Cannot Save Games At All

[bruceg]

I would wait for the next hardware announcements, detailing all the technical specifications.  The overall trend has been that the newer products have been cheaper/better than the previous generation (so hopefully this will hold true for all the versions of mk4).

BruceG

[ZippyDSMlee]

I hvae noticed soemthign on my setup,it hates sram saves but if I halve a sram save it has a higher chance to hold save info 0_o
it works fine for flash save tpye games 0_o

I take it the XG flash kit with a slim loader3 just for GBA stuff would be as iffy?

[bruceg]

If you are referring to the XG2 Pro software, then yes, it is very similar to Neomax, but no harm trying it out, if you haven't already...

Link is in the neomax guide

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,1489.0.html

BruceG

[ZippyDSMlee]

No not tried it yet *L*
But it is odd that  my cart hates SRAM saves I was thinking it could be the loader but I have been saveing fine on Zone of enders and to add to the oddness Mega Man Zero saves fine in fact I have both going on the cart and both save fine 0-o I have Metroid fusion on the cart as well and its save coruprts and dies I take it thats becuse the sowftware is not running Sram and all of its revsions at 100%,so my cart might have a damaged save aera plus buggy sram supprt and you have 20% chance to save with sram?

whitch do you think is more likely the loader going bad and not fully writeing to the cart or the cart being bad enough not to run right?
I know this is a Neo product form and you might not like to talk about other products and thats fine if thats mabye I can PM you a simple question but it seems my question is easy to answer saveing is 70ish% for 80ish% of all GBA games for most  GBA flash carts ,so whatever I get may or  may not work better 0-o
I just gave myself a headache *L* thinking to much dose hurt *L*

[bruceg]

It's really hard for me to make an educated guess in your particular situation..  My only observation is that more people have reported problems with the Slimloader going bad (for what that's worth).

I'm sure you have seen the neo2 flashcart annoucement by now.  Since gba saving on the older neoflash cart is not 100% reliable (even when it's working correctly), I'm waiting to see how much the neo2 is going to cost (I think the saving mechanism will be MUCH improved as well)

BruceG

[ZippyDSMlee]

Ok,anyway it seems that I missed soemthign in all my save atemps,and that was going back to the SMS program and saveing/backign up the "save".
Its always soemthign thats easly missed 0-o ,flash games tho seem to save "normaly" and I was wondering if there are any save type converter programs I found soemthing that changes everythign to Sram but Sram is the problem *L*
least I think I understand my kit and have it working now the loader is still the most fickle USB device I have ran across but at least XGpro wont write to it if the connection is not perfect,you guys need to make a save guide for noobs mabye we wont hi jack other threads in a desprte attemp for help *L*

In order to keep a save for 90% of games you need to "soft" reset back to the loader on the cart and backup the SMS of the game you just saved,SMS hit start,then delet old SMS of the game.

Since I was not useing the SMS to backup saves I guess I was lucky to get as many games to save as I did *L*

I got to say you guys are very helpfull and understanding of newbies but I wouldnt be suprised if I got baned for all the trouble I brought *L*

[bruceg]

Glad to hear it's working more or less... It's still a little strange that you need to soft reset in order to remember the save.

Using the neomax loader, when I turn off the ds and turn it back on, it always ask me whether I want to backup the save..  If I say yes, then the save is stored properly in the 'default' save location.  It seems to remember the save for quite some time....

BruceG

[ZippyDSMlee]

XGpro
in order to "keep" a save I have to save it in game then soft reset to the SMS then backup the SMS as in create a new SMS.
doing it that way it keps the save,haveing it save it to the default save dosent work

Neomax
If I can get the game to run,I save it ingame then soft reset to SMS,creat a new SMS of the game and it well keep it for 5 min then it dissapers 0-o
I mean realy its the damnest thing 0-o

[capedavenger1]

Just checked a 512 Neo-cart with SL3 and SL4,with Neo-Max 1.9,seems fine.

I think you may have identified your problem.
Neo equipment(IMO)is easy to abuse,if you are not careful,and can be broken.
Probably,you should have gotten it new.

I see a lot of people having better luck with the back USB ports,have you tried that?

Okay I swtiched to the back usb port, for some reason I cannot get the "Neo Power Kit 1.9" software to "do" anything,  tell me what to do as far as "starting from scratch" using this software, I've used the xgpro software and the neo max software (latest versions) and can at least burn roms to the flash cart, but I can get the power kit software to do anything.
In the ROM list in neo power kit, I have "DSBOOTER". I highlight it and click "Save Selected" and it says at the bottom of screen "reading c:\dir1\DSbooter[current date].gba " and it stays at zero percent and the little slash is spining right next to it, but it always stays at zero percent, and no read or write light on the slim loader 3, I got it to save a 256k size file on my PC called dir2.nsf, is that a SRAM saver file?

[capedavenger1]

XGpro
in order to "keep" a save I have to save it in game then soft reset to the SMS then backup the SMS as in create a new SMS.
doing it that way it keps the save,haveing it save it to the default save dosent work

Neomax
If I can get the game to run,I save it ingame then soft reset to SMS,creat a new SMS of the game and it well keep it for 5 min then it dissapers 0-o
I mean realy its the damnest thing 0-o

Okay, a dumb question, how do ya soft reset?

[bruceg]

In XGPro, it's 'start+select+L+R' as I recall...  That same command didn't seem to work for me in neo-max (at least when I remember testing it a while back).

Have you tried the latest NPK 2.3???  You can get that in the Neo Announcements section.  They reworked some of the detection routines, and that version seems to have the highest compatibility so far....

Someone else may be able to confirm, but I recall reading that the SRAM restore feature may still be buggy in NPK....

BruceG

[ZippyDSMlee]

I am useing Neo power kit 2.2 SL3,it runs best but if I can find the right usb spot I can get XGpro and Neomax to burn without locking up,Neomax seems bugy for me some things NKP and XG run fine have troubles on NM.
As for the USB ports I try ALL of them it seems to hate Motherboard USB the most but I have a few mobos to paly with *L* but I still have to play with it on the USB port change cords try the hub to get it to work without locking up.

NM also cant keep some SMS saves prehaps my loader is fickle enough add neomaxs basic writeing abilty and you get fickleness desu *L* no bad


SOft reset is start,select,L,R and this works for both Neomax and XG ,NPK dosent have a SMS program so the games either save or overwrite eachothers save if they save.

Going to test XG pro 1.0 6 again to make sure it was keeping stuff,haveing to softreset and save the SMS is not to bad least I know it keeps it and with doing it that way I can run multi roms without the worry of it writeing over another games save,at least for games that are Sram flash seems to save regardless.