Emulation help?

[GalaxyPixel]

I attempted to play Final Fantasy VI Advanced on my old DS Lite both with and without the music and color restoration patches. When trying to boot the game it just goes to this white screen after language selection. All other GBA roms work with no issue and I cannot seem to figure out the cause or a fix for the issue. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[RadioJoNES]

Maybe you need the procure the bios in a legal means and put it in a folder or something

 

[nsilvias]

prob a bad rom

 

[Taco_Human]

How are you playing? You look up any specific problems with your flash cart?

 

[Atom]

test the rom on a computer or sth/mgba etc.

How are you running this? Off a flash cart? Or an R4 running a homebrew GBA emulator or sth? On rare occassion flashcarts might not support a random rom, or might generate the wrong save file size, or any other number of issues.

 

[GalaxyPixel]

test the rom on a computer or sth/mgba etc.

How are you running this? Off a flash cart? Or an R4 running a homebrew GBA emulator or sth? On rare occassion flashcarts might not support a random rom, or might generate the wrong save file size, or any other number of issues.

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I'm using an R4 Cart with GBARunner2. I've tried roms from several sources both patched and no patches applied not sure if that matters.

 

[Turnabout Sisters]

No solution, but someone had the same issue

Final Fantasy VI Advance Europe white screen · Issue #306 · Gericom/GBARunner2

When trying to run the game, it goes to the language selection screen, but after it, it stays indefinitely with a white screen, but the GBARunner2 menu still can be accessed Only happens with this ...

github.com

 

[GalaxyPixel]

No solution, but someone had the same issue

Final Fantasy VI Advance Europe white screen · Issue #306 · Gericom/GBARunner2

When trying to run the game, it goes to the language selection screen, but after it, it stays indefinitely with a white screen, but the GBARunner2 menu still can be accessed Only happens with this ...

github.com

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I would bet money they found a fix to the issue and never posted about it.

 

[Atom]

I'm using an R4 Cart with GBARunner2. I've tried roms from several sources both patched and no patches applied not sure if that matters.

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Afaik gbarunner2 is quite hit or miss especially when not running on a cfw dsi/3DS, but even then there can be issues.

Would recommend grabbing an everdrive or ez flash slot 2 flashcart to avoid issues, or a retro emulation handheld etc like an rg35xx.

If you have access to 3DS custom VC injects I think are a generally more stable way to play gba games as well.

 

[Turnabout Sisters]

On the compatibility list, there's an "x" for "works without cache" (first column) and a check for "works with cache" (2nd column)
I honestly don't know what that means but is there some sort of setting to enable a cache?

 

[poptire]

Are you sure your ROM version matches the version needed in the patch? I remember something about headers needing to match but it was a very long time ago.

 

[GalaxyPixel]

I have fixed the issues!

For future reference and for anyone else that has trouble with this in the future what you need to do is have a GBA bios file in your _gba folder on the sd card and make sure it is labeled bios.bin all lowercase. You then have to make sure that center and mask setting is turned on in GBARunner2 specifically for Final Fantasy 6 Advance.