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darkjak951

#1 May 20, 2008, 02:27:14 pm

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Now, I don't know if this is allowed and if it is not please don't lock it. I really need help with this:
I just downloaded an emulator called "NO$GBA" and it plays nintendo DS games and GBA games. However, when I play a game such as Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow i don't know how to save. I save my game, then i exit the emulator, then i restart the game to find my file to be deleted. Could someone tell me how to save with the emulator?

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#2 May 20, 2008, 03:23:38 pm

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Is their like a save state feature with it because that might work better then the in game save as in it uses the emulator instead of the actual Rom.

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#3 May 20, 2008, 05:34:53 pm

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wait.. wait ...

it plays DS games?

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#4 May 20, 2008, 05:54:03 pm

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Yes @ TheMonster.

For DarkJak, you probably have the wrong backup-type. Cruise around in options, in the lower left corner of one of the options screens there's something with Backup Media or something. There, you can choose between EEPROM sizes, Flash sizes and some more crap. One of these is compatible with the game.

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#5 May 20, 2008, 06:49:50 pm

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Quote from: TheMonster on May 20, 2008, 05:34:53 pm

wait.. wait ...

so it plays TWEWY , I am dying to play that game,... and does it emulate like.. PkmN?

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#6 May 20, 2008, 07:35:36 pm

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Quote from: TheMonster on May 20, 2008, 06:49:50 pm

so it plays TWEWY , I am dying to play that game,... and does it emulate like.. PkmN?

It doesn't emulate TWEWY properly, I think I heard the sprites don't display correctly or something.

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#7 May 20, 2008, 07:46:14 pm

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Quote from: Ralph on May 20, 2008, 05:54:03 pm

Yes @ TheMonster.

For DarkJak, you probably have the wrong backup-type. Cruise around in options, in the lower left corner of one of the options screens there's something with Backup Media or something. There, you can choose between EEPROM sizes, Flash sizes and some more crap. One of these is compatible with the game.

i cant find anything like that, is there a possible tutorial vid or somthin?

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#8 May 21, 2008, 02:02:10 am

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Quote from: darkjak951 on May 20, 2008, 07:46:14 pm

i cant find anything like that, is there a possible tutorial vid or somthin?

You can not use Save state On the emulation of DS game as of right now how you go about saving is that you must do a normal save like go to the alter to save and must load normally.

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#9 May 21, 2008, 08:16:00 am

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how does the stylus work and dual screen and all that?,.. also are they working on newer releases one which could like run TWEWY

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#10 May 21, 2008, 08:37:31 am

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There have been DS emulators out there for awhile. Sometimes you can find special patched roms that work 100% right, but they are hard to find(I know they have them for pokemon) but other wise they all play like crap.

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#11 May 21, 2008, 10:47:33 am

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No Warv, that is pretty wrong. No$GBA plays a ton of DS games pretty fine, however the bigger graphical games and more recent ones won't work as good. And some just aren't as compatible and run slower (Castlevania games). As for PATCHED ROMS.. I don't know what you're talking about. Some used to be encrypted, but bigger NDS rom sites (frozenroms) have them all NDS-emu ready.

But yeah, it's all a matter of looking in the options and setting the backup-type to what works with the game. As to know what works... just try things out. I kept a list of what worked once. I still have it, I guess. But it's only for games I tried.

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#12 May 21, 2008, 01:20:08 pm

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also forgot to post this to help you get the rom started.

Also there is a way to tell sometimes the roms comes with a text file and if you read it it has something like this + -[USA-NDS]-------------[128MBit]- this tell me it's 64 because 64x2=128rom size

also your game Dawn of Sorrow will uses a 256 the rom size is 512 256x2=512 I will like to Add not all games work that way but you can figure out most like this.

also the newest one has an auto feature

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darkjak951

#13 May 21, 2008, 06:17:45 pm

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Quote from: DDay on May 21, 2008, 01:20:08 pm

also forgot to post this to help you get the rom started.

Also there is a way to tell sometimes the roms comes with a text file and if you read it it has something like this + -[USA-NDS]-------------[128MBit]- this tell me it's 64 because 64x2=128rom size

also your game Dawn of Sorrow will uses a 256 the rom size is 512 256x2=512 I will like to Add not all games work that way but you can figure out most like this.

also the newest one has an auto feature

thanks, it saves now