Pokemon FireRed

[fiddlefox]

ok, i have Visual Boy Advance, and everything is up and running, BUT, when i go and save (i save it in the file menu where it says "Save", kinda obvious, and i save it by pressing SHIFT + F1 [to save it in a slot, to reopen it later]), the save file is saved as a .SGM, and the Slot isn't there anymore (i even checked it had "written" the slot after i pressed SHIFT + F1, and it was there), i open up VBA, and then i go to recent, nothing there, i go to Load, nothing there either, i try and Drag my saved file (Name.SGM) into VBA, and a message pops up saying it doesn't support that file.
My question is, how do i save my game properally? (either making it a .GBA file so VBA reads it, or keeping it in the load slot, or some other way, i need help-- it's really fustrating).

Thanks guys!
(BTW, this is my first ROM experience, so, u may need to explain some stuff, just lettin u know) :rolleyes:

[Lefteris_D]

Have you configured the folders? Go to Options > Emulator > Directories and set everything up.

[Denopqrihg]

maybe you should just press enter (or something) to bring up the menu in the game and save it there.

the SHIFT+F1 thing you're using is a savestate, and there are problems with savestates (I don't use them very often)

[Chaos]

You might need to make an battery file from the export for save to work, i just reread your message and will ask, have you tried pressing f1 because, you won't find slot saves in load.

[destinylord]

ive the same problem with pokemon firered. I want to catch all the other pokemon when ive beaten the elite4 and my rival but i cant because i return to my last asve game. If i start a new game and i want to save with enter/save then i get a save error: please change the backup memory..... can somebody give me a patch or a link to the newest virtual gba so i cant catch all the pokemon;)

[Chaos]

If you got it in an zip, there might be an patch file, look in the stickey topic one page behind of who to get it work, although you might have to restart your game toadly like i did

[destinylord]

Chaos do youve played firered on a virtual gameboy advance 2? if you did that and you can continue after beating indigo plateau can you send a link where you download your virtual gba and your firered cuz ive played the whole game 3times now but still cant continue:s

[Chaos]

Originally posted by destinylord@Nov 27 2004, 07:20 PM
Chaos do youve played firered on a virtual gameboy advance 2? if you did that and you can continue after beating indigo plateau can you send a link where you download your virtual gba and your firered cuz ive played the whole game 3times now but still cant continue:s
Speak English!

[destinylord]

i will talk english ;) Chaos do you've played firered on a virtual gameboy advance to? can you continue with the game after you beat the elite four"? i can't. I have to save in the start menu but when i press save they said: save error, replace the backup memory. Maybe i need a newer Virtual gba edition so i want to know which virtual gba you have and where you've downlaod it.

[belmont]

You must patch it with the fix that is on the same zipfile as the rom.
If you don't have it here it is.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by destinylord@Nov 28 2004, 10:54 AM
i will talk english ;) Chaos do you've played firered on a virtual gameboy advance to? can you continue with the game after you beat the elite four"? i can't. I have to save in the start menu but when i press save they said: save error, replace the backup memory. Maybe i need a newer Virtual gba edition so i want to know which virtual gba you have and where you've downlaod it.
It Wouldn't save after i put in the patch but it worked when i restarted the game and Started an new game... Back to the orginals than
You may have to go menu, export, battery for the battery to work
Also thanks for speaking english :D

I got Vba 1.7.2

[Crash]

Ok, I read this page and figured out why my game was not saving and then decided to restart, the only problem is after I installed the patch and even exported a battery file I still could not save on a brand new game. But I could still save on my Leaf Green version, which I never played until after I got the patch. I'm thinking that there is something I am forgeting to do but I cant think of it.
Please help me.

[Koden]

if your using VBA 1.7.2 you must make sure that your emulator save type [set in options, emulator save type] is set to flash 128k I'm not sure if the top option needs to be flash but thats what i set it to be. I think you have to reset the game for it to work, not completly sure on that though.

[Crash]

That didn't work, I think I'm using the Save patch I got on the page wrong. I didn't really do anything with the patch, I just downloaded it and put it in the same folder as the game and played. My Leaf Green game is working with all of the original settings on the VBA 1.7.2 but the Fire Red won't.
So I think that the Fire Red is missing a file or the patch or something, and if I did have to do something with the patch instead of just leaving it in the folder then that must be it but I cant think of anything...... please help!

[Crash]

sweet it worked! The 128k flash thing didn't work until I changed my save type to SRAM.
So I guess you guys can omit my previous message, lol.
Thank you Koden for the info that really helped a lot!!

