Hacking help with tiny chao garden saving? ez flash iv sonic advance

[nintendogod]

hello i am a newbie to this site. whenever i try to save and quit on sonic advance it willl freeze, return to the title screen, and the tiny chao garden will be the same as it would if you were just starting the game. i looked aroun d and people say the only answer is to patch it with SRAM and RTC as it i guess has a time based feature in the tiny chao garden, i can patch the SRAM but not the RTC. does anyone know anuything thatd help me? plz and thank you.

 

[migles]

http://ezflash4.tumblr.com/post/73544227338/sonic-advance-note

apparently its a problem not specific to ez iv...

this game doesn't have real time clock (rtc) btw...

can confirm not specific to ez iv. also happens on m3 card

 

[DanTheManMS]

I bought the actual GBA Sonic Advance cartridge shortly after its release when I was 11 years old, and I spent hours upon hours re-playing the first level of the game in Time Attack mode to collect more rings to use in the Tiny Chao Garden. I was under the impression that something would happen when all of its stats reached level 50, but I was mistaken. Trust me, you're really not missing anything by skipping the TCG, unless you have a severe hankering for playing Rock-Paper-Scissors on your GBA for a few hours at a time.

 

[Knightsurfer]

This happens on all sega games with the tiny chao garden, the same glitch happens in an emulator if you have the save set to higher than 64kb, I also think the game has a second save file, I lost my sonic pinball cartridge years back so I can't confirm it, but it may be this cartridge infact uses a sort of twin save feature, if anyone finds a fix I would much appreciate it.

Also Dan, this TCG feature is much bigger if you have the gamecube sonic games,
it really expands the whole experience.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.

This happens on all sega games with the tiny chao garden, the same glitch happens in an emulator if you have the save set to higher than 64kb, I also think the game has a second save file, I lost my sonic pinball cartridge years back so I can't confirm it, but it may be this cartridge infact uses a sort of twin save feature, if anyone finds a fix I would much appreciate it.

Also Dan, this TCG feature is much bigger if you have the gamecube sonic games,
it really expands the whole experience.

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