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Flash Equipment > F2A hangs at rom selection

#10974 - foobar - Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:11 pm

Hi all,

today my shiny F2A 128M USB cart arrived. *Of course* I now have the first problem. I'm using the cart under Linux and tried writing with f2a and if2a from http://deyv.free.fr/gba/f2a/

Writing itself works like a charm. The GBA SP shows the progress and then it says it is "Ready". Now I disconnect the USB linker and try to run a ROM. The GBA loader 3.2 screen comes up and lets me select any of the games or demos I wrote. I press "A" and that's it. The GBA seems to just hang there in a freeze.

I tried several gba files, mostly some demos and games, for example the Compo stuff, but nevertheless nothing would boot. I cannot test writing with a Windows machine for the next 2 days, but I fear that the card just might be defect?

Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here?

Thanks a lot for any help.

ciao,
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foobar

#11011 - foobar - Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:09 pm

Here's a little bit more info:

It also happens with the supplied F2A Writer under Windows 98. So it's not Linux-specific at all. If I only burn one Rom without the GBA Loader, the GBA hangs at the Gamboy logo.

Any ideas?

Thank you.
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foobar