I’ve noticed that since switching to Pretendo servers about a month ago, my 3DS hasn’t been correctly logging DS/DSi software titles in the Activity Log. Titles show up with “0:00” as the playtime, regardless of how long I actually spent in the game. Sometimes DS/DSi software aren’t logged at all. Switching back to Nintendo servers fixes the problem. Only new entries are affected - the bug does not break old entries.
I encountered this myself playing some DS games I bought. From my research it’s something the do with Luma3DS using the “Enable Loading External FIRM and Modules.”
I have found if you simply uncheck this in the Luma Firmware (Hold select on boot.) And DS game tracking will work again. You will however, lose access to pretendo.
So unfortunately the only work around is just constantly turning that option on and off when you want to use the service.
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Is this the case even when not using our patches? Disabling that in Luma disables parts of our patches as you said, but that doesn’t mean it’s Luma causing the issue. If the issue is our patches, then disabling this would make Luma not load those patches and thus “fixes” the issue
Can you test this on an SD card setup without our patches? Ideally a fresh SD card that just has the bare minimum required for Luma? Then enable that feature and see if the logs are still incorrect
If the logs are correct then it’s not Luma, it’s something else. If the logs are still incorrect, then it is Luma and bug report should be filed with them Issues · LumaTeam/Luma3DS · GitHub
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I can check for you when I can, but it could be some time, I would have to get a new SD Card and such since I don’t want to fiddle around with trying to copy everything over and end up having re-install games and also lose my Save data.
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I was linked to this if it’s any help.
https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshomebrew/comments/1csualv/3ds_activity_log_issue_with_nds_games/
Not sure whether it actually means anything though since I can’t tell how long these users have been using Pretendo.
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I saw that which is why I mentioned it here since I did the same thing.
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