I have the same problem also. So far I've only experienced the random intervals of freezes in Animal Crossing and no other game. Luckily Pete was there each time otherwise I would get an earful from Mr. Resetti.

I do have a retail disk but I'm pretty sure if it will ask for an update, it did when I first played it.

 

yes, it's a different issue. just to clarify: the AC freezes happen without wiispeak or any other usb device attached (besides the hdd of course)

 

I'm playing from a new class 6 micro sdhc through a kingston usb traveler. The card was partitioned with gparted, initialized, and 1:1 disc isos were copied via the Linux wbfs. The load times are faster than an original.
I've had City Folk freeze up on me about 10 times since the usb loader was released. The game doesn't completely freeze; your character is still moving around, but you can't move, or bring up menus. If you press home and choose either option, the screen will go dark for good, the power still on. Same result with trying to power off.
Most of the time it happens when the game is loading dialog. It happened twice when fast switching tools..guessing it's loading audio? It froze once when I had picked up too many items, and the resulting text that's supposed to come up to tell you that, never did. So my character was left just moving his hand around in his pocket. It was disturbing. What is really infuriating is when it happens when you try to save. This has happened to me twice. It froze on me today using 1.5. For what it's worth, I've only had MadWorld crash on me once, and it started with looping audio.
It's a pain in the ass, but not having to worry about disc reads makes it worth it. I hope it's fixed soon, but I'm not sure kwiirk or waninkoko even know about the issue.
As for multiple usb devices, I haven't had any problems. I can use a usb keyboard with animal crossing while running the game from the other usb port, so it's not as if the loader completely disables the opposite port. It's probably a power issue.

 

I have no issues with AC (NTSC) on Ultimate Loader 6.7 (haven't bothered updating to 7.x yet) with is based off of the v1.4 USB Loader with rev10 installed. It is likely that your drives are going into sleep mode and not unsuspending itself. I originally had issues with any game randomly locking up, however, as suggested in another post here... I used the 'hdparm' application and set my drive standby to 5hr30min and have no lockups with any game since.

 

quite possibly. looking at the compatibility list... it seems PAL games more likely to have problems for some reason...

 

...played for almost 2hrs tonight and random chunks of time throughout the past week.

 

i got the PAL version and for me it only take about 5min before it locks up. All other games work fine.

 

I would like to retract this statement...

It started raining here today (as well as in the game) and now the game locks within 2min.
This is very odd...

 

I also have experienced this freeze, although it usually takes 45-60 minutes for it to happen. I "reinstalled" cios rev9 and using a 1.1 usb loader for the time being, and it seems to be working perfectly. It would be fantastic if rev11 fixes this freeze, as well as adds Wii Speak (or any other USB controller) capabilities.

 

it happens to me as well...

and it's one of the games i play the most, not to mention Resetii

LoL, i hope it's fixed in next cIOS or what is called