Nintendo DS Errors

[@IllusionMaster17]

About the Pictochat error is actually a hidden firmware version access. A feature that, once you choose a room, by retiring the cartridge, depending of the color of the screen, it indicates the console firmware.

[@0rt4s]

What color ?

[@SpriteXP404]

Wait so you can't get the colored picochat screen of death if you don't mod your DS :(

[@minignoux4566]

@SpriteXP! You dont need to mod your ds

[@joveaaron-real]

@@SpriteXP404 You don't need to mod your DS

[@namesurname4666]

normal DS can't be modded without a cartridge

[@BK4]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that reminded me I haven't done DS Errors on my streams :D Totally forgot about this little gem What other console would you like to see next?

[@alexrodriguez4238]

No problem bro

[@kaydirlmao]

Virtualboy :P

[@alexrodriguez4238]

My New Nintendo 2DS XL is bricked :(

[@Commrade-DOGE]

SEGA saturn errors?

[@kirkharcusscott]

Hi

[@alexkubrat3868]

Useless fact: The GBA crash also happens on real hardware, it can sometimes sound interesting.

[@ArtieArchives]

Like on SMB3

[@TheManWhoSoldTheW0rld]

This was useful

[@MickmickWashesThings_Official]

because its GBA mode you have the same errors of GBA

[@呪怨黒い兜]

Yeah it happened to me once

[@luigihorror6455]

That happen to me once!

[@zesped1259]

6:34 scared the living shit out of me

[@this310]

My ears hurt i had earbuds in and i was away from my phone for a sec

[@Edwin6264.]

I didn’t watch that part, clicked that timer and it scared me fck

[@花京院典明-h3c]

I fucking dropped my phone on the floor

[@limedashseven]

does anyone know the song name tho?

[@SKCro.]

hehe lobstr jumpscar

[@Ultra0641]

Just a little advice about the game card error: This r4 card have no bios inside or the r4 card was corrupted. This error is not from any ds included. Only the r4 cards

[@BK4]

really? aw I didn't know that, I thought that his card was corrupted or something because it all made sense to me... I thought that is why it displayed that error icon, because the needed data was not readable or something like that. My bad 😬

[@jujulila8582]

firmware ewpired isn't on the ds but on the r4 sd card

[@jujulila8582]

it's called a time bomb and you just have to install a new r4 firmware to fix it

[@jujulila8582]

or get a modified firmware to get rid of the time bomb for ever

[@shahnoorsyed6769]

@@jujulila8582 bozo

[@AverageConsumer-uj8sm]

please stop jumpscaring me

[@Pero44564]

😂😂😂

[@ciagorilla5]

Stay away from his videos then.

[@annoyingidiotfr]

common BK4 jumpscare W

[@ThatLemonHat]

@@ciagorilla5why put a dot

[@splitmare]

Colored screen is NOT an error Its actually for determining your Firmware version

[@nintendomario007]

It is an error, it just determines firmware version through the error.

[@lilybelden9405]

@@nintendomario007 because of v1 just straight up crashing and every other version having a unique color. i think it was intentional

[@YoloMenace001]

Well the one WITH the other sound of death probably counts as one.

[@Sorro]

I've got some things to say - the SD card and outdated firmware errors happen only with R4 cards and they are errors coded in the cartridge itself, not in the console. - The outdated firmware error happens not because something is broken in the cartridge's files, but because the R4 cards have an expiration date. After reaching it, that error will appear every time you try to use it, but that can be fixed just by changing the console's date to any time before that, so there's no corrupt system files or anything broken in this error - 0:49 The DS doesn't have any SD card slot, so I'm guessing we are going back to R4 cards. The first example shown shows the normal boot up and then the error happens, which I assume that console had the auto-play feature activated (that feature launches the game without going through the menu or pressing any button, only showing the classic intro of the console before launching the game, which is basically what happened here) so that error doesn't affect the console itself in any way. - 5:50 i can understand showing some DSi errors because some of the system's UI and errors match the DS, but why the 3DS

[@everythingtube172]

But why would flash carts have an expiration date?

