Hacking Save file not founded

[loathsome]

Hey there,

Just got my DSTT, and it's working perfectly so far except for two games (so far) that I've tested: GRID and Professor Layton and the Curious Village. When I try to boot those games I get

[Rom loading failed]

savefiled not founded!


Please reset system

I've tried reformatting the card both to fat16 and fat32, still no go. What is this? The card is brand new.

I highly appreciate your help, as I would really like to try out these games -- and I thought the card had a 100% compatibility rate??

-- loathsome

 

[Bri]

Does it really say "savefiled not founded" instead of "savefile not found"?

I assume you have the latest firmware?

Do you have your .nds files in a "games" folder or are they all at the root of your microSD card?

Do you have enough free space on your microSD card so that it can create save files?

-Bri

 

[loathsome]

Yes, it says "founded". I have around 3GB free space, and the roms are in a separate folder. Running the latest firmware (1.15 or whatever it is) from their website.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[loathsome]

All right, just tried using 1.14 - still no go. Reformatted another time, no go. Can somebody with this cart please try Grid (U)?

Update: This also happens with Tsumiki: The Infernal Tower (E)




I am highly disappointed over this card!

 

[loathsome]

Problem solved:

I have no idea why, but if I rename the roms and savefiles to just one-word (lowercase) it all works perfectly fine. ("Grid (U).nds") becomes ("Grid.nds"). This is weird, because other roms like "World Ends With You, The (U).nds" works just fine.

Oh well, I guess I'll just make a habit of lowercase one-word file names. Still annoying though, and I really hope this gets fixed in the next FW update.

 

[noONE]

it's a problem with very few roms, it's fixed by first booting the rom, and get that error screen,
then you could boot up DSOrganize (or just plug it in the PC) and you'll see that the save file will be in uppercase i.e "JUICED 2.SAV" instead of "Juiced 2.sav" just rename it into lowercase, and boot the game after that, now it'll work correctly..

I've had that problem with Contra 4 , and most lately Juiced 2 (+ some other game i don't remember)
it's not that big of a problem, and there's a solution, so i'm fine.

 

[Bri]

OK, yeah this happens with ROMs with filenames that have a space and are less than 8 characters long. It may also be limited to FAT16, but I'm not sure about that.

The problem is that it creates a save file with an uppercase ".SAV" extension instead of a lowercase ".sav" extension. The menu then cannot recognize the save file with the uppercase extension.

You discovered one solution: rename the .nds so that it has more than 8 characters or doesn't have any spaces.

The other solution is to rename the save file it creates so that it has a lowercase extension. This is easier said than done because often renaming the file in Windows doesn't actually rename it correctly in the file table. I believe you can use DSOrganize to rename the save file correctly.

-Bri

 

[loathsome]

Ah, superb folks. Thanks for clearing that up.

I just name my roms "FinalFantasyVII" (using the camel case method) and I'm all good.

 

[noONE]

Oh.. nice having an explanation of why it does that

also it does happen on FAT32 as well obviously, as i use that.
it's just a DSTT bug.

 

[loathsome]

That's correct. Also, I use FAT16 as it significantly speeds up the menu scrolling.

 

[Bri]

No need to change ROMs with longer filenames. If I'm not mistaken it only affects files that have 8 characters or fewer (not including the extension) and have a space in the filename.

In your case, if you remove the " (U)" part of your filenames, you'll only have trouble with "Contra 2" and a handful of others.

-Bri

 

[Mrbob2]

H E L P!!

I have 4 ttds cards, i sell them to my friends you see as they dont have the net

anyways,


my mate is coming round later to pick his up.

I just tried it and i get a black screen with

{rom loading failed}

savfile not founded!

please reset system

now i know your going to say "read above about filenames etc"

but my problem is,

my 8gb card works fine in my other ttds carts!!

so it cant be the file system that making these errors

I put my main 8gb card into this and no matter what game i selected, it loaded ridge racer!

ive formatted a spare 4gb card, put on ttds menu 1.13 and ysmenu together (previously tried 1.15) and i just get this error on both menus (ys menu also fails)

the same sandisk card in another ttds cart works fine


Does this mean i have a duff card?

sigh

 

[Bri]

If it works on every DSTT but one, I'd say you have a duff DSTT.

-Bri

 

[loathsome]

No need to hange ROMs with longer filenames. If I'm not mistaken it only affects files that have 8 characters or fewer (not including the extension) and have a space in the filename.

In your case, if you remove the " (U)" part of your filenames, you'll only have trouble with "Contra 2" and a handful of others.

-Bri

I know, I know

I just camel case every rom anyway, just to be on the safe side.

 

[RedlineV46]

I thought I would Register to express my thanks to the guy's who came up with the answers to this one

It happened to my sons DS with Fifa 09. Funny thing is, Fifa 09 worked fine for weeks and then decided it wasn't going to work any more. So changing the filename was the last thing on my mind

When ever I've had a problem with the TTDS card I google for the answer and it always brings me to gbatemp

Well Done all

 

[kaitur8]

Hi, I had the exact same problem as u guys!

Fifa 09 would not load but instead say [ROM LOADING FAIL]
savfile not founded

Please reset system

But when i changed the name of the nds. file to uppercase with underscores it worked!!

this is weird because it's the exact opposite of wat some of u have said.

 

[kennyboy86]

I thought I would Register to express my thanks to the guy's who came up with the answers to this one

It happened to my sons DS with Fifa 09. Funny thing is, Fifa 09 worked fine for weeks and then decided it wasn't going to work any more. So changing the filename was the last thing on my mind

When ever I've had a problem with the TTDS card I google for the answer and it always brings me to gbatemp

Well Done all

im having the same problem ive changed file names n still getting savfile not founded?plz help

 

[MrZeph]

I have that problem except none of my games would load I formatted, new firmware and other firmwares and nothing worked thanks for the post ill try it