Hacking the Settlers and 1.1.2

[samsoule]

Hi there .
i'm crazy enough to upgrade my ds-x to 1.1.2

so i was wondering if the settlers saves correctly using the 1.1.2 FW ...

Anyone tried ?
thx

 

[Jawas]

I tried the game, went to free play played a little, saved, quit, played dif game, reloaded settlers, loaded game perfectly on the latest 1.1.2 if this helps.

 

[samsoule]

thx that's exactly what I wanted to know .

 

[loathsome]

No problems here!

 

[Dkjr83]

Wait... so saving does work? My file was corrupted. I'm going to have to try it again.

 

[Dkjr83]

Just tried again and I can confirm that, at least for me, the save file becomes corrupt. It's the same issue I experience with Theme Park.

 

[loathsome]

When does it become corrupt? What do you do?

 

[Dkjr83]

When I play another game and then play Settlers again. I know there is a thread about the same problem I'm having. I believe the problem is listed as being the same one pokemon ranger had.

 

[loathsome]

Hm, I don't reckon I have this problem, but I'll investigate a bit on it now - for you

 

[loathsome]

Okay, are you using FW 1.1.2? I tried out the following

Running FW 1.0.0 (I think)
a) Staring a new Theme Park save, and save it.
b) Start Mario Kart and save.
c) Starting Theme Park: Save corrupt.

Running FW 1.1.2
a) Starting a new Theme Park save, and save it
b) Starting Mario KArt and save.
c) Starting Theme Park again: No problems.

So if you're running

 

[Dkjr83]

I'll have to test it out, and yeah, Theme park does take a long time to save. Settlers takes a while as well. It looks like there's only one save slot for free games as well. Still an awesome game though.

 

[loathsome]

Test out what? Aren't you running 1.1.2? Well, that's your problem then.

 

[Dkjr83]

Test it on 1.0. I tried it on an earlier firmware though, and it still did the same thing. Maybe you've just got a lucky cart (or I have an unlucky one).

 

[kazumi213]

Anybody using latest FW 1.1.2, please try the following:

1. Play Settlers (i.e. Freeplay game) and save.
2. Play Pokemon (D or P) and save.
3. Play Settlers and try to load your previous save.

 

[samsoule]

Well i've tried and it corrupted my game save (1.1.2).

So I downgraded to 1.1.0 (no need for 10 minutes "eeprom saving" if it get corrupted).
I wonder when they will release a good new firmware ...

I guess we will always have those long eeprom saves on the future firmwares and, in that case, I 'll buy a brand new flashcart from a serious team .

 

[kazumi213]

Thanks for your help samsoule

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Sadly you're going to get the same corruption error using FW 1.1.0 unless you uncompress your Settlers save before "Step 3". Of course this is just a workaround until "DS-X team" decide to include an user option to use uncompressed saves or fix their crappy "EEPROM engine" once and for all.

I would be interested in the results for the "experiment" in my previous post from jawas or loathsome (they claim no save corruption issues for Settlers on FW 1.1.2). Using Pokemon D/P before playing again Settlers matters, because of Pokemon save size.

 

[hp sauce]

Anybody using latest FW 1.1.2, please try the following:

1. Play Settlers (i.e. Freeplay game) and save.
2. Play Pokemon (D or P) and save.
3. Play Settlers and try to load your previous save.

1. Saved & loaded a campaign game fine.
2. Both save and load fine.
3. See (1).

I'll take some vids if you'd rather not take the word of a bloke with 1 post

 

[samsoule]

Uncompressing saves everytime i want to use it?
it sounds quite annoying !