Gaming Golden Sun Dark Dawn: best way to play this game?

[elunesgrace]

Hey guys,


So I've been wanting to play golden sun dark dawn ever since it came out. Problem is, I want to play it with the full experience but also be able to do save states.

I've been reading around for the past year trying to find the best solution.

I have a DS and was going to buy the game normally, but then I can't use save-states

I played a bit of it on Desemume, but my fps is too slow (35-40).

I thought of getting a flashcart, but I was reading that save-states don't work with this game to make it work on flash carts.


I'm sort of stuck. I've been out of the loop for 6 months or so, so maybe someone has a solution by now? That would be awesome!!!


Thankssss

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

You can either have the full experience or save states. You cannot have both, as the full experience is playing the game on the legitimate cartridge without action replay.

 

[Skelletonike]

Why would you need save states?
They kinda ruin the whole point of full gamming experience from my point of view...

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

Why would you need save states?
They kinda ruin the whole point of full gamming experience from my point of view...

I agree. Unless the game is extremely hard, such as if the game were I Wanna be the Guy or Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril, the full gaming experience should involve no cheating and no savestates.

 

[Skelletonike]

Even if a game is hard, that's why it's fun... Using save states completely ruins the whole game, as in, if you use save states, you're pretty much cheatting since you can load at any time in the game. Although I don't consider Golden Sun a hard game so I don't see why you'd need to use them at all...

 

[Hells Malice]

Don't use save states. Problem solved.

This isn't a super difficult game, you don't need save states.

 

[elunesgrace]

Well with the previous golden sun games if you wanted to do certain stuff (like craft with oricalcum or whatnot) to do it legitimately you had to restart the game over and over. Save-states just saved so much time!

But if that's not something there is much of in this game i'll just play it normally =).

 

[impizkit]

I cant confirm as my equipment is at home, but I thought the CycloDS could use save states with this game. I could be mistaken as I havent gotten to this game in my list yet.

 

[elunesgrace]

Hey if you could find out that would be awesome! Then I could buy a cyclods anyways =)

 

[elunesgrace]

Another side question (or maybe I should make a new thread). What flash cart is best for this game? would a cheap r4 ds do? Do i need a higher end r4? Or another flash cart perhaps.

 

[Rydian]

Most flash carts don't do save states (otherwise known as RTS), this includes the R4s.
http://gbatemp.net/t290097-which-flash-cart-should-i-get
The DSTwo is often the recommended one.

 

[Qtis]

The DSTwo would be my suggestion for both the Save states and using an original DS/DSi/3DS. The CycloDS Evo/iEvo could also do the things you mentioned and they work with GS: DD, but I wouldn't recommend the cart now until we get a new update for the cart.

 

[elunesgrace]

Most flash carts don't do save states (otherwise known as RTS), this includes the R4s.
http://gbatemp.net/t...rt-should-i-get
The DSTwo is often the recommended one.

The DSTwo would be my suggestion for both the Save states and using an original DS/DSi/3DS. The CycloDS Evo/iEvo could also do the things you mentioned and they work with GS: DD, but I wouldn't recommend the cart now until we get a new update for the cart.

Thanks! Only thing is I remember reading (this is like 6 or so months ago) that the DSTwo only runs this game in the safe mode (the mode where you can't use save-states and other things), and that cyclods has trouble running this game?

 

[Rydian]

That was then, this is now. Good carts (like the DSTwo) update to fix things.

It's normal for a really popular game to include new AP, and thus not run properly on most carts until they update for it.

 

[elunesgrace]

^Awesome.

I took your collective advices and bought myself a ds lite and the game (only 19.99 at bestbuy.ca). Plays great!

Picked up a 3ds recently, so I'll go over to that section and see what's happening. I'm sure the DSTwo will work great on the 3ds. I keep hearing about this wood software for the R4 gold, what's that about?

 

[Rydian]

It's software that lets them play new games.

Like the DSTwo has EoS and the Acekard has AKAIO... except most R4s had jack shit for software/updates for a long time, so when wood came out people creamed themselves with joy.

 

[elunesgrace]

^ahhhh, I guess that answers the question. Thanks!

 

[impizkit]

Sorry it took so long to answer, but I forgot about this threat. I can confirm that the CycloDS on a DSLite does not support real time menu or real time save with this game. I also tested with my DSTWO and real time menu and real time save do work. Go with the DSTWO. It will also work with any version of DS and 3DS, minus 3DS games.

 

[elunesgrace]

This DSTWo is starting to sound really good lol.