the 3-in-1 has received updates thanks to everyone who donated to purchase smiths and norm each a 3-in-1 to test with. smiths has added a pogo-shell like experience. you should check here for more information.

as for saving on start up, it can... but it would do you no good if the sram battery was dead. as soon as you turned off power to the system the sram would clear out. you could attempt to power down and then back up instantly, thus keeping a charge to the kit and the sram. however, i don't think that would work each time. replacing the sram battery is pretty simple.

try the 1.3 public beta for some of the 3-in-1 updates.

-another world

 

Your scenario describes just one of the 10^6 combos I had to consider in how to handle 3in1 saving in the latest build.

Bottom line is there is it will try its damndest to back up previous SRAM before anything else loads that is slot-2 related. There is also a manual "SRAM DUMP" button on the 3in1 options window to pull the sram at any time.

There's no way to totally determine what is being run when and how the user will interact; you're going to have to have some personal responsibility when using the 3in1.

Of course it would have some god damn problems! You've just said you would be overwriting the SRAM.

1 SRAM bank. 1. Uno. That's it. Use it or lose it. You load one game, it'll have that game's SRAM going to that bank.
You're going to have to have some consistency and some damn brainpower when using the 3in1; it's not our responsibility to work miracles.

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Hell, if you paid attention to anything you'd know I put that in already. Way to be on top.

 

actually what he is saying, in a sober way, is that akaio will dump your sram on boot up/load sram when you flash over a game. if you don't flash anything the sram save will still be there thanks to the battery. if you run your games in that way you won't run into a problem. as soon as you start flashing randomly and not paying attention to what you are doing you will probably lose a save.

the sram button as i remember it was for a complete dump of info which was something bliss had for 3-in-1 support and useless for the avg user but good for debugging. now, smiths just said you can use that so i guess it presently works differently. my point (right now until i research this a bit with my own kits) is to just manage your saves by paying attention to the order of operations and not to rely on the dump button.

there is no way to code for every expectation, trying becomes a waste of time.

-another world

 

Yeah, and i was sober when i wrote that dammit!

(I was groggy though, as it was before heading into work).

The SRAM button it seems dumps the PSRam with a date/time filename. It's like having the save file for the game, but just without a proper name. In redoing the 3in1 options window, I had to investigate just what the hell the old buttons actually were.

I prefer to set the "prompt before save/load" in 3in1 options to Enabled, as that's how I used PogoShell back in the GBA days. I like to know if it's saving/loading, and sometimes I don't want it to save the file.

 

smiths: if its dumping the whole 128mb psram its acting like a save state then for psram flashed games? so that button doesn't actually dump whats in sram and does not help with nor sram saves?

-another world

 

Actually could Smith or someone help me out...I had my Mother 3 in NOR, booted to EZ 3 in 1.

I updated to AKAIO 1.3 and was "whoa more features" but I used the "Sram Dump" in the menu options.

Now I got a 512 kb file named with a time and date. But I also lost my save in my NOR!

How could I salvage my save file using this 512 kb?

 

Right - I think I know how to ask this question now. I was beating around the bush it seems.

I found this on the CycloDS' site:

This is to do with usind different parts of the SRAM for the saves. Is this how it works in AKAIO or the official firmware?

 

Just to say, I submitted a bug report on the fact that with my older 3in1 none of the Pokemon or Advance Wars games seem to "keep" their saves, whether run from PSRAM or NOR - other games like Mario and Castlevania save fine. All combinations of Clean/Trimmed/SRAM Patched have been tried with no success (the functional games are all Trimmed with no Patching). All the games are the (E) versions, as they are dumped from my own cartridges.
I'll squeal in happiness if Smiths or Normatt or someone gets to the bottom of this.

Ironic that I spent so long asking, seeing if games with larger saves work in PSRAM, and here I am with my Pokemans not saving. *passes the time revising for exams, and replaying Apollo Justice*