Hacking Can someone test some trained GBA ROMs on EZIV?

[jelbo]

I'm thinking to buy an EZ-Flash IV Deluxe (I'm fine with 2nd hand too) for just the GBA features. I do, however, want to make use of trained ROMs (yeah, I'm that lame). I have owned a G6 Lite before, and trained ROMs crashed nearly all the time, didn't even get past the intro. How's the EZ-Flash IV Deluxe performing regarding this?

Please test some trainers for me. No Frills has quite a big archive of them. Patching can be done with GBATA or your favorite .ips patcher. Thanks in advance!

On a side note, how's the quality of the MicroSD slot on EZ-Flash IV Deluxe?

 

[FAST6191]

I can test them on my EZ4lite (they use the same software so the test should be valid).
I have only tried a few trainers and I recall they were pretty good:
Random assortment of roms and trainers, I have not got the time or desire to do extensive tests so this is boot and play for a few mins (aside from advance wars 2, I got sidetracked):
All the roms I use are no-intro verified which may place these tests at odds with introed releases (which some trainers are designed for).
Ace Combat (U) -fine, a fine game as well.
Advance Wars 2 (E) -fine, trainer seems to have issues with more than 1 opponent.
Ninja Cop (E) -flawless
Earthworm Jim 2 (U) fine
Sega Smash Pack (U) all the I tried, fine
Zoids Legacy (U) fine.

Oh and http://gba.dellicious.de/trainer.php?s=n&o=asc&d= usually has some trainers but it seems the site is down.
http://www.advanscene.com/ has a bunch too.

Now if you will excuse me Ninja Cop calls. Name any more trainers in paticular you want me to try and I will test them, the intro "trouble" or just a plain bad trainer aside I doubt there will be a problem though.

Bear in mind there is cheat support and GABsharky as well.

 

[jelbo]

Woo, thanks for the very useful post, FAST6191! I really appreciate your efforts in trying them for me. Btw, I knew that gba.dellicious.de site, just couldn't find the URL anymore, thanks for that.

Looks like all GBA trainers work just fine. Well, since you asked for some particular ones; here's my little list:

Super Mario Ball
Drill Dozer
Dragonball Advanced Adventure
Mario vs Donkey Kong
Super Mario Advance 4

With 'the intro "trouble"' you mean corrupted intro graphics, I assume?

Oh, I thought GABSharky was dead/never worked? And the 'cheat support', how does it work? G6 Lite had some kind of 'golden' shit that patched some intro on the ROM that made it crash 9 out of 10...

Oh and.. (now I'm really getting lazy) does Dipstar work on EZIV as well?

 

[FAST6191]

I will test the requests later (my useless body demands food).

Trouble just means some trainers were designed for fairly corrupted roms (some intros in a bid to avoid removal went to some fair lengths) which means that when I come and use the unmodified rom things get overwritten that should not and it just plain does not work.

Dipstar does not work unfortunately, I see you already found cracker's trainers though:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=40825
Emulation and save editing can take care of a lot as well.

GABSharky development does seem to have halted (and the site seems to have packed in)
That is not much of a problem though:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/942567/26
Guide to it all and a copy of gabsharky:
http://home.versatel.nl/derks202/smj/files...ing%20Guide.zip

Normal cheats are handled at the time you burn the rom and are somewhat similar to the G6 cheats except more stable, have a read of the EZFlash wiki and threads on sosukes forum for more (links in my signature).

 

[jelbo]

I will test the requests later (my useless body demands food).

Trouble just means some trainers were designed for fairly corrupted roms (some intros in a bid to avoid removal went to some fair lengths) which means that when I come and use the unmodified rom things get overwritten that should not and it just plain does not work.
I get it, some trainers were made for specific scene released, as stated in some .nfo's. Ket's hope I can get ahold of some of them if I need to, because I use No-Intro DATs as well (though I love trainers and intro'd ROMs).

GABSharky development does seem to have halted (and the site seems to have packed in)
That is not much of a problem though:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/942567/26
Guide to it all and a copy of gabsharky:
http://home.versatel.nl/derks202/smj/files...ing%20Guide.zip
Thanks for the links. Heh, Gathering of Tweakers, I'm active there as well

QUOTENormal cheats are handled at the time you burn the rom and are somewhat similar to the G6 cheats except more stable, have a read of the EZFlash wiki and threads on sosukes forum for more (links in my signature).

Thanks, I'll have a good read.

I'm currently doubting to buy either a cheap 2nd hand SC Lite for use as RAM Pak (not just Opera, homebrew as well), or EZ-Flash IV Deluxe as proper GBA flashcard, and possible RAM Pak - I see cory1492 is trying to make an Opera patch for EZ-Flash, so I'm gonna wait and see what will happen with that.