White screen on launch (DS/EZV flashcard)

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DSi Menu replacement for DS/DSi/3DS/2DS

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White screen on launch (DS/EZV flashcard) #2341

Closed clbr closed 6 months ago

clbr commented 9 months ago

Flashcard or Exploits? EZ-Flash V (NYE) Base Console: DS Phat

TWiLight Menu++ Version: Latest flashcard release TWiLight Menu++ Theme: None/default

Expected behavior

The menu should start

Actual behavior

The menu hangs at two white screens

Steps to reproduce

Unpack files to the flash card
Launch boot.nds via the flashcard's own menu

Notes

the sd card is a 2 GB one, correctly formatted and working for years with the original EZ-flash kernel 2.0 RC20
I have an ez-flash 3-in-1 inserted in the GBA slot (one tutorial says having a RAM expansion may fix the white screens - didn't)

clbr commented 9 months ago

I also waited 5 minutes, as one place mentioned it can take 1-2 minutes to start.

clbr commented 9 months ago

When I use autoboot/replace ez5sys.bin with the provided one, the menu starts. The language questions showed up immediately, the splash is also immediate, but then there's 10 seconds of white screens before the actual menu launches.

Since the menu launches that way, I guess this issue is about launching normally only (via boot.nds). If launching normally via such an old flashcard is out of scope, feel free to close this.

lifehackerhansol commented 9 months ago

If I remember right, the EZ Flash stock kernel is Moonshell 2-based, which has issues with loading modern homebrew in general.

I'll check over it again, but if my theory is correct, there's not really any way to fix this.

clbr commented 9 months ago

That's fine, just documenting it would be enough so others don't waste time trying.