Hacking M3 Freezing Issues

[legions]

I recently bought the M3 and have been running the most recent Sakura firmware (1.4 I think?). I have an 8 gig card I just bought, plus an older 1 gig card. My problem seems to be that during some games the M3 will lock up (music/sound get super garbled but the screen just freezes). When I restart sometimes it's only a black screen or a white screen. So it can take multiple restarts to get to work. Games like Brain Age rarely freeze (I can play for hours a day, multiple times a week and it may freeze only once). A game like Castlevania freezes a little more often, but a game like Elite Beat Heroes will freeze frequently at the end of a song. I've reformatted both cards multiple times with the special formatting software off of this site, left a few hundred megs to gigs open on each card, I even tried the paper trick, all to no avail. I may just buy a CycloDS because this M3 has been terrible.

 

[Da-Bomb1]

Where'd you get this M3? Maybe it's a clone...though I dunno if the clones can actually run Sakura or not.

 

[legions]

I got it from Real Hot Stuff, so I'm 99% sure it's legit.

 

[PettingZoo]

Didn't you make another topic about this already?? Anyway, try the 1.3 firmware because the 1.4 has some bugs in it that causes freezing (I think has something to do with cheats). Also try reformatting your microSD with the panasonic formatter. If that doesn't work try checking if the ROMs were bad dumps or that the cart might have been from a bad batch/damaged in shipping. Best thing to do is contact RHS for another M3 Real and send your one back, because the M3 Real is a really great cart bro.

 

[hyun]

Where'd you get this M3? Maybe it's a clone...though I dunno if the clones can actually run Sakura or not.

Yeah like realhotstuff will sell fakes LOL

 

[Da-Bomb1]

Where'd you get this M3? Maybe it's a clone...though I dunno if the clones can actually run Sakura or not.

Yeah like realhotstuff will sell fakes LOL

...jesus, you're REALLY starting to piss me off now.

 

[PettingZoo]

Where'd you get this M3? Maybe it's a clone...though I dunno if the clones can actually run Sakura or not.

Yeah like realhotstuff will sell fakes LOL

We've already established this, don't flame like an idiot it's bad for your reputation.

 

[legions]

As far as I know I haven't posted anything regarding this, so unless I post it in my sleep

. I've tried new roms and refomatted with the panasonic reformat software multiple times with multiple cards. I also haven't used any cheats yet with any of the roms. I'll contact RHS and see if they will be of any help.

 

[Da-Bomb1]

As far as I know I haven't posted anything regarding this, so unless I post it in my sleep

. I've tried new roms and refomatted with the panasonic reformat software multiple times with multiple cards. I also haven't used any cheats yet with any of the roms. I'll contact RHS and see if they will be of any help.

Well...there's always the chance it's a defective card. It happens. Contact them and see if you can get a replacement.

 

[PettingZoo]

As far as I know I haven't posted anything regarding this, so unless I post it in my sleep

. I've tried new roms and refomatted with the panasonic reformat software multiple times with multiple cards. I also haven't used any cheats yet with any of the roms. I'll contact RHS and see if they will be of any help.

You have posted two threads, this is the second one. The first was called M3 + RAM expansion constantly freezing and I posted in it. Anyway, just contact RHS and ask for another M3 Real and send yours back.

 

[legions]

You have posted two threads, this is the second one. The first was called M3 + RAM expansion constantly freezing and I posted in it. Anyway, just contact RHS and ask for another M3 Real and send yours back.

Oops, I realized that I made that in the wrong forum and reported it. It wasn't there when I refreshed so I didn't think it had been posted.

 

[PettingZoo]

You have posted two threads, this is the second one. The first was called M3 + RAM expansion constantly freezing and I posted in it. Anyway, just contact RHS and ask for another M3 Real and send yours back.

Oops, I realized that I made that in the wrong forum and reported it. It wasn't there when I refreshed so I didn't think it had been posted.

Oh okay lol, I thought you were a creepy impatient guy. Best thing to do is call up/email RHS, tell them what has happened and ask for a replacement and then send them the broken M3 Real.

 

[legions]

Oh okay lol, I thought you were a creepy impatient guy. Best thing to do is call up/email RHS, tell them what has happened and ask for a replacement and then send them the broken M3 Real.

lol, I'm not too impatient most of the time. I've emailed them, hopefully it works out. I already threw away the box.