I got myself some old hardware, with the intend to play old games and develop homebrew. Now, I need a flashcart for a gb light. Ideally should be usable for gbc roms on gbc as well.

What are the options for these, now really old, consoles?

Introduction

Hi everyone, it's me again.

For those of you who have followed from my previous posts, you might have noticed that I deleted them. That was because the Island Event enablers and some other codes wouldn't work for anyone besides me, even after I managed to get them working reliably and not at random, at least for me. At the time I didn't know why that was happening...

After researching more on the topic and spending some time developing a few codes at r/Gameshark I finally realized why that was the case: It turns out that Pokemon Emerald has a hard-coded protection for obfuscating the use of cheat codes, and to make it worse the way to circumvent that anti-cheat system is dependent on your individual save file... Yikes!

In the case of the CodeBreaker hardware I solved it with relative ease after much work done. But the EZ-Flash uses a very strange cheat file system, and many more problems arised. However after even more research done, I finally found a way to have this codes working for everyone... Nonetheless the procedure was nor intuitive neither easy to follow up! So an idea came to my mind... A web app that let's you read your Emerald save file and generates a personal cheat file! And to that effect I'm pleased to let you know it was a success as per my testings.

How to use the web app

You need to get your save file, upload it to my Emerald EZ cht generator, and then download the correct cht file for your language, paste that file into the CHEAT folder in your SD. Be careful not to delete your save file!

Here's a visual guide on how to do it. It's really easy!

First you must locate the save file for your Pokemon Emerald game. Search for it in your micro SD card, it's on the SAVER folder, make a copy to your PC and remember where it's stored.

Click the link for the cheat generator app, it's pretty self explanatory. First select your region, then upload your save file and download your personal cheat file.

Your downloaded cheat file will be named something like 1986.cht, you must find the correct folder for it. Follow the route on the image, and copy-paste the cheat file inside the folder. A prompt to replace the already existing file will appear, select yes.

And finally extract your micro SD and plug it back to your EZ Flash. Make sure the cheats add-on is enabled. You are now ready to use my cheat list on your game!

On the cheat codes included

The purpose of the app is to calculate for your individual RNG Killer code, to use codes such as Max Money and Event Island enablers you must also check this new code. Apart from that few changes had been made, but as a nice surprise for the long wait I have included new codes, namely Max Battle Points, and Access to Mirage Island, which also happen to need the RNG Killer to work. Also I ported the codes to work on Japanese games as well as every other official language of the game.

Here I'm re uploading the video guide for the trickiest cheats of the lot and how to make them work. This time I added sections for the RNG Killer and the Mirage Island codes. Please follow instructions exactly to avoid potential corruption of your save file. Remember to always use codes with caution. If something looks off is better to restart without saving and trying again.

Video sneak peek of the codes. There are literal hundreds included! Please note that all listings are written in english.

I hope you find these codes useful and I will appreciate if you could confirm whether the codes work for you this time around. I could only perform limited tests and see if the app was generating the theoretically correct RNG Killer codes. By the nature of how this thing works it's impossible for me to check every single combination, they're way too many of them.

And a side note: if you start a new game, the RNG Killer code will no longer work, that also includes the codes that depend on it. To fix this, simply repeat all of the above steps to generate a new cheat file.

Enjoy!

I have three DSes, a DS Lite, DSI XL, and a NN3DS XL. My AceKard2I works on the DS Lite and DSI XL, and doesn't on the 3DS, this makes sense. I have an R4 that works on my DSI XL and my 3DS. It does not work on my DS Lite. It's one of the timebomb ones but I changed out the Kernel to the working one. The question is why doesn't the DS Lite read it?

Are there any good ds flash carts that support save states?

Maybe it's something old or some didn't try it....

thanks to all including the post Sanrax and u/Arnas_X active user and veteran in the community for their enormous help for the kernel of the blue R4DS 1.4.3 , DS TT Clone I have given for trying to move some files and with that fix the problem of the exit to the firmware.

