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Arrrgh! Saving NDS -- how?

Started by monkeyboy, January 14, 2006, 08:36:23 PM

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monkeyboy

I have a SC+CF, and I have the latest FlashMe firmware installed.  Everything works great, except for NDS saves.  None of the games seem to keep their save data!  Can someone help me?

I'm using "Super Card V2.42 for CF Version" to patch the roms.  For GBA stuff it works fine, including the properties dialog.  But when I put in a NDS, all of the columns (Compress, Save, Cheat, Restart) read "No."  Patch is the only one with a "Yes."  When I right-click the game and select properties, I get a weird dialog with hardly any text and two sets of radio buttons, and everything is disabled.

From what I can tell, this dialog is supposed to let me make it patch the NDS file so that it will save to the CF card, but it isn't letting me.  Is there some trick?

Also, what's up with www.supercard.cn?  I can't get there to see if there's a newer version of the software or something.

Help would be MOST appreciated.

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monkeyboy

Koji

Quote from: "monkeyboy"I have a SC+CF, and I have the latest FlashMe firmware installed.  Everything works great, except for NDS saves.  None of the games seem to keep their save data!  Can someone help me?

I'm using "Super Card V2.42 for CF Version" to patch the roms.  For GBA stuff it works fine, including the properties dialog.  But when I put in a NDS, all of the columns (Compress, Save, Cheat, Restart) read "No."  Patch is the only one with a "Yes."  When I right-click the game and select properties, I get a weird dialog with hardly any text and two sets of radio buttons, and everything is disabled.

From what I can tell, this dialog is supposed to let me make it patch the NDS file so that it will save to the CF card, but it isn't letting me.  Is there some trick?

Also, what's up with www.supercard.cn?  I can't get there to see if there's a newer version of the software or something.

Help would be MOST appreciated.

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monkeyboy

Right click your DS games in the patcher, change it to save to CF card. You should get a DSQ or DSI file as well as a .sav file. Make sure both are on your CF card when you try to play. The game should automatically save to CF with no special button presses required.

monkeyboy

Quote from: "Koji"Right click your DS games in the patcher, change it to save to CF card. You should get a DSQ or DSI file as well as a .sav file. Make sure both are on your CF card when you try to play. The game should automatically save to CF with no special button presses required.

The problem is that the properties dialog doesn't seem to work.  Here are some screen shots that ought to show what I mean.




Thanks for the info, though.  Does this mean there's something wrong with my patcher?

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monkeyboy

Koji

You have an old version of the patcher. Go to www.supercard.cn and download the latest one.

If you want in the mean time, check the second option on both dialogues. That will enable direct loading and saving from the CF card.

monkeyboy

Aha!  www.supercard.nu is apparently down (?), so I couldn't check there.  But fortunately 2.44 is mirrored here.

That fixed everything.  Thanks a lot for your help.

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monkeyboy