just a quick follow up.....did the first mission, saved, turned the nds off then booted it up again and loaded my save game no problem.
confirmed 100% working on EZV using clean mode on firmware 1.7
now im off to play
are there any "premaid" packs floating round irc? like, big batches of the so called best roms that have been converted (kinda like the 100 in 1 nes one etc)