That's interesting. I'm gonna try it out later, I will report. I will also try a new save.
iirc it was from my old R4 Silver or something like that. As I said, it loads but it doesn't let me save again.
That's interesting. I'm gonna try it out later, I will report. I will also try a new save.
iirc it was from my old R4 Silver or something like that. As I said, it loads but it doesn't let me save again.
So if we have issues with the file saving or the save of the game, it could be caused due to the ROM being trimmed?
the command sets aren't completely different
no it's only a question of the save file
I just found this issue which is relevant. Apparently the game uses a 128KB EEPROM save type, which I didn't even know existed! I guess 128KB EEPROM has a 3-byte address width, so it's actually somewhat compatible with the FLASH protocol. I guess I also misunderstood what the page program command does on FLASH.
@resetes12 if your save came from an R4, it might be in a 512KB raw format. If you can trim the file down to 128KB it should work; there's probably a save converter somewhere that can help with that.I just found this issue which is relevant. Apparently the game uses a 128KB EEPROM save type, which I didn't even know existed! I guess 128KB EEPROM has a 3-byte address width, so it's actually somewhat compatible with the FLASH protocol. I guess I also misunderstood what the page program command does on FLASH.
That actually worked! Using this save converter and changing R4 to RAW 128KB did the trick in both melonds on windows and Switch. Now it saves.
Thanks for that link.
I'll start converting all my NDS saves from my R4 cart with it for MelonDS.
Iirc I only had troubles with a handful of games, like the Castlevanias, NSMB and a couple others.
I just found this issue which is relevant. Apparently the game uses a 128KB EEPROM save type, which I didn't even know existed! I guess 128KB EEPROM has a 3-byte address width, so it's actually somewhat compatible with the FLASH protocol. I guess I also misunderstood what the page program command does on FLASH.
Sadly that didn't work for me. I noticed the original saves from the R4 were around 500KB or so in size.
The games that I'm having troubles with loading my R4 saves are:
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
- Kirby Super Star Ultra
- New Super Mario Bros.
- Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
- Super Mario 64 DS
You'll have to convert them to the correct file sizes. 128KB EEPROM is rare, so those games probably don't use it. I know that New Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario 64 DS both use 8KB EEPROM, but for the others you'll have to check by making a new save with melonDS and seeing what size the resulting file is.
Interesting.
Here are my findings so far:
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - 8kB
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - 8kB
- Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - 64kB
- Kirby Super Star Ultra - 64kB
- New Super Mario Bros. - 8kB
- Resident Evil: Deadly Silence - 8kB
- Super Mario 64 DS - 8kB
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Can confirm that this indeed worked out great!
I converted all the files that were not working with melonDS using the NDS Save Converter to the appropriate sizes I listed yesterday, and they worked without any issues after converting them
I'll upload the converter here in case anyone needs it.
Thanks for the help!
Also, would it be possible to implement a way for melonDS to automatically convert whatever save file size it detects for a game into the correct size, and load it up accordingly once it converts it?
Could someone tell me how to change the emulator's console region? I read something about booting in bios, but that doesn't seem to work really. Using the latest alpha version.
The reason this behaviour was choosen was as a workaround if the saveformat database has a false entry or a romhack changes the save format. Though this caused a lot of confusion, we're thinking of a better solution for this.
the DS consoles are region free. Uncheck boot directly and start a game, then the firmware menu starts where you can change the language.
Oh I see.
Really interesting, can't wait to see what method you guys settle as a solution
is anyone else having god awful performance when play pokemon white or black?? Im at max overclock have the Arm64 Jit build
I already did that, but i saw no firmware menu where i could change the language. The only thing it did was freezing my game until i pressed reset.
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Nevermind, i figured it out, something was wrong with my firmware.bin file. Thanks for helping
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NSPs aren't supported in any way (the same applies to every CFW except Atmosphere)
Not sure if this is the right place to go. I’m having trouble building melonds generic-jit on the switch under l4t ubuntu. Compilation has errors when it reaches ARM_InstrInfo
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