Posted: 10/3/2013 2:42 AM
Post subject: Memory Cheat not working for GBx games in VBA-rr 23.6 svn480
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TerraEsperZ
Joined: 4/2/2008
Posts: 6
Location: Quebec
Hi everyone. I'm a big fan of VBA-RR which I regularly use to capture and assemble screenshot maps for GBx and GBA games. However, there's a rather persistent bug which I've observed that seems to go back all the way to the original VBA. Namely, I can't seem to edit the memory when playing GB or GBC games. I can search the memory fine, and even add as many cheats as I want, but they never seem to actually do anything. No matter the game I play, cheat codes simply don't work, either codes taken online or codes I made myself by searching RAM. Since I'm not a regular poster here or even all that aware of the development for VBA-RR, I don't know if the version I've been using, v23.6 svn480, is supposed to be the latest stable build or if v24 is better (or worse). Maybe this bug has been fixed but so far, after so many years, it seems to have eluded everyone. If it hasn't, is this a bug that is known? I've taken a look at the various threads here and the list of issues on the code.google.com page for VBA-RR and I haven't found anything related to this. I'd really appreciate if someone could shed some light on this issue and if there's a chance it might be fixed someday. Or, failing that, if there are other GBx/GBA emulators without this bug but with the same awesome features as VBA-RR. Thanks in advance for everything and I hope I don't come off as too needy, whiny or demanding. You guys are great.
Posted: 10/4/2013 9:00 PM
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TerraEsperZ
Joined: 4/2/2008
Posts: 6
Location: Quebec
Ha, I knew I read about something like that a while ago. I figure this might be related to if not the exact same thing that I've described. Below I'm posting a link to a patch for VBA-M about this problem; it might help you guys see if the same thing is happening with VBA-RR. http://sourceforge.net/p/vbam/patches/23/
Posted: 10/4/2013 10:17 PM
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VBA 24m is the latest version and is a merge between VBA-rr and VBA-m which fixed a lot of glitches in games. But I don't know about your memory problem.. Maybe your emulator is set to "disable" cheats.
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Posted: 10/4/2013 11:54 PM
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TerraEsperZ
Joined: 4/2/2008
Posts: 6
Location: Quebec
MUGG wrote:
VBA 24m is the latest version and is a merge between VBA-rr and VBA-m which fixed a lot of glitches in games. But I don't know about your memory problem.. Maybe your emulator is set to "disable" cheats.
Thank you for this information. From what little I've tested with VBA-RR 24m, editing memory finally works with GBx games, which was sorely needed for many of my projects.