Saving pokemon fire red on gba

[sheff]

i have VBA link and i play through the game fine using save states. but now i have gotten to the pokemon league, and when i beat them, the game goes through the credits, says "the end", it starts up, has press start, but when i do it comes up with 1m sub-circuit board not installed. so i guess this means there is no save file to load or something. can someone please tell me how to make it work? how to patch it? or what settings to change?

[mrothe151]

How do you even START the game? I'm such a total newb, I don't know how to load the image or anything. Can you help me?

[hagbard]

You have a copule of options:

1) Some ROMs have been patched to make saves work, but mostly you only need to proper configure the save type:

Options -> Emulators -> Save Type -> Automatic
Options -> Emulators -> Save Type -> Flash 64K

Then try to use the vba-over.ini file is very helpful. Unzip and place it on the VBA folder. Get it here:

http://www.gbadat.altervista.org/dl-dat.htm


2) There's other way, suggested by TchuBacha

Try this. Set your save type as flash 128k and set it to automatic
Options -> Emulator -> Save Type -> and put it on Flash 128k and automatic
Then start a new game.