[@neevko267]

​​@@everythingtube172 To make you buy another one

[@everythingtube172]

@@neevko267 so it’s purely bullshit

[@neevko267]

@@everythingtube172 yep, it's just to get more money out of you

[@wit681]

@@neevko267at least for my flashcart, redownloading the firmware seems to fix it. not sure how or why they update the expiration date while changing nothing else including the version number.

[@InsanityPrevails]

I missed these error videos. I absolutely love them for some reason Reading into errors and stuff, and knowing what causes them makes me happy Well, both that and terrified. Still hate the BSoD lol

[@chumstikk]

Same, something about them is so interesting. I also for some reason love the errors that occur when the console has a serious problem or the console is killed

[@InsanityPrevails]

@@chumstikk Exactly! The more serious it is, the more interesting it is! 😁

[@gatopizza565alt5]

Same

[@ROCKERNAN89]

@@chumstikk Uh-huh

[@Rafa18382]

​@@InsanityPrevails now bk4 is a Midnight Club 2 KZbinr

[@kaydirlmao]

Finally! Edit: I love how at 2:28, there's a bit of the Wii and Wii U's death sound

[@Saver310]

It sounds like a Wii's soul trying to get out of the system.

[@SuperGamer51010]

@@Saver310 LOL 🤣🤣

[@darkpixlz]

I sacrificed my DS for the video. 🫡

[@aleagamer]

@@darkpixlz oof

[@cubruce1103]

i can only hear the first two notes of rickroll

[@JoCaTen]

He's back to his roots!

[@RandoView]

Most of these errors seems to be errors that are from random R4 cards, not with the console itself. Ex. The DS Lite didn't even have an SD card slot, so an SD/TF card error would've been... strange... to say the least. The error at 1:40 is likely an R4 Time Bomb. Some R4 cards have time bombs that render the cartridge useless if the console's date goes beyond a certain range (in order to make money on more R4 cards). R4 Cards with a bomberman icon are well known time bomb carts.

[@frostyfoxteals]

exactly man

[@kolegadetroida3725]

Just as I thought he was done with this series, he actually came back to it! Glad to see it again and i hope you continue making it in the future!

[@josestar.ex3632]

3:55 This error can also be done on the dsi by putting the memory pit on an SD with nothing to boot but simply turning off and removing the SD fixes it

[@RadeonVega64]

can confirm, I have a dsi with memory pit and I installed it wrong once

[@damarioYT]

Dude the Nintendo DS WiFi searching tune is such a bop lowkey.

[@Sam2217moura]

THE dsi wi-fi is better

[@Windows_NT_Dude]

Couldn't agree more.

[@pablosolermontanos641]

I got the sound of death once when I was bored playing a gba game on my ds so I decided to see if something funny would happen if I wiggled the cartridge. The sound started to appear, leaving the game with no sound, and a few seconds later, the game also froze

[@peterg6889]

I'm not sure if "the sound of death" happens anywhere outside gba mode. As far as I know, it occurs when you take out the cartridge while the game is playing, and the ds is still trying to read data, so it ends up sending out garbage.

[@unnamedscribble-auttp]

i did it on a gba by just taking the cartridge out slightly

[@ConsumerOfCookies]

I did it once when I was little playing frogger on the ds gba..scared the ever living hell outta me 😭

[@BinglesP]

It does that when you get to most of the ratings screens in Rhythm Tengoku/Rhythm Heaven Silver's debug menu due to a missing code error. It is definitely more of a GBA thing. Though, I guess, to be fair, that does inherently make it a DS thing too, since the DS doesn't prevent it from happening with its GBA native compatibility.

[@something_burger]

Yeah I'm very familiar with this sound and it's always occurred when I accidentally moved or jostled the console in a way that loosens the GBA cartridge even slightly.

[@M3KAI5ER44]

Dsi didn't expect this video. P.S. the title should say DS/DSi/3DS also some errors are from flash carts which arent technically originating from the ds but from the cartridge/game.

