Homebrew Burn2Slot - Re-programm GBA bootlegs on DS

[raxadian]

can i in theory reflash mother3 cart from aliexpress (m5m29-39vf512) with mother 3, translated to my native language?
(Or 36lor8-39vf512)
Or maybe someone know a 32mb cart, that i can buy from ali, i can put mother 3 to?

You can buy a mother 3 fan translated clone card for 4 bucks so... up to you is you wanna risk the one you have.

 

[Wargor]

You can buy a mother 3 fan translated clone card for 4 bucks so... up to you is you wanna risk the one you have.

Yeah, i hoped that someone know the answer.. because i don't want to buy cartridge that i don't really need

 

[raxadian]

Yeah, i hoped that someone know the answer.. because i don't want to buy cartridge that i don't really need

Is four bucks man, what else can you buy with that? Even I would get one if I didn't live outside of the USA.

 

[Wargor]

Is four bucks man, what else can you buy with that? Even I would get one if I didn't live outside of the USA.

1 pizza
And I don't want to wait for one to two mounth if it doesn't work anyway

And my post office is a nightmare, i will wait for ~1.5-2 hours to get the cartridge, so annoying

 

[SparkyX1]

This bootleg Pokemon Sapphire cart contains a 16MB/128Mb JS28F128 Intel chip (as of purchase within the last two weeks) and I was able to write Metroid Zero Mission without issue using this tool. Saving did not initially work natively, as expected without a battery for SRAM, but should work fine with addition of a battery or patching the ROM.

 

[raxadian]

This bootleg Pokemon Sapphire cart contains a 16MB/128Mb JS28F128 Intel chip (as of purchase within the last two weeks) and I was able to write Metroid Zero Mission without issue using this tool. Saving did not initially work natively, as expected without a battery for SRAM, but should work fine with addition of a battery or patching the ROM.

Weird that saving didn't work, most Pokemon bootlegs do tend to include saving save the real crap ones.

In fact my only Pokemon bootlegs that don't save are those with dead batteries.

 

[SparkyX1]

Weird that saving didn't work, most Pokemon bootlegs do tend to include saving save the real crap ones.

In fact my only Pokemon bootlegs that don't save are those with dead batteries.

Saving works great now, but Metroid Zero Mission would tell me it was corrupt before patching with this patcher. This cart seems to use NOR flash in lieu of the SRAM to save. There does seem to be a SRAM chip on further inspection (EM611FV16) but it will lose the save after shutdown unless there is a patch to save to the non-volatile memory or a battery is added while moving the 0 ohm resistor over a space. It looks like the original ROM on this was save-patched too. The SRAM chip on here is also 1Mb and apparently would need a patch anyway due to differences between this newer chip and the GBA's 512Kb SRAM. This SRAM patcher can sort that out.

 

[Hunter]

can i in theory reflash mother3 cart from aliexpress (m5m29-39vf512) with mother 3, translated to my native language?
(Or 36lor8-39vf512)
Or maybe someone know a 32mb cart, that i can buy from ali, i can put mother 3 to?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005586506154.html (Golden Sun 2 The Lost Age, Gold Sun 1 are Batteryless patched)

this is a 32MB cart with Flash save as Mother 3 uses Flash save also, you will not need to SRAM Patch/Batterless Patch

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Anybody has any experience with this cart?
4455_4400_4000_4350_36LOR_V4
I have 2 of them. Just soldering battery doesn't allow SRAM saving.
Do I have to solder diode, condenser and resistor (I don't have any SMD and def. don't have 5817 diode) or?
I don't see any Y N jumpers
BTW: What is DAN jumper for?
thanks

you need to solder a 5817 diode, a 100k resister (104) and a 10k resistor.

 

[ThunderGod007]

Oh nice job! I still haven't time make some progress on b2s

When will there be a new version of B2S? I'm from Russia, Zemlyak I'm really looking forward to the update, there are cartridges on strange chips, none of them are detected. These cartridges are now actively sold, with such memory. I would be glad to exchange contacts.

 

[VROdin]

When will there be a new version of B2S? I'm from Russia, Zemlyak I'm really looking forward to the update, there are cartridges on strange chips, none of them are detected. These cartridges are now actively sold, with such memory. I would be glad to exchange contacts.

write me on telegram @vr4odin

 

[emmanu888]

If there's a new version of B2S, why not just upload it for everyone?

I got this bizarre Totally Spies 2 cart here that exhibits some really strange results when reflashed.
I flashed Rayman on it, freezes after starting a game, flashed Atomic Betty on it, freezes after selecting new game. Even games that don't have a save feature will freeze on boot or freeze when starting a new game.

 

[raxadian]

I flashed Rayman on it, freezes after starting a game, flashed Atomic Betty on it, freezes after selecting new game. Even games that don't have a save feature will freeze on boot or freeze when starting a new game

Try to flash back the rom it originally came back with and see what happens. It it still freezes and crashes just throw it away.

To the surprise of no one several of these gba pirates are of bad quality.

 

[emmanu888]

Try to flash back the rom it originally came back with and see what happens. It it still freezes and crashes just throw it away.

To the surprise of no one several of these gba pirates are of bad quality.

Already did that. Game crashes, wondering if the SRAM battery reading 0.45v has anything to do with any games crashing, once written to the cart?

 

[raxadian]

Already did that. Game crashes, wondering if the SRAM battery reading 0.45v has anything to do with any games crashing, once written to the cart?

With the price of these things, better buy a better quality one instead of trying to fix it?

Or buy an old 2DS if you can get it cheap, hack it and play GBA games roms that way, no link cable but works quite well.

 

[emmanu888]

This stupid cart reports 002B as its ID for the type of flash, B2S thinks its a Mitsubishi chip.

At this point i just think it doesn't support writing to the flash chip on there, games either crash on boot or crash when starting a new game.
Its a good thing i bought that bootleg cart with the intent of using it for experiments.

 

[emmanu888]

Meh. So turns out the cart type is GA-07 with an unlabeled flash chip as reported by FlashGBX, i just ended up getting a GBFlash.

Might as well have gotten one earlier just so i can backup all my save files. At least if i suspect a save battery to be dead, i can push a save file to the cart and then check on my GBA's if the save shows up.

 

[raxadian]

Might as well have gotten one earlier just so i can backup all my save files.

You can backup GBA save files and GBA games roms with a DS, a DS flashcard and Godmode for DS.

 

[JossGba]

I used it and it worked but it won't save the game, how do I fix it?

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I used it and it worked but it won't save the game, how do I fix it?

 

[raxadian]

I used it and it worked but it won't save the game, how do I fix it?

The card you used may not have enough space to save or may be one unable to save to starr with.

 

[firke_the_one]

I used it and it worked but it won't save the game, how do I fix it?

Post automatically merged: Oct 21, 2025

I used it and it worked but it won't save the game, how do I fix it?

try patching the game with GBATA (SRAM Patcher option), if that doesn't work then patch the already patched game with Metroid Maniac's gba-flash-patcher