So i have an action replay for my GBA which i use all the time for my GBA Fire Emblem games. A long time ago, i picked up a translated copy of FE6. However, there are no known AR codes for this game. There are, however, codebreaker codes available. So what is the easiest way to convert between the two code formats, if possible? As well, if i am able to convert the codes, how will i receive the master code for the other codes to work. I also have another question. My FE6 cartridge is very... strange, unlike other games where the battery is separate from the ROM, with this Translated FE6 cartridge, the save battery is actually tied to the ROM itself. It cannot be reflashed with a different battery file, and when attempting to load a battery save on a backed up ROM, it will refuse to load the battery and only play off the current save file on the ROM No other game i have behaves like this. Is there any reason why this happens?
What are you implying exactly? Only this game behaves like this. Pokemon ruby and various other games don't.
Battery save is the term used by various emulators to mean normal save as opposed to savestate, assuming the OP mainly comes from that world rather than flash carts... As for the actual problem I am not sure. I would have to look at the cart to see what it is doing. Were it a big boy flash cart then it could be that the save is being overwritten with the one stored but every cheap and nasty repro I have seen does not do that. It could be that the tool you are using got confused when trying to write the save if it thinks it is a different type, however it would probably have said that. Personally I would suggest just getting and using a flash cart. Anyway choice link to have during all this http://doc.kodewerx.org/hacking_gba.html Codes did get encrypted so you may need a copy of CBAcrypt http://doc.kodewerx.org/tools.html#gba I am not sure what we are using to convert these days (everything I use supports both), or if indeed it is that easy to convert on the GBA. The CBA tends to be considered a lesser method, and master codes are not really necessary for AR/gameshark. If the codes start with 8 or 3 codes it is trivial, if they are the others then you might have to think for a second but the AR has all the same abilities (and a few more besides).
Okay here we go... So my Fire emblem 6 cartridge is translated and does act very strangely. It lags when saving and has erased it's own data for one reason though. My Pokemon Ruby cartridge is Normal. I dumped both Roms and both Battery Saves. I was able to import the battery save of Ruby Just fine, but i had to use a hex editor to change the size of the FE6 save. Interestingly, when i loaded up the ROM backup of Pokemon Ruby with no save, it acted like a normal empty game But when i started my ROM backup of Fire Emblem 6 without a save battery, my files and what not where still attached to the cartridge I should tell y'all what program i'm using. I'm using GBA_Backup_Tool on the NDS. So i change some stuff to both files, make a battery export and try to put it back on the cartridge. Pokemon worked with the modded battery, but nothing changed with the FE6 Backup So this is my situation As for the AR and codebreaker stuff. The programs didn't seem to help. CBAcrypt would always give me an error when i put in a codebreaker code As for ARcrpyt, none of the codes i converted worked. I even tried to find a master code and it wouldn't work From this list... https://www.gamefaqs.com/gba/563015-fire-emblem-fuuin-no-tsurugi/faqs/35138 I converted these codes I replaced the ## with a "71", an item value Its a simple code and couldn't get it to work when i put it through AR crpyt
Looks like it is decrypted already From the link above Code: 3aaaaaaa 00xx 8-bit RAM write xx is written to 0aaaaaaa. The AR equivalent Code: 00aaaaaa xxxxxxyy [a0aaaaa..a0aaaaa+xxxxxx]=yy Original code 3202AB9C 0071 Code in AR form 0022AB9C 00000071 As a sanity check http://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm#gbamemorymap 02000000-0203FFFF WRAM - On-board Work RAM (256 KBytes) 2 Wait 02040000-02FFFFFF Not used 0202AB9C is then certainly a place I would expect to find values for inventory items. As for the save stuff I am at a loss, theoretically I guess you could append a save to a ROM image and it would dodge some of the saving issues but I have never heard of a flash cart doing that and that would be some exotic electronics for a repro (if they are not a simple ROM chip swap/breakout board usually we are left wondering if they employed a blind monkey on a dextox to use a flooring nail heated over a blowtorch to do the soldering). At the same time general policy around here is repros are bad and you should not be using them (pirate or not it is up to you, pay someone else for a pirated copy of something and now that is a dick move). Get a wholesome emulator or flash cart instead.
Thank you again for your help. As far as me buying a repo, the reason why i did is because i like having physical copies of things. A flashcard wouldn't do it of me in this case. I mainly just wanted a physical copy of this specific game so that i could complete my case collection of the three GBA games. Take a look! As for the code you gave me I do not know if it works or not due to me not having the enabler code. I have tried finding it myself but have not been so lucky.
I think I would rather have got a flash cart (probably something like a 3 in 1), flashed that and printed my own box and label if that mattered. Paying for pirated games, much less those also including the word of some hackers, just seems truly distasteful. I will give that it is less troublesome on the GBA compared to the NES and SNES where hacks might be a bit more emulator centric. You could try the code in an emulator if the AR failed -- enabler codes are only a problem for said devices which have to try to inject their own hooks in there where emulators do not usually have the problem.
Well, the emulator i'm using doesn't seem to like the AR codes i'm inputing. I'm using VBA. I get an error saying it wants it in XXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYY format despite it already being in that format.
It's probably one of those bootlegs patched to save to an empty area of flash instead of having an SRAM chip.
I did a bit of research a while ago on sram chips and you're probably right. I guess I wasn't lucky then. Haha It's funny because I bought a FE8 cartridge many years ago thinking it was legit and it turned out to be a bootleg. But at least that cartridge behaves normally compares to this one.
