Hi, I have a GBxCart RW + FlashGBX, and I'm trying to write an emulator .sav to a batteryless SRAM repro cart (FlashGBX identifies it as: Save Type: Unlicensed 512K SRAM 64KiB, Cartridge Type: 2006_TSOP_64BALL_6106 with W29GL128SH9B). My emulator save is 131088 bytes ("Pokemon - Emerald Version.zip"; 128KB + 16 byte header I think). Every attempt to write it via FlashGBX ends in either "save file was erased due to corruption" or it reverts to a previous save. I also tried patching a fresh Emerald ROM with the gbarompatcher website (SRAM Batteryless patch) and writing that instead, same result. I dumped the SRAM after making a test save on the cart and ran it through Python to check the sector structure, the magic bytes don't match standard Emerald format (expected 0x08012025, getting values like 0x01006f4f). PKHeX also rejects the dumped .sav with "unsupported file type/size" even though it's 65536 bytes. ("FreshPatched.zip" is a rom and save dump from after I wrote the patched rom to the cart, and "TestSave.zip" is a save on said patched rom up to the point of acquiring a starter, and then saved at Route 101. I progressed to the same point for "OG.zip") Writing to the OG, Patched, and Test-Saved roms through FlashGBX and injections all ended in errors, regardless of how many times I tried to read the bytes and find the save point. At some point in the process, it started saying that the SRAM size was 64KiB even though I could have sworn it was saying 128KiB for a while but then it changed and I don't know how or why that might be. Maybe I'm just going insane. I've been doing trial-and-error for two days now. Questions: What save format does a batteryless SRAM cart like this actually use, and is it compatible with a standard emulator .sav at all? How can I write my save properly to a cart like this? Is there a tool to convert/inject an emulator save into the format this cart expects? Thanks in advance.

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ROM Hack Looking for GBA Translation

Thread starter MHaven
Start date Aug 11, 2015
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MHaven

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Okay so just as it suggest, I am looking for GBA translation projects for RPGS or Action Adventures that you guys deem awesome for the GBA era. Any will do, please help

I have recently discovered some good RPGs for the GBA and it has lead me in a discovery phase to find more even those that haven't reached the US through some company.

Issac

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Aug 11, 2015

Something like this?
https://gbatemp.net/threads/index-of-gba-translations.103534/

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MHaven

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Issac said:
Something like this?
https://gbatemp.net/threads/index-of-gba-translations.103534/

I LOVE YOU!!! <3 lol thanks man

PS. would you by any chance have a list for PSX/PS2 games too lol

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Pablitox

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Aug 11, 2015

That's such a lot of projects. Not sure If I can bump the threads but there was a tomato adventure translation kind of going on (not sure what) Also our project, hajimari no ishi, kind of counts too

lol