My Dreamcast is acting weird

The Bullet Dodger · Post by **The Bullet Dodger** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:13 pm

Psyvariar 2
Border Down
Chaos Field

For some reason my DC has been freezing on me in the middle of gameplay, while playing these particular games. Psyvariar 2 freezes during the 1st stage boss (always at the same spot), Chaos Field sometimes doesn't even get to the 1st stage (the screen stays black right after the ship selection screen), and Border Down freezes on the last level boss, and once in a while on the 1st level boss.

This has been going on just recently. These games were playing great when I first got them. And I know it's not the games themselves, because they are all in mint condition with absolutely no scratches at all. And it can't be my lens because all my other games play perfectly, including my other imports. I think it might have something to do with either my memory card or maybe my gameshark. I went ahead and removed my memory card and it did the trick. All three of the games played all the way through without freezing once. But whenever I have both the memory card and gameshark unit inserted in my controller at the same time, the freezing occurs.

Anyone have any clues as to why this is happening, and why it might have something to do with my memory card?

NOTE: I own one of those 4-in-1 memory cards. I don't have the regular VMU memory cards.

Thanks.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:40 am

AFAIK, you don't need the gameshark thingy to boot the game. It's just a save unit for the GS to store codes you made. Perhaps it's loading a useless code and it's causing the system to crash. Try booting the game with only the VMU and that should do it.

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:01 pm

Maybe you need to recalibrate the laser, but I would try getting a new memory card (probably a real VMU first).

The Bullet Dodger · Post by **The Bullet Dodger** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:04 pm

Specineff wrote:AFAIK, you don't need the gameshark thingy to boot the game. It's just a save unit for the GS to store codes you made. Perhaps it's loading a useless code and it's causing the system to crash. Try booting the game with only the VMU and that should do it.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I didn't know if it was needed or not because when I start up the CD-X without the GS unit inserted it always says "gameshark unit not found", so I figured I had to have it in all the time just for the CD-X to work. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks.

The Bullet Dodger · Post by **The Bullet Dodger** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:39 pm

Problem solved. Thanks for the tip Specineff.