EarthBound Blackscreen

pleskit9999 · Post by **pleskit9999** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:19 pm

Ok, I've been playing Earthbound for a while now, probably about an hour in, Still dealing with the mobsters in Onett, for those of you who have played the game. Suddenly, I got a black screen and for some dumb reason decided to save state, quit out ZSNES, and load it back up in hopes that it will work. Now I'm stuck with a black screen, Is there anyway to salvage the saved state? Really not looking forward to having to play through the game until the point I was at again :O.

Thanks for your time, Orannis

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:43 pm

A save state stores the exact copy of the emulators 'state' the moment you save the state, so if you got a black screen in-game and you saved a state, then obviously you will get a black screen when you load that state.

No, there isn't a way to salvage your gameplay if you saved the state at a moment when the emulator decided to stop cooperation.

Also, please post the NSRT output of your ROM.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:52 pm

Did you save in-game? Or did the save-state over-write your in-game save?

I had a similar situation happen to me with FFVI... except I was using a fan-translation... and I was in the Esper factory... place.

pleskit9999 · Post by **pleskit9999** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:04 pm

1. How would I go about getting the NSRT output?
2. And, the emulator black screened, I saved state, quit the emulator, and tried to reopen it agian. Does that answer your question?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:10 pm

nsrt is a program used to obtain various information about ROMs. However since the site is/was down, just post the CRC32 number of the ROM (it appears when you start the ROM.)

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:33 pm

You can get NSRT from other sites too (e.g. this one).

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:21 pm

You really need to learn to save in-game (for Earthbound, it's using the phone options). Relying on savestates for everything is a diasterous proposition.

pleskit9999 · Post by **pleskit9999** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:44 pm

Ok the CRC32 Code is: DC9BB451
The nsrt (btw i am dumb) output (I'm assuming this is what you want, I just downloaded it from the site creaothecean suggested.

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: Earthbound.smc
Name: EARTH BOUND Company: Nintendo
Header: SWC Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None SRAM: 64 Kb
Type: Normal + Batt ROM: 24 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x4048 Game Code: MB
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
CRC32: DC9BB451
MD5: A864B2E5C141D2DEC1C4CBED75A42A85
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Earthbound
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: RPG Genre 2: Turn Based

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:57 am

This seems to be a genuine emulation bug, because the ROM image checks out.

pleskit9999 · Post by **pleskit9999** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:17 am

So, long story short, I'm screwed?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:33 am

Ayup. That about sums the thread up.

Even if you use states, use regular saves too. That way you have something to fall back on when everything goes wrong.
...
Well, unless it all goes wrong in FF3, but...

Kajuru · Post by **Kajuru** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:38 am

I woudn't consider restarting after 1 single hour into the game as "screwed"

pleskit9999 · Post by **pleskit9999** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:47 am

Thanks for you time anyways

And, Yes, it's not the end of the world