Can't get dropped items in Breath of Fire II

[Flávio Alves]

I play Breath of Fire II using an EZ Flash III cart, and for many years an issue has troubled me: whenever I win a fight and the enemy drops an item, that item never goes to my inventory. I have tried several different ROMs, but the problem is always there and I can't find anybody else with the same issue.

Since I play on an EZ Flash III cart, I was wondering if it could be a problem with the cart itself (e.g. compatibility issues or whatever). Is there any reported bug about that (BOF II played on EZFlash III)? Does anybody know of a specific ROM that'll not have that bug?

[Zorlon]

Could be the flash kit never heard or had this issue myself

http://www.pocketheaven.com/ph/bubbz...&section=patch has most the olde GBA patches BOF2 is not there

there may yet be a BOF2 patch around just for your kit though but if there is I can't find it

Have you got the latest verified roms, verfied with some sort of dat for Clrmame/RomCenter or something like OfflineList

As you may or may not know alot of games have several dumps (not talking region here) usually dumped again and again until they get a perfect dump

[Flávio Alves]

I have been playing the ROM available here at EP (GBAMerge 3.14), the one with the [!] indicating that it's a good dump.

I have asked at EZ Flash USA Forums, and the moderator hadn't heard of that issue either. I guess I'll look for some patches somewhere.

[Zorlon]

what is the crc for the E and U version? I will check it against what I have.

P.S. are you trimming the rom or anything??? if so don't

[MaslowK]

Is there any reason you can't play the Snes version instead? Can't imagine the same bug would be present in both versions of the game.

[_Gambit]

Is there any reason you can't play the Snes version instead? Can't imagine the same bug would be present in both versions of the game.

How is SNES emulation on the GBA? Last I checked (some years ago) it sucked pretty bad imo.

[Zorlon]

How is SNES emulation on the GBA? Last I checked (some years ago) it sucked pretty bad imo.

Nothings changed lol most development moved to NDS and snes sucks on that aswell, as in unplayable and horrible display methods (snes display is higher res to that of the GBA and NDS)

as for emulation

NES GB to GBC GameGear & Mastersystem are the good ones

Megadrive and PC Engine are not too bad, but display kinda sucks and compat is kinda off aswell, some of it is good though

PSP has good SNES emulation but even on there some games do lag, what chance does a GBA have if the PSP only just does it good enough with some games




Out of interest have you tried using the save from your flash kit with VBA and the rom to see if you get the same problem

[MaslowK]

How is SNES emulation on the GBA? Last I checked (some years ago) it sucked pretty bad imo.

Oh, wasn't aware he was playing his roms on GBA hardware. Don't mind me carry on

[Flávio Alves]

Sorry it took me so long to answer this, I found out I hadn't adjust my settings to receive e-mail alerts of subscribed topics being replied...

what is the crc for the E and U version? I will check it against what I have.

P.S. are you trimming the rom or anything??? if so don't

What do you mean by crc and trimming?

Is there any reason you can't play the Snes version instead? Can't imagine the same bug would be present in both versions of the game.

The GBA version has better battle menus. The Exp. given by enemies has been doubled and the Coins have been tripled.

Out of interest have you tried using the save from your flash kit with VBA and the rom to see if you get the same problem

I just installed VBA GX. I will try it as soon as I can and report back. Thanks for the help everyone!

[Zorlon]

crc is the check sum, we or rather I can use that to see if your rom is verified as a good dump or not.

you can see that just by opening the zip file with 7-zip.

rom trimming is something you can do to make the rom smaller it usually just gets rid of junk data that filles a rom up and makes it a set size it can have both negative effects and positive ones though, personly I don't trim my games unless it fixes something.

[MaslowK]

The GBA version has better battle menus. The Exp. given by enemies has been doubled and the Coins have been tripled.

Ah, right. I was actually playing the GBA version recently (less grinding, which was always an issue I had with the snes version); got all the way to the weather tower bit and just stopped playing, not sure why. I'd definitely look into getting a different rom than the one you've been using if you're still trying to get it to work on your flashcart.

I just installed VBA GX. I will try it as soon as I can and report back. Thanks for the help everyone!

Out of curiosity are you talking about the GBA emulator for the Wii? I've actually had speed issues using that particular emulator surprisingly, even on less resource-intensive games like say, the GBA pokemon games.

[Flávio Alves]

I just tried playing BOF II on VBA GX and the issue is gone! It was probably an issue with the flash cart. And yes, I used to compress my games when adding them to EZFlash III, although I'm not sure if I did it with this particular game (my GBA is not here right now). Anyway, I am now playing the Wii emulator a lot more than the GBA itself, so that problem is probably gone.

Yes, VBA GX is the GBA emulator for the Wii. I haven't had any speed problems with most games, but both of the Golden Suns run extremely slow... It's so slow you just give up playing...

[Zorlon]

Well thats good atleast, yeah trimming or compressing (that is trimming as the rom is not realy compressed) can cause problems with some games, but most should be fine, not that it matters if you are using the emu for the Wii instead

Out of interest what other consoles do you have that are modded, either by software or a mod chip?

[Flávio Alves]

Besides my Wii (which is softmodded), I have a PSX, a PS2 and a Gamecube, all three of them with a modchip.

[Zorlon]

Shame the PS2 does not have a better GBA emu

Xbox if you had one has a great GBA emu aswell as a ton of others up to PSX and N64 though i can't blame you for not being fussed over PSX, owning one that is chipped anyway

The PSP is the other console that has great GBA emulation

The Wii though has plenty to offer in emulation specially if you like lightgun games... retro lightgun games as in NES SNES and GENESIS and Mastersystem work great with the Wii Mote

Personly I own
PSone mod chipped (NES emulates well on it )
PSX grey thing with back port mod
Saturn - utilising a swop/swap trick (can't say I have looked into emulating on it)
Dreamcast - No mod needed the beast plays backups without a mod chip or soft mod or swop/swap trick (Lots of emulators for the DC beasty)
PS2 Softmod (There are a few emulators that work good up to Genesis and SNES, there not great though only good)
GameCube - Softmod, though I don't use it as my Wii can play em
Xbox softmodded (Has the best sellection of emulators for it)
Wii softmodded (There are some nice emulators for it)
360 not modded
PS3 not modded

PSP softmodded (Has a great collection of emulators for it)
DS - DS flash kit with GBA expantion for GBA games and DS games (there are a few lower end systems emulated here)
3DS - DS flash kit (there are no 3DS software flash kits so I can only play DS games with it - emulation is much the same as above)

A bunch of GBA's with no flash kits (I use them with GameCube software that used GBA's... Zelda 4 Swords for example)