Hacking EZ-FLASH OMEGA kernel 1.05 released

[EZ-Flash2]

download at http://www.ezflash.cn/download

changelog

Added support for the iQue roms which released recently.

the IMGS pack also updated

offsets of kernel

color offset: 0x154F38

color_selected = 0x6A80
color_text = 0x7FFF
color_selectBG_sd = 0x7C00
color_selectBG_nor = 0x294A
color_MENU_btn = 0x5294
color_cheat_count = 0x03E0
color_NORFULL = 0x001F
color_btn_clean = 0x7C00


0x0009C164 gImage_English_manual
0x0009E7AC gImage_Chinese_manual
0x000A0DF4 gImage_NOTFOUND
0x000A58F4 gImage_icon_GB
0x000A5AB4 gImage_icon_FC
0x000A5C74 gImage_nor_icon
0x000A5E34 gImage_icons_folder
0x000A5FF4 gImage_icons_gba
0x000A61B4 gImage_icons_other
0x000A6374 gImage_MENU
0x000AD174 gImage_RECENTLY
0x000BFD74 gImage_HELP
0x000D2974 gImage_SET
0x000E5574 gImage_NOR
0x000F8174 gImage_SD
0x0010AD74 gImage_splash


source code will be pushed to GitHub in future days.

 

[FAST6191]

There were more ique releases? Did not expect to see that one.

For others that don't know ique is the Chinese brand that sells Nintendo hardware in China (complicated reasons for that one). Most probably know them for the iQue Player which did some N64 games, however they did have a DS model as well and a few others. The DS is slightly different on the hardware and firmware front (it has a larger chip and Chinese characters for pictochat). Technically the games are also region locked to it but most flash carts will bypass it and have done since.... 2005.

GBA wise then the other day saw a release of some previously unknown GBA efforts
https://www.siliconera.com/2019/03/...-been-prototype-unreleased-chinese-gba-games/

 

[stap]

...
Added support for the iQue roms which released recently.
the IMGS pack also updated
...
source code will be pushed to GitHub in future days.

Thank you very much for your hard work!

If there was any possibility to address some irregular issues with saving features mentioned in this forum (GBC saves and also some of users mentioned GBA saves corruption), I would definitely had much more reasons to recommend my friends Omega over other flash-carts for GBA.

Keep up the good work!

 

[maniacnny]

Hi)
Thanks you, cart is awesome!
But i have freezing games
every 3-4 hours
i tested Metroid Fuzion - original USA dump.
my memory cart is OK
i load rom wit clean boot
my kernel is last

tell me when the game freeze (even if it doesn't happen often) are fixed ?

 

[EZ-Flash2]

what the situation when the game was freezing? playing? or just let it run itself?

 

[maniacnny]

what the situation when the game was freezing? playing? or just let it run itself?

when i run game and nothing doing, freezing ater 2-3 hours.
i just testing new battery of gba sp 101, and game crushing in a few hours....freeze picture and noise sound...

First run was good. 11 hours game worked without freeze, secont run had crashing (

Maybe its bad rom? Or error of ez cart...

 

[Bonny]

What are these ique games? Are they gba/nds games? Or even N64? Are there any exclusives?

 

[FAST6191]

What are these ique games? Are they gba/nds games? Or even N64? Are there any exclusives?

Some never released GBA efforts. Article https://www.siliconera.com/2019/03/...-been-prototype-unreleased-chinese-gba-games/

No exclusives, though among the list are Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, Kururin Paradise, Densetsu no Stafy 2, Densetsu no Stafy 1 and Tomato Adventure, none of which got official translations to English and at time of writing only Fire Emblem has a fan translation, though Kururin Paradise also has a menu/few bits translation (it is a puzzle game so pretty playable -- http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1170/ ) and Starfy is a platformer so playable enough without it. Don't know much about Tomato Adventure but it is an earlier effort from the same people that did the Mario & Luigi Series for the handhelds and a quick scan has it getting some decent reviews.

 

[maniacnny]

Maybe downgrade to firmware V3 k1.02 can help ne play games without freezing ?

 

[marcinho89]

@maniacnny I have the same problem:

I bought three EZ Flash Omega. For all three I have the problem that when playing always freezes the image, noise sound and you can not press anything. Has happened so far with several GBA games (about 8 games). Only with a restart can you play again. I have already used various Micro SD cards, but everywhere the same error. I already formatted the micro sd cards several times. I use the last Kernel and I load rom only with clean boot. I have"test psram" and everything is ok.

 

[maniacnny]

@maniacnny I have the same problem:

I bought three EZ Flash Omega. For all three I have the problem that when playing always freezes

try this firmware.

 

[maniacnny]

what the situation when the game was freezing? playing? or just let it run itself?

Dear developers, I want to share my observations. Now I am testing a new battery with your cartridge.
Install the latest firmware. The game freezes, after the red indicator lights up (after 5-6 hours), after rebooting everything works well. If you connect the charger, the game works great without freezing for 10-12 hours. Maybe this is a problem with the power consumption of the flash cartridge? Or is it firmware? Because in firmware 1.02T, V3 there is no problem with freezing.

 

[EZ-Flash2]

Dear developers, I want to share my observations. Now I am testing a new battery with your cartridge.
Install the latest firmware. The game freezes, after the red indicator lights up (after 5-6 hours), after rebooting everything works well. If you connect the charger, the game works great without freezing for 10-12 hours. Maybe this is a problem with the power consumption of the flash cartridge? Or is it firmware? Because in firmware 1.02T, V3 there is no problem with freezing.

can you test again with the game written to the NOR FLASH.

 

[maniacnny]

can you test again with the game written to the NOR FLASH.

same problem.

I tried this method, but by the end of testing, when the battery of the gameboy is low, freezing still happens. This is a single freeze, and after reboot all working, but it still unpleasant.

I would stay on firmware 1.02, but I like energy saving on firmware 1.05 (1 hour +)

Help solve the problem please. I think others have this problem too.

 

[EZ-Flash2]

same problem.

I tried this method, but by the end of testing, when the battery of the gameboy is low, freezing still happens. This is a single freeze, and after reboot all working, but it still unpleasant.

I would stay on firmware 1.02, but I like energy saving on firmware 1.05 (1 hour +)

Help solve the problem please. I think others have this problem too.

Can you tell me which firmware and kernel version you are using currently.

 

[maniacnny]

Can you tell me which firmware and kernel version you are using currently.

Now installed k1.05 fw6

But on k1.04 was same problem

 

[EZ-Flash2]

Now installed k1.05 fw6

But on k1.04 was same problem

check your PM.

 

[maniacnny]

check your PM.

PM ? What is PM?

 

[FAST6191]

PM ? What is PM?

Private messages. Should be the envelope thing in the top right of the screen.
Also available https://gbatemp.net/conversations/

 

[falconcrest]

Now installed k1.05 fw6

But on k1.04 was same problem

i am having the freezing issue too...