VisualBoy Advance Save Problems

[Haldrie]

@Pipukas

You are suppose to set it to Automatic/64K and let the vba-over.ini file handle the 128K games as setting it to 128K will corrupt games that use 64K Flash. Also you have to delete your existing save file in order for the new changes to take effect. Yes this means you will loose the progress you've made so far but until someone makes a program to fix these saves there isn't much you can do.

 

@pokefreak

You have to delete (or backup) your current save file. This is the .sav file that VBA created when you started the game and is found in the same folder as the rom by default. I modified my VBA's settings so that all of my saves are put in a single folder in the same directory as VBA titles 'saves' so that I can manage them easier. As long as the rom and save are named the same they will load together.

 

[EDIT]

Also my vba-over.ini file is in a zip file so you have to extract it and put it in the same folder as the VBA executable.

Edited June 1, 2007 by Haldrie

[unclebilljr]

I was reading a few pages back that there was a way to fix corropt battery save that had been ips patched. Well i didnt use battery save i only used save states and up to elite for. but what if a ips patched it to make battery save work then use the method described about a page or two ago.

 

By the way my pokemon fire red rom is unpatched if that wasnt clear

Edited June 2, 2007 by unclebilljr

[Haldrie]

I was reading a few pages back that there was a way to fix corropt battery save that had been ips patched. Well i didnt use battery save i only used save states and up to elite for. but what if a ips patched it to make battery save work then use the method described about a page or two ago.

 

By the way my pokemon fire red rom is unpatched if that wasnt clear

I've already answered this question here:

http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php...st&p=225884

[jens91]

Hey.

 

I have read all the earlier posts, and it seems i have a similar problem as monkey-d-luffy. I have the rescue team something something and can't save. i have dled your ini file and put it in the folder with my vba. I have even renamed the code for my particular game, because it's european. I have also tried to start a new game and saved, but it still doesn't work. Oh, and I have used state save or whatever. I'm not so good with the codes and stuff you know...

[jens91]

Aha! Nvm.. I made it work:D

[Haldrie]

Aha! Nvm.. I made it work:D

What was wrong?

[Nazo]

Try to download again the rom and another version of VBA i guess it will work but i'm not sure

[Agozer]

Try to download again the rom and another version of VBA i guess it will work but i'm not sure

The problem was already solved.

[Salokin]

Hey.

 

I have read all the earlier posts, and it seems i have a similar problem as monkey-d-luffy. I have the rescue team something something and can't save. i have dled your ini file and put it in the folder with my vba. I have even renamed the code for my particular game, because it's european. I have also tried to start a new game and saved, but it still doesn't work. Oh, and I have used state save or whatever. I'm not so good with the codes and stuff you know...

 

yeah I'm having the same problem, I made the vba-over file and put in the same folder, game still says save failed when I try and save.

[Haldrie]

Did you delete the old .sav file? VBA will still try to use the same save setting that was used in the .sav file it loads not matter what setting you have set. This includes the vba-over.ini file settings. Delete the .sav file the goes with the game you're trying to save in and try again.

[Salokin]

hmmm alright, lets see how that works

 

 

10 min later:

no luck, still says save failed and I deleted the .sav file, I'll try re-downloading the game I guess, rombomb has been faithful to me so far on roms so this should work too... the saved states wouldn't have any effect would they?

Edited July 17, 2007 by Salokin

[Haldrie]

The save states will prevent you from continuing to play after you beat the Elite Four becaue the game has to reset and load yoru in-game battery save and if there is none to load (or if it can't save to begin with) then the game is basically over for you. If you use a save state now there is no way to make a battery save from it so all your hard work will be for nothing as a lot of people have found out the hard way already.

 

Are you sure you have the vba-over.ini in the right folder and extracted from the zip file it's in? Also, are you using the US version as that is the only version in the vba-over.ini file on page 2 of this topic.

[Salokin]

darn... ohwell, just two hours, and I don't think Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue has any elite four XP... does it? You're farther than me no doubt. I'll have to check on the vba-over thing I guess, shoot I'll just make a list of things to do tomorrow for this thing. Gah I'm so hopeless on my dreams of ever becoming a game designer.

 

 

 

Holy crap yes it worked! hehe tons-o-thanks Haldrie *huggles*

Edited July 18, 2007 by Salokin

[Haldrie]

darn... ohwell, just two hours, and I don't think Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue has any elite four XP... does it? You're farther than me no doubt. I'll have to check on the vba-over thing I guess, shoot I'll just make a list of things to do tomorrow for this thing. Gah I'm so hopeless on my dreams of ever becoming a game designer.

 

 

 

Holy crap yes it worked! hehe tons-o-thanks Haldrie *huggles*

Good to hear you got it working. Also, Red Rescue Team does do a reset thing and after that a whole bunch of new things open up such as the ability to evolve.

[sameer]

hey guys ma name is sameer!! i am new bie here ... i justed read all the tutorials in this thread about save problem, i started playing pokemon fire red today and got the folowing problem ...hope u could help me out...

 

When the game first starts, i get the message:

 

"The 1-M Circuit Board is not Installed"

 

if i actually try to save the game with the in-game save option, it says "Save error. Please exchange the backup memory"

 

i have followed all the procedure given above and created a vba-over.ini file and kept in the same location as my VisualBoyAdvance.exe is kept...

 

i have checked my Game Code, with the my rom and made my vba-over.ini file perfect but i get the same error as explained above ..can any one help me..

 

my vba-over.ini file is located vba-over.ini file

 

thanxs sameer