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[G0nan]

Hey there...here's my story:

My daughter was playing a game on the supercard.  My daughter accidently dropped her DS.  Happily the DS is O.K.  Unfortunately, when you turn on the DS with the SC in it, it just goes to the regular NDS screen instead of the supercard menu.  Any suggestions on fixing it?  It's a SCSD btw.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Chlikaflok]

I'm no SC owner, but I lurk a lot around here, so I'll try my luck with this, but before doing anything that could potentially damage your hardware more, wait for more experienced members, like bitblt. BTW, your post is not really in the right section, it should go in "help and tips", or "supercard discussion", but certainly not in "general homebrew". Anyway, here goes my theory :

1. The DS fell on the PassMe Device you are using, and your passme broke, leaving you unable to run DS code from the GBA cart, thus rendering your SuperCard unaccessible and sending you to the main menu.

2. The DS fell on the SuperCard, in which case the supercard itself is broken and the DS sees nothing to boot from on the GBA cart side, so it goes into the main menu.

3. Neither of those situations apply, and I don't know what could have happened.  :oops:

4. Maybe your SD card is broken. Though highly unlikely, since the SD card is wholely (wholly?) inside the SuperCard, I'd doubt this is possible.

Now, to resolve the problem, here are some steps you can take without any possible (read infinitely improbable) risk :

  - Try your passme/supercard in somebody else's DS (if you know someone who has one)
  - Try booting up the supercard alone in GBA mode, if it boots it should simply in DS mode as well, pointing toward the Passme being broken.
  - Try sticking a piece of paper (I can't seem to find the image which showed an example of how to do this that was posted somewhere else on the forum.)to apply pressure to the SD card so it makes better contact, but SuperCards normally display an error message when the SD is off/out, but try it anyway.

I can't think of anything else that wouldn't possibly be harmful to your hardware, so I guess mods should move this topic and you'll get help.

[rocky]

Yea what I would do is first test it in a gba then test a different sd or cf card.
if none work go here Bitblt is realy nice he will try to fix it for free

[The_Legend]

are you sure the DS is ok? have you tried any GBA game on it, to be sure that the GBA port is fine? I assume your daughter's DS is flashed, right? maybe something may have broken inside the SC, try to open it and check.

give us some more details about the fall and the supercard state.

[G0nan]

Yeah i posted in the wrong place...sorry.

Anyway, it's not the passme as i had done the firmware thing a long time ago.  The paper thing was a no go as well.  Here's the thing, when i put the supercard in with no sd card it doesnt see the supercard, when i put the sd card in, then it says there's an option pak inserted.  The SD card is fine, as I've moved files onto it since the dropping.  I'm kinda thinking it's either a physical problem with the card (perhaps it landed on the SC itself thus busting it physically) OR maybe the firmware on the card got messed up because of the dropping.  Anyway, I'll probably just order a SDSC mini and be done with it
Thanks for trying to help!

[rocky]

First you should send it to bitblt and see if he can fix it http://scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2648