How do I use VBA?

[HCTM]

All I get is a white screen for like 10 minutes. Please tell me how.

 

[Agozer]

What game are you trying to run + are you using a BIOS? Chances are that your rom is corrupt.

 

[snesmaster40]

Yeah it's probably a bad rom, as you don't really need the BIOS to play games

 

[Clements]

Could be an incorrect save type as well.

 

[HCTM]

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]

Sorry? I don't understand the last sentence

 

[Agozer]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

No. It only affects the games that have saving issues.

 

[HCTM]

No. It only affects the games that have saving issues.

Ok thanks.

 

[ShadowDamien]

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]

I have never had any issues with the save states in Visual Boy Advance.

Not save states. In-game saves (SRAM).