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DS Flash Equipment > EZ PASS 2 + G6 cart + NDS Lite = blank screen? What's wrong?

#82190 - wracks - Thu May 04, 2006 2:36 pm

I have posted this on other forums, but no one knew how to help me:

Quote:

Am I missing something here? Am I doing something wrong?

I just got a DS Lite. Bought a G6 3rd Gen flash kit from Linker4u and was horrified by the fact that the kit doesn't include their passkey 2.
So I got an EZ Flash 2, and bought Castlevania (NTR-ACVE-USA).

I followed this guide http://www.ezflash.cn/pass2/step.html
Everything went fine, I used this JED file (from the guide I linked): 121 ACVE-0 Castlevania - Dawn of Sorrow (U).

But when I turn my DS Lite on, the screens go blank (white) after that warning that shows up everytime you turn it on.

I did put an NDS rom on the flash cart, but is that enough? What am I doing wrong?


I tried using pepsiman's sram writer, I picked the correct game, it saved the sram. Then I inserted the ez pass 2, turned the ds off and on, and still got the blank screens.

While searching on this forum, I did find this:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=7217&highlight=g6flash

Pepsiman gave the following instructions:
pepsiman wrote:
add the homebrew program as a gba rom using the g6 software.
replace the savefile it creates (the .0 file) with a copy of the sram.bin padded to the same size.
Boot the G6 in GBA mode (no passkey inserted).
load the program.
insert passkey.
press and hold the button on the g6.
turn off ds.
turn on ds.


So, where do I get this sram.bin padded to the same size?

Also, my G6 cart is 3rd gen, it doesn't have any buttons on it...
help, please? :)

Last edited by wracks on Thu May 04, 2006 4:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

#82199 - tepples - Thu May 04, 2006 3:23 pm

Make a copy of sram.bin. Then use 'padbin' (a command line tool that comes with GBFS or with devkitARM) to give it the same size. For example, open a command prompt window and do this:
Code:
padbin 65536 "Copy of sram.bin"

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#82208 - wracks - Thu May 04, 2006 4:10 pm

tepples wrote:
Make a copy of sram.bin. Then use 'padbin' (a command line tool that comes with GBFS or with devkitARM) to give it the same size. For example, open a command prompt window and do this:
Code:
padbin 65536 "Copy of sram.bin"


Ok, but where to I get the sram.bin in the first place? where is it?

#82212 - tepples - Thu May 04, 2006 4:22 pm

wracks wrote:
Ok, but where to I get the sram.bin in the first place? where is it?

Here. In many cases "sram.bin" may be called "(something).sav".
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#82216 - wracks - Thu May 04, 2006 4:33 pm

It worked!
Thank you!
After a week searching and asking around I finally got this ez pass 2 working.

Again, thank you :)