i got it to work you need to disable patcher and then put sd speed to 5x it works like a charm(although sometimes it hags in teleport but thats no serious problem and other cards also hag there)
sarah do you rehost that file the 1.1 i want to try it because with the one currently on the site , castlevania POR hangs on menu and sometimes in game and i have the japanese kingston 1GB (however everything else works fine)