Problems running NDS games

Hey all, I have ahad a few problems with the Adapter but have managed to get over most of them except for getting NDS games to work. Whenever i run them, it does th eloading bar and just freezes there. Any help that I could get would be greatly apprectiated.

Adapter? How are you trying to run these roms? flash card? emulator? We really need more details.

haha ya sorry, I bought the M3 Movie Player and the passcard for my DS. I'm able to get GBA games to work but not NDSAlso, im having trouble saving my files, only a few games like Tactics Ogre Advance will work with the A+B+L+R thing so I dunno...

is it that no one knows how or just that no one wants to help?

its not that we dont want to help...either seph or loony will come and help you out when they have the time..NOTE: that right now the admins are trying to concentrate on trying to keep the server from crashin because of lack of memory for ram.....and have the website from shutting down, so please be patient in the meantime, I would help you out...but I dont know anything bout the nds or emulating the nds....however if you ever need anything for psp, Im the guy here.......or pc's....So if you can be patient, sooner or later they will see this and help you out....patients goes a long way buddy so bare with us.....

Aha lrighty, was just a little curious because he responded quickly to my last one and.. ya sorry ^^;

Truthfully I don't know much about flash cards, I know that there's a compatability difference between them so I knew that the first thing someone who knows about the cards would ask was which card it was.But neither loony nor myself have a flash card so we can't experiment much with it.However, do tell which game you're having a problem with, (all maybe?) that way I can do a little research.

Haha its a 1gb kingston micro SD card. I tried downloading Nintendogs and Cars and they both had the same effect. They both just do the whole they just do the loading thing and when they reach 100% it just freezes so :S I dunnos, its bugging me :( and I still can only save on a few GBA games.

Could you tryCars (U)(Legacy)it has been confirmed working on the M3 on their wiki.

You may try reformatting your MicroSD card at FAT16 and making sure you've got the latest firmware revision :)

Where do i get the firmware? from the Kingston website?

I'd think that would be the M4 website, the firmware is what enables the card to trick the NDS to believe the cart is a real cart.

http://www.m3adapter.com/SLOT-1/Download.htmRight here :3(can we get a :3 emote here? :-[)

i'm using the one that has the passcard and the adapter :( I tried the new .32 version of it didnt work, and neither did cars :( Though it actually went past the loading to a blank screen so its a step in the right direction i guess :/

Awww, a slot 2? I'm not very well-versed on those, but I hear their compatibility is a mite bit lower than Slot 1... I recommend you ask around at the M3 forums, they might be able to help.http://www.m3-forum.com/

Hope you have solved your problem. If not, the solution for your problem is that you need to patch your NDS with the right setting. See this. To play NDS roms via slot 2, they require patching. As for upgrading to the lastest firmware and Game Manger, it is mainly to fix patching problems with newer roms which is quite seldom.

sillypatterson · #10You may try reformatting your MicroSD card at FAT16

That might not be a good idea although it can be tried. For M3 adapter, you should always format the SD card in FAT32. As for Supercard, you should always format the SD card in FAT16. This cannot be interchangeable. Doing otherwise would might lead to problems such as your game saves. Someone on the internet stated that using FAT32 gives better graphics for games -> whether it is true or not I don't know. However, changing formats have been know to give problems. You could always try and if works fine, you are lucky. Personally, I go for long term using something that in works in the long run for most things.

Draoz · #8I tried downloading Nintendogs and Cars and they both had the same effect. They both just do the whole they just do the loading thing and when they reach 100% it just freezes so :S

Get Nintendogs Best Friends that would sure to work. Many, many months ago when I first get get M3 slot 2 adapter, different Nintendogs work but there was the save detection problem for all the games. When I formatted to FAT32 none of the Nintendogs work except Nintendogs Best Friends. Not sure if the problem was fixed subsequently. However, from then till now, using FAT32 and applying the right patching, I haven't got any problems for majority of the games.

Replying to #15

That's not really true. In fact, M3 slot 2 adapter roms have been tested with settings to make them work per wiki compared to slot 1 so you have a higher chance of making them work. This is because slot 2 adapter has been around longer than slot 1. However, given time, slot 1 will end up being better than slot 2 as it will more games support download play and 2 player connection. For slot 2, if you want to have 2 player connection / download play, 1 party has to have the original catridge or a flashed NDS. Long story but it's due to rom patching to play in slot 2 that doesn't happen for slot 1.If you still have any other problems using M3 slot 2 adapter, I could try to help. I may not be an expert on it but I have done a lot of reading on this and have gone through the experience of finding out how to use the different functions available ranging from game roms, homebrew, pda function, photos, videos. music & e-book.

Replying to #16

Extremely unlikely, I would say. The only difference I can see is that FAT16 has a much lower maximum disk capacity than FAT32, so you cannot have a disk bigger than 4GB formatted with FAT16. In addition, it is less efficient at storing files on larger disks and wastes a lot of space. There is also a limit to how many files you can have in the root directory (512 when using 8.3 filenames, less when using long filenames). There is no reason why filesystem would affect graphics.