Hacking A thread for GBA game testing

[lolzed]

I doubt Golden Sun runs w/o lag,can someone confirm that

 

[johnny1233465487]

yes it runs without lag if you turn the sound of and the frameskip to manual ; 0
and cpu to 4

 

[DarkWay]

1530 Shining Forces E - works flawlessly as far as I can see, I haven't noticed ANY problems

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - Works but with very bad graphical glitches whenever you talk to someone or pick up an item, makes the game barely playable.

Shining Soul (E) doesn't work, it'll start to load then white screen, pressing the A button will reset to the DSTWO main menu with the bottom screen blank (it's still functional though O.o)

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town (E) - works flawlessly.

Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II ((E)NOT the 2in1) - both work pretty flawlessly for haven't noticed much if any slowdown or graphical glitches.

Took this from my posts in the supercard forum.

Also adding to this,

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age - works fine as far as I can see.

Aladdin - resets as you get into the 1st level.

Lion King - works fine so far played the 1st level no problems.

All on default settings.

 

[purplesludge]

Megaman Zero 2 has bad graphical glitches
tekken works

 

[CannonFoddr]

A few more tryouts - not fully though

ChuChuRocket: Runs
2-in-1 Pacman World & Ms Pacman: Both games run
Rayman - Hoodlum Revenge: Locks up when you start to move
Rayman Advance: Runs
Rayman 3: Runs - but did notice a little screen corruption when flashing through the intro
Super Bust-A-Move: Runs

@ Jacob: Any chance you'll edit your first post with all the results so far ???
Saves people going through all the pages

 

[DarkWay]

Anyone know any potential fixes for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring?

 

[EJames2100]

Does Fire Emblem 6(The Japanese translated one) work ?
and does 7 and 8 ?
You've got them on the list but nothing next to them.

Also on DBZ Legacy of Goku 1+2, do you get the message where it fails to work on this hardware message ?
And I assume the Save stats fixes the not loading save thing.

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Long list, as this is what the members of the Supercard forum and I have comprised.

Spoiler

Working With No Problems

Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Four Swords untested) [All regions?]
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap [All regions?]
Final Fantasy 1&2 Dawn of Souls
Super Robot Taisen OG
Super Robot Taisen OG 2
Metroid Zero Mission
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town [E]
Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II (Both) [E]
Tekken Advance
Shining Forces [E]
Shaman King Master of Spirits II
Final Fantasy V [All regions?]
Final Fantasy VI [E]
Riviera: The Promised Land
Mario Kart Super Circuit [E]
Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival
Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow
Shining Force RotDD
Street Fighter Alpha 3
007: Everything or Nothing
2 Games in 1 - Power Rangers - Ninja Storm & Power Rangers - Time Force
2 Games in 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants - SuperSponge & Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
2-in-1 - Castlevania Double Pack - Harmony of Dissonance & Aria of Sorrow
2-in-1 - Crash Bandicoot Purple - Ripto's Rampage & Spyro Orange - The Cortex Conspiracy
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - Buu's Fury & GT - Transformation
2-in-1 - Golden Nugget Casino & Texas Hold'em Poker
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Stunt Track Challenge & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Velocity X & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Matchbox Missions
2-in-1 - Paperboy & Rampage
2-in-1 - Shark Tale & Shrek 2
2-in-1 - Spy Hunter & Super Sprint
2-in-1 - Uno & Skin Bo
2-in-1 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Gamepack - The Sacred Cards & Reshef of Destruction
3-in-1 - Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Memory
3-in-1 - Life, Yahtzee, Payday
3-in-1 - Sorry & Aggravation & Scrabble Junior
3-in-1 - Super Breakout & Lunar Lander & Millipede
3-in-1 Pong, Asteroids, Yar's Revenge
3-in-1 - Majesco Sports Pack - Paintball Splat! & Dodgeball & Big Alley Bowling
3-in-1 - Mousetrap, Simon, Operation
Mother 3 [J+English Translation]

Working With Minimal Problems

Super Mario World (slight frameskip and button lag) [All regions?]
Advance Wars 2 (A little slow) [U, E]
2 Games in 1 - Scooby-Doo! - Mystery Mayhem & Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase (with minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - The Legacy of Goku I & II (sounds are messed up game play okay)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man - Mysterio's Menace & X2 - Wolverine's Revenge (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Tony Hawk's Underground & Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (surfer suffers from jerkiness)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2 (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Sonic Gamepack - Sonic Pinball Party & Sonic Advance (Sonic Pinball Works sonic advance is loading to gray bars)
2-in-1 - Quad Desert Fury & Monster Trucks (seems to run a little slow)
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 (Slow)
Pokemon Fire Red (Slow)
Meganman Zero 2 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Megaman Zero 3 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Donkey Kong Contry (Slow)
Doom 1 (lag spikes occasionally) [U, E]
Golden Sun (lags during battles) [All regions]
Golden Sun 2 (glitchy movements and music) [U, E]

