An issue with Sonic adventure

[fifty]

Hi all! 1st of all, im new on the forums

Ive been playin sonic adventure on the chankast emu for a while now, and it crashes at the same place every single time, its really annoying

It happens after the scene where amy has been kidnapped by the robot, i get into the train for mystic ruins and then right after showing the mystic ruins image the emulator crashes :S

Ive tried meddling with the CPU speed, but it didnt help me at all :S

Anyone has any idea how im supposed to get it to work ?

Thanks in advance

 

[Agozer]

IIRC, known problem.

Try nullDC.

 

[Herecles]

I've heard the game runs perfectly on nulldc

 

[The Lump]

OH MY GOD! Well I finally got everything for NullDC and couldn't even start the game(sonic adv.), what should I do

 

[Agozer]

What happens when you try to boot the game in nullDC? You need to give us more detailed information, you know.

 

[The Lump]

Sorry, when I open the game up nothing happens, I even try to re-open the file but it
doesn't even bring up the dialog box. I check it's debug window and it brings up an opcode error...

P.S. - I thank you for your FAST replies

 

[Herecles]

it might be that you haven't configured the emulator properly. have you been able to get any games working on it?

 

[The Lump]

Well really that was my first test...

 

[Herecles]

keep trying, my friend

 

[The Lump]

So are there any ideas?

 

[Agozer]

An opcode error in this case might point out that the CD image is damaged.

 

[The Lump]

Hmmm, well when I get the time I'll find another back-up of the game, run it then report my results...

 

[PsyMan]

Does the bios boot before you get the opcode error?

 

[Herecles]

do you have any other images to try on the emu. if they dont work then you have the emu configured wrong. also double check you have the bios/flash files and that the emulator knows where they are.

 

[The Lump]

Well I have both the files, I have no other game and the emulator freezes straight away when I open the game

Besides my hard drive disk space is dieing...

 

[PsyMan]

The problem has to do with the bios files. Replace dc_boot.bin and dc_flash.bin with new ones.

 

[The Lump]

I just realized something; the emulator works with dc_boot and dc_flash while other emulators work with dc_bios and dc_flash. What the heck is going on? I have the correct files for the nullDC and I know this because the emulator actually detects the files...

I'm confused and need help

 

[Agozer]

nullDC's Dc_boot.bin is simply a renamed Dc_bios.bin. That's the only thing going on.