EZ-Flash USA Forum

Hey all,

The L button on my DS Lite broke, so I used it as a good excuse for an upgrade to a 3DS. However I was in the middle of playing Yoshi's Island DS, and I'd like to finish the game on my computer (a friend is letting me borrow his Xbox 360 controller). However, I can't seem to get my save file loaded on any emulator I've tried (No$GBA, iDeaS, DeSmuME).

I tried using the raw save file, importing it using DeSmuME's import save file function, the shunyweb online save converter and some random .NET program I found online and nothing's worked. Can someone can point me in the right direction to get it working in any emulator (at this point I really don't care which, as long as I can finish the game)

Thank you so much,
yetanothername

Saves on the ez5 are raw so, you should be able to import them in desmume.

I have no idea about the issue you encounter.

Maybe try to set the save size of the game manually according to advanscene.com.

I tried setting the save size manually, no dice. I figured that somehow the *.sav's I copied to my computer became corrupt, so I tried copying them again from the micro SD card. Tried that again and no dice. (I'm using desmume's File->Import Backup Memory command) Still not working, so I acquired another copy of the rom image and tried using that, no luck.

So I opened up the save on the uSD card in a hex editor and this is what I got:

http://i.imgur.com/u56ON.png

That data repeats every 0x00000100 bytes or so until 0x00001FE0, where it becomes all 0's until EOF. Super Mario 64 DS is even worse, with random strings like "ds mario5000™Ý9" and "~dwefˆdednddffld" repeated over and over. Mario Kart DS is the only thing with random-looking data, and when I load that save into desmume, MK refuses to run.

Is there something I need to do on the EZ-Flash to get it to write valid save data to the uSD card? I'm assuming that it saves it's files into SAVES\[rom name].sav, is that a correct assumption?

I'm about to give up on this because I've spent several hours wondering wtf I'm doing wrong here.

I played around with it a bit more today and I think I know that the problem is on the EZ-Flash side. I remembered that when I first got the card you had to press some weird key combo to transfer the save to the uSD card. I looked that up and it was L+Select. However when I boot the card and press L+Select, it cycles through the brightness settings :/

However, if I rename the save files in uSD:/SAVE, when I start the game my progress disappears when I load the game, but reappears when I put them back, so I don't know what the hell is going on.

For the record I'm using "EZ5 - 2.0 RC20" on a 1GB Kingston uSD card.

What the hell am I doing wrong and/or missing?

Edit: The saves work fine in No$GBA, so I guess problem solved?