Pokemon Soul Silver Rom Keeps Crashing

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Whats needed:

An anti piracy patch is reported to help reduce the freezing, but it isn't recommended unless you're sure youre stumped. Google is your best friend here (hint: Rudolph's patch).

Optimal Settings:

Soft Rasterizer. Enable Textures is needed (threshold: 0), the rest of the 3D settings don't make a difference.

Advanced BUS Level-Timing is not needed, disable it. External BIOSes and firmware are not needed. Sound works well with Dual SPU Synch.

Optimal speeds:

Decent speed+limited frameskip: Frameskip 9, Auto-Minimzed skipping enabled.

High speed, limited frameskip: Frameskip 4-5.

Highest speed: Frameskip 9.

Use x64 if your system supports it. Don't use SVNs unless you know what it means and you want it (note: official releases are optimized and give a huge FPS boost if you don't optimize your SVNs).

*As with all pokemon games, make an in-game save as early as possible and relaunch the emulator to verify that it can be loaded. This will help make you feel secure that when you get to the end of the game and need to reset and load a save file, it will work.

Feel free to ask any questions regarding this game here. Granted, this forum is meant for emulation/compatibility related questions, not to discuss the actual game (unless it's related to a bug in the emulation).

This isn't working for me, I load my save state, but when I save in game it does not read it and whenever I leave the room I am in it glitches- the bottom menu has no icons and sometimes the screen turns black. Please Help !!

Anyhow, I'm not planning to ban anyone for asking a question about a game that isn't supported, or that was already answered. First of all, banning is a bit of a problem since it works via IP. In today's world of ever-changing dynamic IPs that will both be useless for banning that user and disruptive to a different, innocent user who might receive that IP and be unable to enter the forum.

Pokemon: Crushed Pikachu!! Why: Pokeballs are too small!

Mario Bros: Exhausted Luigi!! Why: He's the [PROFANITY]ing comedy relief. Of course he's going to be put through all the humorous torture!

Spyro: Why?!?!?!?!?!??!?! You were sooooo young!!!!!!!

I'm pretty sure some developers may not know about this, but the freezing problem in HeartGold/SoulSilver is not really an AP problem, it's an emulation problem. Even a flashcard has some sort of thing to emulate the ROMs. Just look at Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story on NO$GBA, it keeps repeating the attack when battling Bowser at the start, but with DeSmuME... it doesn't have that problem. So really, it's just a coding that an emulator cannot read, and when it cannot read the code, it skips it and continues on. I have not yet tried out HeartGold and SoulSilver on DeSmuME 0.9.7 yet, so I'm not sure as of yet if the problem is fixed.

And yes, I do indeed agree that all Pokmon fans really should pay attention to the thread and not ignore the fact that Pokmon HeartGold/SoulSilver and Black/White are unsupported because too many keep creating threads about that HeartGold/SoulSilver keeps freezing for them.

developers are well aware of the fact that what gamers call "AP" may just be emulation bugs. I am 100% certain that HG/SS have crashing emulation bugs, and it is unlikely that AP consists of random freezing. the AP as an EXP limit sounds more plausible and would be a strange thing for an emulation bug.

AFAIK the random freezes have been deemed to be intentional anti-piracy measures. The game runs a check on memory addresses, when it reaches a memory address higher than what the original cart should have (which emulators and most flashcards allow) the game freezes.

I haven't had problem with freezing, but it seems that my "touch screen" part of the game is not fully working. I am only in the very very beginning, but when the mother gives me things like the map, phone, pokedex, whatever else, etc, I don't have a menu to choose from. I even got to the point where I am in the woods after meeting Prof. Juniper and the bottom touch-screen simulator only has a pink screen with no buttons or anything. Is this normal? Or is this a glitch? I am playing Desmume 0.9.7 on Mac... maybe thats why? Thanks.

