I've written it twice, realtime/software and realtime/hareware. Both times it complains that saving is disabled when I start the game, and then my game save is missing.
I played a lot of that game but got stuck eventually. Played it on my EFA gba cart, never had to patch it or anything. Maybe I'll try it with your settings cause I really hate having to turn the DS off and on to copy the save.
I have the exact same issue but with the supercard SD ....I really like this game but havent been able to save since I got rid of my EFA pro256 card. Any ideas are greatly appreciated