Hacking Next M3 FW Fixes (g6team Please Read)

[DeltaBurnt]

Hi, I'm having problems with Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia. I'm at the part right after you complete the whole ranger school and am assigned to the ranger base. The Tim newspaper guy reqruits me on a Quest to capture his agitated Miltank. Everytime after I capture the Miltank and receive the Grass Defense powerup, right after receiving the powerup, the screen turns black and stays that way, but the music keeps playing. I press every button but nothing happens. So I restart my DS and same result everytime, on both Sakura and TouchPod. I'm using M3 DS Real (from EchoStore) on DS Lite with no cheats enabled and no Soft Reset enabled.

TIA

Hmmm...that's weird...I never got that problem when I played Shadows of Almia. Try one/all of the following things:

1. Try switched to Sakura 1.35
2. Get a different version of the rom (for example if you have the europe version get the USA version, the version I use is USA and it worked perfectly)
3. Try redownloading the rom from a different site, some roms may be ripped/dumped (whichever you would prefer to think it as) incorrectly.

 

[Vergency]

Hmmm...that's weird...I never got that problem when I played Shadows of Almia. Try one/all of the following things:

1. Try switched to Sakura 1.35
2. Get a different version of the rom (for example if you have the europe version get the USA version, the version I use is USA and it worked perfectly)
3. Try redownloading the rom from a different site, some roms may be ripped/dumped (whichever you would prefer to think it as) incorrectly.

1. I am on 1.35, that's how I have both Sakura and TouchPod (hold A during startup to switch between them).
2. I have USA VENOM ROM (what do you have?)
3. *snip

 

[Skyline969]

Vergency, edit your post ASAP before you get warned by a mod. You are not allowed to say where you get your ROMs from, nor are you allowed to ask for other sites for ROMs.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Hmmm...that's weird...I never got that problem when I played Shadows of Almia. Try one/all of the following things:

1. Try switched to Sakura 1.35
2. Get a different version of the rom (for example if you have the europe version get the USA version, the version I use is USA and it worked perfectly)
3. Try redownloading the rom from a different site, some roms may be ripped/dumped (whichever you would prefer to think it as) incorrectly.

1. I am on 1.35, that's how I have both Sakura and TouchPod (hold A during startup to switch between them).
2. I have USA VENOM ROM (what do you have?)
3. *snip

1. I knew that, but I mean to upgrade to 1.35 thinking you hadn't already.
2. I have the USA Xenophobia version, try getting that one. (Google)
3. Yah I can't really tell, but I'll tell you I didn't get it from the site you mentioned.

 

[Zerrix]

Okay, now it's getting really ridiculous. There are just a few days remaining and we have a full month without any M3 Real update.
Other FlashCards have already got their second or third!

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Well I'm not sure if it counts but Sakura was updated just a couple of weeks ago...

And I'm sure the M3 team is busy working on the M3i.

 

[Vergency]

Are you sure Xenophobia has an USA release?
I can only find EURO version by Xenophobia. :/

Thx for the help.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

A oops nevermind. Mine is VENOM too...it's just about 90% of mine are Xenophobia.

Sorry >.<

I don't know what to say. Maybe just play using the Euro version?

 

[g6team]

Current firmware seems to disable usage of cheat codes requiring Button Input. If this could be fixed for the new firmware that would be brilliant.

I don't think so...what codes did you used?

in Touchpod (not Sakura), when I use usercheat.dat and choose the cheats I want to use then puch B to go back, the M3Reall freezes when using SDHC Microsd cards (tried 2 different SDHC microsd and the same thing happened) but it works fine on a 512mb microsd.

g6team, is this a bug on SDHC microsd cards in the firmware?

That's odd, I tested with the SDHC going back and forth in the cheat menu pressing B haven't had any freezing issue yet.

 

[g6team]

sometimes, they don't see all the posts about games that has problems here
it might be better to email them about it and also provide them your save file on where the problem on occurs

It's better to start a new thread stating the issue.

 

[dsrules]

That's odd, I tested with the SDHC going back and forth in the cheat menu pressing B haven't had any freezing issue yet.

are you using usrcheat.dat and this only happens in Touchpod 4.3a, you need to check (tick) the cheats then push B to go back..it freezes after seeing Saving

Update: okay, I test it abit more, some games works and some games don't..this is the same for both regular microsd and microSDHC
tested with these games:
The World Ends With You, Ultimate Mortal Kombat doesn't work
Contra 4, Dragon Ball Z Super Sonic works
all (U) versions

 

[aphirst]

Slow-Motion seems to be completely borked in this release. Well, at least for me.
Either with Sakura 1.35, or the included TouchPod, Slow-Motion just causes games to completely pause.

Has anyone else encountered this? It does this for *every* title in my collection, which is extensive.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Hmm...I'll go see if slowmotion works in a few minutes (I've never found a use for it so I've never actually used it).

EDIT:

I tested it on level 5, on Platinum and yah it just paused it basically.

 

[dsrules]

Slow-Motion seems to be completely borked in this release. Well, at least for me.
Either with Sakura 1.35, or the included TouchPod, Slow-Motion just causes games to completely pause.

Has anyone else encountered this? It does this for *every* title in my collection, which is extensive.

nope..it works fine on my side, both Sakura 1.35 2nd and Touchpod 4.3a
tested with New Super Mario Brothers (U)

I think to use slow motion, the game must support Soft Reset or RTS and it's turned ON

 

[powered_by_tux]

Slow-Motion seems to be completely borked in this release. Well, at least for me.
Either with Sakura 1.35, or the included TouchPod, Slow-Motion just causes games to completely pause.

Has anyone else encountered this? It does this for *every* title in my collection, which is extensive.

Dito here. Slow-Mo has never worked for me for a good handful of games (read: ALL games). It just pauses the game if it does not cause it to lock up.

This problem is not exclusive to this Sakura release however. Any Touchpod version I tried failed to work.

 

[dsrules]

why don't you try Slow Motion on the New Super Mario Brothers (U) and tell me it works or not

 

[aphirst]

Ah, in NSMB Slow-Mo seems to work in the World Map, but not in actual levels. Interesting.

Hmm, it also seems to now partially work in Sonic Rush.

This must be to do with the fact I formatted my card yesterday and installed Sakura fresh - some homebrew wasn't loading so I thought that the best course of action. Go me.

 

[powered_by_tux]

I tried it again, it seems to actually work in New Super Mario Bros. for both regions, (U) and (E).

Anyway, in most other games it causes the described behaviour. Just try Kirby Canvas Curse, where this feature could be very handy.

 

[dsrules]

Ah, in NSMB Slow-Mo seems to work in the World Map, but not in actual levels. Interesting.
it works for me in the World Map and inside the Levels

QUOTE(powered_by_tux @ Apr 7 2009, 10:22 AM) Anyway, in most other games it causes the described behaviour. Just try Kirby Canvas Curse, where this feature could be very handy.

I'll try Kirby later and see what happens....

Update: Kirby pauses when activate Slow Mo (old firmwares or new firmware)..so, I guess it works in some games only and not that many people uses it or complaint to them about it before, they never really look into it...
for me, it would be even better if they remove that function, replace it with something else

 

[powered_by_tux]

Sakura freezes whenever you try to open the game config screen on homebrew apps (e.g. GBA_ExpLoader).