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DARKSOFT Darksoft's MultiMVS Latest Firmware, Menu and Instructions

Here are all the cards Ive been testing. They are all 32gb (which falls below the SDXC standard)

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If they are OG and according to the specifications, they should work. Can you try with a smaller microsD that has only a few games and of course the menu in \games folder? Ideally a 1GB or 4GB microSD? That will narrow down the problem to the microSD itself and not to FW, etc.
 
I looked around the house, simply do not own microsd cards smaller than 32gb. I was even opening up old samsung phones that still had microSDs on them. I am ultra careful about purchasing from reliable 1st party in retail packing.... I never buy "bulk" packaging, never from 3rd party/marketplace sellers. Even checked my local best buy.

I was able to find 16gb microSD's shipped & sold from Newegg, from Sandisk and "Team" brand (never heard of them). They are ordered.

cards are getting very hard to find that are not SDXC that are shipped/sold from reliable sellers, basically anything smaller than 32gb is on the very fringe.
 
the directory structure looks solid. If it did a proper update and the files placed in the \update folder were deleted, that means that the microSD is read properly and the contents too. You are not using a microSD XC, are you? Multi only supports SDHC. Try to search for errors in the microSD from Windows. Right click and Tools, then check.
Can you show me the files that you copied in the \update folder as they are when you put them? Just for the info, you can delete, no need to make again an update.
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Here is the firmware (top) and menu (bottom) files - they were downloaded from the first page of this thread.

the firmware files were put in the /update

the menu files were put in /update/menu

Let me know if there is anything else you'd like me to try.
 
Try a small microsd. That's the only thing that comes to my mind right now.
 
Make sure you put ONLY the files from that update pack in the update folder on your sd card. Not inside an additional folder. All files need to be extracted. Don't place a zip file in the folders.

The menu files need to be in a folder called menu in the update folder but the firmware files should not be in another folder. The menu folder should just be called "menu" and not "menu_202303......"
 
Make sure you put ONLY the files from that update pack in the update folder on your sd card. Not inside an additional folder. All files need to be extracted. Don't place a zip file in the folders.

The menu files need to be in a folder called menu in the update folder but the firmware files should not be in another folder. The menu folder should just be called "menu" and not "menu_202303......"
I guess you just troubleshoot an MVS that had that problem, right?
 
Hey All,

I'm new to the multicart world and was lucky enough to purchase one of Darksoft's MVS carts during the last batch. I'm finally getting around to setting it up, but I seem to be having an issue. I've tried multiple times and no matter what I do I keep getting a garbled image (please see below). Everything goes back to normal when I remove the cart and enter service mode.

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Context - Per an earlier topic, I'm using the smallest SDHC memory card I own, 4 TB in FAT32 format. I created the games folder and added a handful of games. I eventually created an \update\menu folder and installed the files in that folder.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
4 TB in FAT32 format.
I guess you mean 4GB
I created the games folder and added a handful of games.
Send us a picture of your microSD folder structure please, including what is inside 2 or 3 of the folders inside /games.
I eventually created an \update\menu folder and installed the files in that folder.
There is no need at all to make an update if it's from the last batch. It has everything that you need.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here we come!
 
I guess you mean 4GB

Send us a picture of your microSD folder structure please, including what is inside 2 or 3 of the folders inside /games.

There is no need at all to make an update if it's from the last batch. It has everything that you need.

Here we come!
Thank you, @Darksoft I appreciate you helping out.

Correct, 4 GB.

Here are images of the folder structure.

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Per your recommendation, I removed the update folder.
 
hmmmmm..... the homebrw1 folder should be also inside games and just place the files there, if you make another folder inside homebrw1, the multi won't be able to see it. The homebrw1 folder only supports 1 game, like every other folder. So it should look like this:

/games/hombrw1/crom0
/games/hombrw1/fpga
/games/hombrw1/m1rom
/games/hombrw1/prom
/games/hombrw1/srom
/games/hombrw1/vroma0

I noticed that your games folder doesn't have the menu folder inside and that's probably the reason why the multi doesn't boot. The best you can do is to put the menu in \update\menu and power the cart. It will update the menu and copy it into \games\menu. Show me a picture of \update\menu before doing the update.
 
hmmmmm..... the homebrw1 folder should be also inside games and just place the files there, if you make another folder inside homebrw1, the multi won't be able to see it. The homebrw1 folder only supports 1 game, like every other folder. So it should look like this:

/games/hombrw1/crom0
/games/hombrw1/fpga
/games/hombrw1/m1rom
/games/hombrw1/prom
/games/hombrw1/srom
/games/hombrw1/vroma0

I noticed that your games folder doesn't have the menu folder inside and that's probably the reason why the multi doesn't boot. The best you can do is to put the menu in \update\menu and power the cart. It will update the menu and copy it into \games\menu. Show me a picture of \update\menu before doing the update.
Hi Darksoft,

Thank you for the information, please let me know if this looks good.

Created the update folder and added a menu folder inside. Downloaded the latest menu from here.

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Moved the homebrw1 folder to the games folder and placed all the files inside of the folder.

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Is this how you want me to proceed or would you like me to ONLY have the update folder on the micro USB for now?

Thank you!
 
This looks good. Maybe remove that fpga.bak from homebrw1 just in case.

You can also copy from windows the menu from /updates to /games

Now power it on, wait at least 30 secs for it to copy the menu and it should reset automatically and boot.
 
This looks good. Maybe remove that fpga.bak from homebrw1 just in case.

You can also copy from windows the menu from /updates to /games

Now power it on, wait at least 30 secs for it to copy the menu and it should reset automatically and boot.
Ok, I did what you asked and will try running it again.
 
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