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Paper Mario 64 - NUS-EUR-1 version (PAL saves issue)

Started by MarioIsPaper, 12/Aug/2020 10:13:34 AM

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MarioIsPaper

Hello there Retrode community!

First of all. I am trying to get my saves to work on the Pj64 emulator. (I have dumped both my rom + saves)

The game I have problem with:
Paper Mario 64 - NUS-EUR-1 version (PAL saves issue)
.fla save

some info:
Firmwire 0.25a i think it was? the newest at least.
I am using PAL games.
I have set the Retrode to 3.3 volt? I think it was. (not using 5 volt)
I have unchecked "read only"

Here we go:
I have recently been backing up my N64 Games everything has went smoothly. from Zelda .fla to .sra game saves.
I used the Saveswap for the Zelda games. Which worked perfectly fine with the emulator and it is booting and the saves are there. Works like a charm basically.
Here is the problem I have though:
I am doing the same procedure with Paper Mario 64.
I uncheck the "read only"
I put it in the saveswap (tried all the settings by unchecking and check those settings i can)
The problem is that after I have done that and boot it up on the emulator. Everything seems fine.
However. File 1 and 3 saves is then missing after the saveswap. However. I can see saves 2 and 4.
When I boot it on my real Nintendo 64. File 1 and 3 is there. as well as 2 and 4

Sending some a pic of the emulator compared to the real hardware + the og save file directly dumped from the cartidage.
Does anyone have any idea what can be done? or if this is an issue that hasnt been solved somehow? :(

What I want in the end:
I want all 4 saves to be there when i boot it from an emulator.
Which means I want 1 and 3 to be there :(

I did attach a picture from the real console and the emulator one.
Edit:
I also added a rar file for the save file (Hello there Retrode community!

First of all. I am trying to get my saves to work on the Pj64 emulator. (I have dumped both my rom + saves)

The game I have problem with:
Paper Mario 64 - NUS-EUR-1 version (PAL saves issue)
.fla save

some info:
Firmwire 0.25a i think it was? the newest at least.
I am using PAL games.
I have set the Retrode to 3.3 volt? I think it was. (not using 5 volt)
I have unchecked "read only"

Here we go:
I have recently been backing up my N64 Games everything has went smoothly. from Zelda .fla to .sra game saves.
I used the Saveswap for the Zelda games. Which worked perfectly fine with the emulator and it is booting and the saves are there. Works like a charm basically.
Here is the problem I have though:
I am doing the same procedure with Paper Mario 64.
I uncheck the "read only"
I put it in the saveswap (tried all the settings by unchecking and check those settings i can)
The problem is that after I have done that and boot it up on the emulator. Everything seems fine.
However. File 1 and 3 saves is then missing after the saveswap. However. I can see saves 2 and 4.
When I boot it on my real Nintendo 64. File 1 and 3 is there. as well as 2 and 4

Sending some a pic of the emulator compared to the real hardware + the og save file directly dumped from the cartidage.
Does anyone have any idea what can be done? or if this is an issue that hasnt been solved somehow? :(

What I want in the end:
I want all 4 saves to be there when i boot it from an emulator.
Which means I want 1 and 3 to be there :(

I did attach a picture from the real console and the emulator one.
Edit:
I also added a rar file for the save file (it is untouched, which means i have not used saveswap yet)

skaman

If you're able to open the cart, please take a picture of the front of the board with the chip labels clearly readable and post the picture here.

skaman

It looks like File 1 data is still in the save although the data is shifted.  The File 3 data is missing or incomplete.

Aligning the shifted data results in this:

MarioIsPaper

Quote from: skaman on 14/Aug/2020 04:42:42 AM
It looks like File 1 data is still in the save although the data is shifted.  The File 3 data is missing or incomplete.

Aligning the shifted data results in this:


Oh god. I am so sorry for this late reply. Somehow Retrode havent wanted me to not log in giving me an "timed out error" everytime!
This is so cool though wow!
I am so bad with these things but.
How do you aligning things and such? Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do it? or if you can show me how you did it? since the 1st save is the important one