I've used VBA to play Pokemon Fire Red on my old desktop, and I recently downloaded VBA 1.7.2 for my new computer. Now, like most people, I had the "the m1 sub circuit board is not installed" issue. On my old desktop, the suggested fix of switching the save type to Flash 128k worked fine. But on my new system, that just isn't working. I'm still getting the "sub circuit" error even after changing the save type to Flash 128k. Are there any other known settings issues that could bring up this error message? gah, nevermind. Turned out to be a problem with my copy of the game rather than the emulator. But now that that's taken care of , I have a new problem. I can use the in-game saves normally, but the .sav file isn't appearing in the folder. In fact, it isn't appearing anywhere, and the game acts as if i am starting fresh with no saves, even though it says in-game that the save was successful. I was under the impression that VBA stores saves within its own folder by default... In fact, after some searching, it turns out there are no .sav files that were modified or created today in my system. The saves aren't working at all, even though I get no errors.
Old solution... http://forum.romulation.net/index.php?topic=6326.0 Even better, newer solution... Download VBA-M here ---> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-visualboyadvance-m-svn-1097-mfc-info-and-download .. Downloading VBA-M is a better solution as it's newer than the very derelict VBA 1.7.2 build or even the 1.8 Beta 3 build. It's better because the VBA-M package already comes with its own "vba-over.ini" file. The GBA BIOS file isn't included though so if you need it, you'll have to get it yourself. Here is an "even" newer build of VBA-M but in my opinion this build broke a lot more stuff than fixes from version 1097... http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-visualboyadvance-m-svn-1206-mfc-info-and-download
Thanks for the suggestions! I eventually found the problem, but I will keep VBA-M in mind for the future.
