3DS freezing-locking up.

[Frogger]

Upon bootup the 3DS I am soft modding appears to be working fine.

It displays the Game Card, I press A. Then select games, then it displays loading and takes me to the game menu.

I am able to move the keypad or press screen to select a game located on the 2GB sd card.

As soon as I move the keypad to select the game, the 3DS freezes. I mean when I press the arrow button down to Mario Brothers or Ice age 4 for example it freezes before I can press the play button.

Firmware on the 3DS is 4.1.0-4e.

Any ideas folks?

What files should I have on the SD card for this particular f/w?

All help appreciated!

[barrowmanandrew]

your not trying to run 3ds games are you?

[Frogger]

your not trying to run 3ds games are you?

Not at all. Im trying the older games like Mario and Super mario etc.

The card Im using is this one in this pic.



Thanks tho.....

PS:: The Firmware on the 3DS is 4.1.0-4E.

Is this a known fw with issues?

[barrowmanandrew]

nope, that should work straight off on that console..

just to double check:


1: format sd card using the panasonic formatting tool

2: download and extract you firmware, then open and copy various files/folders to sd card.

3: test a trust rom first... (check your pm's for that. )

[Frogger]

nope, that should work straight off on that console..

just to double check:


1: format sd card using the panasonic formatting tool

2: download and extract you firmware, then open and copy various files/folders to sd card.

3: test a trust rom first... (check your pm's for that. )

Whoops. Now I see the point of the rom file in PM. Apologies. A fresh rom is what ya meant. Cheers. Thought of that already, but I will try the formatting tool.

[barrowmanandrew]

also look for sav files for the games and delete them too..

[Frogger]

also look for sav files for the games and delete them too..

Thats what happened. Now I remember.

I was able to load up a game at the start without it freezing when I first modded the ds earlier.

Then when I pressed the A button to play the game, it said creating a SAV file and froze. After that it didnt work. I had to power it of and on.

Hummmm..... Now I remember!!

[barrowmanandrew]

have you left enough room on the sd card for sav files?

[Frogger]

have you left enough room on the sd card for sav files?

I did indeed.

I did the following

1. Formatted sd card using the panasonic formatting tool

2: Downloaded and extracted this firmware opened and extracted files to root of SD.

3: Tested a trusted rom.

Now its fricking stuck again. But its worse than before.

Once I select the cartridge from the DS menu it attempts to boot up, then it just shows a red SD card icon with a question mark and just hangs there.

EDIT:: I got the frigger working.

I formatted the SD in FAT32 through Windows and extracted the files one by one and it worked right away first time.

Happy days. I am now playing bomberman, the original old version. I am addicted to it AGAIN!