Hacking Pokemon White USA not working on Wood R4 v 1.27 for clones

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I bought an R4 few years back...
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Don't mind the sticker lost its stickyness (when i took it off a year back) and it gets stuck if i put it back the proper orientation.

So I presume its fake? I haven't really 100% determined or established it yet...

anyways I got the WOOD R4 v 1.27 thanks to Lacius pm'ing me a youtube link

Pokemon White USA wouldn't work on it - it always froze after I was done talking to the professor (aka right before the screen saying what SEASON it was)

So I was just wondering if it hasn't been fixed yet cause I read on some times that it was working fine on their R4's
Anyways thanks for taking the time to read this and for the help!

btw my R4 cart has a SPRINGY SD card ejection thingy if that matters about its fakeness

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Even though some ROMS work - it takes a few tries for them to actually load up
Like when I'm opening it sometimes it gets stuck on the first few lines of code - about like the init succ fat thing and the directory of the ROM
some times it gets stuck after a few lines of the ARM7 and ARM9 lines of code
sometimes it gets stuck on the very last line of code
so somtimes roms load on first try - sometimes it takes like 3 tries - somtimes it can take up to 10 tries. know why?
 

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When I switch the __rpg folder and the _DS_MENU.dat - then it just gets stuck on the Loading... screen at the start up - so I guess it is fake..
unless I'm not doing it properly?
cause I never got YSMenu to work on my DS until recently when I realized I wasn't installing it correctly.
 

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Original R4 did not have a chip protruding from the front surface.
Here are pictures of the real cart. Notice the circular extrusion in the front surface.
Their is also a microsd image on the back surface of the card..

Front:
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Back:
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have you tried the AP Patch by RetroGameFan?

go on filetrip an search : MultiPatcher RetroGameFan

i think last version is 1.16, you should make a folder put the GameList.txt and OpenPatch.exe and the pokemon white ( u ) rom
then you take pokemon white rom into open patch ( you drag it into open patch) and then wait some seconds, a window with some chinese text will apear and you say Yes ( to make a backup of the rom) and after some time it will say more chinese and "Ok", you press ok and in the folder there will be 2 files

RomName.BAK
RomName.NDS

the romname.nds is the fixed game with the AP Patch, try that
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bashscrazy said:
every time i drag a rom onto the openpatch.exe i get this error message
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because the patch ur using is different from the rom, i guess the patch is for european version and u have american version or vise versa, so better choose wisely the room and patch and im sure it will work
 

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I downloaded the latest patcher - multi patcher 1.17 that came out today -
it actually worked with no error - I tried it with the EUR pokemon white rom
when I started my JAP sav file - it froze at the same spot again - right when I loaded it
AKA when the SEASON is displayed on the screen prior to starting.
 

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