[@PikaSmasha]

4:44 Fire beat tho 🔥🔥

[@cpkxarii]

Fr

[@CardboardGnat]

2:31 - I can easily do that too, it's caused by a GBA cartridge being damaged, but readable, or if its jolted, its not just a DS error, the GBA also has the error, and it'd also more of a crash than an error

[@froppytheoneondiscord]

Splatoon player

[@implex4304]

You already know it is a good day when BK4 makes an error video.

[@phelxl311]

The firmware error actually is cartridge based, if you revert back your nds date and time of a few years it will work. I think it's caused by the r4 cartridge firmware being obsolete, not at all by the console.

[@simplyalonso]

The firmware expired error is actually from the r4 cards. For some reason, you have to dial the DS back to the year 2000 to get proper functionality of the card.

[@tylern6420]

How did you break it? Did you accidentally summon a black hole?

[@tezcanaslan2877]

You could’ve just installed adifferent firmware

[@simplyalonso]

@@tylern6420 nah I simply hammered the thing

[@Seari]

Another easy freeze, well at least for me when using a DS, either just go on the home menu then eject the cartridge, or load the game and take the cartridge out when the game is about to boot

[@feeber848]

idk why but i love watching these old videos like in 4:12

[@mkittheinker112]

144p ass video

[@thebaconator9097]

4:00 I love how he calls it "pinky pinkness".

[@pvzmariosonica8fan]

For the 3DS errors video, the "black screen" one actually does have fixes. The most common one is taking the SD card out, but that can mess up the slot after a while

[@FLCollection620]

5:31 Translation: Connection problem

[@bennickss]

The crash sound can also happen on GBAs. To make it happen, take the cartridge halfway out mid-game. The sound varies depending on the game.

[@a.theyoutubeaccount]

Get all games, you succesfully made a new game, Sound of death simulator

[@Mr-Cleric]

Depending on the game, some of the assets might bug out too.

[@dadehitt2633]

...ol' cartridge tilting...

[@CommanderWiggins]

Can also do it on some emulators too, I know mGBA has the ability to simulate removing the cartridge. Now I don't know why you would want to do that, but you can.

[@PacManfan360]

If you take the cart out halfway it will just freeze with no sound

[@rubybadger223mainchannel9]

The menu error was the funniest one of all

[@zUltra3D]

1:42 that is a DS flashcart error, not a console error 4:43 it's a GBA game crash 5:42 that's a 3ds error

[@retrorampageonyt]

I can confirm that's a 3ds error but it probably occurs on ds aswell

[@zUltra3D]

@@retrorampageonyt which

[@retrorampageonyt]

@@zUltra3D 5:42

[@adijustplayz4426]

gba crash happens if you remove cart in slot 2

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

This is my favorite series! Thanks for uploading this, BK4!

[@TWLynx]

4:45 kinda sounds like a song

[@ROCKERNAN89]

I get what you say there but it still scares me :O

[@Jovian_Man]

Sound of death, and DS wants to become object shows.

[@wyoming2868]

lovely to see these error videos again, and the ending earrapes are back too! :D my soul died

[@goldasintheore]

The ending *what..?*

[@kubkubs3234]

1:07 This error ISNT related to nintendo DS, that person has a R4 adapter with a broken ds card, the ds is fine

[@Wheagg]

These videos are like microwaved dinners. They're not good and I probably shouldn't be eating them, but they're great in the moment.

[@matibrz6211]

I think the error noise also happens on an actual gba, ive had that too when i took out a cartridge. it was kinda spooky xd

[@mihalyvida3833]

5:00 that beat is pretty funky tho

[@mikufan3961]

I was playing my ds lite as a kid once and got mad at the game and threw the whole machine as hard as i could on a hardwood floor and now to this day my top screen is permanently red but still playable

[@ElSi622]

💀

[@huleeyaxerssius7]

As some would have said here, the "Firmware Expired" on R4 cards is a case of planned obsolescence. They are made like that, so once a certain date comes by on whichever DS system you use it on, be it the first DS right up to a 2DSXL/New 3DSXL, that will come up. It can work just fine still (like with one i got some years ago), just set the time back to a date before that happens, and it works fine. Nasty little tactic that timebomb is, just to make you buy more. But you don't need to, as stated it will function just fine as long as you set the date back enough.

