Breath of Fire 2 bug

deputydon · Post by **deputydon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:14 pm

Hi, Im new to these forums and Ive never had a problem running roms before. I have previously played Breath Of Fire 2 on zsnes and no problems then I had to reinstall windows so I redownloaded everything but not this... It has been quite a few updates since then. Now my problem is this, I get to a part in the game and Ill go into a battle maybe two and then when it loads the world map after the battle it just freezes always the same part of the game. Ive gotten 3 different versions of the rom and it always happens... I had the new version of zsnes and it didnt work so i attempted it on the previous version, no good. I think im suppose to give you this info also:

Type: Normal Bank: HI
Interleaved: No Chksum: OK
Video: NTSC CRC32: 67CDACC5

If im missing something please let me know.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:47 pm

This is a known bug. A timing issue that isn't easy to fix.

deputydon · Post by **deputydon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:17 pm

So... I can't do anything about it then? Why would it work before but not now?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:27 pm

...it was most likely a hack in ZSnes.

deputydon · Post by **deputydon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:29 pm

lol.. whats a hack in zsnes? I have downloaded three versions of zsnes and it won't work still... oh well.. this sucks for me.. I love that game

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:31 pm

deputydon wrote:lol.. whats a hack in zsnes? I have downloaded three versions of zsnes and it won't work still... oh well.. this sucks for me.. I love that game

Hacks are used to make some games work that wouldn't normally work correctly. The ZSNES developers are aiming to get ZSNES as hack-free as possible. BOF2 doesn't work correctly in any recent ZSNES version.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:33 pm

I thought using the in-game options to disable music "fixed" this one. It may be another game I'm thinking of, though.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:35 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:I thought using the in-game options to disable music "fixed" this one. It may be another game I'm thinking of, though.

Yeah, that might work, since the bug has something to do with SPC700 timing AFAIK. Disabling SPC emulation completely might help too, but then you won't get sound.

deputydon · Post by **deputydon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:35 pm

well playing the game without music would make it sorta boring... soo hmm.. would I have to download a very early version of zsnes to play? Like a version from like a year ago when I used to play the game?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:45 pm

You could also, IIRC, hunt another version of the rom, that had a trainer (a menu at the start of the game that made possible to cheat) I used to have that rom and it never crashed.

Bent · Post by **Bent** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:49 pm

BoF2 will work with Zsnes 1.337. Either that or disabling SPC emulation. Otherwise you will have to wait until the timing is updated, or use another emulator.

deputydon · Post by **deputydon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:58 pm

I downloaded zsneswv 1.31r1.03 I think that was way to far back haha I don't remember this one at all and its resolution doesn't fit my screen right.. it stretches the game.. And about that breath of fire rom with the cheat screen.. yeah thats the one I used to have.. It never crashed on me either... but I have downloaded three different breath of fire 2 roms and they all screw up at the same part so it must be that timing error that you all were talking about.. Ill download version 1.337 like Bent said and use that... thanks for all the help