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HCTM
March 27th, 2006, 14:01
All I get is a white screen for like 10 minutes. Please tell me how.
Agozer
March 27th, 2006, 15:04
What game are you trying to run + are you using a BIOS? Chances are that your rom is corrupt.
snesmaster40
March 27th, 2006, 15:57
Yeah it's probably a bad rom, as you don't really need the BIOS to play games
Clements
March 27th, 2006, 17:12
Could be an incorrect save type as well.
HCTM
March 27th, 2006, 22:19
I am trying Pokemon Fire Red and when that didn't work I tryed Leaf Green. Someone who had it WORK gave me the link to it so.... IDK.
snesmaster40
March 28th, 2006, 17:28
Sorry? I don't understand the last sentence
Agozer
March 28th, 2006, 19:30
Sorry? I don't understand the last sentence
I think he means "Someone who got it to work gave me a link to the rom..."

Or something along those lines.
Clements
March 28th, 2006, 19:34
The problem is very likely to be a save type issue (needs to be set to Automatic+128K) or a possibly a rom with hacked save type. All Pokemon games display a white screen if the save type is wrong or when a truncated (64K) save file is used.
HCTM
March 29th, 2006, 12:36
Pokemon Emerald works fine. I don't understand why if that works (including saving the game) then why wouldn't it work for Fire Red and Leaf Green?
Clements
March 29th, 2006, 12:46
The save system in VBA is flakey at best at setting the save type, so you need to do it manually in a lot of games. The vba-over.ini found in the below link may also help:

http://www.gbadat.altervista.org/dl-dat.htm

... which contains save types for all games that use one that VBA might not detect correctly.
HCTM
March 29th, 2006, 21:12
The save system in VBA is flakey at best at setting the save type, so you need to do it manually in a lot of games. The vba-over.ini found in the below link may also help:

http://www.gbadat.altervista.org/dl-dat.htm

... which contains save types for all games that use one that VBA might not detect correctly.
It won't do anything to my already saved games will it?
Clements
March 29th, 2006, 23:18
No. It only affects the games that have saving issues.
HCTM
March 29th, 2006, 23:30
No. It only affects the games that have saving issues.
Ok thanks.
ShadowDamien
March 30th, 2006, 18:23
I have never had any issues with the save states in Visual Boy Advanced.

I even use it at school when I log into diiferent computers, unlike J-nes, which can't even do that.

Meh.
Agozer
March 30th, 2006, 18:42
I have never had any issues with the save states in Visual Boy Advance.
Not save states. In-game saves (SRAM).