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Desperately in need of help with Gameboid app and Roms...

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leoboi77

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Ok, so I bought the full version of Gameboid for my Galaxy S android phone, and I figured because I already had Nesoid and Snesoid I would have no problem finding games and being able to play them. Well, theres a problem. Its asking me to select a BIOS file, one that I cannot find on my phone. I checked the forums and it said you have to download a .bin file online (which I did) and transfer it your phone. Well, I downloaded it, but I have a Mac and my android doesnt seem to want to connect. I can tell its *trying* to connect and ive tried messing around with the settings a bit, but to no avail. PLEASE help me out, ive been trying to fix this issue for days.

Next issue is less problematic for me... For now, anyways. For some reason the romfinder app decided to download a couple of NES roms to a different location on my phone. I fixed it, but I probably now have a couple of roms lost in cyber space on my phone and I want them gone so memory is not taken up. Is there a way for me to find out what file they were downloaded to or at least find a way to delete them? Thanks for reading.
 
As for the gba_bios.bin, if you can't get it to transfer to your phone try downloading DIRECTLY through your phone's browser (4shared.com). You could even email it to yourself.

Also, do you have ROM Gripper? I believe the gba_bios.bin is available through that as well.
 
First of all, thank you so much, I was able to download it from my phones internet. Now theres another problem. I found the file on my phone (it was in "/sdcard/download") and clicked on it. The first few times I clicked on it I got the message "Load BIOS failed. The BIOS file must be specified in the settings" which pissed me off a little because thats what I was trying to do. Finally it randomly decided to work, and I was somehow able to find my roms after the file was specified, but now when I select a ROM I get the same message, the "Load BIOS failed. The BIOS file must be specified in the settings" one. I thought I already did that... None of this is making any sense to me, I really have no idea where im supposed to go from here.
 
Ive been using romfinder for downloading roms, will changing to rom gripper really make a difference? as for the roms themselves I dont think theyre the problem, both of them give me the same message and all the roms ive downloaded using romfinder (roms for SNES/NES) have worked fine. Ill try re-downloading the bin... Maybe I should make it download to the same file my GBA roms are in? I dont know how to go about doing that though.
 
The location of it shouldn't matter, if you still can't get it after getting a new gba_bios.bin try reinstalling Gameboid.
 
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