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[mr_blonde_88]

ok, slightly off topic, yet slightly not

the 3 GBA Castlevanias:

-Circle Of The Moon
-Harmony Of Dissonance
-Aria Of Sorrow

and now the 2 NDS games

-Dawn Of Sorrow
-Portrait Of Ruin

wat order should i play them?
and is there an online ingame timeline somwhere? like what you got wen u pre-orders PoR (i think)

cheers guys, im kinda a freak wen it comes to things being in order

P.S. Cheers girls too

 

[OG LOCC NESS]

You should play them in order. You can basically skip Harmony of Dissonance though; nothing new really came from it. It's still the first GBA castlevania I bought.

 

[Sevael]

I highly doubt it is a bad dump, as it is 100% working on G6 Lite. I've played through it twice already, and I have two friends who have played through it on their G6 Lites. Zero problems.

 

[mr_blonde_88]

You should play them in order. You can basically skip Harmony of Dissonance though; nothing new really came from it. It's still the first GBA castlevania I bought.

 

[Heito]

The pre-order timeline lists them as:

Harmony of Dissonance
Circle of the Moon
Portrait of Ruin
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow

 

[xDRONEx]

You can basically play any of the Castlevania games in whatever order you want, since the stories are pretty much all self-contained to their respective game.

The only game that you should play in a certain order is Dawn of Sorrow... ONLY play that after beating Aria of Sorrow.

And if PoR was indeed a bad dump, you'd think a number of the other groups out there would think the current release [by Xenophobia] would be nuked, and that another of the many groups out there would dump their own version and release it. It hasn't happened yet - so I doubt this is a bad dump.

I just want to know if the problem will be fixed. If it won't - I'll go out and buy a legitimate copy. I'll be kind of annoyed though if I go out and buy one only to find out that M3 fixed the problem shortly afterwards.. =/

 

[Shinji]

Ok, Heres an update.

The problems lies in the formatting + firmware/gm.

On top of that, Force R/W needs to be on.

So try this setting if you're crashing on M3 Lite

Format FAT16 +64 cluster

Game Manager 30
Firmware 30a

M3wiki settings:
Trim Rom, 4xDMA, Software Reset, Force R/W

My tests showed that on other settings aside from this, it'll crash at one point in time. Unfortunately, I cannot test on a non-SanDisk brand cause I do not have one available as of right now.

Hope this helps someone/everyone.

EDIT: forgot to mention, I did these tests on a flashed DS Lite

 

[gage]

The retail copy I bought for my brother froze on him when he paused it. I was really hoping this was just a bad dump since it freezes on me a lot on my EZ4.

 

[grisser]

Game Manager 30
Firmware 30a

Thanks for this, but again, there is no Firmware 30a
There are only Firmware 30 and 30c.
(atleast according to this place--http://www.linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/)
and Game Manager is 30 and 30a.

I'm only saying this because I really am wondering which firmware you actually have and I will try to see if it still freezes on mine.

also if I am wrong, I would love to know where you get the 30a firmware :3

 

[Shinji]

Ok ok, sorry

I

Its the firmware released before 30c (the one with the icons). I know its a bad way to differentiate it, but if I say 30, some people might think I mean something such as 30c, which was not in anyones interest to upgrade to with the problems. I really should research the names of these things >.>

M3 Game Manager V30 + loader V30

NOTM3 Game Manager V30A + loader V30C

Thats I think where Ive been getting the a and c from, freakin non-full releases....One question though, where's B? hehe

 

[IxthusTiger]

How much space does the intro use? I we trim the game to 256mbits, maybe we can run it from carts with NOR flash or F2A. This would eliminate any speed issues, right?

 

[Torrio]

Shinji
What 3d party software can format flash cards with custom cluster size? Native WinXP utils can do it only with "standart" (what does it means idk).

 

[Devil_Spawn]

How much space does the intro use? I we trim the game to 256mbits, maybe we can run it from carts with NOR flash or F2A. This would eliminate any speed issues, right?

as far as i can tell its 2.5MB

 

[IxthusTiger]

How much space does the intro use? I we trim the game to 256mbits, maybe we can run it from carts with NOR flash or F2A. This would eliminate any speed issues, right?

as far as i can tell its 2.5MB

dammit

 

[T-hug]

The pre-order timeline lists them as:

Harmony of Dissonance
Circle of the Moon
Portrait of Ruin
Aria of Sorrow
Dawn of Sorrow

Don't skip HoD its still a quality game and the map is very different to others. All the games are great, play them in the order you first posted them imo.

You don't wanna play lush looking Aria of Sorrow, then dark moody Circle of the Moon. Playing AoS is a treat after playing the first 2, and the same can be said when playing DoS after the 3 GBA games. In order of release shows the progression and direction of the series from the devs in both gameplay, design and style.

 

[Zarcon]

I swear if my reasoning is true...

Okay, for those of you with the rom of PoR that freezes...do you have an NDS game in your DS?

If so, remove it and see if the freezes still occur.
They've stopped for the past hour for me, I just want to see if this is the case for anyone else.

 

[BoBMang]

Keep us posted on your theory....

::edge of seat::

 

[NeoShweaty]

still freezes for me without the ds game in.

 

[Zarcon]

Nearly 2 hours in without freezing. I've gone into the menu while jumping, being hit, and running around fruitlessly.
I've rapidly gone back and forth between menu options and between game and menu.
I've spoken to Wind after accepting a quest and not completing it.

Might be a combination of settings and an absence of a DS game.

I believe my settings are:
Safe Mode
Force R/W
Trim Rom

I hope it isn't just me, I can't think of any other difference in my setup.

[EDIT]

Oh, I use an M3 miniSD with a Sandisk 2GB miniSD card.

[EDIT2]

GAH! Looks like I spoke too soon. I froze switching from map on the top screen to status on the top screen. [SELECT]
>_o

 

[Ownko]

The American version freezes on my DS-X, but the japanese doesn't. Could it be some new type of protection? :S And I just bought this card, what if newer games don't work at all?