#25 ActRaiser 2 (U) Crash Bug

[Chris Sheehan]

When I try to select a level in ActRaiser 2, the game
itself freezes.

Submitted by MethodOne on the message boards, confirmed
with the U version of the ROM (E and J uneffected),
10/19 WIP by me.

[Chris Sheehan]

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NSRT Output

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: ActRaiser (U) [!].smc
Name: ACTRAISER-USA Company: Enix
Header: SWC Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 64 Kb
Type: Normal + Batt ROM: 8 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 200ns (SlowROM) Version: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x83DB CRC32: EAC3358D
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Actraiser
Country: USA Version: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Action Genre 2: Platform Adventure

[Chris Sheehan]

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Reconfirmed, 1/27/05 CVS

[Keenan Wilkie]

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Also can confirm this.
Specific problem: When attempting to start the first action
stage, Industen, the game zooms out on the map (this is
normal). At this point, the game stops advancing. The
"descent" music is heard, however the zoom-and-spin onto the
target location does not happen, and the game proceeds no
further.

Oddly, I loaded an old state from just before descending to
Tortoise Isle, and the problem does NOT occur. After
confirming the dialog option, the game zooms out, then spins
and zooms in and the action stage proceeds as it should. I
have not tested any other locales within the game.

First noticed with 1.40, persists in 1.42

[Keenan Wilkie]

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Just checked the bug logs, this seems to be a recurrance of
something that happened long ago, back in 2001. See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=439202&group_id=19677&atid=119677

Since I have a savestate that's actually a ways into the
game, it's clear that it was resolved at some point and has
cropped up again.

[Chris Sheehan]

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Bug transferred to Bugzilla.