Lufia Curse of the Sinistrals

[hubert-skowronek]

Loads, after few dialogs during the initial cutscene it hangs on the black screen.

nds-bootstrap 0.10.0

[dubbz82]

Weird...I can't even get that far on mine. Mine simply hangs at boot on 0.10

[hubert-skowronek]

@dubbz82 to the extent of my knowledge I should have clean, unpatched rom

[dubbz82]

Ah...mine is AP patched. Maybe the AP patching is somehow interfering with the boot process in my case.

[dubbz82]

I've confirmed with a clean dump, this game will boot just fine however the AP is tripped as described in the first post, however patching this with either NDS Scene Tool or DSATM causes a white screen at boot. Although this is an AP related issue, this may make sense to look into a little bit further, as it's rendering the game unusable either way.

[piratesephiroth]

I'm pretty sure NDS Scene Tool only breaks the rom. Use OpenPatch/Dicastia instead and the game will work fine. (if it doesn't then it's a bootstrap bug)

[dubbz82]

DSATM also breaks the rom if you try and embed the AP code to the rom, I'll give open patch or dicastia a stab.

[dubbz82]

I couldn't get OpenPatch to work directly with a clean rom for this game, however I was able to look at the file list and manually apply the hex edits. The rom no longer white screens, however it also stalls out at the same point mentioned in the original comment.

[piratesephiroth]

Also looking at old threads I see that the game froze in transitions during gameplay, not during the intro.

I suspect this is an nds-bootstrap issue indeed.

If it's still AP then we'll have to wait for the cheat engine to work so we could try the live version of the fix instead.

[hubert-skowronek]

As of version 0.11.0 the game boots only to white screen, so it's worse than before

[ahezard]

Could be caused by #554

[ahezard]

please restest with the latest nightly

[hubert-skowronek]

@ahezard now it works

[gondelfino]

please restest with the latest nightly

Even after doing that It won't even boot to the start sequence. Just white or black screen freeze.