[@feeber848]

2:36 Fnf fans: YOO THIS IS FIRE🔥🔥

[@froppytheoneondiscord]

As an fnf player I don't think this is really fire

[@I-just-died]

​@@froppytheoneondiscord It's a joke by the fnf fans when something is bad and they say it's fire when it's really *Microwave noise* through out the whole song

[@brandonperez8977]

​@@froppytheoneondiscordis because some of the FNF Fans are obsessed with corruption mods for some odd reasons

[@diegogames65]

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@mikefernz13]

POV: boyfriend in Bambi mods

[@enixsmith9936]

In 1:17, this happens when either the kernel of the ROM emulation DS card is either missing or corrupt.

[@kalamitus2269]

2:25 ah, i see where the mario party ds antipiracy people got their sounds from lol

[@Kyxi-y4k]

5:08 THE GLITCH (it sound like the computer is have dying and pain )

[@animations230re2]

I think 2:19 was a loading corrupt or a game unknown when it tried to run a gba game or it could be a relation to 4:43?

[@darkpixlz]

It was a game I had just bought

[@animations230re2]

New or used?

[@eeveebest11]

Most SoD: Absolutely terrifying. DS SoD: I'm a printer. *Makes Printer noises*

[@PlushAmongUs]

Every other error: eerie screen or sound Sound of death: *receipt printer noises*

[@Rezi59450]

6:35 bro the blue lobster jumpsare almost kill me 💀

[@MariannVela99]

Literally same here i dropped my phone too 😩😩😭😭💀💀.

[@DontReadMyBio2]

It's yellow

[@InsertCoolIdentifierHereLol]

​@@DontReadMyBio2the origin is blue tho

[@TDT-Spain]

0:42 Is it me or was that so clean

[@mahinaemoon82]

the sound of death is easy to reproduce if you have a ds game and a 3ds, i tried it multiple time on multiple games, and the one that yield the most result (93%) is resident evil deadly silence when you charge a room and just go see a zombie in another room

[@YoungMrBlue]

0:12 frickin love the background music btw

[@RareHandle]

Pictochat one can be more colors. If you have firmware v1 its black, v2 is a navy blue, green is v3, yellow is v4, pink is v5, green and pink seem to be the most common although mine does blue

[@jusyoniox]

The console sound crash happens quite commonly if you play version 1 of super mario 64 DS. No clue why but the same thing happens if you have the super waluigi 64 DS romhack, it will sometimes make that noise.

[@kubkubs3234]

3:12 the pictochat thing was used by the developers to indicate what software version of the ds you have

[@senorlechuga8832]

I recently learned that sometimes the noises and colored screens are to tell you what kind of error is (especially with the hardware errors) so they're easier to detect. I wonder if some of these noises are for that too PS: No offense but I absolutely hate you for that ending. I actually got jumpscared by the damn lobster

[@breadwithsomebeans1]

2:27 when you hear that you know that death is near no doubt it scares me 100%

[@ShortMiao]

LET'S GOOOO!!!! THE SERIES IS BACK!!!!!!

[@Eboi47]

The sound of death is actually just a buffer overload that can sometimes happen when a GBA cartridge is misread and the visuals are read as audio files, which is why the sound is different for every game.

[@TrolleyMC]

you're missing the Bootrom Errors, which as far as I know, the DSi displays nothing but an error code on a black screen, for example 0000FEFE correlates to the bootloader being corrupted or modified. The 3DS displays a blue screen with "Bootrom 8046" followed by some info in hexadecimal. Anyways, it means the bootloader of the 3DS is corrupt or you're performing a hardmod which during NAND dumping and writing this screen displays.

