That answered all my questions. Oh now that I think of it I forgot I think there was an option in the DS menu to boot straight to the game and bypass the menu. I guess that'd be the same as what you're describing. Thanks!
I'm assuming there's an extra 256Mbit (the max size of a GBA game) of fast memory dedicated for GBA. When you launch a GBA game it actually copies it from part of the 4Gbit into the 25Mbit and runs it from there. This is all guesswork though.
They can be backups or different save slots if you want them.
Mario.1 can be your file. Mario.2 can be your brother's.
Just about that, I really don't have a problem with the splash screen in principle, if I get stuck with a card with a splash screen oh well. I'm just saying that since there is a version that doesn't have it I would like to find it (I think hopebuy may have it) but if not I'll deal.
I'm confused. So, I never have to backup my save files? I can just play two different games, and it'll know which save file to use? Is there a purpose for being able to write to the number 2 and 3 slots then? Does the EZ4L have more saves available to it?
That's right, you never have to back them up. It saves automatically to the cart, and there are three save files available to each game. Don't confuse it with save slots. For example - New Super Mario Bros. has three save slots to save your game on the commercial cart. This is one save file on the G6 Lite. The multiple save files come in handy when you have a game that doesn't have multiple save slots..
I'm probably being more confusing.
Save mangement isn't as easy on the EZ4L. Technically you have as many saves available as you want on any cart, just rename and copy the files as you see fit.
Gotcha, thanks! How long does it take to load a NDS rom for everyone? For me, it seems like 1-3 seconds to see the circle fill completely. Does trimming the rom help any?
That's about the length of time it takes to load it up, even the large roms. I pretty much click, and in the time it takes to look away and look back it's already starting. Try loading a few GBA games and then smile at how much faster the NDS load is.
I have a question.I guess "perfect gba" covers it but I want to make sure since it's the only thing holding me back from buying G6 Lite. I heard that regular G6 occasionally corrupts gba save games, was this corrected in Lite?
Im wondering how much space there is really to fill up with roms since the g6-menu definitely take up some space on the flashcart..
so out of those 512 mbytes (4gbit) there really is like 480mbytes you can see in windows that you could fill up with roms and stuff or what?
This means I can't fit 4x 1gbit games (like a couple of Resident Evil for example)
(Or does trimming work so good it does fit?)
so out of those 512 mbytes (4gbit) there really is like 480mbytes you can see in windows that you could fill up with roms and stuff or what?
This means I can't fit 4x 1gbit games (like a couple of Resident Evil for example)
(Or does trimming work so good it does fit?)
The G6 Lite has an EXTRA 16Mbit of space, which is where it stores the loader. You get the full 4Gbit to put stuff on.
I never had the regular G6 corrupt GBA saves, and in my short time with the G6 Lite, have not seen anything like that either. That's not to say that no-one has ever had it happen, but I haven't seen it with either card. I have read about people experiencing corruption for whatever reason while plugging it into their USB port, but I have never had that happen either.
Hopefully someone that has had that happen can post their experience, but I don't think you'll find that to be an issue.
I think he's talking about this. I see people criticizing flash carts on here for this but I don't think anyone would actually use a cart to that extent:
When compared to a hard disk drive, a further limitation is the fact that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 1 million programming cycles) so that care has to be taken when moving hard-drive based applications, such as operating systems, to flash-memory based devices such as CompactFlash. This effect is partially offset by some chip firmware or filesystem drivers by counting the writes and dynamically remapping the blocks in order to spread the write operations between the sectors, or by write verification and remapping to spare sectors in case of write failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
When compared to a hard disk drive, a further limitation is the fact that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 1 million programming cycles) so that care has to be taken when moving hard-drive based applications, such as operating systems, to flash-memory based devices such as CompactFlash. This effect is partially offset by some chip firmware or filesystem drivers by counting the writes and dynamically remapping the blocks in order to spread the write operations between the sectors, or by write verification and remapping to spare sectors in case of write failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
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@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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