Hacking EZ-FLASH OMEGA test flight

[Searinox]

GBC emulation is one example where emulator updates would be good. Can't get Pokemon Prism or Crystal to save and in particular Crystal has very corrupt graphics.

 

[bola1717]

Maybe its possible to simply replace the "goomba" File I wonder

 

[Sterophonick]

How come the Addon only works for Commercial Games?

 

[CoupureElectrique]

Can’t play Pac Man World, Pac Man World 2 and Ms Pac Man Maze Madness (no intro, USA) when booting with addons but they work fine doing clean boots, Is this normal?

 

[Deleted User]

Write to NOR Addon is not working for a good number of 32MB games. I tried with a clean pokemon mystery dungeon rom and it gets stuck at 255mb. Everything < 32MB works fine though. Also, said rom works perfectly through PSRAM. Super Monkey Ball Jr. is among those games that won't boot with addon.

I am using an AGS-001 and the latest FW+Kernel.

 

[Searinox]

I could suggest you try a tool like GBATA to trim the ROM and see if it writes then.

 

[robofinch]

GBC emulation is one example where emulator updates would be good. Can't get Pokemon Prism or Crystal to save and in particular Crystal has very corrupt graphics.

Funny enough, this is exactly what brought me to this thread looking for answers. Crystal's graphics are a mess and saving on Prism is a pain, but has anyone found a way to fix Prism's crazy RTC?

 

[Takeshineale128]

every time I boot Pokemon Omega red rom hack it comes up with a message say the file overflow and let me know if there is a fix for this issue

 

[Localhorst86]

every time I boot Pokemon Omega red rom hack it comes up with a message say the file overflow and let me know if there is a fix for this issue

That's an issue with the ROM. ROMs can only be a maximum of 256Mbit (32Mbyte) in size. The ROM of the hack is 32,783KB in size, slightly over the limit of 32,768.

The ROM hack is too big to be played on the EZFlash Omega as it exceeds the boundary limits of what the GBA hardware can address - The ROM hack will only work on emulators unless the authors of the hack are able to reduce the size by 15KB.

EDIT: It seems as if the ROM is not intended to be larger than 32,768KB, most of the file is FF padded at the end. You can simply try removing the last 15KB of garbage data from the ROM to make it fit the 32Mbyte boundary. Maybe a ROM Trimmer can do that job automatically.

 

[Takeshineale128]

That's an issue with the ROM. ROMs can only be a maximum of 256Mbit (32Mbyte) in size. The ROM of the hack is 32,783KB in size, slightly over the limit of 32,768.

The ROM hack is too big to be played on the EZFlash Omega as it exceeds the boundary limits of what the GBA hardware can address - The ROM hack will only work on emulators unless the authors of the hack are able to reduce the size by 15KB.

EDIT: It seems as if the ROM is not intended to be larger than 32,768KB, most of the file is FF padded at the end. You can simply try removing the last 15KB of garbage data from the ROM to make it fit the 32Mbyte boundary. Maybe a ROM Trimmer can do that job automatically.
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thanks for the info and trimming the rom with NDSTokyoTrim 3.1 fixed the issue thanks for the tip

 

[pasc]

Would be nice if the EZO could allow us to choose between
"Clean boot"
"Boot with addon"

as default selection.

 

[DpM]

Hi all, just got an Omega today, I have updated the Kernel and copied one ROM to the SD card in a GBA folder I created. It was formatted as instructed on the manual as its a 32GB card
"card size ≤ 128 GB exFAT 32KB or Larger"

Issue is I can see the folders, IMG, CHEAT etc but the ROM file does not show up.
Am I missing a trick? the GBA I am using is an European AGB-001.

Thanks

 

[kuwanger]

I've had issues with the archive flag being set/unset depending on the filesystem determines if it's shown or not. :/ You can find that under properties for Windows and see if that helps.

Edit - Just to sort of verify my suspicions, here's the code for adding stuff to the file list. Apparently it'll only add directories with attribute directory or directory and archive and only add files with attribute archive. Any other attribute (read only, hidden, system, not archive files, etc) will apparently cause things to not be listed. Not sure why I remember exfat seeming to add opposite to fat32 with files. Maybe they were read-only and I flipped that attribute too? *shrug*

 

[DpM]

Excellent, that worked thanks @kuwanger, now I need to find or create a script to amend the attributes on all the files rather than doing it one by one.

 

[commdante]

Excellent, that worked thanks @kuwanger, now I need to find or create a script to amend the attributes on all the files rather than doing it one by one.

For all files in a directory, use in CMD / Terminal:
x:\GBA> attrib +A *.*

to add the Archive atribute to all * files with all .* extensions, or:

x:\GBA> attrib +A *.gba

to add the Archive atribute to all * files with all the .gba extension

 

[DpM]

Thanks @commdante

 

[Silvia-spyro]

Sulla mia ez flash omega ce un problemache non riesco a risolvere,
Quando accendo il gba spunta la scritta ez flash e poi la schermata diventa tutta bianca ... ho provato ad aggiornare il kernel 1.4 e il firmware 6 ma il processo resta bloccato al 1%

Aiutatemi a risolvere il problema

Quando si è in modalità sicurezza mi spunta questa scritta "avviso Si cancellerà il caricatore Sei sicuro di aver fatto Image TF

Ho un GBA lcd modificato ags-101

 

[DolphinCube]

so what is the gba file for? I am wondering because I didn't understand the manual

 

[EZ-Flash2]

kernel 1.07RC
updated goomba to 2019-05
removed goomba sram write action on exit

 

[Sterophonick]

@EZ-Flash2 Question

Would it be possible to remove the direct save to SD card feature through a firmware update?
Isn't the firmware that controls it? Or is it the circuitry on the FPGA?