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[Exort]

I checked the forum when the japanese version of portrait of ruin was released and found out about the game freezing. Now I am checking for solutions to play the US version and I can't find those posts anymore...

I know this must have been discussed over and over, but has anyone found out the best way to play it with a Supercard miniSD using a Sandisk 2gb miniSD (normal version)

I tried the game like 2 minutes and it froze when I pushed start...

BTW, I'm using the latest patcher and firmware

[Mota]

Basically, you can't run it on SCMini-SD. Trust me, I've tried everything. You can make it a little more stable by using older software+firmware (anything pre-dating the DMA features seems to offer improvement)... but it will still crash too often to be much fun.

[Exort]

Oh I see... that's just too bad. This game was one of the reason I bought a Supercard... ¤sigh¤

Well then, is it worth buying? Note that I really LOVES Aria of Sorrow and Danw of Sorrow, but I don't really care about what was made before that, except the the one on PSONE (oh and the 3D ones sucks IMHO)

[sonknuck23]

Well, I got the rom 'cause my friend has it. And it freezes when I press start also. (Sometimes.) And I'm using a regular Supercard SD, a SuperKey, and a Hot Rod Red DS, with a "Centrois" SD Card, 1gb. (Works fine with every other game. It's also 133x speed, and says Pro Series on the side.)

[ZzzZilla]

Some stuff i noticed to reduce unnecessary crashing.

-Access the menu as little as possible. Every time you bring up the menu you take a chance on it crashing.
-Don't access Wind or the monk too often (like the menu)
-When teleporting, use the touch screen, not your D-pad.
-Don't jump when changing screens (only happened twice to me so far near end-game.)
-SAVE OFTEN.

[Mota]

The speeds written on SD cards make no difference to games, as they are the WRITE speed, not the READ speed.

Exort - I decided to buy this one since it won't run on any of my flashcarts. It won't be here for a week or so, though. From what I've seen so far it looks like a great game, and slightly less tedious with the soul collecting removed.

If you liked Aria Of Sorrow, try and find Harmony Of Dissonance (also for GBA), I thought it was a lot of fun. No souls, but you have the whip and plenty of spells A MASSIVE quest, too. Perhaps bigger than AOS.

[cippy]

I have a sc mini with a 2 gb mini sd card (some generic piece of crap) and only lasted up to the first teleporter until it froze. For various reasons, I decided to purchase a  ds-x, not soley because C:PoR wouldn't work on my other flash carts  :wink:  and managed to play for over an hour and a half until it froze. Finally decided to follow Shinster's setup and purchased a Kingston 1 gb micro sd card (had a sc lite for some time but wasnt in use due to a 2 gb SanDisk micro sd being my only option, which didn’t work well in most games). So far played 5 hours 14 mins into the game and no freezing what so ever.

[MukiEX]

If you live somewhere with a game store/pawn shop/used record store.

Look for every crappy game you have for the PS2/GC/Xbox and trade them in. Crappy movies? Check those too.

I found half a dozen games that I'll never even desire playing again and traded them in, for just enough credit to get myself Castlevania.

But yeah, it's really worth it, especially if you liked Dracula X, hint hint