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Beginners > pogoshell save question + others.

#69854 - pure_ev1l - Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:04 am

ok, trying to find answers to a few questions and I have searched, but some things I don't know which keywords to seach for.

I'm not a newbie, but not hugely experienced, I am half way through making a game and not a total idiot.

1) I managed to poke the right ppl to release pogoshell 2.0B4 for the EFA, and now it saves, BUT if I write .sav files in pogoshell and then try to copy them to sram folder it works but it doesn't link to the game, as in I cant load in the game it correspondes to. can someone expain why / how pogoshell links saves to games / anything helpfull?

2) simular to 1, when I overwrite pogoshell the saves are still there but I cant access them from there respective games, why?

3) if I backup a save from pogoshell and take out the individual saves with a sram explorer program can I then upload a pogoshell save file made up of saves collected together using sram explorer? (cant test yet as they havent fixed the bug on EFA cleint)

4) kinda a DS question. whats the best way to play ds and gba games on a ds? and what os is there? am i right u use passme or something? can I run megadrive games on a ds (cant on gba, and isn't coz megadrive has dual pro?)
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#69930 - tepples - Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:09 am

pure_ev1l wrote:
4) kinda a DS question. whats the best way to play ds and gba games on a ds? and what os is there?

For commercial games, the best way is to use an official Game Pak. For homebrew games, it may depend on the title.

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am i right u use passme or something?

Yes, depending on which version of DS firmware you have.

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can I run megadrive games on a ds (cant on gba, and isn't coz megadrive has dual pro?)

There is a Megadrive emulator that runs at 1fps because it hasn't yet been optimized specifically for the DS hardware. Which homebrew ROMs did you want to run?
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#69963 - pure_ev1l - Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:36 am

well, I only really want 1 game for the ds and its mario 64 which I have the cart for. and I want all the sonic's you see, as I have the carts too and I have lost my mega drive. (actually I'm using first person but its my gf)

so basically I want to play the games I most definately have but on the DS.

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Yes, depending on which version of DS firmware you have.


I have an old firmware.

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There is a Megadrive emulator that runs at 1fps because it hasn't yet been optimized specifically for the DS hardware. Which homebrew ROMs did you want to run?


so there's nothing better yet?

still wondering about the pogoshell questions :-) (1-3)
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