Ive received my Ezflash 4 yesterday and I am facing the same issue with Mother 3 as well. Game is stuck after gameboy player logo. Seems like a bad batch to me. Kinda bumped out .
Thanks for your input Hanoirocks. Yeah, it's just as I thought, it's a dodgy batch/revision. I'm not sure whether a firmware update could fix this or whether it's just a bad batch of NOR chips. If it's the latter, then there's a whole load of these going to be bin jobs.Ive received my Ezflash 4 yesterday and I am facing the same issue with Mother 3 as well. Game is stuck after gameboy player logo. Seems like a bad batch to me. Kinda bumped out .
Curious,
Did you guys happen to get it from this seller.
i have this same exact problem.
I am guessing this was a defective batch this guy decided to sell.
http://www.ebay.com/usr/kungfury64
So it's looking like the NOR chips then rather than the revision, although we can associate these dodgy NOR's with at least a certain batch of the '0217's'. Would be nice if someone with an '0217' could confirm they have Mother 3 working. So far (apart from the EZ employee) we've only seen failures. There's likely thousands of this batch on the market/been sold, and if the issue wasn't so obscure we'd probably see more posts on here regarding it. It all seems to depend on whether the buyer decides to play Mother 3 or not. I think Mother 3 uses every byte of 32MB which could be something to do with it, although it could just be that other 32MB games crash somewhere else. I'll have a look at some other games from the 32MB library, see if I can get any more to fail. FAST6191 posted a list of them here a few years ago:Ok an update.
I contacted the seller and they said that the supplier are taking longer to ship the latest batch and when they get it they'll let me know. I'll then return mine and try one of those.
Sunder - I didn't order from that seller, but one from the UK
In more interesting news, I posted on the main official ez flash iv product page about it: http://www.ezflash.cn/product/ez-flash-iv/#comment-3307617021
(If links to that site are not allowed for some reason let me know and i'll remove it).
They claim that it works for them on revision 0217 with Chinese fan translation.
I tried it myself on my 0217 revision (you can too if you like, unpatched checksum is 480c0866ff500609db2a37897cda7bb8 and save patched 5552815787e5983af6b40253e34e9d55 ) and it had exactly the same problem / crash.
Assuming they were telling the truth, I would guess that this makes it more likely to be a NOR issue rather than the revision change causing the problem. What do you think?
Edit-
Gyron, which forums did you mean? https://ezflash.sosuke.com/ ?
Seems pretty dead to me but registration seems to work.
Perhaps you gave it an email address that you had already used to register somewhere else or maybe it is in your spam folder.
Weird how their HTTPS certificate isn't valid.
Anyway, feel free to post about this stuff there if you want to.
The more publicity they get about this the more they might actually try and solve it (or stop putting out bad NOR chips).
Curious,
Did you guys happen to get it from this seller.
i have this same exact problem.
I am guessing this was a defective batch this guy decided to sell.
http://www.ebay.com/usr/kungfury64
A re-seller has been in contact with them regarding the Mother 3 issue (presumingly due to complaints/returns). I've read the correspondence from an EZ software guy to the re-seller. The english is a little muddling and they still claim the Chinese translation works, but appear to accept there is a problem and say they will fix it with a new kernel release. I was hopeful it would be fixed with the v2.00 release, but it appears not. Thanks for the report. Someone from the EZ team posted in the "EZ Flash IV 2.0 Kernel Release - No more patching" thread last night. You might want to bring it to his attention.Gyron, are you saying that the Chinese fan translation rom hack definitely doesn't work for them either, and that it is definitely a firmware issue? Where did you hear this?
I just tested with the 2.00 fw with both prepatched and unpatched roms (as that fw apparently allows you to use unpatched roms) and it still doesn't work - exactly the same issue for me there.
The more people that test and contact ez flash and complain the better though.
Thanks!
that seems like a clone. totally different from ez iv..I bought this one off of amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/EXSEK-EZFl...TF8&qid=1499546226&sr=8-2&keywords=ezflash+iv) and it's from the same batch 217 and has the same issue.
It's not a clone, it's an EZ IV. 'EXSEK' just put their own sticker on it and charged more $$$.that seems like a clone. totally different from ez iv..
is that really official?
Unfortunately you have bought one from the faulty NOR batch. This can't be fixed via a kernel update. The EZ Team have since released a new batch on which Mother 3 works again. The unfortunate thing is, this batch is still labelled "0217", so it's hard to tell what you're going to get, unless you get the seller to check Mother 3 for you. You should return it to the seller if Mother 3 is a game you plan on playing. If you want to PM me, I'll link you to where you can get a guaranteed latest batch that Mother 3 works on. I can't link here as we have a sponsor.I bought this one off of amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/EXSEK-EZFl...TF8&qid=1499546226&sr=8-2&keywords=ezflash+iv) and it's from the same batch 217 and has the same issue.
You can link shops as you like, having a sponsor doesn't affect thatIt's not a clone, it's an EZ IV. 'EXSEK' just put their own sticker on it and charged more $$$.
Unfortunately you have bought one from the faulty NOR batch. This can't be fixed via a kernel update. The EZ Team have since released a new batch on which Mother 3 works again. The unfortunate thing is, this batch is still labelled "0217", so it's hard to tell what you're going to get, unless you get the seller to check Mother 3 for you. You should return it to the seller if Mother 3 is a game you plan on playing. If you want to PM me, I'll link you to where you can get a guaranteed latest batch that Mother 3 works on. I can't link here as we have a sponsor.
Ok, wasn't sure as the sponsor sells them. Just paste "232004268190" into the Ebay search bar. They're the cheapest around, and the guy that owns Levitech is a decent bloke. They ship worldwide too.You can link shops as you like, having a sponsor doesn't affect that
Gbatemp is cool with that, we even had shop temp with a list of stores
Unless the site you link hosts warez, it's all good