Let's bump this up.
I have Benn Venn 256MB cart and now (for some reason) i have LSDj with 32k sram only.
So i have made a tune i would like to move to proper 128k save file (I have the patched LSDj for support to 128k sram, maybe it was the sound bank patcher that caused this 32k only, or something stupid i did).

So firing up LSDManager, loading v2 or v3 save files just says work ram updated, but i cannot export lsdsng.
Any way to get that tune out of work ram to lsdsng?

I did it this morning perfectly fine with one of the other tutorials!

Thanks for everyones help!

Don't these things come with manuals or something...?

LSDJ Manager will not pull the .sav file off of a cart, that's what transfer software is for. LSDJ manager will just help you organize your .sav files better.

Example: Say you have a few carts with a bunch of works in progress and 1 or 2 complete songs. You back up the files using your transfer software to get the .sav from your cart to your computer. You load up LSDJ Manager and open up the .sav files you now have on your computer and save the song files individually. Now you have a bunch of individual song files and you can throw all your complete songs into a new .sav file and put that back onto your cart using your transfer software.

This Thread Helps Me ABit. I Have Not Backed Up My Cart At All, I Have Lost 3-4 Songs Thanks To A Power Surge. Pretty Scared I Gonna Lose The Lot At Some Point. I Have Had Written Alot Of My Stuff Into An Old School Textbook. Thanks For The Info Guys x

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So when I plug it in and open that .jar I presume I need to open the v3 .sav and then save it? To just simply back up all the sav files?

It has always worked great for me, so I'd say it's successful just make sure you use "read .sav" and not "write .sav" and your files will be just fine

Download java for mac. Run the jar. It works great.

Edit: Ah you asked how to use it. You can load a sav and save the songs as individual lsdsng files then throw them into a new sav file and put that back onto a cart using whatever you use to upload sav files to the cart. I do this before every live show.

Also, opinions on LSDJ manager? Does it work, I seem to be able to run it on my mac (the .jar file) but no idea how to use it?

Do you have any idea how successful the flasher is? I just don't want to risk the hours I've put in to create all these tracks, on a piece of software that only sometimes works?

I have a Mac but use parallels to use Windows XP as a VM.

Alright, I use a mac too. this is the tutorial I first used.

http://lacklustre.net/projects/ems-flasher/

However you connected it to flash the rom on, connect it the same way.

Connect it with the cartridge out of the gameboy and plugged directly into the computer.

Edit: I was going to say "did you try searching the forums?" but it was a bit difficult to skim through the threads on this topic to actually figure out this seemingly intuitive process of connecting a storage device to a computer. I ended up googling "how to flash a gameboy cartridge"

Ok, when I may have come across wrong but I'd like to know what do I physically need to do?

Can i just plug the cart straight into the computer, do i need to turn on my gameboy and then plug it in? Or do i need extra pieces of equipment?

Mac OSX