Hacking Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

[DespizingU]

Don't bother phazer, I get freezing on my 2gb Kingston Japan too. It's formatted at FAT with 64k Clusters. And the auto speed is set to 25. And every once in a while, the game will freeze when I go into the Start Menu. It won't freeze anywhere else(save points, Wind, mirrors, etc.), just going into the Start Menu every once in a while(by the way, it also freezes in my Cyclo with my 2gb Kingston J). Not every time.

I finally gave up and just threw the cart on my G6 Real(also have the retail cart). I know the game does not freeze at all on my 1gb Kingston Japan. So if you really want to play the game with no freezes, then you have a couple choices.

 

[DanTheManMS]

You could try using the tripple loader to load the DSTT menu and launch the game from there. I've heard that users could actually play games faster when launching the games that way.

EDIT: or maybe I just dreamed that up. I can't find any supporting evidence for this. Oh well.

 

[cutterjohn]

I've made it to the Egyptian level in PoR on my 2GB Kingston (Japan) uSD and have not experienced a freeze on either my SCDS1 nor my Evolution.

I DID have a freeze once when I forgot to reset my auto-detect uSD speed when I put in a brand new 2GB once though. Worked fine once it was set to 25 though... (All my 2GB Japan uSD get detected as speed 25.)

 

[portman0]

You could try using the tripple loader to load the DSTT menu and launch the game from there. I've heard that users could actually play games faster when launching the games that way.

EDIT: or maybe I just dreamed that up. I can't find any supporting evidence for this. Oh well.

You're right. The DSTT menu definitely runs games faster. I watched the intro to Castlevania DOS using the SP3 menu and the DSTT menu. I get frame skips with the SP3 menu but not with the DSTT menu. I have a 4gb Transcend SDHC class 6 card. The DSTT has better flash reading code/drivers.

 

[rasputin]

You could try using the tripple loader to load the DSTT menu and launch the game from there. I've heard that users could actually play games faster when launching the games that way.

EDIT: or maybe I just dreamed that up. I can't find any supporting evidence for this. Oh well.

You're right. The DSTT menu definitely runs games faster. I watched the intro to Castlevania DOS using the SP3 menu and the DSTT menu. I get frame skips with the SP3 menu but not with the DSTT menu. I have a 4gb Transcend SDHC class 6 card. The DSTT has better flash reading code/drivers.

No it don't, you just haven't set your card speed up properly in the scds1 menu I would guess.

 

[portman0]

You could try using the tripple loader to load the DSTT menu and launch the game from there. I've heard that users could actually play games faster when launching the games that way.

EDIT: or maybe I just dreamed that up. I can't find any supporting evidence for this. Oh well.

You're right. The DSTT menu definitely runs games faster. I watched the intro to Castlevania DOS using the SP3 menu and the DSTT menu. I get frame skips with the SP3 menu but not with the DSTT menu. I have a 4gb Transcend SDHC class 6 card. The DSTT has better flash reading code/drivers.

No it don't, you just haven't set your card speed up properly in the scds1 menu I would guess.

I auto detected the speed and it was set to 23. I also ran cf_bench on the NDS and it showed the DSTT menu to read from the card much faster than the SCDS1 menu. What card are you using?

 

[rasputin]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

 

[portman0]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

I have a 2gb japan Kingston too, and it runs fine on that. I'm talking about a 4gb SDHC class 6 Transcend. It doesn't run properly on that. But the DSTT runs it fine. The DSTT also accesses the japan Kingston faster than the SCDS1.

 

[Minox]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

I have a 2gb japan Kingston too, and it runs fine on that. I'm talking about a 4gb SDHC class 6 Transcend. It doesn't run properly on that. But the DSTT runs it fine. The DSTT also accesses the japan Kingston faster than the SCDS1.

My Scds1 with a 2GB Kingston also runs it perfectly...

 

[xcalibur]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

I have a 2gb japan Kingston too, and it runs fine on that. I'm talking about a 4gb SDHC class 6 Transcend. It doesn't run properly on that. But the DSTT runs it fine. The DSTT also accesses the japan Kingston faster than the SCDS1.

My Scds1 with a 2GB Kingston also runs it perfectly...

I get almost unnoticable frameskips but when I manually set the speed higher, I get tearing in the intro..
Thats when it doesn't crash.

I have a 2GB japanese Kingston at 25 and it works fine most of the time with this game.
Freezes are really rare with me.

 

[rasputin]

A better speed test is (and not just a dldi test)..


Set the scds1 menu to the best speed your mem card will allow, remember to format to fat and not fat32 as it faster, even 4gb sdhc can be formatted to fat.

Now test Animal Crossing with dma enabled on both scds1 menu and dstt/y's menu. Notice how long it takes between changing from inventory menu to game and from inside to outside locations. I have found the scds1 os to be faster.

 

[DespizingU]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

How can you manually set it higher when the SCDS1 is already setting the speed at 25?

Is 25 or the 30 highest?

 

[Minox]

Try manually setting it higher.

I have a kingston 2gb set at 2GB and it runs the DOS intro fine.

How can you manually set it higher when the SCDS1 is already setting the speed at 25?

Is 25 or the 30 highest?

32 is the highest speed-setting.

 

[DespizingU]

Ok, so how exactly can you set it to the 32? Maybe by doing this I won't get the occasional freeze when I go into the Start Menu.

 

[Minox]

Press Option in the menu and select "SD Speed", then press "other". Then you can manually set the SD-speed. Don't set it to high though, that can make games freeze when they start.