Steps to follow (only members who have DS TT , R4 TT original or clone).

1. have the firmware (we can find it and try it in English or Spanish).

2. have YSmenu as alternate loader.

3. rename TTMenu.nds to TTio.nds and host it in the moonshell 2 reset mse folder (recommended to backup the original ttio.nds).

4. test.

Optional : you can try using TTMenu.dat same but some R4 TT clones leave a blank screen, no worry ... isn't bricked. just shutdown the console and use ysmenu instead.

for now I don't know if it is possible to load nds titles or commercial games in this same menu but for now it is a good and last version that we have for our special R4 flash cards.

sorry low quality of photography, my laptop has a broken stand and can slip

https://preview.redd.it/k7m3enp5a54e1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55301e4bb25fd30a3bc0dd7f8e136a5306eed50d

https://reddit.com/link/1h3sj45/video/mc6c911aa54e1/player

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

I have bought a R4 SDHC Gold Pro flashcart (DSTTi Demon clone). What is the best kernel that I can install for DS roms compatibility?

R4iMenu without the time bomb? YSMenu? Twilight Menu?

Also: does all these options have skins? Or just YSMenu?

I'm looking to get an R4 2024 smart update card for a friend and I don't know what size SD card is recommended.

Is it possible to put pksm or a similar Pokémon editing/cheating tool on an R4 cart to modify a gen 3 game in a ds lite?

For this card what file i have to put in to work whith a ds or dsi xl? Possibly from the link that i posted, thanks

https://preview.redd.it/z3xewtscoa4e1.jpg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a11688e96b62150b265d9d4a3e4d6dc29684830

This

hello everyone in this reddit community. had a question about the skins of the r4 card i myself also searched for skins but i can find so few skins for the r4 card. i also tried to make them myself but that didn't work well and it's quite a bit of work to do it yourself. and i noticed that there are just very few websites that offer skins for the r4 card was this also the case in the past or did you have a bigger offer in the past than now? and do all r4 skins work with all versions? i recently tried an old skin but as soon as i selected it nothing happened. does anyone know more about this. and if anyone has a good website with skins for the r4 card come on with the websites and hopefully they will work

The R4 card worked and I was able to play the game on it, the game crashed and I'm now getting "Can't open _dsmenu.dat. what's gonna be the best way to fix this without losing the data on the card?

Got in a EZ-Flash Parallel and while I'm a fan of how it looks, I'll be sending it back just because of how much slower it is than my old ace3ds clone. It's one of those "2 billion in one" kind of carts that runs Wood. So why is it that the Parallel can play DIY no problem (including saving) but the other card can't? I could have sworn I used the patch on the rom years ago, but it doesn't work at all. What can I do?

I used EZP and just switched to Ace3DS X. The cart is working normally, but when I load a game that had an SAV file it just says new game.

What is the best firmware I can use on my R4 cart?

Looking for some general info about flash carts and possible recommendations. I bought my gf and I some nds lites for an upcoming trip and was also looking to buy some flash carts so we don't have to carry 4 or 5 separate ones and risk losing them. Are flash carts capable of multiplayer (for games like Mario kart and pokemon)? Is there a certain type of cartridge I should get? Do they have to be the same brand/type in order to work right? Or should I just get used copies of the 1 or 2 games that i'm planning on playing during the trip?

Thank you for your help in advance!

I have a cracked 3DS and I use Mac, so once the new SD card I want to use is formatted to FAT32, I cannot mount it on my mac to carry over files from a backup.

I have the issue with GBA games, where the screen wrapping issue shows up (it's not aligned) and I read online that a formatted FAT32 SD card remedies this.

Is there a way to carry over the files from my 3DS system SD card in the micro SD card slot to the FAT32 micro SD card in the R4 chip?

Please help, I just want to play Fire Red with a proper screen! :( lol