Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara randomly crashes/freezes

[lordviceroy]

What game is it?

Title: Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (Disc 2 of the Dungeons & Dragons Collection)

Region: JP

Serial: T-1224G (Disc 2)

Where did you get the image?

Redump

Provide SHA1 hashes of the image file(s)

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path
---------       ----                                                                   ----
SHA1            6989ED54BFE0611D1D66D355AB0933E96DAFEBE9                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            3DA95B73C92C3C2B1E6A87000DFD5EEF86E15F8B                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            70A9B39538D456930FC23B56E980A1B24076303D                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            7ABF3D6526520CFA6E718679DC9AAD1BE2403018                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            6441F3E55DF8A98920F46D2F324F33DE8EAC5878                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            1811DC8221F21E1218829262E35C78F7FB9A41B4                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            46EA6D68CEF41E9685EFF5D79C4007717B6B2420                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            AF69EA5E8C488DCB94F5A208CEB87EB0189531C4                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            46A4D316DFE791E290A5AF013739E67F6DC41ED1                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            11C0B16E67255B20551CE56F7D1787126F583F30                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            84D74717D7827135D47421B1793494702F11FA21                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            52EA3AC3DA9566B33A33EE518527856C9E412B42                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            CE5A038B0ABC56D713FCD7E2A3971234788E95B7                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            D4EE231C7E4A4399DAA3EEC584BA6E20E0C4C870                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            02D494ACA23859F6DAE127A7B5EBB2157DC9B9C7                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            7389DAA4B0AFEC1900998FD9CEFA484D08DA7D53                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            150B495C0C9D8A9AE6A474EF83EE9E0646CC2220                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            73CDB071435A9B258DFA8C7967B0D89E4B5F8A6E                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            EB4E2645433B23D6F302341FDE80B234EA7E5FEF                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            49C94D3CA77A2FC3A67B02506F154F7B64D27D91                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            537219E13478BBAA9DD1C7C0F4C0F7B3D6162121                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            78AC65F8A13ABE31C68C383D3F4AA1D606B82E5F                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            AF4465FDBAB9F41400B6555B445CCEDB6112C4F9                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            9A6E166999BABAE64BC711060069B00D58A1D66F                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            93EEF06DCA773A4A103F32549FCF39AD2155B8C5                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            BBF80CB5A8DF0DEBC6A157946EA827948F58981C                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            9CD28026D454384932EC8A66808F019C6B54E482                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            5D629530ACCE32EA0A5CD7F4E0984A4745B50B2F                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            43F5EE7D397F87EDBB55CDC7D90550F39BF03398                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            A5839BA2FA1503C2697398067837EAA7F0D65A3A                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            E5693456746A13E4B93330A0E842C964A772FE7B                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            6F3D59D4D897D9DB07DCB93E9979D4E84B20C341                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            71762FD435C40C20075E20674DC666E38B316565                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            528C34EBF6F66C671528AD47A516EDBD534CD1BC                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            0B502C49AC971725BF893CD1CA281A806BB57954                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            1F26BBDBADC9446FA9809E961C19C083893FBE9D                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            639E2F2FB65E88566EE1673B185D0AB458C755A1                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            91431B83633E927DFA32CBCE2FA2CD4F865D7BAF                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            D154ADB0A734510B57BC09E47DAF3B03D5586C14                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...
SHA1            88DA9110D44723BF20A79F502366364FE49BA3F4                               U:\SOM\Dungeons & Dragons Col...

What is the behaviour you observe?

Random crashes/freezing/lock ups have been reported by multiple users in #help on Discord. It's not entirely clear what causes it, and it's unclear if official or unofficial 4MB carts have any impact. For what it is worth, I was unable to reproduce this using an official 4MB cart and a SD card in FAT32 with 64KB block size, but multiple other users in #help were able to reproduce it (unclear which carts they were using, what the image hashes were, or how the SD cards were formatted for the most part):
https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/810608539311407135
https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/809600595747930114
https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/809502374170853466
https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/807036290813919233
https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/801427945226633267

The behavior is difficult to repro consistently, but it seems to happen at some point while the game is running.

What is the behaviour you expect?

Game should not randomly lock up/crash/freeze.

[lordviceroy]

Still reports of this being an issue; multiple people (including myself) have reproduced this with the new FW test build and it seems to crash/freeze more consistently for me now (I can't play it at all).

https://discord.com/channels/491170063869673482/745769134377140355/1009822133691633794

[legolas119]

hi, is this issue still present using the latest menu/fw? thanks

[lordviceroy]

Still an issue. Tried it again yesterday and it crashed during the attract screen.

[legolas119]

ok thanks. We hope that it will be fixed in the future :)