r/flashcarts

Hello guys. I bought a DS Lite last year and would like to get an R4 card for it, but I’m not really sure which one to get. I’m in New Zealand and I’m only allowed to buy off of eBay and Amazon (my parents don’t like Aliexpress and other sites like it) I’m not really sure where to get it from or what card to get, or how to use them. Where would I find the game files, like off the internet? I’m just a complete beginner to this all. I’m sorry if this question isn’t allowed, will delete if so!

Ciao, in questi giorni ho ritrovato in casa la mia vecchia m3i v2 e2. Premetto che non sono un esperto in questo campo ma mi piace molto smanettare con l'elettronica. Sono possessore di un DSi 1.4.5 con Twilight e unlaunch, ma volevo comunque rimettere in vita la mia vecchia flashcard. Ho provato ad installare Twilight, ho provato con ys menu e poi ho provato con il suo originale M3 Sakura ma niente. Il Launcher originale DSi all'inizo la leggeva come Danny Phantom e dopo il flash del firmware (per fortuna andato a buon fine) viene letta come chessmaster. Su unlaunch e su Twilight la scheda viene riconosciuta come corrotta... Facendo un attenta analisi sulla schedina noto che due PIN del chip principale sono in corto. In passato io e mio fratello abbiamo usato quella flashcard senza problemi nel nostro vecchio DSi (non 1.4.5). Ragazzi le ho provate veramente tutte ma non parte. Nel Launcher originale non da neanche errori, fa solo schermo superiore bianco e sotto nero, con rumore statico negli speaker, segno di conflitto tra byte (?) Dopo una lunghissima conversazione con Gemini escludendo tutte le possibilità mi viene consigliato di prendere il saldatore e togliere il ponte di stagno. Ora sono in vacanza ma presto tornerò a casa, non vedo l'ora di farla funzionare nuovamente. Se avete consigli o qualcosa da dire in merito non esitate a commentare.

For starters, I'm completely new when it comes to this sort of thing. I've already done some research and reformatted the (2gb) micro SD card in the R4. This is a v1.4 R4 cartridge with the R4i-SDHC.com label from probably a decade ago at this point.

So far my deduction is that this cartridge had worked for the DS Lite series of devices which I do not own anymore. Something about the SD card of the dsi and the R4 cartridge makes reading it fail?

So here's my question. Should I buy a new R4 cartridge or do I have to homebrew my DSi for this to work? What are my options?

I recently bought a Nintendo 3DS and it came with this R4, but when I play some GBA game it locks on a black screen and does not open, I thought it could be a kernel update or something, but I do not understand much about this part, although I am learning. I want to try to upgrade to the twilight menu, but I don't know if it is compatible with this R4, which kernel is most recommended to use in this R4?

Maybe no one knows anything about this model or there isn't much to be gleaned from the pictures but I figured I'd try my luck anyway. I don't know if the battery is necessary for saving or just for RTC, if it's the former then I just won't use this cart any more.

I got my first flashcart yesterday (using it on my old ds lite) and it’s worked pretty well for most of the games I’ve tried out. However, some of the rom hacks I’ve tried have had some issues and not loaded at all and freeze when I try to play them. This one was nice enough to give this error message but I don’t fully get it. Does this mean my cart won’t be able to work for these types of games or is this something I can fix? I’ve been using pico on the cart if that’s helpful info to know, also included a pic of the cart itself (I know it’s blurry, my camera wouldn’t focus) and the micro sd it came with.

I have a lot of games on my DSpico and scrolling the list one by one was getting old. so i added jumping by first letter to my fork of Pico Launcher: press L or R and it jumps to the previous or next initial, and the counter shows the letter you land on. makes a big library way faster to move around.

quick note: the video is recorded in melonDS (emulator) with just a small set of games to show the feature clean, not my actual card. it works the same on hardware.

while i was in there a few other small things went in:

- the cheats menu wraps around now, and it shows a hint that X turns all cheats off. that button was always there but nothing on screen told you.
- picking a game from recents or favorites keeps the focus on the game, not on the top bar.
- the banner shows a small "Enhanced" tag so tools reading the card can tell the fork apart.

everything stays compatible with normal Pico Launcher, your gamedata, covers and favorites carry over. it is based on upstream Pico Launcher, all the credit for the base goes to the LNH team.

if anyone wants to try it or read the notes: https://github.com/rasalopa/pico-launcher-enhanced/releases/tag/enhanced-v1.6.0

feedback welcome.

