Hacking A thread for GBA game testing

[geenlung]

Thanks for your help. Downloading the previous 1.1 version didn't help either so I guess I'm stuck until they release a new patch.

 

[YayMii]

Can someone post a video of them getting a 16-hit combo in Mother 3? It's really hard to do in VBA (due to audio syncing problems), but I'm wondering if this is any better.

 

[Uncle FEFL]

You should definitely put the game_config.txt on the first post, and explain what it does.

Updated list if you wanna go over it again and put games that you don't have on the list, on the list.

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Working With No Problems

007: Everything or Nothing
2 Games in 1 - Power Rangers - Ninja Storm & Power Rangers - Time Force
2 Games in 1 - SpongeBob SquarePants - SuperSponge & Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
2-in-1 - Castlevania Double Pack - Harmony of Dissonance & Aria of Sorrow
2-in-1 - Crash Bandicoot Purple - Ripto's Rampage & Spyro Orange - The Cortex Conspiracy
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - Buu's Fury & GT - Transformation
2-in-1 - Golden Nugget Casino & Texas Hold'em Poker
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Stunt Track Challenge & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Hot Wheels - Velocity X & Hot Wheels - World Race
2-in-1 - Matchbox Missions
2-in-1 - Paperboy & Rampage
2-in-1 - Shark Tale & Shrek 2
2-in-1 - Spy Hunter & Super Sprint
2-in-1 - Uno & Skin Bo
2-in-1 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Gamepack - The Sacred Cards & Reshef of Destruction
3-in-1 - Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Memory
3-in-1 - Life, Yahtzee, Payday
3-in-1 - Sorry & Aggravation & Scrabble Junior
3-in-1 - Super Breakout & Lunar Lander & Millipede
3-in-1 - Pong, Asteroids, Yar's Revenge
3-in-1 - Majesco Sports Pack - Paintball Splat! & Dodgeball & Big Alley Bowling
3-in-1 - Mousetrap, Simon, Operation
Breath of Fire
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Very, very small map glitch. Goes away once full map loads)
Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku I & II (Both) [E]
Digimon Battle Spirit
Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals [J+ English Patch]
Fire Emblem
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Final Fantasy 1&2 Dawn of Souls
Final Fantasy IV (slight sound "pops" though...)
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI [E]
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town [E]
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Four Swords untested) [All regions?]
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap [All regions?]
Lunar Legends
Metroid Zero Mission
Metroid Fusion
Mario Kart Super Circuit [E]
Mother 3 [J+English Translation]
Medabots: Rokusho Version
Medabots: Metabee Version
One Piece
Pinobee: Wings of Adventure
Pokemon: Leaf Green [All regions]
Pokemon: Fire Red [All regions]
Pokemon: Ruby [All regions]
Pokemon: Sapphire [All regions]
Pokemon: Emerald [All regions]
Riviera: The Promised Land
Spyro: Season of Ice
Super Robot Taisen OG
Super Robot Taisen OG 2
Shining Forces [E]
Shaman King Master of Spirits II
Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival
Shining Force RotDD
Shining Soul II
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Tales of Phantasia [All regions]
Tekken Advance

Working With Minimal Problems

2 Games in 1 - Scooby-Doo! - Mystery Mayhem & Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase (with minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Dragon Ball Z Gamepack - The Legacy of Goku I & II (sounds are messed up game play okay)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man - Mysterio's Menace & X2 - Wolverine's Revenge (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Tony Hawk's Underground & Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (surfer suffers from jerkiness)
2-in-1 - Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2 (very minor graphical issues)
2-in-1 - Sonic Gamepack - Sonic Pinball Party & Sonic Advance (Sonic Pinball Works sonic advance is loading to gray bars)
2-in-1 - Quad Desert Fury & Monster Trucks (seems to run a little slow)
Advance Wars 1.1 (Minor graphic "hick-ups")
Advance Wars 2 (A little slow) [U, E]
Bomberman Tournament (Lags when bombs hit enemies)
Donkey Kong Contry (Slow)
Doom 1 (lag spikes occasionally) [U, E]
Golden Sun (lags during battles) [All regions]
Golden Sun 2 (glitchy movements and music) [U, E]
Konami Racers (spastic music)
Meganman Zero 2 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Megaman Zero 3 (graphical issues) [All regions]
Robopon 2: Cross Version (Resets itself occasionally)
Robopon 2: Ring Version (Same as the other Robopon)
Super Mario Advance 2 Super Mario World (Minor audio glitches)
Super Mario World (slight frameskip and button lag) [All regions?]
Sigma Star Saga (Can't see health bar)
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 2 (Slow)

Unplayable/Not Working

Banjo Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge [E]
Classic NES series [U, E]
Classic NES Super Mario Brothers [U, E]
Doom 2 [All regions?]
Dragon Ball GT: Volume 1 (GBA Video)
Earthworm Jim
Famicom Mini Series [J]
Grand Theft Auto [All regions?]
Kingdom Hearts CoM
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (item pick up and conversations are very glitchy) [All regions?]
Ninja Five
Sonic Advance
Shining Soul [E]
Super Mario Advance 3 SMB World [E]
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 [U, E]

 

[alidsl]

Cheers FEFL

Good to know that pokemon works perfectly now

 

[geenlung]

Unfortunately, my games still get stuck with the game_config.txt fix. I do get much farther with it though. Now I can (sometimes) get to the step where you name your rival in Pokemon Fire Red....then it freezes -.-

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Unfortunately, my games still get stuck with the game_config.txt fix. I do get much farther with it though. Now I can (sometimes) get to the step where you name your rival in Pokemon Fire Red....then it freezes -.-

It may still need an SRAM patching. I haven't read about any problems on the Supercard forums yet, so I'm not sure if they all work perfectly yet.

