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DSi TwilightMenu++ nds-bootstrap - Game boot time? (self.retrogaming)

submitted 1 year ago by DarthBueller to c/retrogaming

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How long does it take for a properly working Nintendo DSi softmodded with Twilightmenu++/nds-bootstrap to load a game from the SD card? It seems to take nearly a minute to load a game for me. Everything works perfectly, it just seems to take a stupidly long time to get through the nds-bootstrap process (the first load of a game takes the longest, but subsequent loads of that game are only slightly faster).

Meanwhile I have a Nintendo DSlite with a flashcart that is wicked fast to start a game, but the power consumption of the thing in standby mode is out of control to the point that standby mode is essentially unuseable.

Is the trade-off really between stupidly long game loading times if using nds-bootstrap to start a game on the DSi but great power consumption, and wicked fast game loading but terrible battery life on a DSlite with a flashcart? Or is something wrong with my Twilightmenu++/NDS-bootstrap install?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have similar load times on my end on a New 3DS so I don't think it's your install

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto on loading Twilight Menu. Once it's loaded launching a game is pretty fast though.

[–] DarthBueller 2 points 1 year ago

The various discussion threads around the internet talk about slow boot times from power on to Twilightmenu++ appearing, and how it is typically a symptom of the SD card either being slow or having a cluster size that Twilightmenu++ doesn't like. But nobody (that I can see) mentions games taking a long time to load FROM twilightmenu++. Except @Sami.

[–] DarthBueller 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear, you are saying games take a while to start after you select one, NOT that the menu system takes ages to show up from powering on the 3DS, correct? I don't know enough about the particular softmods for DSi vs. 3DS to know if its like comparing apples and oranges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On 3DS you have to launch Twilight Menu like an app and then launch a game from there but i think both take a bit longer than you'd expect with first time game launches being even longer.