Cannot get all R4DS Games to show...

[TJ666]

Purchased a R4DS III I have all the following files and directories on the 8GB Micro SDHC card.

English version 3.07

Micro SDHC card contains the following:

_system_ folder
moonshl folder
_DS_MENU.DAT file
_R$__III.DAT file
_DS_MSHL.NDS file
Games folder - contains 39 .nds game files

Issue: Only 24 of these games files are showing on the DS unit.

Is there some limit to how many .nds file you can have on a card?
Does anyone know how to get past this?

[Forget_the_Rest]

I have heard some reports of a maximum number.

Not having that clone, the only thing I can think of that might work is to split the games up into their own folders.

[LagfighterDSL]

Hello,
Don't know if this helps but I'm using the R4 Revolution SDHC(clone apparently) with the 1.24(english) firmware.
I was having the exact same problem with the addition that if I deleted games, I couldn't add any that would show up.
I'm a patient guy(mostly) so I started extensive research of my own. I found that-

1. The "version 1.25" kernel offered at http://WWW.r4sdhc.com would give me the "Loading" screen freeze -So I used the 1.24 and all seems fine.
2. The memory card (KIngston 8GB) was performing as expected and holding up to 150 games in the Games folder BUT it was only showing 78 of them with the additonal titles making individual folders headed in chinese(I had Drag and Dropped the whole 150 at one time). Also if I tried to delete the "excess" games that weren't in english I would just reduce the overall english titles.

I spoke to a friend who knows more about the FAT (File Allocation Table)systems than I do, His thoughts were that sometimes the FAT can only read up to 99 files without glitching. With this advice I-

1. Unzipped 100 games to their own directory.
2. Re-formatted my memory card with the FAT32 system.
3. Re-installed the version 1.24 english firmware kernel and made my "games" folder.
4. Drag and Dropped a group of 25 games and verified it in my DS. This worked 3 times for a total of 75 games successfully transferred with no hiccups,
5. Transferred a group of 24 games for a total of 99 games with no problems. Once again removing memory card and verifying the integrity of the games.
6. Dragged 100th game and Dropped, removed for verification. Now files got "slightly" wonky again. Directory shows 134 games with 34 of them being duplicate titles.

The duplicates seem to act as shortcuts to the same games.
The duplicate titles are a minor pain but at least I have 100 playable games with no chinese folders.
It's been working fine but I fear the next time I want to put a new game on.......time will tell.

Hope some of this helps-
-Sean

[perthao]

Had same problem with 8gb SHDC card. I used the Panasonic SD formatter on it and it's now able to display up to 180 games.

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/s ... atter.html

[Rakoen]

Wow thank you

[LagfighterDSL]

Had same problem with 8gb SHDC card. I used the Panasonic SD formatter on it and it's now able to display up to 180 games.

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/s ... atter.html

DUDE! That was exactly the answer I needed! got 139 games no probs!

Thank You Very Much Indeed!

[MeiTow]

Ok, I downloaded this program and here is my experience. Maybe someone can tell me what happened.

My card worked fine in my DS last night with only 53 games on it and downloaded themes. I had only 53 games on it because after 104 it wouldn't read any more and I would get weird red directories in the games folder that weren't there when I hooked it up to my comp so to be safe I just didn't put very many games on my card.

I downloaded this program this morning. Installed it. Took my Kingston 8g card out of my r4 sdhc cart and put it in the reader that came with the r4 because my husband's faster reader was downstairs and I didn't want to go get it. I use a usb cable to connect it to my computer because other wise I'd have to jack up my desktop to get to the back of it. When I plugged it in it said the portable drive was there but when I double clicked on the card to get the themes and games off it before I formatted, it told me it insert blah blah into drive. I did notice the red light wasn't on and I tried wiggling it but the red light would not come on.

I asked my daughter to bring up the other reader since she was going downstairs to get clothes for school. I plugged the card into the other reader (my husband bought it when he bought sdhc cards for his treo) and it wouldn't even bring up the portable drive. As I wiggled the reader off the cable I noticed that right before the reader was freed from the cable it would flash the drive and then disappear again.

At this point, everything was being slow and I knew I'd been needing a reboot for awhile so I rebooted to see if that would fix the problem. It did not. I even opened the program and the drop down menu is greyed out with the card connected.

My husband tried the card on his computer and his phone and neither will recognize it either.

