Hacking Moon (U) not working on DS TT kernel 1.17

[imz]

When I attempt to boot up Moon (U) i get the following error:

[Rom loading failed]
savfile not found!

Please reset system.

 

[rasputin]

Spaces in short file names cause the error.

 

[imz]

thanks! it works fine now, I wonder why it doesn't work with spaces in short names? Oh well, all I did was rename it from 'MOON (U)' to 'MOON'

 

[Bri]

"Contra 4" and a handful of others will have the same problem until you rename them.

-Bri

 

[rajendra82]

thanks! it works fine now, I wonder why it doesn't work with spaces in short names? Oh well, all I did was rename it from 'MOON (U)' to 'MOON'

Fat file system is 8.3, with 8 characters reserved for the filename and 3 for the extension. When you name a file longer than that, a virtual file name is created and a the real name is different. When you named it "MOON (U).NDS", the first part of the file is less than 8 characters long, so the real name ended up with a space in it. Same is true of "Contra 4.nds" If you had named it "MOON (US).NDS", It would likely have run fine.

 

[imz]

you're saying there should be at least 9 characters in total?

 

[Evilmaster1985]

No he is saying spaces in short file names cause the error.
Using no space at all would for sure fix the problem.

Greetz, Vistabuser.