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mikeryan / ems-flasher

EMS Flasher for the GB USB smart card 64M GameBoy flash cartridge
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GBC ROM flashing leads to logo lockup(Nintend-) #16

Closed SjorsVanGelderen closed 7 years ago

SjorsVanGelderen commented 8 years ago

It seems that whenever I try to flash any GBC ROM the cartridge is unable to start either on a Game Boy Light or a Game Boy Color. The Nintendo logo is incomplete and locks. This happens with all GBC ROMs I've tested so far. I think it may be related to the menu ROM for GBCs. I don't have this issue when there are only GB ROMs on the cartridge. Flashing seems to be successful, no error messages even with the --verbose option.

ghost commented 8 years ago

I don't experiment this issue. Have you tried the latest version? as it contains a fix to the menu to issue #14 that is may be related to your problem. Don't forget to type make to update all variants of the menu with the fix.

SjorsVanGelderen commented 8 years ago

I've cloned the repository anew, installed according to the instructions, but the issue remains. Different GBC ROMs from different sources were tried. None actually work. I've also confirmed that regular GB ROMs work properly even with the Game Boy Color as is to be expected.

Dumping the ROM with --read and then loading that with an emulator just opens the menu with every entry saying MENU; the GBC ROM doesn't appear in the menu(probably because that would require the actual cartridge hardware).

The --title command shows that the GBC ROM is actually present, though.

ghost commented 8 years ago

You can test the dump with BGB. This emulator emulates the EMS card but you'll need to set the title to 'GB16M': rgbfix -v -tGB16M image.gb (rgbfix is part of RGBDS).

Also, what you could try:

Delete all ROMS with the exception of the GBC menu and see if the menu is launching.

Flash a GBC ROM directly without a menu. You'll have to compile a older version of ems-flasher, without multi-ROM support (commit d90fa3f).

After that, we will have to determine where the problem occurs by modifying the menu

Edit: BGB is a Windows program but work well with Wine

SjorsVanGelderen commented 7 years ago

Actually some ROMs seem to be working correctly. I will reopen the issue if I can find the source of the problem.