Mk3 Bricked my ds!

[jimmyjimmy]

I have flashme v6 on my ds and an mk3. I recently flashed animal crossing onto my mk3, but it froze at about 93%. Like an idiot, rather than re-flash it, I tried running it. The game froze at the title screen and when I turned my ds back on, it wouldn't even go to the main menu. Would the fail-safe feature in the flashme recover my ds's firmware. Thanks to anyone who can shed light on my problem.

[flashsample]

If the file was flashed incorrectly due to a malfunction in the MK3, it should stop the flashing process with a "fatal error" on the upper screen.  However, running an incomplete flash should not brick your DS, since most of the time games will not be writing to the firmware or firmware settings.

Try removing the MK3 and rebooting the DS.  If that still gives you a problem, use the fail-safe to recover FlashMe.  Oh yeah, if you are using Menu v0.5, remove the flash cart too.

Obviously, don't try running a game unless its completely flashed.  Also, I noticed a little bit of play in my MK3 and DS connection.  If I set the DS down on a flat surface, it kind of pushes up on the MK3 maybe half a millimeter.  Sometimes this causes the flashing to fail.  Try resting the DS on a game case with the MK3 hanging over the edge so nothing pushes up under it.

[jimmyjimmy]

It's definitely bricked because whenever I turn it on now, the screens stay blank.

[angelfly]

Just use flashme's recovery method.

[q_armando]

How can you brick your DS's firmware when you where writing on the MK3 memory ?
Remember, we use the same word when it comes to flash a new firmware and flash a game to the MK3 onboard memory, but it's two completely different tasks.
Maybe something else happened durung(or after) the process that caused the problem.
Anyway, let us know if you are were able to recover the firmware with flasme.

[bruceg]

I have flashme v6 on my ds and an mk3. I recently flashed animal crossing onto my mk3, but it froze at about 93%. Like an idiot, rather than re-flash it, I tried running it. The game froze at the title screen and when I turned my ds back on, it wouldn't even go to the main menu. Would the fail-safe feature in the flashme recover my ds's firmware. Thanks to anyone who can shed light on my problem.

I assume you've already tried your ds in normal mode by removing the flashcart and mk3 unit.  I've never heard of bricking your ds by improperly flashing to the mk3 internal memory.  That shouldn't do anything to alter the firmware.

I guess you can recover using flashme if all else fails...

BruceG

[cory1492]

Let me guess, you turn on the DS, the power light blips once and the DS shuts down...

I cant see any way MK3 could cause this on its own, but a few people have had a similar problem. Let me know if this is your problem and I will aim you at a thread elsewhere speaking about correcting it.

[jimmyjimmy]

It doesn't shut down. With flashme, the backlight doesn't turn on for a few seconds. When i turn my ds on, the power turns on, the backlight doesn't and it doesn't switch off.

[cory1492]

Well, that being the case I'd have to guess that your wifi settings did in fact corrupt the flash memory of the DS. Try booting flashme from a GBA cart A+B+Sel+Start held (while turning the DS on), give it a while as it takes longer to load (if it does load).

Also, if you still have the menu on your cart, try booting it with those buttons held, and the MK3 in place.

Possibly what happened is due to the incomplete ROM, it tried writing settings to the DS memory (or reading them) when you booted it. At least, thats what I am hoping any way.

Let me know how it goes, the only way I know how to erase corrupted user settings in the writeable area of the firmware is to use the trojan that DF wrote (wouldnt it be ironic if it was actually needed for something like this?)

[jimmyjimmy]

I put flashme back on my gba cart and i reinstalled it using the fail-safe feature. Thanks for everyone's advice.