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| palmer6strings:
--- Quote from: Desolis on July 28, 2014, 04:02:43 AM ---I'm not sure I've ever heard of this happening... How strange. Was the second system you used to test the game of the same model as the first one? --- End quote --- It was the same model yes. --- Quote from: monjici on July 28, 2014, 11:37:52 AM ---On the software development angle, maybe that game accesses a specific address of one chip that others game do not, and you host system has an issue with that chip. Also, have you retried the game in the faulty system after overwriting the saved games? --- End quote --- That I have also tried. --- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on July 28, 2014, 12:04:13 PM ---Wouldn't be 100% applicable in your case, but this side story should get you thinking. Years ago has a card that wasn't being read by a router correctly, but other cards could, so bad card. But it worked in another router. The issue was both the card and router; the card was a bit worn and had a spot that wouldn't make good contact. That same pin was bent on the bad router. With good cards, it could still make contact, but it was warn just enough with the bent pin it couldn't make contact. Unbent the pins a bit and it worked fine. Might be a bad pin on that Gameboy. Could be a combo of cart and gba, or if the cart uses something the other carts don't, then it'd be like monjici was saying. When the program tries to access the chip over the bus, he has a poor connection and dies. --- End quote --- I may have to try bending some pins. |
| Doom:
You seriously didn't write the name of the game anywhere in your post? :( |
| palmer6strings:
I really didn't think it would matter that much considering that every other game I have tested works in it. But if it's needed to know, the cart is mother 3 |
| Doom:
--- Quote from: palmer6strings on July 28, 2014, 04:47:51 PM ---I really didn't think it would matter that much considering that every other game I have tested works in it. But if it's needed to know, the cart is mother 3 --- End quote --- See, that's super significant! If it's a reproduction cart (English patched), then there are a million things that could be wrong with it that a retail, official cart never has to worry about! In particular, the saving mechanism for most repro carts are different than a real cart. |
| palmer6strings:
This I do understand. That illegitimate games can and most likely will have problems. But it's not the cart. It's the system. Why would the system reject a game all the sudden but another system it works fine. |
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