Hi, I play Pokemon Heart Gold, and it worked fine, and i got all the badges and was trying to catch 'em all, but then i entered a code in the cheat section, and now when i open DeSmuME.0.9.4-win32 and click open ROM and click on Heart Gold, it freezes, and I can't remove the cheat because it freezes just as i click on heart gold, so I can't get in on the cheat list.. What should I do?!

I'm playing the Pokemon Soulsilver and I cannot progress past a certain point in the game. Whenever I talk to the two trainers on the path to violet city immediately before Mr. Pokemon's house, the game freezes. It always freezes either before they walk up to me or once the battle has started, on the "__ has challenged you to a battle!" screen. Music still plays normally and I can still pause, unpause, save, and load, but the game itself will not advance and I can't move.

Anyone has finish the game (ss/hg) with save in-game? i mean maybe get some freeze but still can load save in-game and continue the game.

I just wanna know if i can finish the game with save-in game (with 16 badge and catch every single legendary pokemon).

Btw sorry for my bad english..

my pokemon soulsilver game keeps freezing on the first rival battle when it says "passerby challenges you to a batlle(or somthing like that) the music still plays AND THE POKEBall for my party is endlessly spinning... HELP?

I have an NDS cart that freezes at the exact same spot every time it's played. It boots fine on the 3ds and DSi and has no issues doing literally anything else except for this one section of the game. Whenever I try to play this section the screen fades white as it should while it loads the battle, but the battle theme never starts and the screen stays white while the overworld theme continues playing.

I thought maybe the cartridge was fake but as I said, it boots on newer systems so it seems unlikely. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should do/how should I investigate further? Could it be possible to deal with this freezing error?

@Sizer25 One thing you can do is, try to rule out the console hardware as the problem. You'd have to play the same section of the game on another console, to see if you can reproduce the freeze/crash there. If the game freezes there too, then that should mean the game is probably corrupted/damaged/fake. Bad news for the game, but it's good sign that it's not a console hardware failure.

@WoomyNNYes ah thats a shame. It plays identically on the DSi and 3DS so I would imagine it's either corrupted or fake. I suspected fake but if it is a fake its really well done. the only thing out of the ordinary I can spot is the copyright logo next in the nintendo logo on the back of the cart. It's hard to see clearly but it looks like it might not be a R or a C in a circle but merely a dot, in which case the carts definitely fake.

Here is an Imgur galley showing off pics of the front and back

I've been trying to discern if its a fake cart but I'm new to NDS hardware as I'm just rebuilding my NDS collection. I did read that fake carts shouldn't boot on newer systems so I the fact that it boots on both the DSi and 3DS made me doubt that it was fake but if you're more experienced than I am at detecting this kind of stuff please let me know what you think. As I said, the only thing that looks outstandingly strange is the copyright symbol next to the nintendo logo. Should it be easier to discern that it is the C or R in a circle and not just a small dot?

Update: I was going to include this information just to help warn other potential customers if it turned out that this cartridge is a fake, but upon searching this seller's name on etsy and seeing their other posting it's clear they're selling fakes. (pokemon black 2 for 30$, pokemon soul silver for 25$)

Well, maybe this is a copyright protection measure, in which case that really sucks since they lock certain aspects of progression from being achieved. Also I put 8 hours straight into a fake cart when it arrived XD

I would agree with your assessment that the cart looks fake, unfortunately. The Nintendo logo embossed on the back (in your photo), it's subtle, but the Nintendo oval shape looks a bit off (not as slender as the official Nintendo oval on my DS carts). There's more space inside the oval. And the font looks off, but the oval stands out the most to me. I'm bascially just outlining what I see, in case anyone else can learn from it.

I'm actually surprised you can still find the seller. But I only base that on my experience with buying some Splatoon amiibo cards off Etsy; They looked really good, very high quality, looked like official Nintendo art, however the seller was gone a 6-12 months later, which is probably a smart move, to stay out of trouble.

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