Noobie question on DS Lite/Acekard 2

**ParkerDigital** · 7th January 2010

I bought my daughter a pink DS Lite for Christmas, and I've just got an acekard 2 for it with an 8GB sandisk micro SD card. I've chucked the latest firmware on there (4.21) and a bunch of games.

The problem is, I can choose a game from the card and select it, and I get to the game's menu screen OK, but then when I try and actually enter a game it just crashes while it's loading. The same thing has happened on all the games I've tried - am I missing something obvious somewhere along the line, or is this not enough information to be able to tell? Sorry if I'm being dim, but as the title says, I'm a noobie

**broona** · 8th January 2010

Have you tried putting the games into a separate 'Games' folder? I've had problems before if I just drop them in the root directory.

You got a smaller, non HC card to try with it? May be a format problem, ie FAT/FAT32.

Has the 8gb memory card got any free space on it? I always try to leave a couple of hundred meg free for saves, etc.

**ParkerDigital** · 8th January 2010

Originally Posted by broona

Have you tried putting the games into a separate 'Games' folder? I've had problems before if I just drop them in the root directory.

You got a smaller, non HC card to try with it? May be a format problem, ie FAT/FAT32.

Has the 8gb memory card got any free space on it? I always try to leave a couple of hundred meg free for saves, etc.

Hi there,

Yeah the games were in a separate folder, and there were only a handful in there - I think they came to 640MB in total, so there's loads of free space left on the card.

I did wonder about the formatting - it's currently FAT32 - I tried formatting it to FAT16 with the Panasonic thingy but then WinXP wouldn't recognise it.

And no, I haven't got a non HC card to try it with, although I've just noticed the 8GB card isn't sandisk - it hasn't got a brand on it at all, it's the one that came free with my Nokia 5800. I've got a 4GB PNY card on order with play.com, so I'll give that a go when it turns up and hope for the best

**koola2** · 8th January 2010

Always try the AKAIO firmware instead
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php?title=AKAIO

**ParkerDigital** · 8th January 2010

Originally Posted by koola2

Always try the AKAIO firmware instead
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php?title=AKAIO

Yeah, I've tried the AKAIO firmware and the official firmware - same thing happens

**broona** · 9th January 2010

Have you tried the HP Format Tool - http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

TBH, sounds like either an iffy SD card or Acekard, you seem to have tried most of the obvious solutions.

**Fearless** · 12th January 2010

Finally got mine working with the DSI on 1.4 fw after doing the update through DSlite and now its all working cheers for the tips guys

parker have you tried a 2gb card?

**mooncats** · 12th January 2010

itll be the memory sd card faulty

**ParkerDigital** · 16th January 2010

Tried another card - a PNY 4GB SDHC - same with that. Both the SDHC cards work fine in the PC and my phone - maybe I'll try a smaller (2GB) non-HC card like broona and Fearless suggested

**ParkerDigital** · 17th January 2010

OK - after reading on another forum (can't remember which one) that somebody with the same problem had tried loading up older firmware and fixed it, I tried that. Deleted v4.21 and downloaded v4.07a13 instead - sorted