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Updated Reflashing GBA repros (markdown)

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@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ Please set the jumpers up like this and use a good USB port or mobile phone char
Repros that come without a battery have the save located inside the ROM area. When booting the game there is a routine hacked into the rom that copies the save from the flashrom into the sram. When you save in-game the save gets copied back into the flashrom. Repros that come without a battery have the save located inside the ROM area. When booting the game there is a routine hacked into the rom that copies the save from the flashrom into the sram. When you save in-game the save gets copied back into the flashrom.
You can extract this hacked-in save game by dumping the ROM and then opening it with the Visual Boy Advance emulator. Once started the game will copy the save into sram and VBA will then create a sav file.
Now you can use this sav file together with the unhacked retail version of the ROM which will recognize the save and attempts to repair it, which should succeed.
Remember that you will have to patch all roms with eeprom/flashrom save type to sram save using a program like GBA TOOL ADVANCE. Remember that you will have to patch all roms with eeprom/flashrom save type to sram save using a program like GBA TOOL ADVANCE.
And if your repro does not have a battery you also need to patch the ROM with an batteryless saving patcher. And if your repro does not have a battery you also need to patch the ROM with an batteryless saving patcher.
Lastly for the 256MB repro you can use the Multimenu ROM Builder tool to create your own compilations. Lastly for the 256MB repro you can use the Multimenu ROM Builder tool to create your own compilations.