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Beginners > Homebrew ROMS white screen?

#150796 - NinjaMonkeyPirate - Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:03 pm

A lot of the games I've downloaded from here just give me the white screen(Vulkanon2.0 for example).

They play in emulators fine, so I thought it was just the ELF binary, but

objcopy -v -O binary yourromname.elf yourromname.gba

Said that the input format was wrong, which I am assumming means that it is not in ELF format.

I'm sure I'm just overlooking somethign simple, does anyone know what it might be?

#150798 - kusma - Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:32 pm

Try running "gbafix" on them first. Some developers does not want to distribute binaries containing the copyrighted Nintendo-logo, which needs to be present to boot on a real GBA.

#150802 - NinjaMonkeyPirate - Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:42 pm

GBAFix, forgot about that. But alas, the headers are fine, I geuss I fixed them before, even still, I tried fixing them again but they still don't work.

Funny thing is, some of them work and some don't, but I can't find any real consistancy among the ones that don't.