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A device for reading game ROMs, backing up & restoring saves and flashing re-writable flash carts for GB, GBC and GBA carts from your PC via USB. Jump on our Discord server (http://discord.gg/X2wS8eh). License CC-BY-NC-SA
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Additional boards #7

Closed Necrosaro420 closed 4 years ago

Necrosaro420 commented 5 years ago

Heya, I don't see a way to send a message, so I am hoping you see it here. I have some PCB scans of 4 GBA games. Maybe you can add support for them? I know 2 will erase/write, but 2 others won't (The Mother 3 and Fire Emblem boards there) https://ibb.co/nnzVqA Thanks!

Necrosaro420 commented 5 years ago

gbacarts

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Hi there, would you be able to provide the chip numbers on the 2 flash carts that don't work and also a link to where you purchased them from? Thanks

Necrosaro420 commented 5 years ago

Sounds good, ill get them over to ya soon. Will be hard to figure out where they came from specifically. I do know they were off either alibaba or aliexpress. Ill see if I can track down those links for ya.

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

Could you take a look at this one too? I found a GBA that doesn't work, it's a recently bought copy.

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A s29gl128n10tfi01 chip datasheet.

Bought on eBay.

Necrosaro420 commented 5 years ago

Sorry totally forgot about this, I will get them to ya soon.

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insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

I've ordered the s29gl128n board.

Have you tried flashing it with all the GBA cart options? If so, what happens?

Could you try this flash id query program and let me know the output - https://shop.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/gbxcart_rw_flasher_v1.16_flash_id_check.zip

The output will look like this, we are just checking to see if the flash id command returns anything different from the read rom result: flashid

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

Here you go: Capture

I went ahead and tried all three 32 MByte IC settings. None of them worked, all stalled before even getting started.

MSP55LV128/M got started but both stalled part way through. 29GL128EHMC also got started but stalled part way through. Nothing else worked.

If you could look at this one too. It seems like it may have the same chip as one of Necros cards.

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Capture

M36L0R706/(2) both just barely got started, and then stalled. All other settings stalled before even getting started.

Is there any thing else I can try to help out?

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately that Intel based flash cart doesn't seem to work for me, I can only get as far as erasing sectors. Writing seems to return a ok response but nothing is actually written.

I've included more debug information, lets see where it stops - https://www.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GBxCart_RW_Console_Flasher_v1.16_s29gl128.zip

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

The .exe cmd window from the "GBxCart_RW_Console_Flasher_v1.16_s29gl128" zip does not stay open and immediately closes. The regular cmd flasher and the flash ID exe you sent work fine, cmd stays open. GBxCart is plugged in, with and without cart.

Anything I should be doing to keep the cmd window open?

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Oh sorry, could you drag and drop your rom file to it.

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

It finishes doing what its doing after 10 min and closes. The game has nothing playable on it when used.

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

If you read back the rom, does it contain any data that was written? You can compare the files by using a hex editor like HxD.

Received the Pokemon Emerald cart, as the listing ended I tried to find a similar one but unfortunately it was a M29W128 chip.

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

For the 4455LLBQO chip, one user reported it working using: https://shop.insidegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GBxCart_RW_Console_Flasher_v1.16_256L30B_v8.zip

For the S29GL128 chip, could you re-run the flashing program but can you stop it before it reaches address 0x10000, then power cycle and read the header to see if the game title changed? Could just be that the erase sector covers more than 0x10000.

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

That file you sent works for my mother GBA game cartridge.

As for the Pokemon game, I stopped the flash and the game title changed to my roms name.

I also used HxD to compare the file against the read back from after a full flash attempt. They are very different. Not the same at all,

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Another user has reported that option 21 on the console flash worked for the S29GL128 cart. How large of a rom file were you flashing to it? Maybe try a 4 or 8MB rom file.

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

Option 21 from the console flasher stalls somewhere between 2 and 7 hashtags with my 4 meg game. Namco Museum.gba

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The Console_Flasher_v1.16_s29gl128.zip file is the one that didn't work, but looked like it did.

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Could you please try option 21 again with the latest console flasher v1.17

PandaUnit-TWL commented 5 years ago

That worked.

Liriel-666 commented 5 years ago

i have 2 Cards to submit

Nr 1 from Zelda ALTTP + 4 Swords IMG_20190824_190002 IMG_20190824_182840

the Little Chip has that on it: M29W640 ST (Logo) GB6AZA6 99A9C VS MYS 99 205

i test all Board Settings but nothing work. I found in https://flashcartdb.com/index.php/Main_Page the boardname BX2006 TSOPBGA 0106 but nothing to it in the Flasher or Interface.

The Other is this IMG_20190824_190033 IMG_20190824_190039 IMG_20190824_190054

I see a Spansion S29GL128N10TFI01 on it but i can only write on it with the MSP55LV128M setting. But nothing can be Save. I but a full Battery on the 2 Pin but nothing in Sram Saves.

I hope there can be help

Liriel-666 commented 5 years ago

the first has

GBxCart RW Flasher v1.16 by insideGadgets ######################################## Connected on COM port: 14

      Read ROM: 0x2E, 0x0, 0x0, 0xEA, 0x24, 0xFF, 0xAE, 0x51,

Flash ID (AAA, A9): 0x20, 0x0, 0x7D, 0x22, 0x0, 0x0, 0x8, 0x0, Flash ID (AAA, AA): 0x2E, 0x0, 0x0, 0xEA, 0x24, 0xFF, 0xAE, 0x51, Flash ID (555, A9): 0x2E, 0x0, 0x0, 0xEA, 0x24, 0xFF, 0xAE, 0x51, Flash ID (555, AA): 0x2E, 0x0, 0x0, 0xEA, 0x24, 0xFF, 0xAE, 0x51, Finished

the Second show that GBxCart RW Flasher v1.16 by insideGadgets ######################################## Connected on COM port: 14

      Read ROM: 0x0, 0x0, 0xBF, 0xB, 0xEB, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0,

Flash ID (AAA, A9): 0x2, 0x0, 0x10, 0x10, 0x55, 0x4, 0xC0, 0x0, Flash ID (AAA, AA): 0x2E, 0x0, 0xD7, 0x1F, 0x0, 0x1F, 0x43, 0x14, Flash ID (555, A9): 0x2E, 0x0, 0xD7, 0x1F, 0x0, 0x1F, 0x43, 0x14, Flash ID (555, AA): 0x2E, 0x0, 0xD7, 0x1F, 0x0, 0x1F, 0x43, 0x14, Finished

I knew that the second is minimum a 16MB Card because i install Mother 3 on it

insidegadgets commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

You should jump on our discord server: http://discord.gg/X2wS8eh

For the first cart, does the existing game get erased? For the second cart, have you tried to restore 64KB of a save file, then read it back and compare the two?

If you have trouble saving: Most clone carts only come with SRAM, sometimes without a battery. If your game saves to an EEPROM or Flash then it won’t work on unless you patch it to use SRAM, the GBATA program seems to work well for this as reported by some users. If the cart you have doesn’t have a spot for a battery, then you will need to patch that game to save back to the flash. Check what save type your game uses here - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mamedev/mame/master/hash/gba.xml

Liriel-666 commented 5 years ago

Hi

to the First. I think that the rom is ereased but i think not full. Because the nintendo tag comes on booting and then white Screen. I test 3 of this boards

i try everything with the second card. Games with sram save. Games with sram save after patch through Gbata. Rom with Flash save Rom with eeprom save.

All with Battery installed because these 2 points are for the battery.

save the save and restore it doesnt work.

I give up that board. I use it now for games without save function like r-typ 3