Sonic Advance help!

Yeah, Im actually having this problem too.

 

My Sonic Advance hardly turns on to begin with. :P Why are those carts so damn defective?

Sonic Advance 2 Tiny Chao Garden pwns the Sonic Advance one anyway.

 

Yes, I agree with Lemming ont he whole Chao garden thing. Perhpas Sonic Advance currupts a little or alot when hooked up to the Gamecube with Sonic DX? That is my guess.

 

The best way of resetting everything would be to do an SRAM erase. This would involve opening the cartridge and shorting the battery for a few seconds, thereby corrupting the SRAM. When turned on again, the game would see the checksum was incorrect, and 'reformat' the SRAM back to factory default. Then, you could start all over again and the Chao Garden would accept rings from the main game.

Another way of doing this is to use a Gameshark for the GBA. Take a SRAM dump, then open it in a hex editor and change all the values to 00 (apart from the header which tells the GS what game it's for). Then re-upload this 'blank' file into the GBA cart, and it should have pretty much the same effect - reformatting the SRAM so you can use it as if it was a new game.
(I always do this before selling a GBA game to a second-hand shop, to wipe my save games and leave it in an as-new state).

 

Put simply by shorting the battery, the retention of SRAM would be lost; wiping your save. It is perfectly safe and serves as the main methods for resetting CMOS and BIOS of most major hardware.

The voltages were are talking about from the SRAM battery are too small to do damage to anything.

 

You can jig a normal flat-head screwdriver into doing it, but there are triangle-headed screwdrivers available. Look in your local DIY store and see if they have them available.

I'm no expert on reseting hardware SRAM, but I've found that removing CMOS batteries from computers doesn't actually flush the CMOS unless you use the built-in jumpers with the battery in place.

 

Strange issue. I do know that this doesn't happen in Sonic Advance 2 since I delete my main game data all the time so I can unlock everything again, making things fun again while I gathered rings for my garden. Is this the original Sonic Advance or the Pinball Combo Pack?

 

Dude, it has a battery. You know what a cart battery looks like, right?

 

Change between easy and normal mode, then start playing teh game. That's how I fixed the problem when I had it.

 

Must use some kind of NVRAM that doesn't need a battery - probably the smaller chip. I suppose you could randomly short pins on the chip and hope it deletes the game, but it could also render your cart unusable.

The best way to do a total RAM reset is by getting one of those Action Replay or Gameshark carts.