Gateway Troubleshooting FAQ

A lot of problems appears after a long time enough i'm using Gateway 3DS flashcard, by creating this article I want to put all problems that might appear in the future when all of my dear readers using this flashcard. Hopefully it will help you to troubleshoot the flashcard by yourself.



Win32DiskImager can't write the game into your microSD card  (it may appears as error 5, not responding, etc)

 Solution?

• Format your microSD card by right clicking your microSD card drive in my computer or using 3rd party software such as SD card Formatter.
• Any program can work well with or without 'Run As Administrator' option, so you can try both of them if formatting your SD card didn't solve your problem.
• Using microSD card adapter or any well worked card reader, if it still didn't give the solution perhaps your microSD card is corrupt or can't be used anymore.
• Your game might be corrupted, try to re-download again. 
• When Trying to write your microSD card, do not using any program that might lock your microSD cards (such as winamp that will do a pop up notification when it recognize an empty microSD cards connected to the computer).
• Always try any version of Win32DiskImager, because sometime even the lower version can write the microSD card very well than the latest version of Win32DiskImager. 

Gateway 2.0 (beta tester) /2.1 (public release) aka Omega Release

Yeah so finally Gateway team give us final version of Gateway 2.0/2.1 aka Omega, this new update firmware bring a lot of feature such as multiROM feature, can playing eShop games, etc (you can read it on Gateway website). You don't need win32diskimager anymore because we can just simply drag and drop our games and on top of that we can put more than one game into 1 microSD (I'm gonna hunting for bigger size microSD later). Updating the firmware is very easy, you can read the quick guide that included in 2.1 firmware download file. For more information you can check here http://gateway-3ds.com/ .

additional note: if your game icon didn't show up after activating Gateway mode, just hold the select button about 2 seconds then the multiROM menu will pop up on the 3DS up screen. 

Fragmentation Error 

You can't open the game even though the game icon's already show up in your 3DS menu and the notification show 'Fragmentation Error'.

Solution ?

• Copy or overwrite again your game into microSD
• Some people also said that formatting and defrag your micro SD may solve Fragmentation Error Problem or just copy all of your game simultaneously into your micro SD.  

Fragmentation Error only happened in Gateway Omega firmware. It didn't happened on lower firmware than Omega, if it is happened then it might be normal corrupt on your game file and the solution is copy the game or re-download your game.   

Down Frame Rates 

Well I dunno if this problem also happened in certain games with original cartridge since I'm completely playing on ROM files, my first suggestion for this problem is the quality of the micro SD , mine using VGen that probably the fake one since the writing speed is really horrible (it takes almost 1 hour to copy 1 game with size + 2GB).

Black Screen After Activating Gateway

This problem probably always appear in any version of Gateway update, just make sure you disable 3D feature on 3D before activating Gateway mode or hold the power button until your 3DS turn off then turn the power on again and retry entering the Gateway mode again.    
Might update the problems and solution later if I find it also happened on my Gateway flashcard. Any question can be post on the comments box, I will see your problems and probably will solve that as long as I can do it.