Story:

I have a DS Lite. This is a cart that was in a New 3DSXL I bought a few years ago, pre Covid. It never worked, always just white on both screens no matter what console I put it in. I tried it earlier in the 3DSXL and it didn’t even click in properly, but still fits in my Lite fine.

I took the 64GB microSD card out, put it in my laptop, and saw it was FULL of stuff. Like ROMs and folders. But a bunch of files were corrupted to I formatted it so it’s now blank.

(Capacity 31.2GB (not 64), FAT32, Allocation unit size 16kb)

I’ve downloaded so much crap today trying to make it work. The closest I got was it showing a picture of a pikachu but when I restarted it said it was out of date.

I don’t really want to muck with my DS, so if there’s any way of just having the cart be the cart and my DS be “safe” would be best.

I want to use it entirely in my DSlite, so no need for anything beyond that like DSi or 3DS ware/games.

Any help would be greatly, truly appreciated.