All your save files go into a folder on the 1gbit section (also known as EZ-Disk) called ‘Saver’
Does this mean save games are stored in the flash ROM? Why does the card have a battery then? Or does this only refer to those instant saves?
On all flash cards I know, the "rechargeable" battery was either not rechargeable at all (XG... ahem) or died after a few months, which meant that the card lost all saves as soon as I turned off my GBA. I even soldered a socket for button cells into my flash card and changed the battery every few weeks -- this is something I don't want to go through again. So if the EZ could keep the saves permanently inside the flash without relying on battery powered SRAM, this would be the greatest improvement ever.
Oh, and another thing:
Does it work with emulators (PocketNES, Goomba, DrSMS)? Perhaps this a stupid question, but I've heard about problems with some flash cards.
I'll explain how the saves work quickly.
The EZ-Flash 3 does indeed have a battery and you'll be happy to know it's rechargable. All you have to do is stick it in the writer and the battery will recahrage. I've never had to do this because i thought the battery needed more charge. I've gone a month without sticking it in the writer and it still worked fine. When you play a game it decompresses to the hidden 128mbit section right? Well when you finish playing the game and turn it off the save is still in that 128mbit section, so when you turn the ez-flash 3 on again in the start up screen for the boot loader it will display a small message saying that it is saving the save file for the last game you played. it only takes a second or two. If you hold in the L button it will cancel saving the sav file. The .sav file is saved to the 1gbit section of the cart so yes, saved games will not disappear on you
When you load the game again, it decompresses as per usual and then for like 1 second or not even that it says 'loading save file' before the game begins (in which time the save is transfered to the 128mbit section along with the rom). The same kind of thing happens on the 256mbit section, all the saves on the cart are found in the 'saver' folder on the 1gbit section.
The EZ-Flash 3 works with all those emulators.
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I see the way it does 256Mbit ROMs as a major limitation. That part really sucks. You get 1 rather then the 3 - 5 that would fit on the 1GB using the compression.
well in the near future (end of march) you will be able to play as many 256mbit games on the EZ-Flash 3 as you want with the software update that's coming out.
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