Hacking dstwo, the biggest disappointment ever!

[Sicklyboy]

Some times the memory card might be the cause , try formatting it and then try playing .

Did you even bother to read his last post?

 

[porkiewpyne]

Did you even bother to read his last post?

Ain't nobody got tiem fo dat

 

[MegaBassBX]

y

Did you even bother to read his last post?

Ya I did , again he should try removing the micro SD and either change it or format it .
I have 2 DStwo cards and one of them acted the same way , I changed the SD card and that fixed it for me.

 

[Sicklyboy]

y

Ya I did , again he should try removing the micro SD and either change it or format it .
I have 2 DStwo cards and one of them acted the same way , I changed the SD card and that fixed it for me.

[...]I tried several formatting iterations, including windows default (I know, not recommended, but I had tried everything by this point). I also tried the Panasonic formatter, using both quick and rewrite options several times.
I tried multiple SD cards, including non-hc cards.[...]

 

[spryx]

y

Ya I did , again he should try removing the micro SD and either change it or format it .
I have 2 DStwo cards and one of them acted the same way , I changed the SD card and that fixed it for me.

I appreciate the advice, but I tried 4 different sd cards and formatted them each several times.

 

[MegaBassBX]

shit missed that part

 

[Another World]

here is a snippet from my review, it lists what retail games i tested on the original SNES emu release. try files that passed and see if they are working for you.

Spoiler

SFC ROM Compatibility:
ActRaiser - Pass
Aladdin - Pass
Alien 3 - Pass
Arcade's Greatest Hits - Pass (Sound issues)
Breath of Fire - Pass
Castlevania - Dracula X - Pass
Chrono Trigger - Pass
Contra III - The Alien Wars- Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4, sound issues)
Donkey Kong Country - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Double Dragon V - The Shadow Falls - Pass
Earthworm Jim 2 - Pass
Final Fight - Pass
Flashback - The Quest for Identity - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4 for cut-scenes, cut-scene slow down)
F-ZERO (CPU Frequency 3) - Pass
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventure (Some sprites do not display: poison dart level 1) - Pass
JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Volume 1 - Pass
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Knights of the Round - Pass
Lagoon - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Mario Paint - Problems (Mouse not emulated)
Mr. Do! - Pass
Ms. Pac-Man - Pass (CPU Frequency 3)
NHL '95 - Pass
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy - Pass
Out of This World - Pass (CPU Frequency 4)
Pinball Dreams - Pass
Prince of Persia - Pass
Stargate - Pass
Super Castlevania IV - Pass
Super Chase H.Q. - Pass (CPU Frequency 3)
Super Double Dragon - Pass
Super Mario All-Stars - Pass
Super Mario World - Pass
Super Metroid - Pass (CPU Frequency 4, occasional slow-down)
Super Off Road - Pass
U.N. Squadron - Pass
Wolfenstein 3D - Pass
X-Men - Mutant Apocalypse - Pass (CPU Frequency 4)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Pass

make sure you verify your roms by crc against a known goodset listing.

-another world

 

[spryx]

here is a snippet from my review, it lists what retail games i tested on the original SNES emu release. try files that passed and see if they are working for you.

Spoiler

SFC ROM Compatibility:
ActRaiser - Pass
Aladdin - Pass
Alien 3 - Pass
Arcade's Greatest Hits - Pass (Sound issues)
Breath of Fire - Pass
Castlevania - Dracula X - Pass
Chrono Trigger - Pass
Contra III - The Alien Wars- Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4, sound issues)
Donkey Kong Country - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Double Dragon V - The Shadow Falls - Pass
Earthworm Jim 2 - Pass
Final Fight - Pass
Flashback - The Quest for Identity - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4 for cut-scenes, cut-scene slow down)
F-ZERO (CPU Frequency 3) - Pass
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventure (Some sprites do not display: poison dart level 1) - Pass
JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Volume 1 - Pass
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Knights of the Round - Pass
Lagoon - Pass (CPU Frequency 3-4)
Mario Paint - Problems (Mouse not emulated)
Mr. Do! - Pass
Ms. Pac-Man - Pass (CPU Frequency 3)
NHL '95 - Pass
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy - Pass
Out of This World - Pass (CPU Frequency 4)
Pinball Dreams - Pass
Prince of Persia - Pass
Stargate - Pass
Super Castlevania IV - Pass
Super Chase H.Q. - Pass (CPU Frequency 3)
Super Double Dragon - Pass
Super Mario All-Stars - Pass
Super Mario World - Pass
Super Metroid - Pass (CPU Frequency 4, occasional slow-down)
Super Off Road - Pass
U.N. Squadron - Pass
Wolfenstein 3D - Pass
X-Men - Mutant Apocalypse - Pass (CPU Frequency 4)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Pass

