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Posted by: RaVeK Posted on: August 27th, 2001, 10:47pm
So, I've got it - it's great but I found this problem...

Once I wanted to show Castlevania to my friend. When I turned on the GBA the save files were gone!

"WTF  " I said - I havn't delete them, have I. I was really pissed off since I was almost at the end.

Anyway I thought that it must be something with the card. I chcecked the other games I had uploaded at that time (was F-Zero and Mario Adv.) and the saves were OK.

Castlevania was first on the card.

I didn't know what happend utnl yesterday...   when the history repeated itsef. (However tought by the expierience I backuped my savegames regullary).  

I was speking on the phone, and playing (castlevania) I wanted to turn the sound off, but since I had only my left hand available I decided to switch the GBA off.

So I did, and the moment I switched it off I turned it back on. What! Where are the saves!

So there U go - I repeated the test - written the save back on GBA, and yes - now I was sure.

When you turn on and off the GBA fast the savegames are gone... Don't know why only the first block? Maybe it depends on the current played game. I tried it only while playing Castlevania.

Well, if you got any comments or question plaese let me know.




Posted by: Cap N Posted on: August 31st, 2001, 12:45am
Hmm that is odd. My old version of the FlashAdvance Cart doesnt do that, but my GB-PC linker sure does!  The weird thing is the PC linker only does it on some games. (older games mostly, but a few newer)

Mebbe Nintendo spikes the power on purpose? I dunno.

Posted by: RaVeK Posted on: August 31st, 2001, 12:55pm
now this one is really wierd

IT HAPPENS ALSO to some ppl with original CALSTEVANIA

the Q is:
- is the emulation that good  
- or is it the question of normal flash ram behavior (voltage jump - memory deletes)

- what's more intriguing that only the 1st block (at least when Castlevania is on the 1st) disappears  
Posted by: MaVeRiCK [FA Team] Posted on: September 16th, 2001, 7:50am
The problem you have is that Castlevania is trying to save the game onto the wrong part of the cartridge. This is common with games being played the FA 128/64 cartridges and to solve it you will need to download a program which can re-address the save memory. The main one we recommend is called GBAutil and can be found here http://aurore.net/source/gbautil.html. To avoid any further problems make sure that you apply Trim FF/Crash Patch 0/SRAM patch to all of the roms you plan to upload.
I hope this helps prevent/solve any further problems,

MaVeRiCK



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