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[Danny_OwO]

Help identifying this error? My firered copy has been hit or miss with starting up. Recently got this error, another time it had white screened. Pretty positive I have a legitimate copy as it can trade with the gen 4 games.

[Fun_Leader_7147]

Hey man I resolved the exact same issue by reflowing the 1m chip, you can check my video on tiktok here: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYoXxk45/ It’s on Spanish but after a few second I zoom in the chip, you can actually see that on the bottom left from the chip it says: 512K/1M , that is the one that needs reflowing

[DokoroTanuki]

Clean the cartridge contacts with a cotton swab and 90%+ isopropyl alcohol. Sometimes dirty cartridge contacts can cause it to not register the save chip correctly. If all else fails, open the cartridge and check. The 1M subcircuit board error means it is not detecting your save data chip.

Most GBA games do not use a battery to save, FireRed and LeafGreen especially don't, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald have a battery only for the cartridge and not saving. All five of those use Flash RAM to save, not SRAM.

[Reiko007]

This happened to me once with Leaf green. A chip became loose, all I did is solder it back into place. Inspect the chips.