Castlevania : POR problem

aLKayeL · January 07, 2007, 04:17:45 AM

I cant seem to get past the 1st conversation with Mr. Wind At the point when he gives u the quest it hangs with a black screen. Anyone have such issues too?

Im using :

SCDS with OS ver 1.0 and Saver Size Database 0001-0773
Sandisk 512MB MicroSD made in Taiwan formatted in FAT 64k clusters

sarah · January 07, 2007, 11:02:57 AM

get a faster microSD card, Sandisk is too slow

aLKayeL · January 07, 2007, 11:43:25 AM

Quote from: "sarah"get a faster microSD card, Sandisk is too slow

What do you recommend?

sarah · January 07, 2007, 01:35:56 PM

Any Toshiba card (aka Kingston Japan)

Altor · January 07, 2007, 01:49:42 PM

My standard sandisk is fine. Maybe you just need to defrag? I have a 1 gig sandisk, that should be very slightly slower than your 512 even.

tennisgy · January 07, 2007, 06:25:09 PM

try the patch found in the DS compatibility forum

it may help

aLKayeL · January 07, 2007, 08:50:37 PM

Quote from: "Altor"My standard sandisk is fine. Maybe you just need to defrag? I have a 1 gig sandisk, that should be very slightly slower than your 512 even.

Hmm but its a clean card. Just freshly formatted and I just copied the rom and the OS over. Theres nothing else on it.

aLKayeL · January 07, 2007, 08:52:19 PM

*edited*

sirblue · January 08, 2007, 01:18:40 AM

Hey I just got my SCDS from RHS with the 1gig Sandisk package they sell.
I load the SCDS OS and the PoR clean rom on and just pulled the .sav from my SCLite microSD.
It loaded the game fine, BUT there was crash when I push pause a bunch of times.

I go back to the main SCDS menu, on the dropdown menu I saw under the "Other" menu an "AUTO set SD Speed" function.
In it, it mention that Akumajou Dracula (the JP version of PoR) needs the speed of 25 to run. But doing auto set would put it to 5.
So I hit the "Option" menu, it has a manual "SD Speed" set option, I click other and bumped it up to 25.
Now when I run PoR it worked smoothly, no crash when I push pause randomly, when I pick up items, when I use D-pad on the warp areas, I did this for about 10mins pausing after different situations where I had crashed previously on SCLite.

For now I am a happy camper!

sirblue · January 08, 2007, 01:38:34 AM

hmm... well I finally crashed it and it happens more often now... *cries ; ;

I also noticed that setting the speed to 25 does not save, so even if it worked it would be kind of annoying to have to keep setting it...

Maybe it will fix in next firmware?? I can wait...

Haoie · January 08, 2007, 02:09:41 AM

Right now it still doesn't seem any setting will 100% remove the chance for glitches, so just live with it.

sarah · January 08, 2007, 04:17:26 AM

no glitches with a fast card