Hi there, I'm struggling to configure this card to my DS Lite... this is where I bought it: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005010354109768.html?gps-id=appPushSupportRecommend&scm=1007.67346.491749.0&scm\_id=1007.67346.491749.0&scm-url=1007.67346.491749.0&pvid=09bba68a-d9a6-4c42-b62a-aa85302cefb6&\_t=gps-id%3AappPushSupportRecommend%2Cscm-url%3A1007.67346.491749.0%2Cpvid%3A09bba68a-d9a6-4c42-b62a-aa85302cefb6%2Ctpp\_buckets%3A668%232846%238115%232000&pdp\_ext\_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%222134%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%2C%22sceneId%22%3A%2257346%22%2C%22fromPage%22%3A%22recommend%22%7D&pdp\_npi=6%40dis%21EUR%215.49%214.39%21%21%2141.88%2133.49%21%402103956a17870719182385922e1029%2112000052096652185%21rec%21NL%216062336964%21X%211%210%21n\_tag%3A-29919%3Bd%3Af44fa3d7%3Bm03\_new\_user%3A-29895&utparam-url=scene%3AappPushSupportRecommend%7Cquery\_from%3A&m\_page\_id=v1amifc7cbocat7d1a015c96d5b20dafdd7a2150b9&aff\_trace\_key=767a499ee0324716b6894256e3b2056f-1786022595870-06884-UneMJZVf&aff\_platform=msite

I've tried about every tutorial on the internet to configure it, but I keep getting the Can't open_dsmenu.dat :(

Very open to tips, whatever I can do. I have a 16gb sd card.

Okay so i got my first Ds lite two weeks ago and it came with an original R4 card, which of course isn’t compatible with more than a 2gb sd card and that wasn’t ideal to me because i had quite a lot of games on the list to download so i decided to look up for flashcarts that takes more than just a 2gb sd card so i found the Dspico and got to know the difference from an R4, i watched a youtube video and setting it up didn’t seem THAT hard but i’m still kinda nervous given it’ll be my first time working with something like that so here’s a question for whoever set the Dspico up

how hard is it and is messing up easy ?

Anything i should know beforehand ?

Not recognizing into 3ds old but i give a clean up with alcohol if it have chances

So I've been trying for a while to get Pokemon emerald to run on my old DS Lite.

I'm using a flashcart with R4iMenu andTWiLight Menu++ as a secondary kernel, I followed this tutorial : https://sanrax.github.io/flashcart-guides/tutorials/emulators/ to install gbarunner3. I've got a legit GBA bios, I used sdFormat, I tried the implementation in TWiLight menu, I even tried to build gbarunner3 myself to see if there were any differences, nothing changes the result : the logos roll and then whitescreen. Same problem with pokemon Leaf Green.

I'm able to run lighter ROMs such as Metroid: Zero Mission though, and although I couldn't launch pokemon emerald with the tutorial installed gbarunner2, TWiLight Menu integrated gbarunner2 worked, with music synchronization problems though.

Would anyone know what I could have missed causing this whitescreen issue ?

Thanks in advance for your answers !

Hi, i don't know a lot about R4 cards but i found two of them. I need help to understand how it works, what should i put in the sd card and if the sd cards Will work ? It's R4 Upgrade Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS) and a URL. I really want to understand how it works so if you can help i'd really appreciate, thanks

Setup:
- Console: Nintendo DS Lite
- Slot-1: EDGE
- Slot-2: SuperChis
- microSD: 32GB formatted FAT32

I am planning to flash SuperFW onto my SuperCard to unbrick it.

What happens:
The flashing tool boots fine and detects the SuperCard. But when I go to write flash, the file browser is empty and I can't select any firmware. Debug console shows:

fatInitDefault(): Operation canceled
DLDI name: Default (No interface)
DSi mode: 0

What I've tried:
- Put superfw.frm in SD root AND in /SuperChis/ folder
- Re-downloaded the firmware, re-copied to card

Have anyone encounter this?

Thanks for the help!