13
Trophies
0
XP
71
Country
United States
alright the game gave me the same issues on my other ds, plus I went to move some files off my sd card and got parameters incorrect errors, so I backed my saves up, formatted and so far so good, issue may be fixed.
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    the vram is one advantage when it comes to AI but ends up being slower even with that and really AI is the only use case that needs more than 12gb vram right now
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Interesting lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I think I watched a video where two games at 4K where eating just over 16GB of RAM and it's the one case where the 7900XT and XTX pulled ahead (minus RTX of course)
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    So my opinion is that they could age a bit better in the future, and maybe AMD will continue improving them via drivers like they tend to do. No guarantee there but they have done it in the past. Just a feeling I have.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    cyberpunk at 4k without DLSS/fidelityfx *might* exceed 12gb
    +1
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    but that game barely runs at native 4k
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I think it was some newer games and probably poorly optimized PS4 or PS5 ports
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    they definitely will age better but i feel dlss might outweigh that since it looks about as good as native resolution and much less demanding
    +1
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    When I played Cyberpunk on my old 2080 Ti it sucked lol
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    AMD could introduce something comparable to DLSS but nvidia's got a lot more experience with that
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    least amd 7xxx has tensor cores which the previous generations didn't so there is the potential for AI upscaling
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    They have FSR or whatever it's called and yeah it's still not great
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    so AMD seem to finally be starting to take AI seriously
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Oh yeah those new 8000 CPUs have AI cores built in that's interesting
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Maybe they plan on offloading to the CPU?
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Would be kinda cool to have the CPU and GPU working in random more
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Tandem even
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    i think i heard of that, it's a good idea, shouldn't need a dedicated GPU just to run a LLM or video upscaling
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    even the nvidia shield tv has AI video upscaling
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    LLMs can be run on cpu anyway but it's quite slow
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    Have you ever been beaten by a wet spaghetti noodle by your girlfriend because she has a twin sister, and you got confused and fucked her dad?
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I had a girlfriend who had a twin sister and they would mess with me constantly.... Until one chipped a tooth then finally I could tell them apart.... Lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    They would have the same hair style the same clothes everything... Really messed with my head lol
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    @The Real Jdbye, I could see AMD trying to pull off the CPU GPU tandem thing, would be a way to maybe close the gap a bit with Nvidia. Plus it would kinda put Nvidia at a future disadvantage since Nvidia can't make X86/64 CPUs? Intel and AMD licensing issues... I wonder how much that has held back innovation.
    Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo: @The Real Jdbye, I could see AMD trying to pull off the CPU GPU tandem thing, would be a way to...