EZ-Flash USA Forum

I've been using my EZ4 Phat for the past couple years without any issue. But suddenly a couple of my games, namely Pokemon titles, aren't saving properly. It's my understanding that the way the saver works is that while you're playing a game it saves to a temporary location, then the next time to boot the cart it writes it to the SD card (that's when the little 'writing save' box pops up). For the games I'm having the problem with, that box never comes up so the save isn't being backed up. If I play that same game again right away it's no problem, but once I start a different one that "temporary save" is overwritten and it's like it never happened.

I've already tried updating the kernel, formatting my SD card, making sure I have the most current client, and repatching the clean rom file to no success.

So far it's only the Pokemon games (Pearl, Diamond, and Platinum) that are giving me problems. I've tested a few other games like Castlevania DoS and they work and save just fine.

They probably are writing but if memory serves pokemon was the first to use a 512K save (previously the upper limit and so the save size was 256KB).

The problem was solved with a kernel update and a client update but those fixes should have long been worked into everything (late 2006 or so).

Yeah, it used to work flawlessly but then I didn't play Pokemon for a long time and now it doesn't. Dunno what the problem is. I've also tried deleting everything off the card and leaving only the one game, but that didn't help either.

Alright, so just a little update.

I just bought an Acekard 2i, so I've decided to dedicate my EZ4 to just playing old GBA games. I uploaded my games and saves for the first time in years, and they're not working properly either. A couple games will load, but like I'd written about above they don't save. The others tell me the save data is corrupted and doesn't load in the first place. Admittedly, I haven't done this in forever so I may be doing it wrong (do I need to run GBA games through the EZ4 Client too, or was that just for DS games?), but I figured it was worth mentioning.

Yes, many GBA games need patched by the ez4_client and the client needs to create a saver file on the SD-card before first use.

If the GBA ROM in question does not have a battery save feature and you are not interested in soft reset you do not need to patch the ROM but it's best practice to patch them all just in case.