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Gaming DS Lite D-Pad Broken (Left key only)

[DSpico] Pico Launcher Enhanced, and PicoDex, a browser tool for the SD card

rasalopa · 2026-08-07T14:17:06+00:00

Hi everyone. I have been working on a few things for the DSpico for the last weeks and I wanted to share them here. Pico Launcher Enhanced is my fork of Pico Launcher. It keeps everything the original does and adds: Favorites (press X) and completed marks (hold X), with filters in the app bar Play time, launch count and last played date per game A recently played panel and a statistics screen (START) Game deletion from the launcher, with confirmation Brightness control for the DS Lite backlight Per folder background music, and night variants for theme backgrounds Game count of the current folder on the top screen, and random launch with SELECT The last release was mostly bug fixes. The worst one: the favorites filter could come up completely empty. Marks were looked up by the game internal code first, so on a renamed rom the top screen found the heart but the browser filter, which only sees file names, could not, and the game just vanished from the list. A user reported it and sent me his gamedata.json, that file is what let me find it. Saving is also atomic now, before that a power loss in the middle could leave you with an empty file and no favorites at all. Install is the same as the original, rename LAUNCHER.nds to _picoboot.nds in the root of your SD card. Your existing gamedata.json carries over. https://github.com/rasalopa/pico-launcher-enhanced PicoDex is a browser tool for the SD card. No install and no backend, you open the card and it manages covers, folder icons and file associations. It also tells you which Pico Loader release your card is running, and warns you when the files in _pico did not all come from the same one, which happens if you update by copying only the files you think changed. And for a retail nds game it shows what the loader will do at boot, if an anti piracy fix matches your exact rom revision, the save type and size, and any game patch. Chromium only sorry (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera). https://rasalopa.github.io/picodex/ The board LEDs, the DSpico board has two status leds that the firmware leaves dark. I made a firmware fork that uses them, blue for SD card activity and red when the firmware cannot start an SD transfer it needs, which are the places where it already freezes with no visible sign. Here it is reading, and then saving: This one needs compiling the firmware yourself, so I also sent it upstream as a pull request with the feature behind a build flag that is off by default. If it gets merged it would be there for everyone without a custom build. https://github.com/LNH-team/dspico-firmware/pull/26 Everything is open source. Thanks to the LNH team for the DSpico and for making all of this possible in the first place. If something is broken or you want something, issues are the fastest way to reach me.

Thread starter Deleted member 146805
Start date Nov 10, 2010
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Deleted member 146805

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Nov 10, 2010

The left arrow key on my nephew's DS Lite is not working. The up, right, and down still work perfectly. Will replacing the rubber pad under the keys fix this issue? Or could it be a motherboard issue.

Thanks!

DryYoshi

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Nov 10, 2010

It would be nice if this question is also in AskGBATemp. (to fill up the FAQ) -_-

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Thanks for pointing me that way. I went and posted it to AskGBAtemp. Hopefully, it will get answered there or here. If I don't get an answer I'll probably try to replace the pad anyway and see if it works.

dilav

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Nov 10, 2010

If you are going to take it apart, make sure it is in place if it is then, flip the pad 180 degrees and push the pad down and see if you go left. The rubber pad has a conductive part and it connects the two metal point where the button is at closing the circuit, you can use wires or something to jump them to see if it is just the board or the pad.