GimliDS

[chicobalay]

Hi Dave! I'm having trouble running GimliDS and SugarDS on my DS Pico cartridge. Both hang at boot, I'm guessing because they can't access the SD card. If I load Twilight Menu++ from the DS Pico launcher I can load both of them fine.I don't have this problem with any other app, other emulators run fine.

Anyway congratulations for your great work!!

 

[djleviticus]

Hi there. Speccy and Gimli run no problem on my DS Pico without twilight menu. Very strange. How are the folders placed on the sd card?

Post automatically merged: Apr 3, 2026

This is how my sd card is layed out

 

[chicobalay]

Hi there. Speccy and Gimli run no problem on my DS Pico without twilight menu. Very strange. How are the folders placed on the sd card?

Post automatically merged: Apr 3, 2026

This is how my sd card is layed out

I usually place all my emulators on /_pico/emulators/, but I also tried to run them from the root folder and /Emulators/

I have the same problem with StellaDS. ColecoDS, SpeccyDS and nesDS.

ZXDS, GbaRunner2m GBArunner3, SNESemulDS and GameYob run Ok.

Stock DSI XL, DS Pico with WRFUXXED - AutoNTR 1.2.2 firmware and 1.3.0 files from Ansem.

Post automatically merged: Apr 4, 2026

I solved the problem by changing to the Hybrid Firmware.

 

[djleviticus]

Perfect that's what I'm running

 

[vanzan]

Please note that if you are running from an R4 card (or similar), youwill be running in 'Compatibility' mode that keeps the CPU at the slower 67MHz. While GimliDS will run, it must use some levelof light frameskip to get full speed gameplay.

How does the above work if I'm running GimliDS from a DS Pico on my DSi XL? Is it still in compatibility mode? Is it still better to have Moonlight or Unlaunch directly installed on the XL for increased speed? Thank you.

 

[djleviticus]

How does the above work if I'm running GimliDS from a DS Pico on my DSi XL? Is it still in compatibility mode? Is it still better to have Moonlight or Unlaunch directly installed on the XL for increased speed? Thank you.

I would say yes it is. Run from the sd card on the Dsixl through Twilight menu