Hacking M3 Real Perfect + Sakura FW

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Hi,

I now have my M3 Real with sakura firmware on it. I have inserted the GBA expansion pack into the slot too.

I have put GBA ROMs and DS ROMs onto the SD Card. I can play the DS ROMs fine, but when I got to play the GBA ROMs they complain of corrupt saves.

Am I supposed to use a particular piece of software to transfer the GBA ROMs to the SD card? I just transferred them via the OS.

Any help appreciated.

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Thanks.

Tried formatting and copying everything back over to the SD card but no joy.

I have just downloaded the 'M3 Game Manager' program and when I ask it to copy the gba files over it seems to work just fine. I think it patches the ROMs, something about option 'Hardware 1'?

I now have a folder called 'GAMESAVE' on the root of my SD card too.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to keep using this awkward method?
 

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This is actually patching a game (manually), and it's used for M3 Lite!

But you weren't supposed to do it with M3 Real!
All GBA games I tried were working just perfectly with drag & drop....

I have no idea what could it be...
 

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Perhaps it's because I'm using Sakura F/W?

Or maybe I just have dodgy ROMs?

Thank you for your continued help.
 

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Don't mention it, it's not like I actually helped you for now!!
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Well, I'm using Sakura since the day they released it, and GBA games work without any problems..
Might be that ROMs are faulty, but I doubt it.........Try to download some game again, and try then..
 

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