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Playing on the Windows version of the emulator (build r3878, plugins also 3878), occasionally when entering battle the emulator will hang. Worse, the player will discover that the last (most recently made) savestate would hang the emulator when loaded, even after restarting - effectively, that savestate is no longer valid. This has been observed to apply especially to savestates made where an enemy is visible onscreen, and on lower spec systems where the emulator shows a framerate drop. If the logging window is open, a slew of errors can be observed (brown-colour text); they mostly compose of "TLB Miss" errors which have been mentioned as issues in some other games. Worst of all ''there appears to be no way to verify whether a savestate is corrupt in this way'' until the game actually hangs. | Playing on the Windows version of the emulator (build r3878, plugins also 3878), occasionally when entering battle the emulator will hang. Worse, the player will discover that the last (most recently made) savestate would hang the emulator when loaded, even after restarting - effectively, that savestate is no longer valid. This has been observed to apply especially to savestates made where an enemy is visible onscreen, and on lower spec systems where the emulator shows a framerate drop. If the logging window is open, a slew of errors can be observed (brown-colour text); they mostly compose of "TLB Miss" errors which have been mentioned as issues in some other games. Worst of all ''there appears to be no way to verify whether a savestate is corrupt in this way'' until the game actually hangs. | ||
Oddly, the error only occurs fairly soon after a savestate is made and a battle is attempted. One solution would be to never make savestates except exclusively during peaceful town sequences. Obviously this will not be acceptable to many. Another solution, although there is no 100% guarantee, is to try savestating when no enemies are in the immediate vicinity and the emulator is not experiencing any slowdown in fps. In other words don't savestate when there is a lot going on. If on a battle map try to limit savestates in cleared regions only or face the camera away from any enemies so that there is a minimum of moving things needing to be rendered by the emulator. | Oddly, the error only occurs fairly soon after a savestate is made and a battle is attempted. One solution would be to never make savestates except exclusively during peaceful town sequences. Obviously this will not be acceptable to many. Another solution, although there is no 100% guarantee, is to try savestating when no enemies are in the immediate vicinity and the emulator is not experiencing any slowdown in fps. In other words don't savestate when there is a lot going on. If on a battle map try to limit savestates in cleared regions only or face the camera away from any enemies so that there is a minimum of moving things needing to be rendered by the emulator. Another way is press triangle to open the menu and save, I have tried and it work perfectly. | ||
It is strongly advised that players alternate between multiple savestates in order to have backups to rely back on, or keep savestating to a minimum and use the game's actual memcard save function instead. Just be aware that if you reload from a memcard game save you'll have to rebuild your bonus battle gauge. | It is strongly advised that players alternate between multiple savestates in order to have backups to rely back on, or keep savestating to a minimum and use the game's actual memcard save function instead. Just be aware that if you reload from a memcard game save you'll have to rebuild your bonus battle gauge. | ||
==Additional comments== | ==Additional comments== | ||
An "undub" patch was released by fans which applies to the US-NTSC version (Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time). Basically it replaces ''all'' of the dubbed voices with the original Japanese voices. The latest version of the undub patch fixes nearly all spoken game text, compared to an earlier version which still contained portions of the English dub. | An "undub" patch was released by fans which applies to the US-NTSC version (Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time). Basically it replaces ''all'' of the dubbed voices with the original Japanese voices. The latest version of the undub patch fixes nearly all spoken game text, compared to an earlier version which still contained portions of the English dub. | ||