Skies of Arcadia, Crash after defeating Rik'Talish

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From @Freeruny on November 3, 2017 10:56

After defeating Rik'Talish there is a sequence of cutscenes and when the battle with The Cygnus is supposed to start, but can't and return to home screen...pls help

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From @metallserge on December 17, 2017 18:57

[partially solved! read below]

yeah, same story. after Rik'Talish, in r6 [382f2e5] build for android + russian version of arcadia (having some issue with emuparadise's europe .cdi version - it's starting but in few seconds crashing)

I was trying to avoid issue in PC version (taken build from builds.reicast.com -> reicast-win_x64-slow-7ab335767579c0b6522ce8a8605ca6f430c234d5). Got same black screen for same .cdi image after the battle and right before scene with aeroship. Btw, have also crash with europe version of .cdi image on this PC build - can't even go to Load menu (similar behavior to android r6 version). So, can't tell whether my russian version of rom is broken or not... And still have to use it in phone

anyway, I was able to pass that scene:

• used nullDC (1.0.4 to be precise) emulator
• used that Europe version of .cdi image
• taken vmu_save_AX.bin (X stays for number - 1,2; save file) from android /dc folder
• currently no vmu_data_portXX.bin (XX stays for numbers) files available in folder
• run nullDC, use bios mode, go to File -> create/delete new. I used 1st slot, since my save was there. Note that folder now will contain vmu_data_port01.bin
• close emulator
• copy/move your vmu_save_A1.bin to vmu_data_port01.bin (with replace)
• run emulator with game, see that you have your saves available! Pass problematic place and save after it
• save your updated vmu_data_port01.bin to vmu_save_A1.bin (you may put it in some other folder if you want)
• update it back to android /dc folder with replace (don't forget to store previous file somewhere)
• ???
• PROFIT