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A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
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Issue loading rom file in Goomba Color #804

Open nickdesaulniers opened 3 years ago

nickdesaulniers commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug When I go to load the hello world example tutorial project rom on my EZ Flag Omega cart, I get an error message:

No ROMS found!
Use Goomba Front
to build a compilation ROM,
or use Pogoshell with a
supported flash cartridge.
Goomba Color 12-14-14

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Build the tutorial project
  2. Open it on the flash cart

Expected behavior ROM opens, plays as it would in the emulator.

Platform (please complete the following information):

Additional context I'm sure my build of Goomba Color is out of date or something; figured I'd post the error message so it can get indexed. Maybe someone will have seen this before. Just curious, since other GB/GBC ROMs seem to work.

nickdesaulniers commented 3 years ago

Same with the demo project from v2.0.0-beta4.

RichardULZ commented 3 years ago

Thanks for using the issue reporting template!

Your steps to reproduce are very short, i would have expected at least

  1. Export .gb rom from gbstudio with the template project
  2. Open goombafront to convert the .gb rom
  3. Convert/failed to convert?
  4. Place converted goobacolor rom on flashcart
  5. Open on the gba flash cart and see error?

Perhaps you misunderstood how goobacolor works? I don't think it can use straight .gb/.gbc roms on the flash cart, you convert them with goombafront, as the error mentions.

Also to note, gb studio 2.0beta5 is out in the releases page, lots of new stuff.

nickdesaulniers commented 3 years ago

I don't think it can use straight .gb/.gbc roms on the flash cart, you convert them with goombafront, as the error mentions.

Perhaps, though this is curious; most of my .gb/.gbc roms actually work just fine on Goomba Color. Not all do, but the point is I've never used "Goomba Front" ever and yet most roms seem to work just fine.

RichardULZ commented 3 years ago

Huh, there's an article on gbstudio central for it https://gbstudiocentral.com/tips/the-goomba-color-emulator/

The main intention is to make a gba rom that has everything packed in, so it can be run from any cart, not just flash carts.

Though it seems to have unmentioned shell support, there might be some presets built in to goombacolor to run common roms? Or maybe it's looking for the .gbc extension? not sure.

Either way, the error message would like you to use goombafront, hopefully it solves your issue and this issue can be closed.