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Crash@Dec 12 2004, 01:49 AM
sweet it worked! The 128k flash thing didn't work until I changed my save type to SRAM.
So I guess you guys can omit my previous message, lol.
Thank you Koden for the info that really helped a lot!!
Okay i have VBA 1.7.2 And I have FireRed Version, and i changed my settings to 128k Flah and Save type to SRAM, but i still can't save, it still says Error, Please Exchange the Backup Memory!!!What do i do? And when i start up the game it says.....The 1MB Sub-Circut Board Is Not Installed - What does that mean! Can you please post your FireRed Rom, as it seems to work for you! Can anyone Please help me with this problem?

[Koden]

have you tried loading the game with those settings and having the game start as a new game, like you just put in the game?

also try having the save type as flash instead of SRAM
edit:

After some testing i found that you must restart the emulator after changing the options. If you don't nothing changes aparently.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 13 2004, 02:46 AM
have you tried loading the game with those settings and having the game start as a new game, like you just put in the game?

also try having the save type as flash instead of SRAM
edit:

After some testing i found that you must restart the emulator after changing the options. If you don't nothing changes aparently.
Thanks, i'll try those!!

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by platinumspyro666+Dec 13 2004, 04:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (platinumspyro666 @ Dec 13 2004, 04:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Koden@Dec 13 2004, 02:46 AM
have you tried loading the game with those settings and having the game start as a new game, like you just put in the game?

also try having the save type as flash instead of SRAM
edit:

After some testing i found that you must restart the emulator after changing the options. If you don&#39;t nothing changes aparently.
Thanks, i&#39;ll try those&#33;&#33; [/b][/quote]
No, it still says Save Error, Please Exchange the Backp Memory&#33;&#33; :angry:

[Koden]

ok, run with me step by step on what your doing from the moment you turn on the game.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 13 2004, 04:49 AM
ok, run with me step by step on what your doing from the moment you turn on the game.
Okay...... When i turn the game on, it comes up "The 1MB Sub-Circut Board Is Not Installed" Then Oak starts talking, and then i add my name in, then i put in my rivals, then i&#39;m in my room, so i goto save, and it says there is another file, overwriting it will delete it, i go yes, it comes up saving.... do not turn off, then i says Save Error, Please Exchange the Backp Memory&#33; So to save it i obviously save within the Emulator (Shift+F1)&#33;&#33;&#33;

[Koden]

what options are checked?

actually... just tell me what is checked under emulator and gameboy.

tell me EVERYTHING that has a check mark.

also, make sure that you arn&#39;t loading a save state, and uncheck in file, load game, auto load most recent.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 13 2004, 05:07 AM
what options are checked?

actually... just tell me what is checked under emulator and gameboy.

tell me EVERYTHING that has a check mark.

also, make sure that you arn&#39;t loading a save state, and uncheck in file, load game, auto load most recent.
Emulator:

http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=D91290D...25DFF5AC2F6EC1A (http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=D91290DC373A0DA4625DFF5AC2F6EC1A)

GameBoy:

http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=087B9DF7...4D04FFC7F8522EF (http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=087B9DF7DE1097E8C4D04FFC7F8522EF)

[Koden]

ok, I copyed your settings to mine and the game stoped working.

Thats good because from that i fixed your problem

change SRAM to Flash in the save type and it will work.

intrestingly enough i said this before *grins*

no worries though. Try it and let me know if it works.

[platinumspyro666]

Okay when i save it, turn off the Emulator then turn it back on, there&#39;s no Load Game, it just starts as if it&#39;s the first time you&#39;ve played the game?

[Koden]

ok, that one i have no idea about. sorry

all i know is it workes for me, though you may want to try save stating anyways as a safty

Edit: Ok, I see thats happening with the one i&#39;m using now when i started a new game using green, [given i&#39;m playing red and *cough* minipulating the game to get other pokemon i don&#39;t play green]. Since I&#39;m having your problem i&#39;ll see what steps i should take to fix it. Oddly enough when i run red, it works.

Edit again: Well, intresting turn of events, aparently when i loaded green after loading red to test something, it is running off my red&#39;s save file on the green game. Figured that&#39;s worth shareing.

Edit third time&#39;s the charm: Well I ran some tests, some how i got it to save a battery of the game but other times it woulden&#39;t. Not sure what i did yet that got it to but i know one thing that works. Do a savestate then load the save state. if you ever need to reset the game use the reset command and the game should reset with no problems. In theory this should mean that linking won&#39;t be a problem because once your done, you let it save, then reset the rom, then savestate it and your fine.

