Mini Ninjas (U) problems

Im using a R4 on my ds and i got the game to work just fine in the beggining party up till i had to go into this one cutscene that i KNOW has something on it besides complete blackness. i dont know whats wrong i usually arm7 patch my games which usually gets it to work but im very unfamilar with this problem.

What firmware version do you have? Make sure you have the latest http://www.linfoxdomain.com/ds/ and try backing up and formatting your MicroSD.

um im a bit confused on how to check my firmware on my microsd due to not setting it up myself. i see the system folder that holds my cheat.dat and backgrounds and i also have the moonshl which i dont really know what it does

You can check your current version by looking in the bottom left corner of your menu.