taking gb/gbc/gba games and dumping them onto pc

[Legendeer]

Hi

I know you can get Flash Advance Linker/FA extreme or whatever, but what about normal GB/GBC games? Are they compatible with Flash Advance Linker or not?

Also - is it very easy to hack games and then send them to a rewritable flash card? The only game i have hacked is pokemon red and it was quite difficult.

thanks,

Legendeer

[belmont]

There are also cards for older GB systems!

It is easy to patch hacks on GBA games.
Use any patchin utility.
I patch hacks and trainers and work perfectly with my F2A.

[Legendeer]

Hi

I didn't mean how easy it is to patch hacked ROMS, I meant to actually change the game. Like in Pokemon Red I changed the text that was in the game. I know how to patch games kinda, but I don't really understand what it does. I used HebeGB.

Do you know where I can get FA Extreme, or ones for GB/GBC and stuff like that? I assume it would be compatible with my European games, because I'm from the UK.

Thanks for the help, I just wanted to know because I would like to upload pokemon gold from my real GBC collection to my PC, change some of the sprites and text, then send it back to a gameboy cart so that I had my own personalized pokemon game. Would all that be possible?

Thanks again,

Legendeer

(btw I'm only 12 1/2 and I haven't had much experience with this sort of thing before, although like i said I did attempt to hack pokemon red once before).

[Jet Set Willy]

I don't really have any experience with GBA linkers etc., but as far as not understanding patches goes - keep at it. Hacking is called hacking because that's the best approach to it - just hack away and you begin learning very quickly. You're not even a teen and yet and you're well clued up, so I imagine you'll have a good grasp on things very soon. You might want to read up on hardware and how the GBA interprets the bytes in a ROM, as well as understanding how graphics and strings are stored. Maybe get some programming experience under your belt if you're really interested. Good luck. :-)

[Legendeer]

I would like to be able to play about with ROMS, etc, but I don't know any sites that have good guides or anything. Do anyone know any?

[Jet Set Willy]

Depends what you want to do really. Best thing to do is learn how things work - but that's more of a long term thing, hands on experience, book learning and all that. If you're interested in the basics of actual ROM hacking, stuff like this might come in handy. Knowledge of the machine's actual hardware is pretty much essential for successful hacking though.

[Legendeer]

Okay thanks.

All I know about the GBA is that it's 32-bit, and it's capable of PSone graphics. That's it. I don't understand all about chips and processers, etc.

I know this site tells you all the specs for the systems that it has emulators for, but I don't really understand them.

Thanks for all the help. I'll have 2 be going to be soon (It's 11:00pm here)

As a final word for today, can you tell me where the rules are for this forum, because you're supposed to read them before you post but I can't find them. Thanks a lot you 've been a big help.

[Jet Set Willy]

I dunno, they're somewhere. I don't read them. As long as you don't ask for games or illegal software you'll do fine.

It's 11pm here also, I'm also from the U.K.

[Legendeer]

ok

Hey can I just ask you something:-

How come emulator-zone has loads of emulators, but has no roms for them? I can understand that they don't want to for legal reasons, but it doesn't say where you can get ROMS from either, and there's no point downloading an emulator if there are no ROMS for it.

I already have roms, but newbies who just come onto the site would probably be confused.

The emulators themselves are illegal aren't they?

[Jet Set Willy]

Emulators are mostly legal, though the methods to make them often break reverse engineering rules - but since nobody can prove they were made illegally, they're not illegal as such.

Companies actively search the Internet for ROM sites and have them shut down. If this site were to start hosting copyrighted games, it would eventually be taken offline.