alot of stuff, most of it is beyond me. I appreciate your reply, but it's mostly over my head. I have 2 of these carts and the other one was detected and flashed no problem. The one that doesn't work I can use with a real disc to load any backup I want. The one that DOES work I flashed and it works...

nocash wrote: It could be probably detected when knowing what flash chip you have in there. If you don't know, disassemble the card, and post a photo of the hardware inside.

Ask and ye shall receive!

I'm struggling to get this to boot. I really, really suck at the swap trick, however my cart allows backups to run - I trick the sensor, insert the cart, power on with a real game. The cart menu loads, the disc stops spinning and I swap it for a back up. I press start on my controller and the backup...