[@xXxmlg_vacxXx]

And if you use to Gateway you’ll get the same bootrom error

[@TrolleyMC]

@@xXxmlg_vacxXx I remember when gateway released that malicious update. Insane how they didn't think it would somehow brick on their own genuine carts

[@Cece.M-C]

2:52 imagine having this as a child while secretly playing during night 😂

[@arsura0]

1:37 Hold on a moment, I have that cartridge as well! It happened to me too and the way to fix it is to set your DS's system year time to the one written on the back of the cartridge 2:26 also thats genuinely terrifying lol 4:44 thats even more terrifying

[@ΧΣΘΠ]

I also have that cartridge/game card too for my 2ds

[@MeowsItToMe]

Yay back at it with the errors!

[@kenshibb3607]

6:32 I'm scared to death!!!💀💀💀

[@spocky0]

im so glad ur doing error videos again

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

5:41 This is actually a 3DS

[@DarkTails256]

A 3DS is still a DS or in the DS family

[@KatTheLavaGirl]

@@DarkTails256 He made a separate 3DS errors vid tho

[@DarkTails256]

Now that i can understand but the comments saying that the 3DS isnt a DS is a blatant lie.

[@iknowdawae893]

Ah yes, the DS and DSlite... The consoles that crashed upon themselves once you looked at them funny

[@tylern6420]

Nah explain that fr 💀

[@iknowdawae893]

@@tylern6420 take out the cartridge while on the main screen. it will freeze

[@iknowdawae893]

this has been fixed on the dsi

[@there_is_some_memes]

4:44 this is creepy 💀 6:34 **death**

[@dylaneicholz1755]

the 4:44 error part sounds like a n64 loading screen from a game

[@ChildishAndy]

The sound of death can be caused from taking the cartridge out of the system but not everytime

[@XG64-Official]

3:32 actually, the csod in pictochat depends on the firmware of the ds. if it is a ds lite, its always pink.

[@enixsmith9936]

In 1:47, when loading a ROM emulation DS card, you will get this when firmware has expired or there is a problem with your DS's CMOS battery.

[@dingoescj]

and i hated being scared

[@heavenstarship]

Game cartridge errors can be cartridge specific! I've seen ones for Kirby Super Star Ultra & for Kirby Squeak Squad, though I haven't seen them documented anywhere, which is a shame.

[@bugorgans]

The pink screen of death kept happened on my ds lite, then it stopped working entirely a month later. It wasn't the one on pictochat, It just kept happening when I booted up games and on pictochat, and it would completely freeze up and the sound that was playong would loop.

[@DontReadMyBio2]

What did you do right before it stopped working? r0mloader.nds or t****n.nds?

[@Nicktalks12345]

The broken sound can be replaced so easily all you have to do is take the game boy game out after it shows the game boy logo and boom so it’s level/difficulty is super easy

[@Neeko-Cat]

the game card error is actually an error for r4 flash cards when the firmware is corrupted or missing the sd/tf error is the same thing but can also mean a corrupted sd card or invalid/unreadable file system the firmware expired error is a timebomb r4 clone manufactures put in their r4 cards to make you buy another one none of those errors are official from nintendo these are for r4 flash cards and r4 flash card clones the sound of death happens when you remove a gba cart whilst its playing. it happens on a gba too so not really a ds error the coloured screen of death on pictochat isn't an error but rather a hidden firmware version check where different colours can mean different firmware versions the pink screen is found on ds lites whereas the green screen is found on launch ds systems the last one of the coloured screen of death shown in the video is another example of that gba error seen in the sound of death the error code error is the only nintendo official ds error in the whole video with others not being errors or not being errors for the ds system (in the sense of one being a gba error with the other errors being for r4 flash cards and r4 flash card clones)

[@cosmic8713]

There's a glitch in super scribblenauts where if you spawn mini tornados and put them inside each other until you reach the limit, you can load the level and then jump into the tornadoes. That used to crash my system.

