Thought this deserves its own topic and a poll, to see if there's anything in this.
I have two M3 Reals bought in December that Zelda and every rom I've tried so far work perfectly (including online play), but a new one bought in January crashes constantly - or fails to run roms at all. All M3s were bought from the same supplier, just different batches.
The DS crashes when the gameplay changes and a new screen should load, I assume it's loading data from the SD card to either memory in the M3 cart or the DS and it's when accessing the SD card that it crashes.
The problem seems directly related to the size of the rom: small roms like Mario Kart, Catz 2 and Brain Age 1 seem to load and run fine.
Medium size are intermittent, some load the first screen then crash when selecting an option, others load and run for a while before giving a blank screen.
Large roms like Zelda and Simpsons often give a blank screen as soon as you try to load or fail at the first screen change, but have occasionally run for up to half an hour..
This is using any one of three SD cards that are all Japanese Kingston 1GB with a mixture of FAT, FAT32 and 2.9 or 2.8 and all work perfectly in the older M3s but not the new. I've already had one replacement for it but the problem's the same, still trying to get it resolved. My supplier has been brilliant, but he's getting fobbed off by the distributors who refuse to accept there's a problem.
More than a week of testing with three NDSL consoles, three SD cards and three M3 Reals and a varied selection of roms and homebrew prove in my mind that it's not firmware or the supplied card reader but the latest batch of M3 Real carts, it could possibly be an SD card compatibility problem but the posts on here show people with just about every brand and size of SD card having problems (I work in IT/Systems and am used to diagnosing this kind of problem).
Whether you have problems or not could you check the code on the pins of your M3, the new batch are marked "M3-NdsReal-CPE" previous are "M3-NdsReal-CP2" – 2 = good, E = problems!
If as many people as possible answer the poll then we might get a clear picture of what's going on.
Thanks!
Sorry about the blank poll option, one too many returns and I can't edit it...
I have two M3 Reals bought in December that Zelda and every rom I've tried so far work perfectly (including online play), but a new one bought in January crashes constantly - or fails to run roms at all. All M3s were bought from the same supplier, just different batches.
The DS crashes when the gameplay changes and a new screen should load, I assume it's loading data from the SD card to either memory in the M3 cart or the DS and it's when accessing the SD card that it crashes.
The problem seems directly related to the size of the rom: small roms like Mario Kart, Catz 2 and Brain Age 1 seem to load and run fine.
Medium size are intermittent, some load the first screen then crash when selecting an option, others load and run for a while before giving a blank screen.
Large roms like Zelda and Simpsons often give a blank screen as soon as you try to load or fail at the first screen change, but have occasionally run for up to half an hour..
This is using any one of three SD cards that are all Japanese Kingston 1GB with a mixture of FAT, FAT32 and 2.9 or 2.8 and all work perfectly in the older M3s but not the new. I've already had one replacement for it but the problem's the same, still trying to get it resolved. My supplier has been brilliant, but he's getting fobbed off by the distributors who refuse to accept there's a problem.
More than a week of testing with three NDSL consoles, three SD cards and three M3 Reals and a varied selection of roms and homebrew prove in my mind that it's not firmware or the supplied card reader but the latest batch of M3 Real carts, it could possibly be an SD card compatibility problem but the posts on here show people with just about every brand and size of SD card having problems (I work in IT/Systems and am used to diagnosing this kind of problem).
Whether you have problems or not could you check the code on the pins of your M3, the new batch are marked "M3-NdsReal-CPE" previous are "M3-NdsReal-CP2" – 2 = good, E = problems!
If as many people as possible answer the poll then we might get a clear picture of what's going on.
Thanks!
Sorry about the blank poll option, one too many returns and I can't edit it...
