Gameshark Saves don't import

[ccfman2004]

I can't seem to get Gameshark game saves to work. I load the ROM then import the Gameshark save then reset the game but it doesn't load the Gameshark save. Not sure what to do.

[endrift]

What game? Please provide the Gameshark save.

[ccfman2004]

Pokemon Sapphire
pokemon-sapphire-version.2532.sps.zip

[endrift]

This save is for a US version of Pokémon Sapphire. Did you try it with a European version?

[ccfman2004]

My ROM is the USA/Europe version.

I know the save works with my rom as I tried it with Visual Boy Advance and it works fine.

[endrift]

There is no "USA/Europe" version of Pokémon Sapphire. The ROM site you downloaded it from mislabeled it.

[ccfman2004]

That's what mGBA says it is.

It's Rev 2 that has the berry fix.

[endrift]

Gonna have to yell at some No-Intro datters then. Anyway, it loads fine for me.

E] It does NOT load fine for Rev 2.

[ccfman2004]

The MD5 of my rom is 9bc2b765ca6997175fac51e6cdc29089

[endrift]

GameShark saves do checksum matching. Since the checksum is different, it thinks it's the wrong game and rejects. It's arguably a bug in VBA that it doesn't reject it. This information is not presented to the user though, and there's no option to override it.

[ccfman2004]

As far as I'm aware the only difference in the rev 2 is the berry glitch is fixed.

[endrift]

The file is different. That's enough for the checksum matching to fail. That's the whole point of checksum matching.

[ccfman2004]

There should be an option to override it since it's the right game just a different revision.

[endrift]

I don't disagree. And it turns out I already had a flag for disabling checksum matching, but it wasn't zealous enough with the checks it skipped.