make sure you verify your roms by crc against a known goodset listing.

-another world

Here are the results of a quick test I did using 7 verified roms. No luck...I will verify the results on the DS Lite. Sorry about the formatting below, it seems that my tabs did not space correctly.

ROM                CRC - Region            Result
 
Aladdin                      0FC3 (Europe)        Freezes @ Capcom logo
Breath of Fire            0B11 (USA)              Freezes @ Squaresoft logo
Chrono Trigger          788C (USA)              Freezes after pendulum sequence
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy  6DC9 (USA)              Freezes @ Tecmo logo
Super Mario All-Stars AA5C (USA)              Freezes @ transition from title screen to game select
Super Mario World    A0DA (USA)              Freezes after selecting '1 player'
Super Metroid          F8DF (Japan, USA)    Freezes @ Nintendo logo (CPU @ 340MHz)

 

[Another World]

do ds features like in-game guide, real time save, slow motion, and the cheat editor work for you? from what i can recall those are all using the on-board cpu. although a bit challenging to set up, you could also try the dingux port for the ds2, as it will use the on-board cpu/ram as well. http://gbatemp.net/threads/dstwo-linux-beta1-0-release.339028/

can you try your roms using the newly released lolSnes emu? http://gbatemp.net/threads/lolsnes-snes-emulator-for-ds.353252/

-another world

 

[spryx]

ok, tried lolSnes, Oddly enough, this one seems to work better than CATSFC (at least for Aladdin). Aladdin ran for about 6 seconds before an error was reported and the system froze.
Super Mario World froze at the intro (Welcome! dialog). The other roms freeze upon initial run.

I will try the cheat system for DS roms and get back to you. Perhaps the enhanced scds2 functions utilize the onboad CPU

EDIT: The free cheat feature works on DS roms, its a cool feature, reminds me of the old game-hack memory editor

 

[Sychu]

Your card is defective it's as simple and plain as that. Imo there’s no need to try anything else and all of these tests that you're doing are a waste of time and useless (no offence). I just got my DSTWO 3 days ago and it plays snes/gba games "almost" flawlessly. I ordered mine from Digitopz though. Well there is one thing though, maybe your snes/gba players are plugged in the wrong way. If you don't have the folders in the right spots then the programs will malfunction or not work (i learned that the hard way). Good luck! i hope i didn't offend.

 

[Another World]

lolsnes runs in ds-mode, its a ds homebrew, it has nothing to do with the on-board cpu/ram. if the roms fail there and also in the scds2 snes emus, i would start to blame the roms. please test real time save and slow-motion on a handful of ds games. if those work i would really take a closer look at those snes roms.

-another world

 

[Deleted member 319809]

As evidenced by #3 and its crash due to "Unknown instruction exception", I believe the on-board CPU of your DSTwo is faulty. There is absolutely no reason why it should be unable to execute "LUI $19, 0x800", an instruction that puts 16 bits into a register. It doesn't even access any RAM.

The menu in CATSFC and TempGBA runs with the on-board CPU at 60 MHz. The defaults during a game, however, are 396 MHz for CATSFC and 360 MHz for TempGBA. Try running a ROM under TempGBA at 240 MHz: Load up the game, immediately tap the screen and go into /Options and set the CPU frequency to [0] 240 MHz.

As for DS homebrew, well... if the on-board CPU is faulty, given that it controls the reading from the microSD card for the loading of DS homebrew files, it may pass corrupted data back to the DS for execution. Once it's in, though, if it was read correctly, it'll run correctly until the end.