[@yeehawitsjake]

What about the ever so rare NAND errors? I think it was a blue screen but some of the 3DS systems had them when the NAND chip was loose or bad and would usually result in a blue screen with some addresses

[@xXxmlg_vacxXx]

And also Gateway piracy Cards

[@Golem642]

You forgot when a game can't launch on NDSI XL, it shows a black screen saying something like "An error has occurred. Power off the console and try again"

[@itsevieYT1015]

The one at 1:17 is kinda strange for an error screen

[@Chuga04]

Its guy from the boot.dat error in the switch

[@ΧΣΘΠ]

MENU?

[@jacquelinedelossantos426]

|| -. .- | || ---- | ||_____| MENU?

[@notdamienn]

MENU?

[@I-just-died]

No menu?

[@jakemask5robloxmoments]

4:43 that ds knows how to spit bars

[@Epicinver]

4:53 OH HELL NAH 💀💀

[@SworldWorldYT]

THE MASTER RETURNED WHEN WE NEEDED HIM MOST

[@six_buck_dlc]

the connection test at 5:41 is a 2DS/3DS but ok

[@name6953]

issa 3Ds

[@jacquelinedelossantos426]

Maybe that error also happens on DSi, but also on 3DS...

[@TheFurryFurby]

4:44 love this noise I don’t know why

[@JustoneCaseyy]

HEY WAIT A MINUTE THATS A 3DS- 5:49

[@SupernaturalArts826]

Yay, you made another error videos, I luv these

[@Kinemasguy]

2:05 or if you remove the gba cartridge or gba cartridge was not blowed

[@SnowmanPlaysGames]

yepp

[@tomrow32]

As comments before have said, errors 1 through 3 are caused by incorrectly configured or counterfeit flash cartridges. The last error at 5:44 is not a DS error, but a 3DS error.

[@Coburn64]

Nice video, but some of these are obviously not official as per the other comments state. It may also pay to double check some of the "caused by" as the Nintendo DS doesn't have a CMOS battery. AFAIK the RTC was powered by the console battery itself. If flat battery = clock reset.

[@Mitzi-chan224]

4:44 the Nintendo DS is sending out a distress signal. :o

[@drakethedragon457]

I'm pretty sure most of these errors are from modded systems and/or R4 Carts.

[@EwanDoggie]

The DS’s SD card error makes the DS go “tf?”

[@ChaiDeluxe]

3:16 Can confirm, does not work on DSi

[@danut7330]

Some remarks: The error at 0:34 is a R4 card error, not a console error. When the card is damaged, it may shows that error The error at 1:17 is the DSTT* "MENU?" error. It's a card with a normal face and a drop and the text "MENU?" at the bottom. Happenes when the software for the R4 card is damaged or missing. Happenes also when you download the wrong software version for the R4 card. To fix, download the correct software version for the R4 card. Extract and transfer the software to the microSD card. Hope this helps! It's not a DS error, just a R4 card error *That error was coming from a DSi, not a DS or DS Lite The error at 1:47 is not a console error. Some R4 cards has a timebomb (a piece of code that makes the card no longer usable (to spend money for more R4 cards)). There are tutorials to remove the timebomb from the R4 card. Hope this helps!

[@danut7330]

If you have other remarks for this video, post them here!

[@JSRphones]

You do realise that most of these error screens don't come from the hardware, right? It usually comes from either the game or modded firmware.

[@DarkTails256]

So? The error still happens on a DS

[@frostyrake9945]

i was waiting for this and it actually came out!

[@archiver_7]

1:43 thats an r4 error, not a ds one

[@bestiesonline9138]

The legend returned when we really needed him.

[@simplyalonso]

5:40 this is from the 3DS!

[@simplyalonso]

@Cassidylynn-heehee the wrong DS though. the DS and 3DS are very different from each other.

[@simplyalonso]

@Cassidylynn-heehee so?

[@Nici1188]

Stop jumpscaring me at the end💀