Hacking M3i Zer0 - revival

[barney1st]

hi, I need help… bad

I tried to add a game on my son old M3i Zero (GMP -Z003) and the whole thing just crashed… I cant seem to be able to put back this M3 in working order. I tried the various tutorials to flash the cards, I tried a few instances and versions of firmware and Sakura, and while everything seem to copy and flash properly, the DS just loads to a blank, or a black (lighted) screen… Can you help me, or tell me where I can find a newer and better card in Ottawa in the next 48h...?

 

[barney1st]

update on the situation… still no way of reviving the M3i Zero… I am starting to believe it's dead...
I'd still like to test it with a earlier version of Sakura and firmware, one that pre-dates the 3DS, since I am using it only on a regular NDS…. do you know where I can find that?

 

[Fel]

Here you go!

https://gbatemp.net/download/categories/m3-itouchds-g6-series.1532/

You can also use linfox as it's much more easier to find the latest version and see the kernel history.

http://www.linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/

Have you tried Ysmenu by the way? It doesn't have any features that Sakura has except cheats and soft reset, hower it's being updated all the time, so games that don't work on Sakura will work on Ysmenu with some exceptions (like some English patched games worked on Sakura but not Ysmenu until it got an update). However if you prefer Sakura you can always look for AP patches or use the AP patch cheats if the game has them, Deadskullzjr has a nice cheat database you can use with Sakura, although it's bigger than the one that comes with Sakura as it contains so many more cheats and altwfc cheats so you don't need to patch your games to go online.

You can dualboot btw, which means you start Sakura as normal and then select Ysmenu.nds and it boots the menu and then you're in the Ysmenu. Or you can use it as the only menu, by removing all Sakura folders and following the primary kernel instructions.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/retrogamefan-updates-releases.267243/