Unplayable/Not Working

Pokemon: Leaf Green [All regions]
Pokemon: Fire Red [All regions]
Pokemon: Ruby [All regions]
Pokemon: Sapphire [All regions]
Pokemon: Emerald [All regions]
Shining Soul II
Tales of Phantasia
Kingdom Hearts CoM
Famicom Mini Series [J]
Classic NES series [U, E]
Classic NES Super Mario Brothers [U, E]
Sonic Advance
Doom 2 [All regions?]
Shining Soul [E]
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 [U, E]
Super Mario Advance 3 SMB World [E]
Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge [E]
Ninja Five
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (item pick up and conversations are very glitchy) [All regions?]

Some Pokemon games have been said to work (Fire Red, and others with SRAM patching), but I have yet to see any first-hand. Like I said, they need SRAM patching, and my list at the forums don't take that into account (only simple, simple things like the frameskip trick and such). Therefore, I have them listed as "Not Working/Unplayable," though, you can add them into the "Working" section if you want to include that information about the games.

Quote from evandixon:

"For Pokemon gba games:
1. Apply an SRAM patch
2. right when game loads, do an RTS backup
3. Replace patched ROM with clean ROM (or rather, one without the SRAM patch)
4. Whenever loading the unpatched one, load an RTS backup"

Does Fire Emblem 6(The Japanese translated one) work ?
and does 7 and 8 ?
You've got them on the list but nothing next to them.

Fire Emblem 6 probably works. I asked a member at the Supercard forums to test it though.

7 and 8 both work (as you can see in my list). I was happy to find his out! Two of the best games in the entire GBA library!

@jakob95: Fire Emblems one and two were on the NES, the international releases were 7 and 8 (sorta like Final Fantasy 1 and 2 in Europe and North America were 3 and 4 in Japan).

 

[injected11]

Final Fantasy 1 was FF1 in all regions, FF2 (U) was FF4 (J), FF3 (U) was FF6 (J). FF3 (J) was unreleased in US until DS remake.

On that note: does Final Fantasy 6 Advance lag? Namely, can you play through the Opera scene?

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Final Fantasy 1 was FF1 in all regions, FF2 (U) was FF4 (J), FF3 (U) was FF6 (J). FF3 (J) was unreleased in US until DS remake.

On that note: does Final Fantasy 6 Advance lag? Namely, can you play through the Opera scene?

Oh, OK. Obviously I had some wrong information. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

[phoenixclaws]

I can confirm Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (USA) works fine. Played it for about an hour. It sometimes feels a little sluggish but that may just be me. Also when you press SELECT there is a slight graphical glitch and then the map comes up properly.

 

[Escape]

@Uncle FEFL - Pokemon Emerald works great, all you need is a clean dump.
I know there are many versions that don't work, but someone gave me a working one (clean one) and I didn't even need to patch it.
It also doesn't lag at all.
I suppose the same goes for the other Pokemon games.
The only issue I do see is that each time you load the game, it will load the one before last save file, therefor you gotta save twice in-game (not talking about RTS), or else you might find yourself in an earlier stage

 

[KingAsix]

If no one has suggested this already...I strongly suggest this be a sticky

 

[R4Liam]

All pokemon hacks work fine too! I tried pokemon liquid crystal today!

 

[tajio]

Long list, as this is what the members of the Supercard forum and I have comprised.

Spoiler

Working With No Problems

Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Four Swords untested) [All regions?]
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap [All regions?]
Final Fantasy 1&2 Dawn of Souls
Super Robot Taisen OG
Super Robot Taisen OG 2
Metroid Zero Mission
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town [E]
Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II (Both) [E]
Tekken Advance
Shining Forces [E]
Shaman King Master of Spirits II
Final Fantasy V [All regions?]
Final Fantasy VI [E]
Riviera: The Promised Land
Mario Kart Super Circuit [E]
Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival
Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow
Shining Force RotDD
Street Fighter Alpha 3
007: Everything or Nothing
2 Games in 1 - Power Rangers - Ninja Storm & Power Rangers - Time Force
2 Games in 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants - SuperSponge & Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
2-in-1 - Castlevania Double Pack - Harmony of Dissonance & Aria of Sorrow
2-in-1 - Crash Bandicoot Purple - Ripto's Rampage & Spyro Orange - The Cortex Conspiracy
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - Buu's Fury & GT - Transformation
2-in-1 - Golden Nugget Casino & Texas Hold'em Poker
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Stunt Track Challenge & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Velocity X & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Matchbox Missions
2-in-1 - Paperboy & Rampage
2-in-1 - Shark Tale & Shrek 2
2-in-1 - Spy Hunter & Super Sprint
2-in-1 - Uno & Skin Bo
2-in-1 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Gamepack - The Sacred Cards & Reshef of Destruction
3-in-1 - Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Memory
3-in-1 - Life, Yahtzee, Payday
3-in-1 - Sorry & Aggravation & Scrabble Junior
3-in-1 - Super Breakout & Lunar Lander & Millipede
3-in-1 Pong, Asteroids, Yar's Revenge
3-in-1 - Majesco Sports Pack - Paintball Splat! & Dodgeball & Big Alley Bowling
3-in-1 - Mousetrap, Simon, Operation
Mother 3 [J+English Translation]

