I recently bought an Acekard 2i the replace that original R4 (very first version) crap.
The problem:
I was playing LoZ:ST through YsMenu and therefore I had a 512KB .sav
We know that the save for LoZ:ST is 1MB.
I had already played quite a lot and didn't want to restart from the beginning.
I'm using AKIO 1.5 and the clean dump (unpatched) on the Acekard.
I tried to put the 512KB .sav on the Acekard, telling it the save is 8Mb (1MB):
The 512KB .sav was replaced by a blank 1MB .sav and lost all my progress.
Here the solution that worked for me:
I just concatenated 2 copies of my 512KB .sav into a 1MB .sav
The very simple way to do it under windows:
- copy your 512K.sav to whatever directory on your HDD (let's assume the name is My512KSav.sav, replace with the name you have)
- get a command line (start -> run -> cmd)
- go to the dir where your .sav is
- now copy your 512KB .sav into a new 1MB .sav (notice the '+' sign):
Code:
COPY /B My512KSav.sav+My512KSav.sav MyNew1MBSav.sav
- you now have a 1MB .sav named MyNew1MBSav.sav
- this this new save to your Acekard with the same name a the .nds file
It worked for me !
For linux users:
Code:
cat My512KSav.sav My512KSav.sav > MyNew1MBSav.sav
Note: to ensure the second slot works I copied (using the game menu) the first slot onto the second (dunno if necessary)