Originally posted by oluvinu:

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Hello guys:)
im looking to buy a m3 real card for my NDS. i read in the forum about possible fakes. where is a good site or sites i can be a genuine one ?? trying to get this rolling before xmas.

thanks for any help you guys can give!!!!

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Originally posted by prophet78:

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I'm having an issue with my M3 Ds and the GBA advanced expansion pack.

I've had the whole package (M3, GBA Exp and Rumble pack) for almost a year now and it has been working fine (with the exclusion from the dying spring loader of the M3 itself - I remove the Sd card with tweasers :P); today I went to play GBA games on it and found that during short periods of time it would save, but after an hour or so the save file would be gone. All my previous games (GBA games only) seem to have lost there save files as well!

Is there any previous known issue as of such and is there a way of fixing it?

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1.Should i take Kingston or SanDisk microSDHC card?

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2.Is 2gb card(i will use it only for games)enough or i should get 4gb one?

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3.What site delivers M3 DS Real worldwide?

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4.Whats the difference between M3 DS Real Rumble Pack Bundle,M3 DS Real Rumble RAM Pack Bundle and M3 DS Real Perfect Bundle?

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Originally posted by simland:

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First time posting and man do I need help.

I've seen it in this topic as well as on other sites. It seems like this is a fine community that may be able to help out.

I like others, have an issue where our GBA saves are not being properly loaded.

This is how it generally goes:
-Start a game fine and play with it functioning properly.
-Save because you have other things to do.
-Turn on NDS and go through the correct channels to boot up the GBA rom.
-Game starts up as a new game without any prompting at all, just asks me to name the character. If it helps any this is for hte original Golden sun.

List of things I have noticed and tried:
-I have tried both patched and fast boot methods of starting the rom.
-I don't use any cheats and RTSaving is disabled.
-A *.0 and a *.is0 file is created for the game.
-A gba_conf.ini file is created, however it appears to be created only once and for which game you load first after manually deleting it.
-I manually deleted the gba_conf.ini file because I noticed that the path inside of the file pointed to a a different game, one I had ran previously. I figured that the "loader" used the incorrect path to locate the saves. This did not fix it.
-I removed all other gba roms and deleted the gba.conf.ini file. Forcing the "loader" to only see one ROM and it's supporting files. This did not fix it.
-The gba.conf.ini file has a path '/GBA/0171 - Golden Sun (UE).gba' followed by a bunch of NUL characters then 'ÿÿÿÿ' followed by some more null characters. My intuition says that the loader reads this literally and is looking for the saves to exist in a location that isn't there.
-I tried to manually fix this by deleting all the "extra" after the path name but after attempting this and then looking at the file again it had reverted to the version with all the null characters.

My guess is that there is an issue with the firmware and how it handles GBA game. However if this were the case I figured more people would be complaining. I have v2.9 for the M3DS Real. I purchased the perfect bundle.

Your assistance would be much appreciated.

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