Which roms are you using? The latest roll up pack?
If so that has the encrypted roms which also need the keywriting wires installed.
Yeah, you're right on. I was using the correct ROMs but I think it didn't like my SD card setup for (whatever) reason. Here's some pictures for fun.
This is the board after I pulled the ROMs. It was a suicided/Phoenixed Progear conversion before I started, trying to do my part to preserve the original hardware.
Here you can see the board support after I straightened it out, and the broken pin. I was pretty surprised how easily it broke off. Calling me sad would have been an understatement.
Thankfully I'm smarter than I look (But then again I'd have to be) and I was able to repair it pretty easily.
Here it is after re-assembly, and checking continuity on everything 14 times... If you just plug everything together as far as it will go it doesn't fit very well. I had to float some pins on the smaller board a little less than fully seated, otherwise it was pulling the main Darksoft board down a couple milimeters and putting (what I felt like) would have been damaging long term due to the torque/twist on the board. I plugged everything in without a great sense of confidence as to how it was going to work, and surprise... Green screen.
I decided to go ahead an put the sticker on the case since I was already dealing with a reproduction Progear sticker/board.
I just laid the SDCard on top of the slot for this pic to show what I was using. Seems to be fine, but I had to format it to 4096mb and leave the other 12,288mb unallocated. After that it worked fine.
My only remaining gripe, I got a super short LCD cable when I paid SaveYourGames.IT for the extra long cable. Oh well, I'll hack something together or get it from eBay.