Just to let you all know something that wasn't included in the guide that I think should (because its built-in to M3R) is how to skin the M3R GBAlpha(or Mediaextend I've heard it called) the wallpaper of the homescreen must be called "DESKTOP.BMP"(to test this just copy your desktop from your skin folder) each icon on the homescreen is called "ICON0.BMP" through to "ICON7.BMP"(7 icons obviously) for the background of the file screen(where you see the system folder,the NDS folder etc. and you pick your file)it is called "FILEBACK.BMP" the background for Ebooks is "TEXTBACK.BMP" Every .BMP file can be a 256 rgb or 24 bitmap and must be a BMP file. The startup and turnoff music can also be changed, it must be "STARTUP.MP3" and "TURNOFF.MP3" After getting all these files copy them into the SYSTEM folder NOT the skins folder go into Media extend choose the options icon(the tool like icon) choose skin and it should say "internal" and "/SYSTEM" obviously choose system and the changes will be implemented Another note is that mediaextend/GBAlpha supports .dpg files I haven't tested this but apparantly using the DPGENC.EXE converter that came with MOONSHELL09 will work( most people have used V1.71 if you find an old version let me know) All the above information was found by goinng into help and information in mediaextend(the icon above the reboot settings icon)and i skimmed through the text.
AAAArrrrrrrgh......... I sent my card back as I couldn't get it to work and they rang on Friday to say there was nothing wrong with it, but that I shouldn't have put my games into a folder, they had taken them out and it was working fine. Just got it back and......... yes you guessed it still doesn't work. I only bought my DS in October so surely it must be compatible? I am so frustrated as when they rang on Friday I told them I had already tried them both in and out of folders, I don't know what to do now, any ideas?
The answer lies a few posts back in this thread. The M3 is not very well made - there are no pin guides which can lead to poor connection with the pins not lining up with the pads. Look closely at the pads on the M3, can you see faint contact marks where the pins have scraped against the pads? Are the scrapes very close to one side of the pads? If so, then that's a guide as to which way to move the miniature PCB to get a good contact. I messed with this problem for ages until I discovered the fix.
I downloaded Moonshell09 and have tried the encoder and then on my DS a file from youtube and from a download site both worked. If you want to download Moonshell09 I hosted because I could only find it on a foreign site and it took me a while to even find the download. http://www.ziddu.com/download.php?uid=bKyelZmuaKqem5atsayZlJyiY62WlJip3
hi, newbie to the ds scene. quick question. on the root of the micro sd card, is it where you place folders SYSTEM and NDS? thx in advance.
I managed to get it working last night for a few minutes but as soon as I turned the console off it wouldn't load back up again. I had to press it into the ds so hard my fingers hurt, that surely can't be right? I tried it on my friends normal ds and it worked fine. There are no scratch marks at all on the contacts, but I see exactly what you mean now. If they sent me a new card out do you think that it would be any better or is it just that they don't work well with the DS lite?
THE M3 DS REAL CARD REQUIRES ONLY CERTAIN NAME BRAND MICROSD CARDS!!! I tried using a Crucial MicroSD card and it wouldn't work right - however, a SanDisk MicroSD card works without any problems. So if you can't get your M3 DS REAL card to work, try using SanDisk memory cards with it. Apologies if this is a repost.
I have a 2GB MicroSD Crucial memory card and it will NOT work right. I occassionally get a language start-up screen, but then the system freezes. Once in a while I'll get the menu, but when I select ANY game, the system freezes. I was about to return the card and Support at RealHotStuff told me to try SanDisk (or Kingston) memory - AND IT WORKED! This is a real testimonial, I'm sure you'll get more after others read this. Much to my disbelief I reformatted and tried the Crucial card again - and nothing. I'm sure there are others that have experienced the same thing. I have absolutely no freezing or reboots using SanDisk. I have read that others have issues with their System files and that they have to re-load them every-so-often, well I have some news for them, it's not the system files, it's the MicroSD memory card. I do NOT work for SanDisk or hate Crucial - heck, my home computer has 4Gigs of Crucial memory. I will, however, be using my Crucial MicroSD card as a portable USB memory stick.
The micro-SD card is a separate issue [and there is evidence that some makes don't work well]. By all means try a different manufacturer, but I have absolutely no doubt that the problem I experienced was mis-alignment of the pins in the DS Lite with the pads on the M3. If your M3 simply won't show then in all probability it is a connection problem, not a micro SD problem.
I have managed to get it working with a 4 folded sheet of card squeezed in. I have tried it in 3 other DS lites and it works fine, so it must be my DS, I am going to get my OH to take it to peices tomorrow (the M3 Card) and see if he can jiggle it about. Thanks for all your help.
I loved your guide, thank you so much for it. I own an M3 Real and am in love with it. But something I have noticed is that there are several hex codes, specifically for the Pokemon D/P games, that I have found for the Action Replay, but they aren't in the premade codejunkies list. Is there anyway I can take the codes I've found in text form and put them into the m3 real in a similar database way?
real time? never heard of it but if you mean slow-motion you press r+sl or #l-sl depending on what you set it to but its incompatible with most games so far mario and sonic at the olympics is the onoly one I've found to work.
I have a problem. I can load the in built emulators and the games and actually save them, but if I turn off my ds and load a different game the save is not there anymore. But if I turn it off and load the same game, the save is still there. Please note this only happens with nes/gb roms, not nds/gba games. Also, is there a way to load .bin files(some bin files are homebrew gba games/emulators)in the m3 real?
Well a lot of people had this problem with GBA games and to fix it they used rts (real time save) and a method which uses rts and normal save, some however just downloaded a save and used that by overwriting the save file with a new game.
Plz give me a step by step process of how to get it started maybe using a link. my m3 real keps saying put in system file when i already did. If you download it directly is it in the right format. help
