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[kompact]

I need some help figuring out why I can't get SMSAdvance to run.

Here is what I have for hardware:
White NDSL Flashed with v7
Supercard CF 1.63
1 GB CF Card

Here is what I have for S/W and what I have tried to get it to work:
http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/download/SMSAdvance20Bin.zip
I ran "SMSAdvance.exe" then did the following:





Below are the files I then have, I copied the whole folder to my SC CF and tried running the .gba files, one black screens and the other gives me some garballed gfx. I also tried renaming one of them to gamename.ds.nds that of course just white screens on me because this needs to run in GBA mode.



This is what happens when I run it in GBA mode. I get the GBA splash screen with sound as normal, then the screen turns to artifacts for 3 seconds, then goes black.  I made a little video with my crappy camera that will give you an idea if that explanation is not clear.

Low Res Video (2MB .avi)

[zektor]

SMSAdvance created the output file "SMS.GBA". You must run the SC patcher and patch this file to your SC. No need or reason to copy the whole SMSadvance folder....you just need the rom you created! BTW, you can add more than one SMS game to the rom, but just keep the whole output rom smaller than 32MB, or it won;t work. As for patching, everybody will say "you don't patch homebrew". Well, when  it comes to GBA homebrew, yeah, you do.

[kompact]

That did the job Zek, thanks for your help. Last Dec when I got into this scene you were one of the guys who helped me the most, I appreciate you always being willing to take the time to answer questions = ]