Perhaps you can also try a clean download of the ROM, or if you've got the patience, a reformat.

 

[DarkWay]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

 

[hullo8d]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

Go to pocketheaven they have a bunch of fixes and I believe that they have a patch for the World Map as well

 

[DarkWay]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

Go to pocketheaven they have a bunch of fixes and I believe that they have a patch for the World Map as well

nope I can only find a patch for Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku

there isn't one for Legacy of Goku II there

EDIT: I found 3 patches for the game and they're all different

I have no idea which one I should use

 

[hullo8d]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

Go to pocketheaven they have a bunch of fixes and I believe that they have a patch for the World Map as well

nope I can only find a patch for Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku

there isn't one for Legacy of Goku II there

EDIT: I found 3 patches for the game and they're all different

I have no idea which one I should use

I remember that I had found a way to fix it and I thought it would be there because that is were I get most of my GBA patches, but why bother getting such a crappy game anyways.

 

[DarkWay]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

Go to pocketheaven they have a bunch of fixes and I believe that they have a patch for the World Map as well

nope I can only find a patch for Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku

there isn't one for Legacy of Goku II there

EDIT: I found 3 patches for the game and they're all different

I have no idea which one I should use

I remember that I had found a way to fix it and I thought it would be there because that is were I get most of my GBA patches, but why bother getting such a crappy game anyways.

Because the game is actually good >.> it's alot better than the first one. none of the patches I've found have fixed it it's starting to get irritating.

 

[micric100]

grrr could anyone point me in the location of the Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 2 patch please? google is really freaking failing me.

Go to pocketheaven they have a bunch of fixes and I believe that they have a patch for the World Map as well

nope I can only find a patch for Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku

there isn't one for Legacy of Goku II there

EDIT: I found 3 patches for the game and they're all different

I have no idea which one I should use

I remember that I had found a way to fix it and I thought it would be there because that is were I get most of my GBA patches, but why bother getting such a crappy game anyways.

Because the game is actually good >.> it's alot better than the first one. none of the patches I've found have fixed it it's starting to get irritating.

Have you tried GBAta or the gameconfig? I'm not sure if those would help, i'm interested in getting this working too, so please post if you get it working

 

[DarkWay]

Have you tried GBAta or the gameconfig? I'm not sure if those would help, i'm interested in getting this working too, so please post if you get it working

I have indeed I'm not sure what can be done

I'll PM the SC team and ask them about a possible fix.

 

[nl255]

I have found that with Mother 3, the second save slot often gets corrupted and deleted. I am using the sram patched version though, could that be it?

 

[flamingo24]

After reading over the thread; It seems more laggy than it should be given the extra memory and CPU. I hope they continue to optimize the emulation core, rather than improve the frame skipping technique. I'll be getting a SCTWO soon anyway, its a new cart, some things take time.

 

[jurai]

After reading over the thread; It seems more laggy than it should be given the extra memory and CPU. I hope they continue to optimize the emulation core, rather than improve the frame skipping technique. I'll be getting a SCTWO soon anyway, its a new cart, some things take time.

the early gbatemp preview suggested it performs the same as the original iplayer gba emulator did, anyone know if supercard is actually developing the emulator or if they just reskinned and shoehorned it in?

 

[dhjohn]

After reading over the thread; It seems more laggy than it should be given the extra memory and CPU. I hope they continue to optimize the emulation core, rather than improve the frame skipping technique. I'll be getting a SCTWO soon anyway, its a new cart, some things take time.

I haven't noticed any problems with lag on any of my games (except Bomberman Tournament, which slows to a crawl when an enemy is hit).
It does frame skip, but not to the point that the games break.

 

[hullo8d]

the early gbatemp preview suggested it performs the same as the original iplayer gba emulator did, anyone know if supercard is actually developing the emulator or if they just reskinned and shoehorned it in?

Well from what I heard the GBA emulator on the iPlayer had shitty compatibility and only worked on half the GBA games, but from what I can tell the SCDS2's GBA emu has really good compatibility and I've only run into a few snags.

 

[raing3]

People over exaggerated the bad compatibility of the iPlayer emulator. I've tested quite a few games with both my iPlayer and SCDS2 and compatibility seems exactly the same apart from the Supercard emulator now has RTC.

Also the emulators are both the same emulator and it is very unlikely that the Supercard team but they didn't just reskin DarkChen's emulator. If they had done that it would have been extremely hard for SC team to add any features to it (like RTC) because the source code was never released neither was the SDK for the iPlayer which allowed DarkChen to make the emulator.

The iPlayer and SCDS2 are both made by the Supercard team and it is quite probable that DarkChen is a member of the Supercard team who pretended to be a nobody so he could get help porting an existing emulator but instead just got flamed and such (until it was released).

 

[phoenixclaws]

The Supercard Team is very dedicated to the DSTWO and is updating the abilities of the emulator. Recently they added RTC (Real Time Clock) support to the emulator. They also modified frameskip some to get more games running better. I'm sure they're not done with it yet.