EZ-Flash USA Forum

I do not have much of a problem with ezflash v patching.

Please keep the patching on ez v at least as an option.
(I do not want to use 3in1 tool on pc)

multi rom mode is a nice feature, but for me personally not as important as singlemode psram. But please do not remove multi rom mode!

Cheat and psram big thumbs up.

regarding the other 2 things, why not make it options.
(clean gba rom support yes/no, single/multi option is already there)

Thank you for your work!!

Don't get me wrong about the slow. I understand that the DS isn't a PC and there is really nothing you can do about it. I was merely agreeing with the other guy that if you patch a rom to multirom, you should also provide a copy of it in the EZ Flash V Plus, so that the next time there is no need for patching, simply copying it into the cart.

Once again, this is a great step forward, keep up the good work.

I think the multi-ROM must be cancelled. Because it's not EZ (easy) to use and it's slow.
If we can launch the small ROM in PSRAM, the multi-ROM no sens.

I prefer :
When I launch a game, I just want a window that pops up to asking me "PSRAM or NOR mode".
If a game is already present in NOR, display a message "the game xxxx is already present, over write ? Yes / no".

This is more intuitive & EZ.

Regards.

Don't cancel anything. Multi-rom is very good idea and big step forward as well as patching GBA games on DS. Keep it up windirt and THNAKS for your work.

the argument is useless, the sun can't shine everyone. functions always can't satisfy everyone.

I saw the most threads not pleased with the mutlirom and on-console patch. so we decide to remove them from further version. though we waste several months-on it.

Nono, don't remove it, it is a good idea, not so great for commercial roms, but nice for emulators. I mean, let's face it, most EZ Flash 3 in 1 users are using another slot 1, not the EZV, you want a few unique features on the EZV so that users might take a chance with the EZV instead of a competitor. Every extra feature you can get, the cheats, the multirom, they are all good.

It is better to have a feature that isn't used than one that isn't there. If the foundation is already done, might as well leave it in.

1. You said that NOR flash and PSRAM writing is the same.
I definitely don't think so.
You look at GBAExploader, PSRAM writing is a way faster.

2. windirt: "most threads not pleased with the mutlirom"
Yeah? Links please?

3. windirt: "functions always can't satisfy everyone."
Very true. It's never wrong, but you got our point wrong.
We asked you for "multirom function". YES, but you said it's impossible.
I researched about it and figured out that 3IN1 only has 32MB of NOR flash.
Then, a homebrew was out that used PSRAM flash (it takes less then 10 seconds to write 8MB GBA ROM as NOR flash takes more than that.)
So, we asked you for PSRAM flash funtion. It it wasn't out with this open beta.

4. windirt: "removing on-console patch"
WHAT? WHO IN THE WORLD SAID ON-CONSOLE PATCH WAS NOT NEEDED?

Because customers or users of your product complaining is making you angry or so, you can't make them shut or fight back BY REMOVING FUNCTIONS.
I believe no one said about "removing on-console patch".


I really appreciate your hard work by taking our complains.
But it's technically for your own sake.
Don't you want to sell your product or make it best or one of the best product?

Hmm?

Windirt,
Multi-rom is a good idea and no-one has done that before on 3in1 so don't thrown away this nice feature just optimize it.
Save patch routine must be done on the microSD (much faster than NOR ? however once it's the goal) once for the single or multi-rom mode and multi-saver address fix in NOR once when you flash the game in this mode.
Could it be done ?

If yes, then here you are.

Please let this feature shine on EZ5.
3in1 GBA sized needs these feature.

Raaaaaa ! It so difficult to me to explain that in English. Too bad.
Hope you understand what i mean ...

Has anyone tried any saves from games that have already been patched (by GBATA or the 3in1 Tool, for example) to see if clean ROMs can read their saves? Obviously I can just keep using my patched ROMs instead of switching to clean ROMs if the saves are incompatible, it'd just be nice to be able to put clean ROMs on the device.

Did that make sense? I'm about to start trying some games anyway, so I'll report back my findings.

EDIT:
Previously I patched Advance Wars with the EZ4Client. I just replaced the ROM with a clean ROM and let the EZ-V patch the ROM; it appeared to run fine, so I'm guessing that the patches are done the same way as the EZ4Client and 3in1Tool.

I have previously patched Astro Boy - Omega Factor using GBATA. Switched it for a clean ROM, EZ-V is patching it right now ... success! The ROM as patched by the EZ-V can load the save generated by the GBATA-patched ROM. I'm impressed; EZ4Client and 3in1Tool patch in different ways, so for the saves to be compatible is great.

It would probably take further testing, and there may well be exceptions, but for now I'll replace all my patched ROMs with clean ROMs.

Saves with 1024kbit flash type seems to not work properly has i have reported in my post.
Also the patching process on game with that kind of save freeze in multi-rom.

And after reading the rest of the topic, please don't remove any features. MultiROM is perfect for playing games on the Game Boy Player; no more wasting time writing one game, putting into GBP, removing 3-in-1, putting it into the DS, writing another game, putting it back the the Game Boy Player.

EDIT: Except that right now, MultiROM does not appear to work for me. The menu works fine, but when I try to run a game I get a white screen. Does MultiROM support trimmed ROMs, or do they have to be clean?

EDIT2: OK, after further testing, the GBA-side menu performs no better with clean or trimmed ROMs. Either work fine from the DS-side menu (hitting the little "play" button works fine), but when booting in GBA mode, the menu either doesn't work at all, or the system whitescreens when I choose a game.

Onboard patching is fantastic and I have no complaints about the speed or anything else. I can skip the entire step of running all my games through a patcher and just put them directly onto the card, and if I want to share a game with someone, the ROM is clean and not patched for use on a device they may or may not have.

If nothing else, you spent months working on these features, so if a few people want to complain, let them; the rest of us thank you.

Have you tried to launch directly your 3in1 from the DS menu and see if multi-rom loader works ?
I didn't succeed ...
It just freeze with black blocks. I will take a picture to show that ...

Edit :


Concerning GBA games that don't work, has i told you i think the patch routine doesn't work well with some GBA save type in my case it's flash 1024 kb.
With eeprom one and sram it's ok.

Yeah, I got that a couple of times. Black blocks slide in from the sides, right? Really weird. Sometimes the menu looks fine but when I try to load a game it fails, sometimes I get the blocks.

I can run the games from the menu in DS mode, but as always, they boot on the top screen, while I prefer to play on the bottom screen. It's only a beta, so I guess the whole point is for us to find things that don't work. At the moment, it looks like the GBA-side menu is a bit unstable, but games are at least being written OK, as you can see from them working if you run them from DS mode.

No i'm not talking about that, it's the GBA boot loader menu in GBA mode from Nintendo DS menu.

Ps : what you describe is when you flash in 3in1 ROM OPTION window games that are already patched in ez4 client. I saw too those strange graphics around the slide progress bar.
This don't happen with clean roms.

Hehe, I know! I get it too when using the GBA boot loader. I either get the black blocks and it doesn't work, or the menu does work but it crashes when I try to load a game.

The only way I can successfully play GBA games is to use the EZ-V menu:


Unfortunately, I can't use the EZ-V menu on my Game Boy Player. :p

EDIT: I think we're getting confused. I don't get any errors in the 3in1 menu. Only the GBA bootloader has problems.