All cartridges load in, but crash upon booting them. Software works fine.

[JohnnyD123]

I own a New 3DS that simply won’t boot cartridges. They load in correctly, giving the proper name and icon for the game. Whenever I boot them, however, they immediately crash and the system sends me back to the home menu (it is a very pretty home menu :>).

Other software works fine, including Flipnote Studio, and the Eshop. As far as I can tell, there isn’t any kind of water damage or major harm done to the system. I’ve cleaned the cartridge slot to no avail.

Should I try to clean the board or even just the cartridge slot again? Should I do something software wise?
- John D.

 

[Hayato213]

You might have a bad cartridge reader if you try more than one game.

 

[Kwyjor]

Did you install CFW on this 3DS? If so, are you using a custom theme, and do you have the Luma exception handler disabled?

Does anything different happen if you remove the SD card?