That being said, you may as well auto load if your the only one that uses that emulator at home.

Also, i figured out that from what i learned on the 2nd edit, that only works if you don&#39;t have a battory file for the other pokemon game. I haven&#39;t played it long enough to test to see if it will allow me to capture pokemon on the other, save in game, load the other pokemon with the temp memory that is there, and see if they still work but i might do that later.

[Koden]

As many times as i edited, i think i should just post this time.


Anyways, i foudn the sure fire way to get the battery file to save. do a file export battory save every time *grins*

sure its inconvienent, but it works. Till i find a better way that&#39;ll work if you don&#39;t like save states.

[platinumspyro666]

Thanks for your work in all this i appreciate it, but alot of the last two of your posts confused me&#33; It&#39;s okay i&#39;ve beaten the Elite 4 so i&#39;ll just leave it at that. Even though i&#39;d like to get the National Dex, it&#39;s not the end of the world, and Islands 4-9 arn&#39;t that great unless you can get Lugia, Ho-oh & Deoxys&#33; which you can&#39;t get without respective tickets that are only obtainable through promotional gigs, which in Australia (where i live) don&#39;t happen&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

[Koden]

you could always use the catch such and so forth codes for those pokemon you&#39;d want.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 14 2004, 12:08 AM
you could always use the catch such and so forth codes for those pokemon you&#39;d want.
Use the What? :o

[Koden]

http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/...on_frlg_par.txt (http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/pokemon_frlg_par.txt)

the pokemon encounter codes.

Basicly, input these and you&#39;ll run into the pokemon you wanta catch.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 14 2004, 03:25 AM
http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/...on_frlg_par.txt (http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/pokemon_frlg_par.txt)

the pokemon encounter codes.

Basicly, input these and you&#39;ll run into the pokemon you wanta catch.
Hey mate, it won&#39;t let me use that link, so i went to gamefaqs.com, then can do give me a click by click please? (you don&#39;t have too if it&#39;s too much work, but i would greatly appreicate it) in the main page do i click on Game Boy Advance, then what?

[Koden]

go to the search bar on the top right corner and type in pokemon firered

do that or just go here assuming this link works
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/game/918915.html

Down at the bottom there are action replay codes. Those tend to work better than code breaker. you use gameshark entry on the emulator to input them.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 14 2004, 05:53 PM
go to the search bar on the top right corner and type in pokemon firered

do that or just go here assuming this link works
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/game/918915.html

Down at the bottom there are action replay codes. Those tend to work better than code breaker. you use gameshark entry on the emulator to input them.
What is Gameshark? How do i get a Gameshark Entry?

[Koden]

its a type of cheating program. it should be in the list of things to pick from on cheat code input

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 15 2004, 02:28 AM
its a type of cheating program. it should be in the list of things to pick from on cheat code input
Hmm do you know where i could download one from?

[Koden]

what emulator are you using?

Most of them come with it built in.

[platinumspyro666]

Originally posted by Koden@Dec 15 2004, 03:26 AM
what emulator are you using?

Most of them come with it built in.
I have a VBA 1.7.2.560, i click on File, then goto Import, but nothing in there is available it&#39;s grey&#33; Do i need a patch or something? i&#39;m very clueless with these things?

Okay in the game, Gameshark Code File is available, but what needs to be loaded in there?

[Koden]

go to cheats then cheat list, then click on the gameshark button.

[platinumspyro666]

Once you put in a code, and that pokemon comes up in the wild, once it&#39;s caught, that pokemon is still the only one in the wild, is there a way to then get it back to random wild pokemon&#33;

[Koden]

ok, here is step by step

when your in the cheat list press the game shark button.

In description type master code because it makes it easy for you to remember it.
in the code field paste that information then hit enter. once it is enabled you can put in the other codes in that similar fassion.

[platinumspyro666]

Once you put in a code, and that pokemon comes up in the wild, once it&#39;s caught, that pokemon is still the only one in the wild, is there a way to then get it back to random wild pokemon&#33;

[Koden]

turn off the code

[platinumspyro666]

:lol: I&#39;m so dumb&#33;&#33;&#33; Thanks for all your help and patients&#33;&#33;

Hey some of the codes only work with a "4.1 DMA Disable Code" what is that? How/Where do i get that from?

[Koden]

I&#39;ve never used those codes, but i would assume it is on the list that you found the code in. try searching the page/text file for it.

[Crash]

Ok, I changed my stats to Flash and 128k and it saves without any errors but the problem is that my saves are not appearing in the folder with the emulator and games and therefore I cannot load up the game. Although when I save and then reset the emulator the game appears and loads up.
So basically when I close the emulator, the save file vanishes and cannot be restored.... I'm obviously doing something different or wrong please tell me everything that you have checkmarked or what I should do to get it working...

