Superkey stopped booting!

ali_fighter · October 16, 2006, 01:05:22 PM

The thing is that when you service others, something ALWAYS happens. And this time its the superkey which has stopped booting.

Unfortunately since its someone from the family, i cant ignore it, otherwise i would tell them to BUY another one lol.

What exactly is happening is that the superkey is inserted in the DS, and it does not boot up at all. Like if there is nothing in the DS slot.

I know its his superkey since my superkey worked on his DS.

I hate bitching and prefer helping others. But this case is not my prob

its someone i have to care for :evil:

Thanks in advance.

(gotta love this forum)

SukkoPera · October 16, 2006, 01:32:25 PM

Try cleaning the superkey cartridge contacts, maybe with a hard rubber.

ali_fighter · October 16, 2006, 02:35:22 PM

Thats the thing, it had problems before. Once when the DS was booted up, it stayed on two blank white screens. So i cleaned the pins from the Superkey and it started working again.

Today, i received his DS, and its worse than it is before since its not reading at all.

Anyway, i will give it an attempt on cleaning the pins properly. However, if anyone else has another idea. Please post them in. If it had been my superkey, i would buy another one.

ali_fighter · October 16, 2006, 04:15:45 PM

Okey Dokey, i can declare that the superkey is 'bye bye' since i tried every way to fix it.

The thing is, i can flash DS's both large and lite versions. But my relative has a thing for 'warranty'.

This is gonna sound stupid, but im gonna flash it without him knowing......meh, second thoughts i'll just have a long talk with him.

natesemipro · October 16, 2006, 06:37:59 PM

I am running into this same thing. I cant get anything to work on my superkey2.

tennisgy · October 16, 2006, 08:35:11 PM

did you unscrew it and look at it? I have no idea but it might help.

mario888 · October 16, 2006, 09:21:50 PM

i recently bought a defective superkey just last month. superkey works intermittently. my workaround was to eject the superkey- turn it on- turn off- then insert superkey- turn on then superkey works. problem was superkey didn't boot everytime i turned on my ds phat. since it was still under warranty, i had it replaced.

Overdrive_X · October 16, 2006, 10:28:43 PM

Quote from: "ali_fighter"Okey Dokey, i can declare that the superkey is 'bye bye' since i tried every way to fix it.

The thing is, i can flash DS's both large and lite versions. But my relative has a thing for 'warranty'.

This is gonna sound stupid, but im gonna flash it without him knowing......meh, second thoughts i'll just have a long talk with him.

Warranty .... lol if you flash his firmware and re-flash it back to normal if there is a problem, there is no way to know that the console have been modified. So basicly nobody should fear flashing the firmware.

sonicwind · October 16, 2006, 11:40:23 PM

just use stealth version. This way nintendo has no way of knowing its flashed without using a flashcart.

Overdrive_X · October 16, 2006, 11:43:20 PM

Quote from: "sonicwind"just use stealth version. This way nintendo has no way of knowing its flashed without using a flashcart.

You just need to put the noflashme.nds and there will be no evidence of firmware modification.

sonicwind · October 17, 2006, 12:20:35 AM

pictochat doesn't work. so they can tell if its on the dslite.

ali_fighter · October 17, 2006, 12:41:10 AM

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa and Whoa. I have three files that helps me flash a DS: (I always use flashme.nds only)

1)Flashme.NDS
2)Flashme_stealth.NDS
3)noflashme.NDS

So are you telling me that using 'nostealthme' is a way of using some sort of stealth from nintendo finding out its flashed?

Code Select

Warranty .... lol if you flash his firmware and re-flash it back to normal if there is a problem, there is no way to know that the console have been modified. So basicly nobody should fear flashing the firmware.

Can you even do that? Getting your DS back to normal state or making it look like its not flashed?

Code Select

pictochat doesn't work. so they can tell if its on the dslite.

If thats the case, then i suppose Nintendo knows whats wrong with the DS, since the one he owns is a DS lite.

sonicwind · October 17, 2006, 01:24:12 AM

just go with the stealth version and check that its the right number of KB so you retain the brightness settings. this is because nintendo itself doesn't check them very thorohly but i would rather take the chance with it looking like normal with stealth than with noflashme that has a unbootable pictochat.

ali_fighter · October 17, 2006, 02:29:12 PM

OK, i flashed his DS. All ok, for those who want to save their warranty, the best option is indeed 'flasme stealth'.

Thanks to all that have helped