DS #4628: Sands of Destruction (USA)

[I am r4ymond]

Wow, awesome! I can't wait to try it after I finish downloading it.

 

[Covarr]

The mess that surrounded this release is the perfect example of why releasing roms in split rars is a crappy practice.

 

[DeMoN]

Just sticks on the loading screen when trying to load it on Cyclo. Maybe I got a bad dump.

What Firmware are you using?

I first tried it on an old beta I had on there (because the newer beta screwed up Might and Magic), but then I also tried on the newest beta. Same results. Gonna try another dump.

Using CycloDS firmware 1.56b4 with Battery Saver off and this game works fine.
The ROM I downloaded was a .zip file and 89.2 MB in size. Make sure you replace the .sfv file with the fixed one.

Hopefully there won't be any anti-piracy halfway through the game.

 

[haflore]

Just tried it on mine(Cyclo 1.56B6) battery saver off, works fine, booted, saved and loaded.
My ROM was a .rar file, 256Mb weight.



Dunno how the game is yet, only got far enough to save, but I do know one thing: The voice-acting is not great..

 

[janouis]

if i remember correctly this game has been delayed bec. they want to improve the difficulty of the game... how is it compared to the japanese version?

 

[Rfire]

I got a load error -81 on my DSTT loading this. It was a 233 meg file after trimming.

Bad download? Or are other DSTT users having issues?

Works fine here on my DSTT. Make sure your dats are updated.

 

[DeMoN]

if i remember correctly this game has been delayed bec. they want to improve the difficulty of the game... how is it compared to the japanese version?

The only thing I heard was that they lowered the monster encounter rate.
That would seem to make the game easier, but actually that just makes you level slower and thus the game will seem harder since you'll be lower leveled than in the Japanese version.

 

[granville]

One thing they fixed from early screenshots- the font. The lowercase m's used to look like n's. Now they look normal.

But they delayed it to coincide with the release of the anime in the US.

 

[squall23]

So, anyone tried undubbing it yet?

 

[DemonicChocobo]

You know you can just turn off the voices.

 

[.:TeMpEsT:.]

32 min wooot!!!

 

[gaeanprayer]

Worked fine for me up until the Pig Rex boss when I got a bunch of eternal-loop errors and a game crash. I had the 250+mb xpa FIXED release.

Also, follow up attacks happen randomly. As you're attacking, occasionally you'll get more attacks added on and the button press will change into the next attack in the series. So far as I've been able to tell, there's no way to control it.

 

[alexlol350]

what ttds menu used to work the game

 

[miruki]

The problem is that I didn't even make a post like that.

Finally it's out.

In where in that post can you interpret that I even found it?

...okay, I have to admit, you have to be really desperate to interpret it like that....

 

[solitaryCross]

Just sticks on the loading screen when trying to load it on Cyclo. Maybe I got a bad dump.

What Firmware are you using?

I first tried it on an old beta I had on there (because the newer beta screwed up Might and Magic), but then I also tried on the newest beta. Same results. Gonna try another dump.

Using CycloDS firmware 1.56b4 with Battery Saver off and this game works fine.
The ROM I downloaded was a .zip file and 89.2 MB in size. Make sure you replace the .sfv file with the fixed one.

Hopefully there won't be any anti-piracy halfway through the game.

I'm using edge 1.6 and i did what you said..it only goes until the loading screen.

hope others have better luck. damn it..i want a new firmware now!!! i still can't play spirits tracks too..

 

[SectionX]

is this game a good jrpg? Why is it so popular here?

 

[solitaryCross]

its got a good team behind it so maybe..

 

[shakirmoledina]

its very good to see this out now but the strange thing (although expected) is tht the piracy checks are not there...
this has been delayed many times and after a long drought of excellent games (hopefully) we have one good title

 

[Sanderino]

Yeeeeyy I can't wait to play this dude! =]

 

[Wabsta]

Makes me think of Golden Sun for some reason, so Im definatly gonna try this.