Gaming Revo K101. Problems with loading saved games.

[ruilong]

Thanks. I had handheld these games that can not be saved files to our factory. They will try to test them. I will get back to you once they call back to us.

Keep telling us the name of the games that you can not save it. Please tell us the full correct name so that we can test it here.

Thank you and wish you Merry Christmas!

 

[alexei_gp]

Thanks. I had handheld these games that can not be saved files to our factory. They will try to test them. I will get back to you once they call back to us.

Keep telling us the name of the games that you can not save it. Please tell us the full correct name so that we can test it here.

Thank you and wish you Merry Christmas!

Doom english release from gba
Yoshi island english release from gba

 

[lordgoober]

Yeah. I just inadvertantly lost my save for Dragon Quest Monsters 3 Caravan Heart. I had just saved and was going to flush to SD card by going to the menu using L+Brightness and accidentally pushed Power+Brightness which just instantly turned off the system. I turned it back on and found out that it had deleted the save when I did that.

 

[Another World]

i think the conversation has become two different conversations.

Keep telling us the name of the games that you can not save it.

Problem is the same, sometimes (randomly) saves are erased. (file is 0ko).

i am able to save just fine. i can even make use of those saves. however, for no reason, i'll power on the system and the save will not work (blank, corrupted, missing -- i really don't know). it will be a save i used for a few days, and had hours of progress saved on. so you see, ruiliong, it is not that saves are not working but that saves are randomly disappearing.

-another world

 

[ruilong]

Yes my friend Another World, You can save the games with Revo K101. But sometimes the saves will andomly disappear.

We had discussed this with the manufacture. They also test some games. All can be saved. Things that will effect you to save or lose the save files are:

1. The power of the device when you save the games
2. The correct games you played
3. The quality of the Memory card
4. The right steps to save the game- Another World's way is right!

 

[Another World]

When it happened to me my unit was fully powered, I had charged it a few hours before and saved 2 or 3 times on that charge before i lost my first save. my games were verified by crc, they are good clean roms. the memory card it happened on is a 4gb kingston class4 (formatted with the pansonic formatter). i always save with *+START and usually go back to the menu (*+L) and into the file listing before i shut down the system. when i power down i always hold the button on the side.

-another world

 

[alexei_gp]

I hope you get the fix for the save issue on the revo its very hard to play with no saves.

 

[SpikeSpiegel03]

Me too, for the moment device is useless. I don't want to lose savestates anymore.

 

[kactusss]

Hi, I got the same issue for mine. In almost every game.. It's really a big deal, as it says before; this device is useless for the moment.

I'm disappointed because it's a great device without this problem, I hope you can find a solution quickly..

 

[ruilong]

We had submitted this problem to our factory. And they are testing the games you complained failed to save. I will get back here once I receive their reply.

Thanks.

 

[ruilong]

Base on what Maxzhou88 feedback, you guys do not need to press any hotkey to save the game. Just press the turn OFF button and shut down your K1o1. The game files will be backup to the TF card because K101 use the "Soft Power Off" button design. You guys can try it.

 

[ruilong]

At the same time, the manufacture had released the upgrade firmware for Revo K101. You can can download it here

What improvement in this firmware are:

1. adding the display mode: 240:160

2. improve the problem on saving games- ROM>16MB- to better save the games, we suggest you use the original ROMS. As we had tested, those original Roms have no problem on saving.

 

[SpikeSpiegel03]

This is impossible to access the new firmware, credential are needed.
Concerning power button (ON/OFF), as i said before not matter what way we use for saving games problem appeared.

 

[ruilong]

Extra information for the problem on saving games:

The main problem may be about the ROM you used. General speaking, there are several standard sizes rom for the original:

4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB

In theory, only the rom in 32MB or over it will have the problem on saving the games. This is because this size rom has not enough rom to Save Buffer, which will caused the saving problem.

From the games you mentioned here, there are in different sizes. This is possible as you guys can get such roms from anywhere. So the problem is the different size and rom we used. This can explain why we do not have problem on saving games here- because we use different rom.

I am sorry I am not very good at technical. Hope you guys can understand.

Happy New Year!

 

[SpikeSpiegel03]

Thanks ruilong, for those informations. Have you seen my previous post ? It is impossible to download new firmware.

 

[ruilong]

Thanks ruilong, for those informations. Have you seen my previous post ? It is impossible to download new firmware.

It is OK now.

 

[SpikeSpiegel03]

Yes, thanks a lot. I will test that ASAP.

 

[ruilong]

By the way, can you tell me where and what is the size of the ROM you used?- When you said you can not save the game?

Here we got some customers have the ROMs have customize which will caused the size is not with the original one.

Thanks.

 

[KingBlank]

UNRELATED :

Just thought I would let the K1 team know that this thread has finally persuaded me to buy a K101,
Its nice to see the manufacturers actually helping with the problems of the consumers.
Ive found this rare among many flashcart teams, even though its not really a flashcart.

 

[SpikeSpiegel03]

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Problem is still there. I have lost my savestates.

I have tested with these two roms:
Rom Info:
Internal Name: MARIO KART
Serial: AGB-AMKP-EUR
Version: 1.0
Crc32: 20025842
Complement: FD
Size: 32 Mbit
Save: TypeFlash v124 - 512 kbit

Internal Name: GBAZELDA
Serial: AGB-AZLP-EUR
Version: 1.0
Crc32: 5A164321
Complement: 7F
Size: 64 Mbit
Save: TypeEeprom v122 - 64 kbit

Informations comes from http://www.advanscene.com/.

First, i was playing with mario kart, it seems working (play, save, shutdown, restart). After that i started zelda, save in game and shutdown the device with Power button. I launched zelda but save has disappeared. I launched mario kart save also lost. All savestates destroyed.

Maybe there is a problem with this kind of save "Eeprom v122 - 64 kbit". But why all my savestates were destroyed (also mario kart) ? (this is not normal)