Hacking Square-Enix games do not like my R4

[shockingalberto]

So, I've owned the R4 since about October and it works without fail usually. I never have a problem with games.

The only two exceptions, however, are Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. FFXII:RW will always freeze in the first few minutes of gameplay (the tutorial against the Flaan) and I just kind of shrugged and moved on. Now FF:CC is having a similar problem. I made sure all cheats are off, FF:CC was patched to prevent the "Thank you for playing" screen - I even tried an unpatched copy and a no-freezing cheat and it still froze.

So, I'm kind of curious what the problem is. Could it be my DS somehow? Odd that it would only happen on Square games. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker functioned fine without a single freeze. I'm a little concerned The World Ends With You is going to suffer the same problem. Any help?

 

[TheWingless]

Is your Firmware/Kernal updated to 1.16 and have you tried this Rayder's Cheat Compilation with an unpatched Final Fantasy CCROF?
R4DS Kernal 1.16

 

[shockingalberto]

Is your Firmware/Kernal updated to 1.16 and have you tried this Rayder's Cheat Compilation with an unpatched Final Fantasy CCROF?
R4DS Kernal 1.16

Yep, updated to 1.16 and tried the cheat compilation with an unpatched rom. It got slightly farther (talking a matter of minutes), but still froze.

 

[BakuFunn]

Try buying a retail cart to see what the problem is.

 

[Ferrariman]

Try buying a retail cart to see what the problem is.

Nice.............

 

[RaiDesu]

Try 1.17.

 

[skarthebloodchild]

Try 1.17.

When did the 1.17 came out?
Never mind try using kingston micro sd and reformat it.

edit: just saw the official r4 site and the 1.17 is out

 

[baramos]

Make sure your card is formatted to fat16 with 64k clusters (that fixed my crashes with FF:CC) and make sure the rom is "clean". If you still have problems either your SD card is a PoS or your R4 is crapping out on you but it's most likely the SD card.

 

[shockingalberto]

Make sure your card is formatted to fat16 with 64k clusters (that fixed my crashes with FF:CC) and make sure the rom is "clean".

Sorry to sound stupid, but how do I do this?

 

[altorn]

Insert your card reader with the microsd card on your usb.
Then go to My Computer and single-click the drive where your card is.
Click on File.
Click Format.
You'll see the selections.

EDIT:
Mine is working fine. FFXII:RW was working, with or without cheats. i didnt even know there were issues occurring about the game in R4.
And FFCC, i just applied the cheat for removing the "thank you for playing" screen and got it working for hours non-stop.

 

[altorn]

Insert your card reader with the microsd card on your usb.
Then go to My Computer and single-click the drive where your card is.
Click on File.
Click Format.
You'll see the selections.

 

[shockingalberto]

Weird, that almost worked.

I formatted the card, updating for the newest firmware, and it got a little bit in to the first dungeon. Then I passed through a door and it crashed/froze.

It's a clean rom, by the way. Should I try cheats and then a patched rom, as well?

 

[shockingalberto]

Alright, tried all that stuff, still froze.

I'll try another DS with the same card/rom and see if I'm having the same problem later.

 

[SavageWaffle]

Most of the times its the dump thats wrong. Try finding another dump.

 

[InuYasha]

What SD card are you using?

 

[shockingalberto]

Most of the times its the dump thats wrong. Try finding another dump.
Tried from several different places and several different dumps. Same with FFXII:RW.

WileCoyoteWhat SD card are you using?

I believe a one gig Sandisk. It came with it when I ordered the R4.

 

[shockingalberto]

Moved everything to my Kingston 2 gig.

Still the same problem.

I wonder if it's my DS.

 

[InuYasha]

Are you using a trimmer?

 

[shockingalberto]

Are you using a trimmer?

Nope.

 

[shockingalberto]

Tried two other Square games: Chocobo Tales and FFIII, neither of which froze.

This is puzzling.