Hacking It takes many tries for my console to read my AK2i

[Reonu]

What the title says. Happens on both a New 3DS XL and a DS Lite. It takes many tries blowing the cart and such until the console decides to read it. Once it actually reads it, it works fine. Can this be solved by cleaning the connections or something like that? It's one of the old carts, HW 44

 

[Toasty]

What the title says. Happens on both a New 3DS XL and a DS Lite. It takes many tries blowing the cart and such until the console decides to read it. Once it actually reads it, it works fine. Can this be solved by cleaning the connections or something like that? It's one of the old carts, HW 44

Don't blow into your system or on cart. I cleaned my cartridge with windex and a qtip (alcohol is more preferably but I didn't have any) and it is working great. My cart also had the same problem as yours, but strangely it worked fine in my DS lite. It now works in my o3ds and n3ds every time.

 

[DinohScene]

Put a sticker on the back of the cart.
It's not the best method but it seems to work.

 

[DeadSkullzJr]

What the title says. Happens on both a New 3DS XL and a DS Lite. It takes many tries blowing the cart and such until the console decides to read it. Once it actually reads it, it works fine. Can this be solved by cleaning the connections or something like that? It's one of the old carts, HW 44

I actually had that issue with my Stargate 3DS, I never cleaned it or anything, so far it seems to be working fine now. Maybe the console just needs to get used to it, sometimes even technology needs to adjust to certain things.