ROM Hack Multiple Issues with Hacking my DSI

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Hi I could use a bit of help, I am fairly new to homebrew and I attempted to hack my DSi today with the whole SD card deal with Twilight, CFW, etc. and I keep running into issues like white screens when i try to launch roms along with being unable to relaunch unlaunch, and being unable to directly launch to Twilight, any help would be much appreciated I have little to no idea what I am doing XD

 

[Alexander1970]

Hi I could use a bit of help, I am fairly new to homebrew and I attempted to hack my DSi today with the whole SD card deal with Twilight, CFW, etc. and I keep running into issues like white screens when i try to launch roms along with being unable to relaunch unlaunch, and being unable to directly launch to Twilight, any help would be much appreciated I have little to no idea what I am doing XD

Hello.

Please can you give us an sequence of events from what you have done on your hacking/modding.That makes it a little easier to help you.

- On which software Version is your DSi and from which Region ?
- Which exploit you have used ?
- What is the Size of your SD Card you have used ?
- How is your SD Card formatted ?
- Which Unlaunch Version did you installed ?
- How did you install TWiLight Menu ?
- Did you use the HiyaCFW Helper ?

Thank you.

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Ok so I will go by the list
-Ver 1.4.5U
-I used and downloaded everything from dsi cf guide (can't post the link because account is too young) except for a GBA BiOS which i found on one of these forums, I currently have Unlaunch, Twilight, and CWF installed
-2Gb
-The SD card is formatted to be fat32 I believe
-I installed the latest version of Unlaunch
-I believe I had to go through a process of uploading this BAND file but it had an error part way through that I couldn't fix
-That's what I used for it

Also thank you so much and I apologize if this is somewhat vague, if you need me to post pictures I can do that.

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Oh also I used the camera SD card album exploit in order to download Unlaunch

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Ok so I will go by the list
-Ver 1.4.5U
-I used and downloaded everything from dsi cf guide (can't post the link because account is too young) except for a GBA BiOS which i found on one of these forums, I currently have Unlaunch, Twilight, and CWF installed
-2Gb
-The SD card is formatted to be fat32 I believe
-I installed the latest version of Unlaunch
-I believe I had to go through a process of uploading this BAND file but it had an error part way through that I couldn't fix
-That's what I used for it

Also thank you so much and I apologize if this is somewhat vague, if you need me to post pictures I can do that.

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Oh also I used the camera SD card album exploit in order to download Unlaunch

And I have attempted to use a gba and nds rom, the gba rom won't launch and ends up with a white screen, while the nds rom says it needs an AP patch or something, which i did in fact do with a program recommended by Rocket Robz, but it still comes up with the warning and it doesn't work

 

[Alexander1970]

Thank you.

-The SD card is formatted to be fat32 I believe

Please check it exactly this is very important.
FAT32 with Standard Clusters (in Windows in the format options)

Thats maybe why GBARunner not work.And of the bios.bin (the GBA Bios is needed,please GOOGLE it, Link/Download here is NOT allowed) which has to be copied to the ROOT of your SD Card.

AP Patch is very important for some DS games to work correctly.
Please use this thread to read about whch Games needs one and how to use it:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ap-patch-preservation.477536/

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Thank you.



Please check it exactly this is very important.
FAT32 with Standard Clusters (in Windows in the format options)

Thats maybe why GBARunner not work.And of the bios.bin (the GBA Bios is needed,please GOOGLE it, Link/Download here is NOT allowed) which has to be copied to the ROOT of your SD Card.

AP Patch is very important for some DS games to work correctly.
Please use this thread to read about whch Games needs one and how to use it:

 

[Alexander1970]

Yes you have to format to FAT32 please.

Backup the complete content of the SD Card on your PC,format it as described (FAT32 with STANDARD CLUSTERS) and copy all back to the Card.That should help you on your issues.

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Okay so as it turns out my SD card is formatted for only FAT as you can see in the capture, shit just realized that it will have to delete all my process because of this, and I believe I followed a link to a bios from a forum on this site. It was a zip download under the name of
Normatt's Open-Source GBA BIOS (Compiled) 2018-10-07

 

[Alexander1970]

that it will have to delete all my process because of this

No,you must not.COPY all from the SD Card in an FOLDER on your PC HDD.It is ok.
And AFTER formatting your SD Card you can copy ALL back.That should work for you.

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Okay so as it turns out my SD card is formatted for only FAT as you can see in the capture, shit just realized that it will have to delete all my process because of this, and I believe I followed a link to a bios from a forum on this site. It was a zip download under the name of
Normatt's Open-Source GBA BIOS (Compiled) 2018-10-07

Simply GOOGLE "gba bios.bin" please.

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Yes you have to format to FAT32 please.

Backup the complete content of the SD Card on your PC,format it as described (FAT32 with STANDARD CLUSTERS) and copy all back to the Card.That should help you on your issues.

And what is this STANDARD CLUSTERS you speak of?

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And what is this STANDARD CLUSTERS you speak of?

 

[Alexander1970]

Sorry only german Windows.
Instead NTFS for you it has to be FAT32 and GRÖSSE der Zuordnungseinheiten that means the Cluster Size and there is the 1. entry Standard.

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And what is this STANDARD CLUSTERS you speak of?

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Yes the Allocation Size has to be STANDARD.

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Sorry only german Windows.
Instead NTFS for you it has to be FAT32 and GRÖSSE der Zuordnungseinheiten that means the Cluster Size and there is the 1. entry Standard.

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Yes the Allocation Size has to be STANDARD.

Okay I'll get that working asap, and with the bios, where do you recommend I download one because I'm not sure if the one posted on the reddit forum for the first result works that well

 

[Alexander1970]

Google "gba bios.bin" the second one maybe is it.

 

[MAXIMUSPOWERUS]

Google "gba bios.bin" the second one maybe is it.

HEY I got everything working, the nds game works flawlessly! Thank you so much!
AND the gameboy game is working!
I'm so happy, do you know if there is anyway to get the gameboy to play on the bottom screen of my DSi?

 

[Alexander1970]

do you know if there is anyway to get the gameboy to play on the bottom screen of my DSi?

Thats not possible at the moment.
@Gericom is working on a new UI for GBARunner at the moment.


Now have fun with your DSi and your games.