Why did this happen?
How can I recover my saved file?
Does the file save to the cartridge or the Gameboy Advance SP?
How can I recover my saved file?
Does the file save to the cartridge or the Gameboy Advance SP?
There's different colored ones...That probably means the battery inside the cartridge has died. Sorry to say, your save is gone, only thing you can do now is change the battery and restart fro scratch.
as long as it's the same kind of battery you should be fine. If you don't know how to change it just look for a tutorial, I bet there are plenty of those on youtube.There's different colored ones...
Does it matter which I should buy?
There are people saying that Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga don't use battery to save the progress and they used SRAM instead.Why did this happen?
How can I recover my saved file?
Does the file save to the cartridge or the Gameboy Advance SP?
What are you talking about? The GBA SP battery might come in different colors, but there's no way the battery inside the cartridge would come in different colors. But as suggested above, there might not be a battery in the cartridge at all.There's different colored ones...
Seems like you have some info mixed up there, SRAM is the save type that requires a battery. Flash and EEPROM do not.There are people saying that Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga don't use battery to save the progress and they used SRAM instead.
I think that your save may be corrupted.
What is sram?There are people saying that Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga don't use battery to save the progress and they used SRAM instead.
I think that your save may be corrupted.
What are you talking about? The GBA SP battery might come in different colors, but there's no way the battery inside the cartridge would come in different colors. But as suggested above, there might not be a battery in the cartridge at all.
If indeed it does use SRAM and the SRAM is corrupted, you could conceivably try to dump the SRAM and see if there's anything there - assuming you haven't started a new game in the meantime. Typically, you would do this with a DS Lite, or a hacked Wii with a GBA->GCN cable, or a hacked Gamecube with a Game Boy Player, or some other third-party device.
But really, it's not a long game and it would be much less trouble to just start over. It's not like Pokemon or something.
Seems like you have some info mixed up there, SRAM is the save type that requires a battery. Flash and EEPROM do not.
There's also FRAM, which is like SRAM but without a battery, but I don't think any games use it, people have had some luck replacing SRAM chips with FRAM ones themselves though..
SRAM = static random-access memory and it is flash on chipset in GBA cartridge.What is sram?
Actual cartridge has SRAM built-in on cartridge and ROM doesn't.I use an actual cartridge and not a rom I found online...
It does happen with some games and I lost my saves with few GBA games long time ago.How could the save files be corrupted?
What are you talking about? The GBA SP battery might come in different colors, but there's no way the battery inside the cartridge would come in different colors. But as suggested above, there might not be a battery in the cartridge at all.
If indeed it does use SRAM and the SRAM is corrupted, you could conceivably try to dump the SRAM and see if there's anything there - assuming you haven't started a new game in the meantime. Typically, you would do this with a DS Lite, or a hacked Wii with a GBA->GCN cable, or a hacked Gamecube with a Game Boy Player, or some other third-party device.
But really, it's not a long game and it would be much less trouble to just start over. It's not like Pokemon or something.
Oops, didn't saw your post and people on internet are just saying battery saves and SRAM (FRAM, EEPROM, flash).Seems like you have some info mixed up there, SRAM is the save type that requires a battery. Flash and EEPROM do not.
There's also FRAM, which is like SRAM but without a battery, but I don't think any games use it, people have had some luck replacing SRAM chips with FRAM ones themselves though..
Please try to stay focused. I have no idea why you are suddenly mentioning these or why you started talking about "different colored ones".other is an example I've seen online of a memory card and a game (Polaris?) with an attached memory card
Please try to stay focused. I have no idea why you are suddenly mentioning these or why you started talking about "different colored ones".
Do you have a flashcart for your DS Lite?
For the DS Lite, pretty much any one of them will do, even very old ones. The only thing to watch out for is that some of the oldest ones will only accept 2 GB SD cards – which is plenty of space for most applications, but 2 GB SD cards might be a little hard to come by these days. (To be clear, you're looking for a "Slot-1" cart.)but there are many different flash carts for sale and I'm not sure which ones to buy.
Well, that's your problem, isn't it?SD card is not my best thing to use
For the DS Lite, pretty much any one of them will do, even very old ones. The only thing to watch out for is that some of the oldest ones will only accept 2 GB SD cards – which is plenty of space for most applications, but 2 GB SD cards might be a little hard to come by these days. (To be clear, you're looking for a "Slot-1" cart.)
Well, that's your problem, isn't it?
Not sure what you mean by that. The cards that use anything all use microSD if physical size is a concern.I don't really want an SD card one
Not sure what you mean by that. The cards that use anything all use microSD if physical size is a concern.
Looking above you mention something about SD cards going walkabout (you are not the first to have siblings). Odd thing to get hung up on and going to have to suggest you figure out a way.
There are a couple of cards that feature onboard NAND but neither were particularly good today, will not be that easy to find and if you do intend to continue using it then if the onboard NAND fails then the cart is probably toast, not to mention you can't just take the SD card out and shove it into a reader.
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/G6DS_Real
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Acekard_RPG
If you spent a moment Googling, you would learn that TF is pretty much the same thing as microSD.There are some "TF" card ones I've seen