Twilight Menu red screen when trying to start games/how to downgrade nds bootstrap?

[Finchsplash]

I'm gonna preface this with saying I know very little about modding/homebrew myself, my dad helped me with the initial modding of the system and has much more experience with this stuff, so there could be a super obvious solution staring me in the face that I just don't know about. Neither my dad or I have been able to figure out what to do to fix this issue but I'm sure he'd be able to help me with any proposed solutions.

anyway, I'm having trouble with twilight menu and I was hoping I could get some help here. I know this is an issue others have had before because I did some googling around to try and fix it, but nothing I've tried so far has worked.
when I first got twilight menu on my 3ds, any game I tried to start would just greet me with an ominous bright red screen with some very small white x's on the top screen.
googling around I found something saying to set "Card Read DMA" to off, so I tried that, but that just went from one red error screen to another, and I now have an "Error! Data Abort" message on the top screen with a bunch of numbers under it. This continues to be the case now even if I turn Card Read DMA back to on or default.
If it helps at all, the games I've been trying to run are Pokemon Platinum Version and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, and both have yielded the exact same result. I haven't bothered even putting any other ds games on my 3ds because I couldn't get either of these to work.

One solution I saw suggested multiple times was to downgrade nds-bootstrap to an older version, but I'm not sure how to do that and haven't been able to find any tutorial, so if anyone could explain how to do that or link me to that information so I could try that that would be helpful as well !!

I have the original 3ds model running Luma3ds version 10.2.1, nds-bootstrap version 0.72.1, and twilight menu++ version 25.11.0. The first thing I tried was using universalupdater to update it a couple days ago.

thanks a bunch in advance if anyone is able to help me solve this, I would really love to be able to play gen 4 pokemon without having to emulate on my computer ^^

 

[RocketRobz]

I also have the red screen error on all my games

Post automatically merged: Aug 13, 2024

Here's the error, i clicked on "view RAM" or smth like that, the arm9 is like that on all games

Post automatically merged: Aug 13, 2024

Idk why but i cant send images so i'll describe it
When i click on view ram the arm 9 is full of creepy characters and instead of being organized like the other numbers the arm 9 is all over the place

When did you last update TWLMenu++?

 

[Plushiery]

A few days ago, then i tried downgrading it and downgrading bootstrap but the only thing that changed is that the red screen just looked different (it was just the top screen that was red and it didnt show any numbers but instead, some white dots) then i updated them again and the errors just came back. I've tried doing twlfix multiple times, always uptading the system afterwards but nothing seems to work.
Slightly off topic here, but is it normal for all my DS games to be labeled as "pokemon black 2" on the FBI titles menu, even thought i dont even have this game (at least not anymore)?

 

[CoolMe]

Slightly off topic here, but is it normal for all my DS games to be labeled as "pokemon black 2" on the FBI titles menu, even thought i dont even have this game (at least not anymore)?

Are they in rom or cia (forwarder) format? Either way, no. Unless you did that on purpose?
Sounds to me, you might be dealing with data corruption. Copy everything off the sdcard somewhere safe in your pc, format the sdcard as Fat32 32kb cluster size and check it with h2testw to see if it's faulty or not. It's probably why you're dealing with these red error screens with TWilightMenu 'cause it's not normal.

 

[Plushiery]

Thanks !! I just need the PC now bc the only one i had access 2 was recently stealed !!!!