Sorry to bump an old thread but I'm 'still' having issues with my clone GDEmu... Man, this thing is nothing but trouble so far - is anyone sharing the pain here? Surely I'm not alone!?
I bumped this thread because all the problems above were the same as I'm experiencing here... When I saw the 'old 4 wire modchip' comment just above I remembered that my DC also had the same modchip so... 15 minutes unscrewing, etc... I realise that I changed the motherboard on this DC and it doesn't have the 4-wire modchip at all. But, the problems still persist.
At first I thought it was leaving the VMU in the controller - because, once I removed it, it seemed to work okay.
What I find is that I can get it working eventually, but if I leave my DC off and unplugged for a week or two - then the GDEmu just stops working. I'm thinking now that it's been over a month that it's been unplugged (possibly) - Is the problem maybe related to the clock battery? It's the only thing i haven't changed (as I type this I'm installing the DreamPSU... and the GDEmu is just not booting up anymore - all I get is a black screen then the blue swirl appears and just hangs there, frozen.
I can't rule out that removing the modchip maybe a solution for some people - but it isn't connected to the problems (and continuous headaches) I'm having with my GDEmu.
Any thoughts? I've opened it up, dusted everything... but I think the problem is either the mainboard or the GDEmu... Or the SDCard Maker software?
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Possible fix discovered! If you're having the same problem, check my reply at the end of this post:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=13700&p=145270#p145270(basically, check the GDEmu PCB for bad soldering - i had a blob on of the chips I scraped with a screwdriver and it 'seems' to be working. I suspect I'm not alone with this - maybe this dude who can't solder properly has made other cards that are out there...)
This is the one mod where I just feel defeated.