Just an unreliable cable. I had a phone charger cable like that. Best to toss it and save yourself some headache.

Necrobump.
I have a cable that didn't work, worked for a while, and went back to not working today.
I still have a working one somewhere so no problem, but huh?

Windows 7 64-bit SP1.

It's not a significant issue, as long as the file name is different it works perfectly as intended. Just seemed weird for that to have happened.

Which version of Windows are you running, Cipher_Punk?

So just in case someone else runs into the same mess I did...

I'm in the practice of actually using 'current' as the name of my current working project when I back it up, then rename it to a name and datestamps when I store them permanently. I do this because of a mistake I made that cost me a few days worth of work a few months back.

I was super eager to copy over from my EMS cart onto the new cart I just got from ASM. When I did, Win7 asked me if I wanted to copy/replace the "current.sav" on the cart. Naturally, I said yes.  This is, apparently, A BAD THING to do.

My windows filesystem thought it had copied the file over. The cart, on the other hand, did not. When I ejected and turned on my DMG, it still had the demo songs on it. I spent the last hour and 20 minutes performing the same operation over and over, checking and re-checking my .sav file integrity with emulators and various ROM's, loading up the LSDSNG manager and was about to email saying I thought I had a broken cart.

Then I just tried copying over an older .sav with a different name than 'current.sav', and of course, it worked fine.

Let this be a warning to anyone who also uses the same naming schema or renames their files to 'current.sav' thinking they have to write over the cart in a traditional drag & drop sense.

My question, I suppose, is this...  what was happening when I was copying it initially, and what did Windows think it was replacing?

i have been spending heaps of time playing lsdj. my bleepbloop cart wont even let me make a simple drum line before it randomizes lsdj. it wont save anymore, but when i have carillon on it , it seems ok. this heaps cart is some sort of treasure to me.

because, in order to do a hell actual chiptune, you need a heaps cart.

Look at the right side of the cartridge circuit board if you get a chance.

it's a cart what does heaps, ye?

heaps of what though? fun?

Aussie Lols.

My new derp cart is named Heaps? why?

Holy fuck.
I have found a cable that worked, after like, 7.
I have no idea what's going on, I thougth it wasn't any generation or length issue, cuz I had tried everything.
I must have overlooked some things in my chaos / panic.

I feel like Tm Cruise in mission impossible right now, after getting the cart found by my pc I'm so afraid to do anything wrong and break it, I'm shaking and sweating .

Thansk for bearing with me

PM