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?
I have similar load times on my end on a New 3DS so I don’t think it’s your install
Ditto on loading Twilight Menu. Once it’s loaded launching a game is pretty fast though.
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.
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.
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.