Hey everybody, I was hoping I could ask for some advice from people who might know what's going on.
I have a CycloDS with 2.3 firmware and a Toshiba microSD that I've had for a few years. Every once in a while, the DS wouldn't recognize the flashcart, but I could just take it out, put it back in, and it would be fine. Not sure how relevant that is, but I thought I would say it anyway.
Anyway, recently I've been having all sorts of weird problems come up a bit more frequently. Along with the above problem, these also happen:
1. I put the microSD in the card reader and used it in my PC, ejected it safely, etc., but when I put it back in my Cyclo and turned the DS on, it said the SD card was not formatted correctly. If I put it back into the PC, it would say the same thing, and so I would have to reformat the card and put everything on again from a backup. The fact that this happened twice is kinda weird to me.
2. Games tend to be freezing a bit now, usually either when coming out of sleep mode or when loading / changing screens.
3. Sometimes the Cyclo goes into a black-screen recovery mode (which I've never seen before), telling me it can't find an update and asking if I want to load from the microSD (which gives me an error if I say yes).
4. At times it says it can't find the microSD card.
I've tried cleaning the contacts on the card, DS, and microSD, but it didn't seem to do anything. The problems occur enough that I can't really feel comfortable playing a game, since I've lost tons of saves already, but they don't occur reliably enough that I can troubleshoot (e.g. my computer detects the microSD, but so does the Cyclo most of the time, so I can't just say that's the problem).
So has anybody had similar problems? Anybody know what's going on? I figure I'm gonna have to pony up for either a new flashcart or microSD (or both), but if I know which one is causing the problems, I'd prefer to just have to buy one of them.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I have a CycloDS with 2.3 firmware and a Toshiba microSD that I've had for a few years. Every once in a while, the DS wouldn't recognize the flashcart, but I could just take it out, put it back in, and it would be fine. Not sure how relevant that is, but I thought I would say it anyway.
Anyway, recently I've been having all sorts of weird problems come up a bit more frequently. Along with the above problem, these also happen:
1. I put the microSD in the card reader and used it in my PC, ejected it safely, etc., but when I put it back in my Cyclo and turned the DS on, it said the SD card was not formatted correctly. If I put it back into the PC, it would say the same thing, and so I would have to reformat the card and put everything on again from a backup. The fact that this happened twice is kinda weird to me.
2. Games tend to be freezing a bit now, usually either when coming out of sleep mode or when loading / changing screens.
3. Sometimes the Cyclo goes into a black-screen recovery mode (which I've never seen before), telling me it can't find an update and asking if I want to load from the microSD (which gives me an error if I say yes).
4. At times it says it can't find the microSD card.
I've tried cleaning the contacts on the card, DS, and microSD, but it didn't seem to do anything. The problems occur enough that I can't really feel comfortable playing a game, since I've lost tons of saves already, but they don't occur reliably enough that I can troubleshoot (e.g. my computer detects the microSD, but so does the Cyclo most of the time, so I can't just say that's the problem).
So has anybody had similar problems? Anybody know what's going on? I figure I'm gonna have to pony up for either a new flashcart or microSD (or both), but if I know which one is causing the problems, I'd prefer to just have to buy one of them.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!