Hacking Just got a brand new M3, comes with ruby.gba??

[falco123]

It's a clean formatted card, yet when I boot up the M3, it always says Ruby.gba WARNING GBA Game Save but cannot find autosave backup file, backup fail. I haven't put ANYTHING related to GBA on the card, I checked for hidden folders, etc, nothing is there, and I don't know why...

 

[wabo]

Someone tested the M3 with a gba rom, the sram of the M3 contains that rom save file. It doesnt find a dat file on your card and it's normal. once you load another game, everything will be back to normal.

 

[falco123]

Once I load another game? I've tested like 15 DS games so far and it still keeps coming up. Do I need a test a gba game?

 

[crumpster]

sounds like you got a bad m3, i had the same problem... let me guess divineo.com is where u bought it

 

[falco123]

No, i got it from realhotstuff...

 

[Costello]

Yes, you need to test a GBA game.
Play a GBA game (maybe pokemon ruby?) and save the game; then reboot your DS.
Tell us if you still have the problem

 

[XBohrchX]

You need to overwrite the ruby.gba with another gba rom, therefore just play a gba rom. Playing a DS Rom doesn't solve the "problem". by the way, i also had a sav file in the sram after turning on m3 for the first time. It was asphalt urban ds us

 

[falco123]

Yeah, I tested out MMBN 6, and now it works fine. Thanks everyone!

 

[TommyVlaming]

I have the same prob, ok im gonna try to load a gba game tnx all

 

[Spin20vt]

Yea i have this same problem, had no idea what it was thought it was normal, well now i know how to fix it thanks guys

 

[Spin20vt]

I just tried this fix but i keep getting this error and it just swaps to whatever game i played last, my save games seem to be saving and loading ok, but every time on reboot i get the same error "warning! GBA save game already exists on this card, but autosave cannot be found. backup failed"

anyone help?

 

[takieda]

You need to create game saves for every game you put onto the DS... the easiest method is simply to run the games through the game manager - i.e. Write GBA instead of Write NDS.

 

[Spin20vt]

You need to create game saves for every game you put onto the DS... the easiest method is simply to run the games through the game manager - i.e. Write GBA instead of Write NDS.

done that, thats the way i loaded the gba games

 

[Spin20vt]

anyone got any ideas

 

[outphase]

why don't you just create a gba save file named ruby.dat, let it back up, then delete ruby.dat

It's saying it has nowhere to go, didn't think of giving it somewhere to go?

 

[Thorisoka]

Indeed. I got that problem 2 day ago while attempting to update my passkey 2, the M3 kept a save of the .gba file and definitely wanted to write in a .dat that points to this file

just try to flash any GBA game you would name ruby.gba, the .dat will be created, the M3's sram.dat will write into the .dat when you boot it, then just delete the rom and everything should be correct

 

[Spin20vt]

ill try it but i dont think it will work because its not doing the ruby.gba one no more it just says excatly the same but with whatever game i played last eg mario.gba

 

[falco123]

ill try it but i dont think it will work because its not doing the ruby.gba one no more it just says excatly the same but with whatever game i played last eg mario.gba

Lol...that's the point. I don't know why this topic got so many posts, but it's really simple, just run a GBA game to clear the SRAM for GBA and same for DS. It will always back up the .dat for the last game you played no matter what, but when you run a real game, at least you don't get an error.

 

[Spin20vt]

yea ive done that but it didnt fix it, ive sorted in now anyway i reformatted to fat rather then fat32 and it seem to fix it no more error.

 

[Doktor83]

hi. sorry for my bad english
i have a problem with my m3 on my ds lite with flashme.
if i do a savegame and then i shut off and then power on my ds, the savegames doesn't load.

if i shut off and then immediatly turn on i see this message: WARNING!NDS SAVE IN CARD BUT CANNOT FIND AUTOSAVE BACKUP FILE!BACKUP FAIL!PRESS A TO CONTINUE

I have the last fw (v25) and the last loader (v25).

the strange is that the savegame was created by the manager in the cf but when i save in playing the m3 can't see it.

the old saves (that i've created when i'm using this m3 on my old ds) works perfectly but when i try to owerwrite them and then i reboot ds, this saves were unchanged.

I have tried to format the cf, but problem persist. i have also tried to load another gba games but nothing.

i hope that you can help me because in this situation my m3 is not useful.

thanks in advance
bye
Doktor83