Working With Minimal Problems

Super Mario World (slight frameskip and button lag) [All regions?]
Advance Wars 2 (A little slow) [U, E]
2 Games in 1 - Scooby-Doo! - Mystery Mayhem & Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase (with minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - The Legacy of Goku I & II (sounds are messed up game play okay)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man - Mysterio's Menace & X2 - Wolverine's Revenge (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Tony Hawk's Underground & Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (surfer suffers from jerkiness)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2 (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Sonic Gamepack - Sonic Pinball Party & Sonic Advance (Sonic Pinball Works sonic advance is loading to gray bars)
2-in-1 - Quad Desert Fury & Monster Trucks (seems to run a little slow)
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 (Slow)
Pokemon Fire Red (Slow)
Meganman Zero 2 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Megaman Zero 3 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Donkey Kong Contry (Slow)
Doom 1 (lag spikes occasionally) [U, E]
Golden Sun (lags during battles) [All regions]
Golden Sun 2 (glitchy movements and music) [U, E]

Unplayable/Not Working

Pokemon: Leaf Green [All regions]
Pokemon: Fire Red [All regions]
Pokemon: Ruby [All regions]
Pokemon: Sapphire [All regions]
Pokemon: Emerald [All regions]
Shining Soul II
Tales of Phantasia
Kingdom Hearts CoM
Famicom Mini Series [J]
Classic NES series [U, E]
Classic NES Super Mario Brothers [U, E]
Sonic Advance
Doom 2 [All regions?]
Shining Soul [E]
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 [U, E]
Super Mario Advance 3 SMB World [E]
Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge [E]
Ninja Five
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (item pick up and conversations are very glitchy) [All regions?]

Some Pokemon games have been said to work (Fire Red, and others with SRAM patching), but I have yet to see any first-hand. Like I said, they need SRAM patching, and my list at the forums don't take that into account (only simple, simple things like the frameskip trick and such). Therefore, I have them listed as "Not Working/Unplayable," though, you can add them into the "Working" section if you want to include that information about the games.

Quote from evandixon:

"For Pokemon gba games:
1. Apply an SRAM patch
2. right when game loads, do an RTS backup
3. Replace patched ROM with clean ROM (or rather, one without the SRAM patch)
4. Whenever loading the unpatched one, load an RTS backup"

Does Fire Emblem 6(The Japanese translated one) work ?
and does 7 and 8 ?
You've got them on the list but nothing next to them.

Fire Emblem 6 probably works. I asked a member at the Supercard forums to test it though.

7 and 8 both work (as you can see in my list). I was happy to find his out! Two of the best games in the entire GBA library!

@jakob95: Fire Emblems one and two were on the NES, the international releases were 7 and 8 (sorta like Final Fantasy 1 and 2 in Europe and North America were 3 and 4 in Japan).

So let me get this straight. I can play pokemon games such as FireRed if I SRAM patch and follow your guide? Does anyone have screenshots or videos of them playing pokemon GBA games on their SCDSTwo?

 

[Zane]

You're telling me Shining Soul doesn't work!? NOOO

One of the main reasons i wanted GBA emulation on the DS! Crap.

 

[Saddamsdevil]

You're telling me Shining Soul doesn't work!? NOOO

One of the main reasons i wanted GBA emulation on the DS! Crap.

They will probably fix loads of compatibility issues next update

You're lucky, I wanted mine MAINLY to play Medabots Rokusho Version on my DS, but now theres a Medabots DS out

 

[Zane]

Hmm i wonder if Monster Rancher on GBa works.. since we have yet to get the DS version. xD

Oh and did FF5 and 6 work? I noticed it was mentioned further up, but no answer was given.

 

[SpaceJump]

Has anyone tried Metroid Fusion?

 

[Ryukouki]

Yep, it works great!