How do I get rom hacks to work on the nso emulators

[CruelAlchemist]

I was trying out cave databse manager a while back with gba games and I noticed some of my rom hacks weren't working while some like the fan translated hacks for the mother trilogy did, any help with this?

 

[Hiew]

I don't know if you already solved it, but I had the same problem yesterday. The problem is in the rom size.

I was trying to get a brazilian translation of Golden Sun running on the app, the game opened, but I'd get a black screen.

In the end the problem was that the rom had like 8,56MB, which the GBA app can't read as a 8MB rom nor a 16MB rom. I don't know why some games with different rom sizes worked, but in Golden Sun's case, I had to use HackRomTools - XSE to expand the rom size to 16MB. After doing that, the game ran flawlessly.

The same thing happened with an english translation of Crayon Shin-Chan, the game only booted after I expand the rom size!

 

[The_Chaotician]

This topic comes up frequently. Here is another thread with a similar question asked. With the advice given they were able to get their ROM hacks to work. If you need specifics for Cave, I strongly recommend the Discord (even if you would rather not use it!), otherwise drop me a DM. I have a fair few hours of experience with it under my belt.