So my question is...can anyone tell me why my card was fried after installing this program?

[LagfighterDSL]

First of all, sorry about the card, that sucks.I've read and re-read your post. Did you ever actually get to the point where you used the program to format your card? The problems seemed to start before that step.

Ok, I downloaded this program and here is my experience. Maybe someone can tell me what happened.

My card worked fine in my DS last night with only 53 games on it and downloaded themes. I had only 53 games on it because after 104 it wouldn't read any more and I would get weird red directories in the games folder that weren't there when I hooked it up to my comp so to be safe I just didn't put very many games on my card.- To me this usually indicates a problem with the formatting, so you were correct in downloading the program.

I downloaded this program this morning. Installed it. Took my Kingston 8g card out of my r4 sdhc cart and put it in the reader that came with the r4 because my husband's faster reader was downstairs and I didn't want to go get it. I use a usb cable to connect it to my computer because other wise I'd have to jack up my desktop to get to the back of it. When I plugged it in it said the portable drive was there but when I double clicked on the card to get the themes and games off it before I formatted, it told me it insert blah blah into drive. I did notice the red light wasn't on and I tried wiggling it but the red light would not come on.-Potentially a problem with the USB cable itself. The "wiggling" has caused me to fry good cards in the past when plugged in and "hot".

I asked my daughter to bring up the other reader since she was going downstairs to get clothes for school. I plugged the card into the other reader (my husband bought it when he bought sdhc cards for his treo) and it wouldn't even bring up the portable drive. As I wiggled the reader off the cable I noticed that right before the reader was freed from the cable it would flash the drive and then disappear again.-Once agin, speaking from personal experience, cards can fry when "wiggled".

At this point, everything was being slow and I knew I'd been needing a reboot for awhile so I rebooted to see if that would fix the problem. It did not. I even opened the program and the drop down menu is greyed out with the card connected.

My husband tried the card on his computer and his phone and neither will recognize it either.

So my question is...can anyone tell me why my card was fried after installing this program?

-I'm not sure the program itself did anything. See if this helps at all-

1. Put your 8gig into the thumb drive your R4 came with.
2. Plug it directly in an available USB 2.0 port.(this has sometimes "kick-started" previously dud cards.)

If this works at all, cool, if not. card may be dead. The next time you get an 8 gig card-

1. First, use the SD Formatter 2.0 to format card as the base for your installation.
2. Copy the kernel version to card (I'm using 1.24 for my R4 III SDHC clone)
3. Copy themes to "Themes" directory.(my kernel, being clone software, has an extra "thumbnails" folder in each theme, so I just overwite necessary files, leaving the thumbnail folders intact)
4. Create your "games" folder and drag and drop your games.

I was having identical problems, including the strange red files, had 138 games installed, only showed 74. After I used the SD Formatter, all 138 showed, no red files and have added several games since with no issues. Good luck with the card.
-Sean

[MeiTow]

Thank you for the reply. It just seems odd that it would all work before (after all, I put all the games and themes on there in the same manner, using the cable) and then conveniently not work when I downloaded and installed that program. No, I was never able to format the card using the program because my computer never registered that the card was there. As to the "wiggling": I did that only after it already wasn't acknowledging the card. I used to have to wiggle it for a good connection with my normal SD reader and the 2 gig card I use in my phone. The second wiggling was just disconnecting it from the usb cable and I noticed that right at the end it would flash that the drive was there and then disappear.

My husband plugged the card into both our thumb drives and plugged directly into his usb port on his laptop and it did the exact same thing to him. The one thumb drive would see the portable drive but tell us to insert something into it when we tried to open it. The other one would show nothing but the drive would flash and disappear right before being completely disconnected from the port.

Also, both DS's in the house freeze with the loading screen up after putting it back in the cart and back in the system.

I don't know...it's just lame. I've had nothing but problems. First it took almost a month to get my r4 because someone lost it at the post office. Then when I get it; my DS wouldn't even go past the white screen at the beginning, heck it wouldn't even boot that white screen all the way. Took another 2 weeks of emailing to get the company to take it back and another 2 weeks to get the replacement. Then the firmware wasn't working properly and now, apparently, something fried my card.

[gladysia]

How can my husband be so concentrated on a baseball game? My husband is the worst channel surfer alive! But when the baseball game comes on, he doesn't even blink. How is this possible?