That would be nice, I've heard of something like that but never found a patch.vvedge said:The previous patch (for diamond/pearl) allowed the special apparition when a gba game is inserted. So unless something has been broken when cory updated for platinum (which I doubt), it should work.
So it should be because of one of the reason you mentioned...
By the way, did you patched the gba rom before loading it to NOR ?
I should find the old thread but I think it is required if you use a R4...
I'll try to find it and post back here later
VVedg
DarkSunDS said:Actually, I was looking at a walkthrough and didn't know I had to have the National Dex before being able to find it.
vvedge said:What do you mean with "dongle" ?
The patch allows the special pokemon apparition when a gba game is inserted in the slot 2.
It also allows the transfer of pokemon from your gba game to your nds game (could be tricky, your save have got to be the right size...).
For this to work your need to have unlocked the national dex.
The patch is made for slot 1 card (not EZ) + EZ 3in1 (first version), but Cory is making progress in trying to make it work with older slot 2 solutions (namely F2A 256 and FAPro/Turbo 256).
deadphan87 said:the dongle system lets you catch certain pokemon from any gen III games when inserted in the ds gba slot. Do you have to have the national dex before you are able to catch pokemon like "Gengar" in the old chateau only when a gen III game is in the gba slot?
vvedge said:deadphan87 said:the dongle system lets you catch certain pokemon from any gen III games when inserted in the ds gba slot. Do you have to have the national dex before you are able to catch pokemon like "Gengar" in the old chateau only when a gen III game is in the gba slot?
Short answer : yes
cory1492 said:Pokepatch V4 is out now, adding most of the EZ line (aside from the EZ4's without NOR of course) including EZ I/II/III/IV as well as flash advance/F2Au.
Nice, I will then be able to also try this myselfcory1492 said:If your willing to send the save over, greatIt's not so pressing after getting the initial confirmation that it works though. I'll send it to you as soon as Migration is unlockedIn fact, I forget there was still another badge to earn before the League. I just got it this morning and am on my way to the league.
QUOTE(cory1492 @ Apr 1 2009, 06:39 PM) Pokepatch V4 is out now, adding most of the EZ line (aside from the EZ4's without NOR of course) including EZ I/II/III/IV as well as flash advance/F2Au.
It is similar to dldi, but not nearly so complicated - there are per cart patches (the bankswitching code) that you select when you patch it, each being it's own 'stub' which is injected into the copy routine. I've found flashcart ident code to be somewhat buggy in that it often locks up other cards... other than that, certain code is shared between some of the EZ series - it's even quite likely the EZ3/4 version would work the same on the 3in1 but the 3in1 code is the most proven so I didn't want to lump it into a new stub.m2pt5 said:I'm using a Cyclo with the latest firmware and a 3in1Pls (that's what ExpLoader calls it) on a DS Lite, and v4 mostly works - it lets me go through the process of choosing six pokemon, and it tries to import them, but when it tries to save to both carts, it corrupts the GBA save and fails to import. (This is with Emerald/Platinum, but I suspect it's more likely to be an issue with the 3in1+.)
Unfortunately this is a situation I cannot test, I don't have a plus, don't have a cyclo and don't have a Platinum save that works beyond just opening up migration and telling me I'm using the game in a different DS. If I had to bet though, Cyclo firmware "knows" about 3in1 and does some patching of it's own (in relation to wii - right?) I wouldn't put it past Cyclo to try to patch migration themselves... but I can't completely rule out the memory region I used as not being the culprit either as I did see some black screens (with music, meaning I probably crashed arm9) trying to enter migration approximately 1 in 5 tries.
It'd be really really great if theotherfreakyguy was around to verify this new patch method as working on platinum, it would at least point the finger in the right direction (though if not I'm sure others will get here soon enough.)
QUOTE(vvedge @ Apr 2 2009, 02:55 AM) I just read the technical note in the readme.txt but I must admit I still don't understand how the same patch could work with different cards (with different bankswitching method), how does it knows which bankswitching method to use (is it what the flash ident response is for ?) ?
Problem surely comes that I don't understand what a 'stub' is !
I first saw this as DLDI, which must be patched according to the card.
...and I'm in the readme.txt too !!! with capital letters for THANKS ! woohoo
Honestly, I just shared my existing save, so that's not so big deal (OK I was ready to replay the whole game from your save, but I finally haven't to)... but I'm happy this led to this great update with more cards supported (In fact, I believe that my biggest contribution was to find that pogoshell contained the bankswitching code for FA and pointing it to you)
Nice job, now I'm gonna hurry to beat this elite four !