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Gaming =/= chip music. And with that, I'l close the thread before it potentially goes south. Go make some music or something.

freezedream, if you really, REALLY, want to find out, go to the person's profile and click view posts. This way you can both see how many posts the account has, and when the first post was made, which is hopefully reasonably close to the join date.

Moved from general discussion.

Type tag:2xlsdj into the search field. You can also click the tag you want to search for in the tag list of a song.

See my post above. I think you may be experiencing the same thing I did. Again, good to know it wasn't just me being stupid.

You need to set the SRAM size in the header, as well as specify an MBC type that supports SRAM. For a regular flashcart, this doesn't matter since the hardware is the same no matter what, but an emulator has to rely on the ROM header to know what features the ROM wants to use. If a flash cart is using a multi ROM menu, it may also restrict the RAM size and other parameters based on the values in the header.

You can set these values for examples with rgbfix, which I'm assuming you're already using for fixing the header checksum. This is described in Pandocs, see the link below. 1B, MBC5+RAM+BATTERY is a good choice for the MBC type. Set the RAM size parameter as needed.

http://problemkaputt.de/pandocs.htm#thecartridgeheader

You may also want to check for the presence of actual SRAM before showing the save button. This helps it work better if someone decides to make a 32 kB cart of the ROM. You may also want to confirm the data that was written before deciding it worked. In the same vein, you may want to add a checksum or identifier for the data, so it can be validated when loaded, in case something else already exists in SRAM, like a game save, or an LSDj save.

RAM is not strictly necessary. If you're using a flash chip (which I'm assuming is the intention, rather than a one time programmable chip) you can store song data on the same chip, since teh chip is divided into sectors. As a matter of fact, I may be interested in getting 4 of those boards, bare. I once got the opportunity to pick chips from stuff that was going to be thrown away. Among those were 4 pieces of PA28F400 in a PSOP 44pin package. This is an Intel flash chip with a 16 bit bus, which I thought might come in handy one day. I wouldn't be surprised if the pinout and package type matches, in which case I would be interested in having 4 of those boards for use with those chips.