P.S. I'm using one of the trading/multiplaying emulators (vbalink172lb)

EDIT: I tried to export a battery file and it did save but unfortunately when I exported another for the other version (Oh yeah, I'm playing Pokmeon Fire Red and Leaf Green.... trying to make trades and get all 3 starters.) the first version's game was erased again, so basically I can't use both at the same time which is required for my plan. So please tell me either what else I have to do or how to keep a saved battery file without worrying about losing the other games data!

[Crash]

Ok, I changed my stats to Flash and 128k and it saves without any errors but the problem is that my saves are not appearing in the folder with the emulator and games and therefore I cannot load up the game. Although when I save and then reset the emulator the game appears and loads up.
So basically when I close the emulator, the save file vanishes and cannot be restored.... I'm obviously doing something different or wrong please tell me everything that you have checkmarked or what I should do to get it working...

P.S. I'm using one of the trading/multiplaying emulators (vbalink172lb)

EDIT: I tried to export a battery file and it did save but unfortunately when I exported another for the other version (Oh yeah, I'm playing Pokmeon Fire Red and Leaf Green.... trying to make trades and get all 3 starters.) the first version's game was erased again, so basically I can't use both at the same time which is required for my plan. So please tell me either what else I have to do or how to keep a saved battery file without worrying about losing the other games data!

Please help me....

[abijit]

Ok, I changed my stats to Flash and 128k and it saves without any errors but the problem is that my saves are not appearing in the folder with the emulator and games and therefore I cannot load up the game. Although when I save and then reset the emulator the game appears and loads up.
So basically when I close the emulator, the save file vanishes and cannot be restored.... I'm obviously doing something different or wrong please tell me everything that you have checkmarked or what I should do to get it working...

P.S. I'm using one of the trading/multiplaying emulators (vbalink172lb)

EDIT: I tried to export a battery file and it did save but unfortunately when I exported another for the other version (Oh yeah, I'm playing Pokmeon Fire Red and Leaf Green.... trying to make trades and get all 3 starters.) the first version's game was erased again, so basically I can't use both at the same time which is required for my plan. So please tell me either what else I have to do or how to keep a saved battery file without worrying about losing the other games data!

Please help me....
I tried al most teh sam ething but i still can't continue after beating asses of elite-4 and
Gary[I choose only Gary the mighty as my rival....]
Today, i had another dream run with my pokemon leafgreen,I caught an articuno with a great ball[1st try lol], so to Zapdos and an ultra ball to moltress. I haave always saved up my MASTER ball for mewtwo btu too bad i never reach him in my emulated game at least.,.....

[abijit]

sweet it worked! The 128k flash thing didn't work until I changed my save type to SRAM.
So I guess you guys can omit my previous message, lol.
Thank you Koden for the info that really helped a lot!!
Ia m still not getting anything that you are talking, can someoen create a walkthrough on how to do this with loads of screenshots of the process in a serial order..and sory for double posting my first 2 posts but i hate editing. :p

[ticktock]

Crash posted that in January
I have no idea what you are talking about abijit, the pokmon games should save fine if you don't mess with your confiurations on VBA

[abijit]

Crash posted that in January
I have no idea what you are talking about abijit, the pokmon games should save fine if you don't mess with your confiurations on VBA
january or november, for me the matter fo the post is what matters and please tell em the right configurationa nd tell em how to play after beatign elite-4 in Fr/Lg...That's al i want for the moment.

[montpics]

And that person had gone MIA as the matter of fact since that post was made.

[spyrostolias]

Okay i have VBA 1.7.2 And I have FireRed Version, and i changed my settings to 128k Flah and Save type to SRAM, but i still can't save, it still says Error, Please Exchange the Backup Memory!!!What do i do? And when i start up the game it says.....The 1MB Sub-Circut Board Is Not Installed - What does that mean! Can you please post your FireRed Rom, as it seems to work for you! Can anyone Please help me with this problem?

[fallen_angel]

I have the exact problem. I don't get why it doesn't work!!! I did all that was said in ehre but I still start with the 1M subcircuit not installed and saving error back up memory needs to be relaced! XOit worked ONCE but then stoppped working and all prgress I did after it worked got lost... And I got quite a little completed in that time XO This emulator is getting me really pissed...

[Devon]

Okay, I can't get past the elite four because it won't let me save "in-game" I'm using visualboyadvance 1.80, can anyone help?