Crazy finding! Thanks for sharing

[abarth]

yes, save file attached.

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[abarth]

Yes, I mean the highscore after you loose a game, exactly the same screen you show in your screenshot.
I played until the second area to see if the continue works, and then lost the game by purpose. I then entered my three letters in the highscore list, turned off the system and restarted it and the high score was gone.

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[abarth]

Can confirm that the debug menu in Red Alarm works when only your save patch applied. Must be in combination with HorvatM’s patch that it will break.

EDIT: Tried your Save Squash patch: it saves the progress, but not the high scores.

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I will try to get in the debug menu with your save patch applied only.

Crazy, just crazy what you are capable of!
I will try Space Squash as soon as possible.
And again, if this works (and I assume that), I also want this as reprocard. But at least I think I can sell it easier than other games, since there is a higher demand for this game. I paid quite a bit of money for this Japanese exclusive.

Regarding Red Alarm: the explosion sound appears on the title screen, but during play the debug menu just won´t show up when pressing L+R+Select+A.

Just amazing!
Had a look on your site and some remarks/questions:
– the Nintendo-letter from 1997 is crazy
– as always, people are impatient and that is why I wanted to ask for a timeframe for Elevated Speed: this year? Next year? How far is your development progress?
– the overdrive cart looks too good to be true. Just incredible stuff. I myself can not imagine which skills one must have to put something like this together. Keep on the great work and count me in when this cart is released!

One side-note: if you combine your Red Alarm Save Patch with the Single Press Debug Menu patch the debug menu does not work.

Thanks for the update.
No worries, if it was easy to build VB games there would be way more, so heads up!

Thanks for the comprehensive answer!

I have to thank you for all those incredible patches.

This puts me really into a dilemma, because except of Waterworld I already have all the games and now I want them with the save features

Speaking of further games:
I just cleared Space Squash yesterday and yes, a save feature would be great, but I assume this will only be highscore saving, and not progress?

V-Tetris would be cool with highscore save support, I totally agree.

I can´t speak of Virtual League Baseball, I don´t have this game, but I think it would be nice to have a save-feature when playing a season (if the game is enjoyable enough and you want to do this ).

Nester´s Funky Bowling would be cool, but I think after a while you only see your name in the highscore list…

Can confirm that the v1.3_hardware-test-3.ips works! Debug mode is shown in the tite screen and when pressing L+R you just fall down to the next floor.

Okay, I will try this this evening after work.

I have tested both of them and unfortunately neither worked.

Ah I see.
No, I hold the select-button from before turning on the VB until I am in the title screen and no “debug” message in the lower right corner.

One more question regarding Jack Bros: on github it is written: “added debug toggle (hold Select while booting) and title screen message”. This does not work for me, at least I can´t see any changes. What would one see / able to do when this mode is active?

Tested and confirmed working

[abarth]

Simply outstanding! Jack Bros is incredible with the save feature. It is a whole new game! I didn´t thought that this would be so cool.
Now I only need all of those 4 games as reprocards, which sure will cost a lot of money.
Again, amazing work!

PS: are there any other games where save features could be included?

EDIT: forgot to mention that Jack Bros patch 1.2 works on my console with Hyperboy-Flashcart.

EDIT2: the Mario Clash Highscores are a bit mixed up (see attached image).

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So I have tested your new ips-patches:
– Mario Clash: works fine! Games looks normal, and the progress is saved. I played only the first three levels though, but I am confident that it works.
– Red Alarm: works now! The game starts normal even when you have played it just before and have set a new highscore.
– Jack Bros: I used the US-version and applied your patch. I used a password, played the game for a quick moment and restarted the system. But on the main menu it still shows “password” and you can´t simply choose continue. Did I do something wrong?

Well my feedback:
– Red Alarm worked once, but as soon as there is a save in the SRAM and you restart the system it crashes before the intro.
– Mario Clash: neither the soft restart nor the SRAM reset combo worked, graphics are still glitchy (way too much contrast).

Cool, I will test this also this evening!