Shining Force II Crash

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Shining Force II Crash

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I’m having a problem where SFII crashes at the same point every time. I’ve tried several ROM dumps (including verified good dumps and a prototype), I replayed to that point on a new .sav, and waiting/screwing with in game values in case of checksum badness, but it still crashes. Here’s a quick clip: https://youtu.be/zsvccju6S10. Any ideas?
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Re: Shining Force II Crash

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Dang. That's certainly a dramatic way for a game to crash!

You should definitely report this on github so it can get looked at: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Genesis_MiSTer/issues

If you can upload your .sav somewhere, that might also help with debugging. So would mentioning the specific filename and/or hash for some of the roms you tried. Here's an online tool to get the hashes: https://www.romhacking.net/hash/
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Re: Shining Force II Crash

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Thanks for the tip, but I eventually got it! It was CPU Turbo. I’d completely forgotten to even try turning it off, but it doesn’t run with it on. Should have checked earlier!
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Re: Shining Force II Crash

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Turbo is no joke! It looked like it displayed the entire rest of the game in a few seconds!

Glad you found it (for selfish reasons as well...I know to keep that off for the game now!)
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Re: Shining Force II Crash

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I had the same bug with Turbo on a loooong time ago hehe. I already reported it on the github and it's a closed issue of course. When in doubt turn off the hacks like that, good call!
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