Im telling you after a couple weeks the splash just popped up. I have firmware 1.62 which came with the card, no firmware upgrades or homebrew apps have been run. Only thing i did was new sup card software patchers. Only things i did different before that nite was the animal crossing thing i mentioned and i loaded a gba game from the realtime save feature, but i didnt actually have a save so the screen turned white and i did a hard reboot. Its only like a 4 second difference on the boot up, it sucks but it doesnt effect the gameplay so... . But it did change!
That's the wackiest thing I've heard.