Hacking Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow with an M3 Real (latest fw)

[sabinraijin]

Do I have a bad dump or does M3 Real not like playing Dawn of Sorrow? I used to own an M3 Perfect (mini-SD version) which played Dawn of Sorrow just fine but Portrait of Ruin froze like crazy. Now with the M3 Real, both games freeze. I always thought Slot-1 solutions fixed the freezing problems PoR had, but I can't really explain what's going on with DoS. I just arrived at the Wizardry Lab and all of a sudden some sprites have garbled green graphics and it freezes not long later in usually the same places.

Order of Ecclesia plays without flaw.

Oh, and I don't think it's my micro-SD card because Dawn of Sorrow's intro movie plays flawlessly, unlike with my old M3 Perfect and slow mini-SD card I had.

 

[gosp]

It would have to be your card, because my class 4 sdhc plays it with minimal problems.

 

[Shabadage]

Do I have a bad dump or does M3 Real not like playing Dawn of Sorrow? I used to own an M3 Perfect (mini-SD version) which played Dawn of Sorrow just fine but Portrait of Ruin froze like crazy. Now with the M3 Real, both games freeze. I always thought Slot-1 solutions fixed the freezing problems PoR had, but I can't really explain what's going on with DoS. I just arrived at the Wizardry Lab and all of a sudden some sprites have garbled green graphics and it freezes not long later in usually the same places.

Order of Ecclesia plays without flaw.

Oh, and I don't think it's my micro-SD card because Dawn of Sorrow's intro movie plays flawlessly, unlike with my old M3 Perfect and slow mini-SD card I had.

OoE works flawlessly on all cards I think. PoR has freezing problems on most retail flashcarts. DoS randomly froze on me about 3 times (R4). Maybe you've got a bad dump?

 

[AXYPB]

I never experienced freezes in any Castlevania game with my Class-6 4GB card. I'm thinking it's a bad dump or a bad file copy.

 

[sabinraijin]

I suppose it was a bad dump, got a different one (US instead of E) and it works fine, played through Wizardry Lab with no problems. Athough.....

I never experienced freezes in any Castlevania game with my Class-6 4GB card. I'm thinking it's a bad dump or a bad file copy.

This kind of surprises me, especially the "any" Castlevania part, unless you've never played Portrait of Ruin. PoR was pretty well known for its freezes although I was still dismayed to find out that my new slot-1 solution didn't fix it like I was led to believe it would

Anyways thanks y'all for the responses.

 

[Rob_Threat]

This kind of surprises me, especially the "any" Castlevania part, unless you've never played Portrait of Ruin. PoR was pretty well known for its freezes

I never had any issues with any Castlevania game freezing on any M3 device. Bad dumps, slow SD cards, and user error were the issues... not the M3 hardware... Slot-1 or Slot-2.

have I been lucky?

 

[AXYPB]

This kind of surprises me, especially the "any" Castlevania part, unless you've never played Portrait of Ruin. PoR was pretty well known for its freezes although I was still dismayed to find out that my new slot-1 solution didn't fix it like I was led to believe it would

I went through all of Portrait of Ruin without ever experiencing a freeze on my Real. A high-speed card (Class-4 or higher) is fast enough to overcome problems with games known to freeze in this way.

 

[rLin]

I have freeze problem in Down of Sorrow(E) with my m3real (with V4.2d software) too. When fight with Dmitrii Blinov, game freezes stable. Music playing, buttons are not working, picture freezing

I have .sav file with this problem.
But I have dstt (probably fake) also and I keep boot files for both on the TF-card. I changed m3real to dstt and passed this place without any changes on TF-card. I think freeze problem is a m3real problem.

 

[The Jackal]

When I encounter the Puppet Master-boss (the one which gives you the soul that lets you toss puppets and switch places with it) the music is gone, and when I beat it end exit the room the games freezes. The game also freezes if I die on the boss. So apparently, since the music is gone when I encounter him, the glitch/bug/error is present. Is there a way to circumvent this issue?

EDIT:
Tried a bunch of different firmwares, all of them gave me the same issue.
So I copied my .sav and loaded it up in No$GBA, beat the boss, saved. I then converted the save at: http://www.shunyweb.info/convert.php
Changed the newly generated extension .0 into .sav, copied it back onto the SDHC-card and loaded the game as usual in Sakura. Worked like a charm. Quite a process, but atleast I'll be able to continue.. that is, until I (hopefully not) hit another freeze somewhere.