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Just got back into playing my GB/GBA games. I have my GameCube hooked up in my living room just for the Game Boy Player (if I want to play an actual GameCube game, I’ll use the Wii U!)

A couple notes on getting certain games to work:

* For the emulators, see my last post - the custom .pat file has been working great. * I got Advance Wars working by using GBATA to patch the .gba file itself before putting it onto the SD card.

By the way, I noticed when playing Kid Dracula on Goomba Paletted that loading a savestate made all the audio go away. Anyone have any idea why that might be?

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Just wanted to note here - the guides and stuff on this blog are for 1.x versions of the firmware. If you’re using a 2.x version, it might not be accurate - and if you’re using a newer EZ-Flash card it probably won’t help you very much.

I don’t know if it would be worth it to me to get the emulators (Goomba, SMSAdvance, etc) working properly on 2.x firmware with save support. If someone’s already got them working, though, it might be worth a shot.

By the way, I also got a Motorola Z-series phone recently with a gamepad attachment. The hardware works pretty well (A and B buttons are awkwardly close to the edge), but emulators on Android are such a pain to set up, and most of the games I want to play are either on GBC, GBA, or something like the Wii that I can’t carry with me (yet).

EDIT: I think I got the emulators working on 2.x. Don’t use versions patched for the EZ4 - use the original versions - and use this .pat file: https://gbatemp.net/threads/pocketnes-goomba-cologne-and-smsadvance-sram-and-exit-patched-updated.439715/page-2#post-7808771

A couple notes:

* I ported the Clearlooks theme to 2.03: https://ezflash.sosuke.com/viewtopic.php?p=79265#p79265. I’m not actually using it, though - I’ve been using EZ-Flat IV from here: http://gbatemp.net/threads/ez-flat-iv-2-03-a-skin-for-your-ez-flash-iv-card-kernel-2-03.477216/page-2

* For emulated games (PocketNES, Goomba, etc.) - make sure that your save files are the correct size (always 64 KiB, as far as I know) by running the games in an emulator on your PC first! The EZ4 firmware seems to create these as 8 KB files, which is just plain wrong.

* On second thought, this might be because the ROMs are not SRAM patched appropriately. I wonder if I have to use already patched versions...

* For Master System games with SRAM (e.g. http://www.smspower.org/forums/16207-TailsAdventureSMSDeluxeUpdateV15), you’ll have to save it manually once. From then on, SMSAdvance will remember to save it whenever you open the menu.

There were some recent updates to the EZ-Flash firmware (2.0.1) that includes on-cart patching. Any chance of a version with the "Clearlooks" theme? The new included theme is a little messy. (I can't link in one of these questions but the new firmware is at ezflash[.]cn/download)

I haven’t gotten a change to try the new firmware, but others have ported the skin: https://ezflash.sosuke.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=20397&start=30

Clearlooks theme with 1.77 firmware

I couldn’t find a working link so I put one together myself.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nu2l7l0502u7rfa/Clearlooks_v6_%281.77%29.bin

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Hi, I was wondering: How can I insert manually an ascdat file into ezfla_upbin like you did to create the full Clearlooks skin? I don't know how to open ezfla_upbin... Thanks!

Use my version R9 of EZ4skin and it will replace the asc.dat for you. I just tried it (that’s why I’m here right now) and it wouldn’t run due to a missing dll, so I recompiled it with Visual C++ 2015:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/7kb25a65r5vz27i/EZ4skin-R9_%28unofficial%29_%28Visual_C_2015%29.zip

You’ll need the Visual C++ 2015 runtime installed.

Do you know if there are similar blogs for things like R4 cards? Or other products?

I’m not sure. Honestly I’m kind of out of the loop even on this.

Hello, I just bought EZ-Flash IV (mini sd one), and I'm playing without problem. But, I can't figure out how to back to EZ-Flash menu after playing game. I mean, I just turn off my gameboy sp, and turn on to go to manu again. Any suggest?

That’s what I usually do. Usually though, when you patch the game with the EZ4 client, it adds a button combo to exit/reset - I think it’s L+R+Start+Select or L+R+A+B or something like that.

Emulators have their own exit options in the menu.

I have a DS R4 card and the EZflashIV, is one better at one thing than the other, how do I set them up so they work together, or can I not? I have the new IV with sdhc support.

That’s a good question! Unfortunately, there’s no way I know of to get them to work together, exactly.

What I would do is use the EZ-Flash IV for GBA games, and also GB/GBC or Game Gear games (since it can emulate those well and the screen size is smaller anyway.) I’d use the DS card for anything else - the DS is a bit more powerful, and (maybe more importantly) the screen is a bit larger.

If I haven’t answered your question yet, it’s because I don’t know the answer.

You should probably post your questions at the GBA section of the gbatemp forums to get a more prompt response.

By the way, in this thread is the version of EZ4skin I used to patch 1.75, and if you go to the last page, someone has made 1.76 and 1.77 skins based on my Clearlooks theme.

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How do I delete files from the EZ Flash IV on the GBA system?

I’m not sure if you can do it using the GBA. I would just put the SD card into a computer/USB reader and do it there. Save files are stored in SAVER if you want to remove those.

Hello ^^ I'm wondering if you'll be releasing aversion of your clearlooks skin for firmware 1.76? Love from Korea <3

I’d like to at some point - just haven’t gotten around to updating my firmware yet.

Hey I have the EZ402 2014.081 (The black one with a micro sd slot). The main menue says it runs on Firmware version 1.50. When I try to run Super Mario Advance 3 Yoshi's Island I get a black screen. Google told me that this problem could be solved by downgrading to the 1.27 Reset firmware. However, as those are posts from 2007 I''m afraid that that might ruin the card. Any advice? Thanks in advance :)

Some skins/firmware have the reset patch in them, even newer versions like this one which is based on 1.77. I don’t remember if those newer versions work on the white EZ4s or not.

I see that there's supposed to be a link to Clearlooks 1.76, but I can't click/download it for some reason. Could this be fixed (possibly)?

Do you mean 1.75? If so, thanks - I fixed the link.

Hello, I was wondering if installing your skin will downgrade my firmware from 1.76 back to 1.75? Is that how skinning works? It seems to me that the skins are embedded in the firmware, so every time I flash a skin I am reflashing firmware as well? If so, I would like to make my own, but I am having difficulty finding any solid tutorials that aren't really outdated. Thanks for any help you can afford!

Yes, installing the skin would downgrade the firmware, but I think someone out there has made a version of my skin with the newer firmware. I can’t remember where I saw it, though.

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Hi! I'm brand new to the EZ-flash IV, but last night I got mine up and running without too much trouble. What I'm wondering now is this - how many themes are available for firmware 1.77, and where can I find them? Thank you for your helpful guides!

Best places to look are https://ezflash.sosuke.com/viewforum.php?f=13 and https://gbatemp.net/forums/gba-flashing-hardware-and-software.6/.

What does the EZ4 Client do exactly? Is it really necessary? I'd like to move my entire collection of GBA games to my flashcart, saves included, but since the client is so restricted on the number of games you can load, besides changing every rom's name instead of keeping the filename, it's been a real pain to use.

I believe it applies a couple of patches to the ROM (one so saving works, another that puts a key combo that resets the EZ4 so you can save.) I think GBATA can also apply these patches, but I don’t remember how to do it there.

It also creates a blank save file in the SAVER folder for your game, of the appropriate size. IIRC, there are problems if the file doesn’t exist when you try to save. For this, you can just run the ROM in an emulator on your PC and have it create a new save file, then copy that file over to SAVER.

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