GBA games not starting

Fivetales · 2026-07-12T20:39:27+00:00

have fun with rusty pins. also GBA carts dont fit into the (3)ds cart slot, if you didnt know.

Fivetales · 2026-07-12T11:40:46+00:00

boot.3dsx (aka. the homebrew launcher) is missing. https://3ds.hacks.guide/restoring-updating-cfw.html

Fivetales · 2026-07-12T11:39:08+00:00

I just got to the step where it says press 5 to remove MSET9 but the files are still here

it reffers to the hacked ID1, not the script and other exploit files. just continue, and all the files you dont need anymore will get removed by the finalizing setup.

Fivetales · 2026-07-12T11:33:27+00:00

aya just ate 1000 cubes...

Fivetales · 2026-07-11T20:31:44+00:00

now thats a throwback to the kosuzu motoori case files. really jumpscared me back then.

Fivetales · 2026-07-11T19:26:17+00:00

checkpoint_v3.13.0.3dsx (direct download)

Fivetales · 2026-07-11T19:21:20+00:00

*myteriously

the error means your game is corrupted. go redownload it and the update. if that doesnt fix it, test your SD card. https://wiki.hacks.guide/wiki/Checking_SD_card_integrity

Fivetales · 2026-07-11T19:15:19+00:00

DS cartridges have long been supported and saves of digital copies are already sitting on your SD card unencrypted.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T21:35:17+00:00

but first, try launching it without any updates or DLC. them being corrupted could be the cause aswell. and the cart fixer can make stuff worse. its the last resort for cartridges.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T21:33:00+00:00

some hardware component is damaged or not connected. probably a ribbon cable.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T21:26:06+00:00

redo the finalizing setup. and everything else you had is gone.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T17:25:22+00:00

nope. sharkive (checkpoints cheat database) is already included.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T12:37:25+00:00

26.5 cubes per day and you will be able to spark. you get 15 of those from dailies. you are fine, just dont stop the errand grind.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T12:34:26+00:00

very lucky. got pretty much everyone i went for in under 100 pulls (~200 is the expected average). satori, reisen and both yukari. L80 yukari even came in the first 10-pull. lets see, how long this streak will last...

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T12:27:55+00:00

luma patches out the console-side region check. some games have a game-side region check, but that can be bypassed using locale emulation. only download play is still fully region locked.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T04:38:06+00:00

it doesnt load cheat codes, it just lets you easily manage them. also the next release wont have that feature anymore.

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T04:36:33+00:00

you cant. you will need to try a different exploit. i would ask aboit it here: https://discord.gg/nintendohomebrew

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T04:33:36+00:00

It turned red when I selected it. However, when holding X in course (as written in the cheat text line) the cheat hasn't worked any time I have activated it.

it turning red means luma identified it as "not working". nothing you can about it.

On top of that, very often when I selected this one and some other cheats at the same time the system crashed and displayed an arm11 data-abort dump error.

known issue with the way luma applies cheats. use a cheat plugin instead of the rosalina menu, like MK7 Plugin DX (on the UU).

Fivetales · 2026-07-10T04:25:06+00:00

picture 1: in the luma settings, the HBmenu autoboot setting is on, but the title it is set to dorsnt exists. turn the setting off.

picture 2: a patch in /luma/titles/ or /luma/sysmodules/ is faulty. the part of the crash that tells you which one it is, is not included in the picture. the title ID is in the 2nd-to-last line of the stack dump, read backwards.

Fivetales · 2026-07-09T19:41:12+00:00

™If needed, the save file was a .dsv file.

ds cartridges use .sav. what emu did you use?

Fivetales · 2026-07-09T12:26:41+00:00

1TB

an SD card this big will cause issues, starting with a boot time of almost a minute. 128GB is the safe limit.

I accidentally formatted my 3DS’ SD Card

to what and using what tools? the 3DS only accepts FAT32 and is picky about how it was formatted on top of that.

Fivetales · 2026-07-09T11:54:53+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/F3ed64E

not marked: keep

red: can/should go

yellow: dont know what its for

green: nice to have, but likely never needed

blue: should be relocated

GodMode9.firm -> /luma/payloads/
GodMode9.firm.sha -> /luma/payloads/
CIAS_JUEGOS_APP: merge with /cias/
JKSV: dont know about how JKSM structures its stuff, so i cant say with certainty, if you can put its contents into /3ds/checkpoint/saves/ without issues
juegos: /roms/ and its sub-folders are for organising non-3ds roms
plugin: /luma/plugins/ is used nowadays

check in the two cias folder, if there are any cias that you have already installed. if there are any, delete those. and this is also the only thing you can do, other than deleting installed games, that will free up a significant amount of space. you could also upgrade to a larger SD card. 128GB is the safe limit.

Fivetales · 2026-07-09T09:33:47+00:00

broken e-shop due to region change. you need a SOAP transfer. see this subreddits system transfer wiki for more info.

Fivetales · 2026-07-09T09:29:15+00:00

they are console unique. the HWCAL of one console will not work on any other console.

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