#22476 - Iggy - Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:33 pm
Hello! Firstly, I should point out that I'm a very simple person who fears anything the slightest bit complicated. I guess the word I'm looking for is NOOB. Actually, looking for this site is probably the most brain taxing thing I've done. I've got a Flash2advance 64mb and all I want to know is the simplest way to get some roms from my mac (OS X 10.3) to the flash cart. Before you point out that I should search these forums, I already have. All posts I found were almost a year old and all I got were a couple of terminal apps that I can't get to work. Maybe I should invest in a copy of Virtual PC. Has anyone tried it? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
#22615 - ecurtz - Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:00 am
I ported the f2a stuff to OS X. And although I'm not doing any more development on it and it's buggy it should at least work. What specific issues are you having? Have you made sure you're testing with something that has been tested on hardware by the author?
- eli
#22629 - Iggy - Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:20 pm
cool! Where can I get hold of it?
#22633 - ecurtz - Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:59 pm
I assume it is the Terminal app that you can't get to work, as it is a Terminal app, and it's the only version I know has been ported.
ftp://ftp.nuprometheus.com/pub/f2a.zip
#22647 - izak - Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:59 am
Hello. Mr. Curtz, my question is about his program for the F2A..
After of six months of use, with himself not to even burn but of 64Mbit... There is some option that allows to do it?
I have been study the source code of its program, but unfortunately I am not a programmer, single mac fan without PC.
Thanks beforehand and continue with its great work.
-Izak
#22655 - Iggy - Sat Jun 26, 2004 9:49 am
Yeah yours is the one i can't get to work. This is what happens when I open it up.
It lists all the commands -
-r read data from cart
-w write data to cart
....etc...
logout
[process completed]
...nothing happens.
I know that the answer is something very silly but I am a very dim person. Thanks very much for your help.
#22686 - tepples - Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:43 pm
Iggy, does the behavior you mentioned also happen when you give it the appropriate flag from the command line? Or have you never used the *n?x command line before?
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#22699 - Iggy - Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:57 am
never used it. when you press a key it just beeps at you.
#22708 - ecurtz - Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:14 pm
Iggy, You're going to need to use the Terminal application. Fortunately you can use a really easy and lazy methods to do it.
Try this.
Plug your linker into the usb port.
Run the Terminal application so it brings up the prompt window.
Drag the f2a program onto the prompt window. This will copy the location of the program onto the prompt.
Drag the ROM you want into the window. This will add it as a parameter to the program.
Press the 'return' key to execute the program.
Since writing a single ROM is the default action this SHOULD run the program and send your ROM. When it tells you to start the gba in multiboot mode turn it on with 'start' and 'select' held down.
Hope this helps. Otherwise search in the help or online for tutorials on using the Terminal/command line.
-eli
#22711 - ecurtz - Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:17 pm
Izak,
Is your bug that you cannot write more than 64Mbit? I only have 64Mbit carts, so that is all that I have tested it with. Does it give an error message?
- eli
#22713 - Iggy - Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:25 pm
Thankyou! I'll try it out.
#22726 - izak - Mon Jun 28, 2004 1:07 am
Cool,, here is :
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OSLOs-Computer:~/desktop/f2a oslo$ ./f2a game.gba
New device added.
Please restart GBA in multiboot mode
USB Error: Unable to perform bulk write (e0004051)
F2A Error: Unable to write ROM data (e0004051)
OSLOs-Computer:~/desktop/f2a oslo$
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Every time is the same ......
-izak
#22784 - Iggy - Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:54 am
Still didn't work. BUT, I used virtual pc and it works like a dream! What I don't understand is why a rom on the flash cart is 8 times the size it originally was? Anyway, I'm starting to get off-topic now. Thanks.
#22795 - tepples - Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:41 pm
To remain consistent with measures of ROM sizes published in Nintendo Power since 1990, GBA flash cart software expresses ROM sizess in megabits, not megabytes, assuming eight bits in a byte.
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#24775 - gir - Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:29 am
I tried the above program and it works for single roms but I get the unable to perform bulk write error with more than one rom and a loader.
Any ideas?
Gir.
#29019 - Yosemite - Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:27 am
| ecurtz wrote: |
Izak,
Is your bug that you cannot write more than 64Mbit? I only have 64Mbit carts, so that is all that I have tested it with. Does it give an error message?
- eli |
I used eli's soft, worked really nice (thanks) but I can't write more than 64Mbit carts. Trying to write 128Mbit it gave an error after writing 64Mbit. I also would like how to copy more than one rom at once with it.
Thank you for your replies.