Ok, I have been searching and searching for a tutorial on how to run dipstar. This was one of the sites I came upon. I tried following the steps from XbusterZ, but I still cant get it to work. I have a few questions and hopefully people will answer:
1. When you write dipstar.ds.gba with game manager, do you use Write NDS?
2. In step 5: When I load up the m3 lite and select dipstar with A it leads me to another screen which i can press A again. Do I do this or press B? And then proceed to step 6?
3. Lastly, I read on the dualscene site that you are supposed to: "Copy the downloaded dipstar.ds.dat from the cheats exchange to subdirectory "GAMESAVE". However this isnt in XbusterZ's guide which got me confused.
-Where do i even find the dipstar.ds.dat? I know in my dipstar folder is is a dipstar.ds.sav file though?
Also, ticnic's guide seems to be a bit different. It's confusing which to follow.
I use an M3 MiniSD Perfect + Passcard 3 with a 2GB PQI MiniSD Card.
Okay I was able to make it work. Here is what I did:
1. Write dipstar.ds.gba to the GBA folder using Write GBA in the M3 game manager. I didn't touch any settings.
2. Right click on the dipstar.ds.gba (after you write it) in the M3 game manager and open the saver manager.
3. Click write (bottom left) and select dipstar.ds.sav to write it.
4. Write Izuna (4x DMA, GBA Linkage or your games settings + GBA Linkage) to the NDS folder using Write NDS in the M3 Game Manager. (I assume the GBA Linkage allows dipstar to work).
5. Close the M3 Game Manager.
6. Locate the NDS folder on your SD or CF card. Drag the Izuna rom onto the m3dip.exe (that should of came with dipstar) and hit enter when prompted by the dos window to patch it. (Supposedly the game will not work now unless dipstar is activated after this step).
7. Safely remove your SD or CF card and stick it back into your M3 and then put your adapter into your DS.
8. Power the DS on.
9. DON'T GO TO GBA MODE, go to GBA and press A once on dipstar.ds.gba, the screen should quickly blink.
10. Go back to your DS games and select Izuna. When you press A the second time hold L immediately afterwards. This should bring up the dipstar menu.
11. Choose a slot (button on the DS) to put the codes into (starting with the master code first).
12. When you are done entering codes, press start to save and exit.
13. Power off the DS.
14. Power on the DS.
15. Repeat 9-10 except instead of holding L, hold the button (or slot) you put the codes under.
