(Sorry for my poor English in advance )
I'm trying to get my old EFA Linker work these days, my grandfather bought it to me with a AUS version black GBASP around 2004~2006, can't remember the date.
I played with it for sometime, it was fuctioned alright back then, RTC in main menu, run the games and saving ability was just fine. But one day something went wrong, it can't save no more, and the clock will reset every time I restart GBASP. It went worse later, I can't launch the games at all, and... when I insert the card and turn the power on, I can't even see the Nintendo logo, only GAME BOY shows up until now.
Back in the days I was only a kid, I don't know anything about this machine (GBASP) and the card itself, I managed to took off the stickers on the card, tried to use black markpen to make the back of my GBASP and the card surface looks in one piece lol (I can't read English at all back then). This causes the problem when recognizing this card is 256 or 512 or Long card or some other version cards.
Now huge Thanks to how_do_i_do_that and all these old threads I could find here, I miraculously got my card connected to my Virtual Machine XP System, and installed the drivers, downloaded the Client and sucessfully detected my card. The Client shows this card is a 512M card. (I tried installing other drivers for longcard and fake simple card without RTC, only 2.62 could work.)
My pc detected my card, I am super excited when seeing the green light lit on the card, I never seen it before in my life. However, when I'm trying to writing some small early GBA roms into the card for a test (2001, 4MB game), damn new problems show up.
The Client shows it's writing roms into the card, I can see the process going, but once it's done, it refresh the list automatically, the list looks still blank, and I think it actually is... There's still no game in the card. I unplug the card, and reconnect it to the computer, sucessfully detected thanks god, but it's still an empty card. I restart my computer, reinstall the driver, try different roms to write in, none of these methods worked so far. I insert the card back to my GBASP, it still only display GAME BOY. I have the card connected to the computer almost 48 hours, according to the Instructions it supposed to be fully charged already. Where's the problem?? I thought I almoosst made it, get this old thing come back alive to work again, but I stuck here... It's so close!
Please help! I will be very very appreciated...! I really want to fix it.
Is its battery dead? Do I need to replace the battery? After replacing the battery, will this can't write rom problem be solved? I have no clue, it's too old, I can't find any other informations about EFA Linker elsewhere, all I could do is to count on gaining anwsers from you guys...
I'm trying to get my old EFA Linker work these days, my grandfather bought it to me with a AUS version black GBASP around 2004~2006, can't remember the date.
I played with it for sometime, it was fuctioned alright back then, RTC in main menu, run the games and saving ability was just fine. But one day something went wrong, it can't save no more, and the clock will reset every time I restart GBASP. It went worse later, I can't launch the games at all, and... when I insert the card and turn the power on, I can't even see the Nintendo logo, only GAME BOY shows up until now.
Back in the days I was only a kid, I don't know anything about this machine (GBASP) and the card itself, I managed to took off the stickers on the card, tried to use black markpen to make the back of my GBASP and the card surface looks in one piece lol (I can't read English at all back then). This causes the problem when recognizing this card is 256 or 512 or Long card or some other version cards.
Now huge Thanks to how_do_i_do_that and all these old threads I could find here, I miraculously got my card connected to my Virtual Machine XP System, and installed the drivers, downloaded the Client and sucessfully detected my card. The Client shows this card is a 512M card. (I tried installing other drivers for longcard and fake simple card without RTC, only 2.62 could work.)
My pc detected my card, I am super excited when seeing the green light lit on the card, I never seen it before in my life. However, when I'm trying to writing some small early GBA roms into the card for a test (2001, 4MB game), damn new problems show up.
The Client shows it's writing roms into the card, I can see the process going, but once it's done, it refresh the list automatically, the list looks still blank, and I think it actually is... There's still no game in the card. I unplug the card, and reconnect it to the computer, sucessfully detected thanks god, but it's still an empty card. I restart my computer, reinstall the driver, try different roms to write in, none of these methods worked so far. I insert the card back to my GBASP, it still only display GAME BOY. I have the card connected to the computer almost 48 hours, according to the Instructions it supposed to be fully charged already. Where's the problem?? I thought I almoosst made it, get this old thing come back alive to work again, but I stuck here... It's so close!
Please help! I will be very very appreciated...! I really want to fix it.
Is its battery dead? Do I need to replace the battery? After replacing the battery, will this can't write rom problem be solved? I have no clue, it's too old, I can't find any other informations about EFA Linker elsewhere, all I could do is to count on gaining anwsers from you guys...