Pokemon Blazing Emerald Freezing

[FreeUnblockedGames]

Pokemon Blazing Emerald is Freezing on GBArunner2 on my DSi. It shows a white screen at the top, and a black screen at the bottom. It works on visual boy advance; a GBA emulator on PC, so it's not the ROM. A patching .txt file says, "Side note, if you are running the game on Visual Boy Advance and the screen is white upon loading the ROM, go to Options > Emulator > Save Type > and select "Flash 128k." Close and re-open the emulator, then load the ROM again." I thought this might be a problem, but I can't find a setting for it. I tried asking people on Reddit and Discord, but some suggested to open up an issue. Thanks.

[SnowPhoenix]

Hello! I was one of the people that suggested it might be worth opening an issue here to check into this and see whether it's feasible to fix or not, but there's a bit more that I also think is worth mentioning:

• One issue seems to have something to do with the RTC, as mGBA throws a bunch of "Invalid RTC command byte: 00" messages in its log, and patching Emerald with the "No RTC" patch rather than the normal patch results in the game successfully booting in GBARunner2.
• Despite the No RTC version booting in the Emerald-compatible builds of GBARunner2, it unfortunately hangs on a black screen after selecting "New Game" on the older 3M build for DS-mode or just slightly after when Birch calls out a Pokémon on the DSi version (which in my case I ran through TWiLight Menu++ 16.3.0 launched via Memory Pit on a stock DSi). Turning off caching options and/or including the GBA BIOS seem to have no effect on these crashes, unfortunately.
• In addition to working on emulators, the same patched ROM also works without the above issues on open_agb_firm, which is the closest option I had to testing on real hardware, and ultimately why I suggested it might be worth opening an issue here.
• I've read a bit more since the suggestion to post an issue and saw something about hicode causing issues with 32MB ROMs, so I'm wondering if that explains the issue with the 3M build. Even if that's the case, however, it shouldn't be a problematic factor in DSi/3DS builds newer than this one, right? (As I'm typing this, I just now realized that the version bundled with TWiLight Menu++ 16.3.0 is older than that version, but I just tried downloading and running this build like an ordinary .nds file in TWiLight Menu++ and the results are still the same as the ones described earlier.)

[FreeUnblockedGames]

Okay thanks! Should I close the issue? Edit: nvm i shouldnt

[zenseii]

@SnowPhoenix It seems you tested the 6e4ce45 build as if it was from the hicode branch although it's from the Master branch. The hybrid hicode build that should be more compatible with ROMhacks is this one: https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/releases/tag/v20200812-130512_d5dc8d8

[JesusChrist2004]

@SnowPhoenix It seems you tested the 6e4ce45 build as if it was from the hicode branch although it's from the Master branch. The hybrid hicode build that should be more compatible with ROMhacks is this one: https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/releases/tag/v20200812-130512_d5dc8d8

hiya! i tried that build and got the error "SCFG Locked!".

[qahellokitty5947]

Pokemon Blazing Emerald is Freezing on GBArunner2 on my DSi. It shows a white screen at the top, and a black screen at the bottom. It works on visual boy advance; a GBA emulator on PC, so it's not the ROM. A patching .txt file says, "Side note, if you are running the game on Visual Boy Advance and the screen is white upon loading the ROM, go to Options > Emulator > Save Type > and select "Flash 128k." Close and re-open the emulator, then load the ROM again." I thought this might be a problem, but I can't find a setting for it. I tried asking people on Reddit and Discord, but some suggested to open up an issue. Thanks.

now that it still goes in mGBA3DS or mGBA with a RTC Save??