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Can't load DS roms. Tried everything! white screens.

Started by excy, May 21, 2006, 05:51:22 AM

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excy

Ok, I've had my CF supercard for about a year, and have happily been using it for GBA games so it's about time to use it for DS games I thought.

I recenly (yesterday) used Wifime to run flashme to flash my DS's firmware with flashme V7. All went fine.

When I turn on my DS it boots directly into Supercard DS mode - ok.

I've upgraded my supercard firmware to v1.62 (CF version), installed the Supercard software 2.541 too.

Ok. I pop a couple of homebrew games on there. Duck hunt, and somethign else I can't remember. I've named the .nds. They load up and run fine. DSlinux runs fine too.

I've got Meteriod prime demo in the top slot. Tried Rayman too and mariokart in there.

I've got Tramua center rom, i patch that with ndsloader and ndspater (via dslazy) and it runs fine on supercard this way.

This is the only game that does though. I've tried mario kart, new mario bros, sonic rush, bust a move... and none of those work, white screens.

I load these roms into supercard software (as i'm supposed to) and copy the output to the CF. When they run they all give 2 white screens, including trauma center which works the other way above(!).

I've run the system test on the supercard and everything checks out ok.
I've reformatted the CF card too.

I'm stuck, and I don't know what to do. Any ideas/help? I read about people happily running the games which I can't seem to.

I'm using an old 128mb CF I card, my 1gb one died yesterday which is irritating.

victoreris

Hmm, sounds like you're doing everything right, but just to clarify - you are sending clean roms through the Supercard patcher and then copying the patched roms to your CF, right?  I just want to make sure you're not using the loaders on the roms first and then sending them through the patcher.

As far as the patching options, I always check restart, trim rom, and faster play game on all of my DS roms and have had no problems on my SC SD.

excy

Yeah, definatly clean roms to the supercard software. It gives all sorts of error messages if you try to give it patched roms anyway. I tried lots of combinations.

When I get home I might try appending the loader onto the rom file the supercard software gives out, but I assume it should do that itself anyway. It just doesn't make sense. Anything I run through the supercard software doesn't run on the DS.

ratx

Hiya adding the loader won't make any difference, well it fact if it was working it'd just break it.  Are you definately using the CF patching software?

excy

Yes, definitely the CF version of the patching software.

"SuperCard V2.541 for CF Version"