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A GBA hypervisor for DS. (like nintendont for gc on wii)
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black screens on rom load #87

Open antgeth opened 4 years ago

antgeth commented 4 years ago

i must be doing something wrong, but i can't for the life of me figure out what. after starting gbarunner, i choose a rom. it pauses for a couple seconds (dependent on the size of the rom) and then i just get both screens black and nothing responds.

what am i overlooking?

Gericom commented 4 years ago

Did you make sure your bios is correct? Checksums are in the readme.

antgeth commented 4 years ago

yep, the md5 is a860e8c0b6d573d191e4ec7db1b1e4f6

FlameKat53 commented 4 years ago

antgeth, can you try to run the roms on the latest release in https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/Releases/ ?

antgeth commented 4 years ago

update: it's working on my DSi, running off the SD card. BUT the problem persists even with the latest builds using my R4 (DSL and DSi). tried it on a friend's R4 as well, same deal

groche97 commented 4 years ago

Me to, not load ROMs in r4i gold v1.4.1

harryherbig commented 4 years ago

I guess I have the same problem. Using:

I can browse the gba files but after selecting one the screen turns black and the device is frozen.

Tried versions arm7_ds and arm9_ds from the last builds and the arm9_ds from the release before that.
For installation I just copied the nds files to a folder in root of the sd card. I start the nds files from the R4 Games Menu.

zenseii commented 4 years ago

I guess I have the same problem. Using:

  • DS Lite
  • R4 Upgrade Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS) www.r4i-sdhc.com
  • Firmware R4 1.85b

I can browse the gba files but after selecting one the screen turns black and the device is frozen.

Tried versions arm7_ds and arm9_ds from the last builds and the arm9_ds from the release before that. For installation I just copied the nds files to a folder in root of the sd card. I start the nds files from the R4 Games Menu.

Have you tried putting twilightmenu++ on your sd card and running a gba rom for there? It comes with gbarunner2.

harryherbig commented 3 years ago

I guess I have the same problem. Using:

  • DS Lite
  • R4 Upgrade Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS) www.r4i-sdhc.com
  • Firmware R4 1.85b

I can browse the gba files but after selecting one the screen turns black and the device is frozen. Tried versions arm7_ds and arm9_ds from the last builds and the arm9_ds from the release before that. For installation I just copied the nds files to a folder in root of the sd card. I start the nds files from the R4 Games Menu.

Have you tried putting twilightmenu++ on your sd card and running a gba rom for there? It comes with gbarunner2.

Thank you for your response. So far I only tried putting a valid gba bios, with the listed md5 to the _gba folder without any success.

The twilightmenu++ is something that I am confronted with all the time when trying to find a solution online. So this seams to be my best bet for a solution. I recently messed up my sd card and lost valuable savegames with that, so I will search for another sd card to test this with.

I will respond with either success or failure :) Thank you for taking the time to respond to my personal problem...

EDIT: since twilightmenu++ only seems to be for DSi and not for the DSLite, I tried TTMenu as an intermediate to start GBARunner2 which lead to SUCCESS. 🎉

zenseii commented 3 years ago

I guess I have the same problem. Using:

  • DS Lite
  • R4 Upgrade Revolution for DS (NDSL/NDS) www.r4i-sdhc.com
  • Firmware R4 1.85b

I can browse the gba files but after selecting one the screen turns black and the device is frozen. Tried versions arm7_ds and arm9_ds from the last builds and the arm9_ds from the release before that. For installation I just copied the nds files to a folder in root of the sd card. I start the nds files from the R4 Games Menu.

Have you tried putting twilightmenu++ on your sd card and running a gba rom for there? It comes with gbarunner2.

Thank you for your response. So far I only tried putting a valid gba bios, with the listed md5 to the _gba folder without any success.

The twilightmenu++ is something that I am confronted with all the time when trying to find a solution online. So this seams to be my best bet for a solution. I recently messed up my sd card and lost valuable savegames with that, so I will search for another sd card to test this with.

I will respond with either success or failure :) Thank you for taking the time to respond to my personal problem...

EDIT: since twilightmenu++ only seems to be for DSi and not for the DSLite, I tried TTMenu as an intermediate to start GBARunner2 which lead to SUCCESS. 🎉

That's great to hear! Also Twilightmenu++ does work with most flashcards on DSLite too.

Anways, since you found a solution by using a different kernel/menu then I figure the other people with issues in this thread could use the same solution.

I'd suggest closing this issue until further comment is made from the original posters.

Awea commented 3 years ago

since twilightmenu++ only seems to be for DSi and not for the DSLite, I tried TTMenu as an intermediate to start GBARunner2 which lead to SUCCESS. 🎉

@harryurban Sorry to bust in but would you mind sharing a link to TTMenu? I can't find it by my own. Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind, I found my way to replace the default R4 firmware with YSMenu and get GBARunner working following this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-install-ysmenu-woodr4-on-r4i-sdhc-3ds-rts.470619/

deadpahn commented 10 months ago

Encountered the same issue with a DSLITE and R4 SDHC. Thanks to the valuable information shared here, I was able to pinpoint the problem – it turns out the menu was causing the trouble. Not only that, but it set my card to read-only every time. Spent hours troubleshooting and initially blamed the SD cards, only to discover it's the menu software interfering with the card after attempting to launch GBARunner.

Though I'm not exactly sure about the specifics, it seems the menu prevents GBARunner from writing to the SD card properly. Even using fan-made firmware like "Retro Game Fan" from GBAtemp didn't resolve the issue.

However, a combination of "R4SDHC YSMenu" and "R4-Clone YSMenu" did the trick. Just a heads up, make sure to delete "DEFAULT.nds" to avoid a never-ending loop when booting the card (you can break out of the loop by holding all the L, R, B, A, X, Y buttons simultaneously).

After sorting out these issues, GBARunner2 runs smoothly. Interestingly, it runs faster on my R4 clone than directly from the SD card on my DSi. I wish there was a note in the main README.md explaining the different file versions, like what "arm7" indicates. The whole process took me about 4 hours, so I'm sharing this in the hopes that someone else facing similar challenges might save some time. Cheers!