My DMG crashed & I lost everything! Like a years work, even the back up files on my megamemory man wont load, I have two gigs tomorrow. Is it all over, or is there another way?? Im freaking out right now.
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Um, sorry, I was panicking. Basically, I turned on my gameboy to practice for tomorrow, & one of the songs on my lsdj cart hadn't loaded properly & was all messed up, it's happened before, which is fine, I have all my carts backed up on a mega memory man, but when I loaded the back up files from the mege memory man, it just loaded a blank lsdj cart, with no savs. Am I making sense? sorry, if you have any questions so I can be more clear I will try my best to answer them.
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England
i would recommend changing the battery on the lsdj cart (if it is one that needs a battery???) then trying to reload with your backups.
this sounds like what has happened to me on multiple occasions. welcome to making game b0y music 
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Taichung, Taiwan
Clean:
DMG cartridge contacts
MMC contacts at both ends
Flash cart contacts
Try uploading SAVs onto a different cart.
Report back.
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UK
i don't have any batteries. My only option is cancelling these gigs or trying to write a whole set by tomorrow. It's a 32M cart.
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I did try loading the savs in to another cart & it still came up blank. It's weird. I had 2 back ups of the same cart & ..nothing
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Taichung, Taiwan
Always backup your SAVs on multiple HDDs/SSDs.
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England
GDNGHTLMPLGHT wrote:
i don't have any batteries.
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So, I tried loading the backups for the hundredth time, & it loaded just the names of the songs but nothing else, so I tried again & it just came up blank again. I'm so confused.
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& I can load another carts savs on the cart that got erased, so it's not the battery. I'm stumped.
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OK. I've tried everything & it's not coming back, I've cancelled my gigs. Thanks to everyone for trying to help.
Just so I know for the future, what is the best way to back up sav files?
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Taichung, Taiwan
Try to get some new carts. 32M carts are ancient and if they are the EMS style carts, you will have to have a relic of a transferrer.
At the bare minimum for flash carts, I recommend getting the 64M EMS USB Flash carts. You can back them up to your computer via usb cable.
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Thanks. You know the really annoying thing is, I was going to buy a usb cart a few days ago & didn't. It's a sign. I'm definitely ordering some in the next month or so.
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It's probably the cartridge's fault. The battery might be empty, or there might be some other fault. For example, if you've ever opened the cartridge, you might have damaged a resistor near the top of the PCB. (Common problem on non-USB bleepbloop carts.)
If you can get the file off of the megamem, transfer it safely to the computer and end it to me, I can have a look at it. Maybe I can get something useful out of it. Of course, you should use a cartridge with a working battery for the transfer. You also should also avoid starting the LSDj version that i on the cartridge between transferring it from the Megamem to the cartridge, and from the cartridge to the computer.
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