brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 ((I'm using the Windows 32bit version of Dangan Ronpa and the PPSSPP v0.8.1-546-g05f019d.)) Up until now, playing Fuwanovel's translation of Dangan Ronpa on the PPSSPP has been working just fine with minor, minor problems like sometimes having to press F2 to fix up dialogue issues, which is no big bother. I just reached chapter 5 today, and got past one of the breakfast scenes to have to wait for one of the loading screens to go by, the ones with all black save for the gear spinning in the bottom right corner. I've tried quickloading my save state, and quitting out of the game and bringing it back up and starting from the beginning of the scene mentioned, but both of these have gotten me nowhere, as each time I reach this loading screen, I get stuck. The gear doesn't stop moving, but it simply sits in this loading screen. It's been going on this try for about four minutes now, just on this loading screen. I'm providing a screenshot of the loading screen but I don't have much else to go on regarding additional information. Like I said, up until now there were no problems with playing Dangan Ronpa. If anyone has any solutions to this issue, that'd be great to hear. <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyitsjiwon Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Does the emulator crash? Or is it just the game that freezes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 I wouldn't say the emulator crashes. Nor does the game really freeze. It just sits at this loading screen, and the gear keeps on spinning. It's like the game is running, but won't go further past this loading screen here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyitsjiwon Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Okay here's a couple of basic things that you should check/do. Did you force a recheck on the torrent for the Dangan Ronpa .iso for any corruptions/missing files? Are you seeding the torrent while playing it? If you are, then stop seeding. Is the game set to read-only mode? If it is, then turn that off. Is "Hardware Transform" on in the emulator settings? If it is turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 Sorry for the delayed reply on this one, was busy dealing with family stuff. I'll try all of those suggestions momentarily and get back to you on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 Okie dokie, I wasn't seeding the torrent, so that's good. I turned off "Hardware Transform" with no luck, and right now I'm forcing the recheck on the game. The only thing I'm admittedly not sure how to do is find out if the game is in read-only mode. How would I find that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Okie dokie, I wasn't seeding the torrent, so that's good. I turned off "Hardware Transform" with no luck, and right now I'm forcing the recheck on the game. The only thing I'm admittedly not sure how to do is find out if the game is in read-only mode. How would I find that? Right click FolderPropertiesUntick Read OnlyApply/OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 Right click FolderPropertiesUntick Read OnlyApply/OK Thanks much! Just did that and I'll check and see if that helped with the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 Fixing up the read-only didn't fix up the problem, unfortunately. However the force-recheck is doing its thing and I'll get back with those results in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 The force recheck finished but the game still will not move past this loading screen. Though, there is something new I noticed after I unchecked the read-only. The gear will occasionally... pulse, for lack of a better description; in a matter of not even a second, the gear get a little smaller then returns to its original size. There's not much more to it besides simply this. The "pulsing" does not slow the spinning of the gear from what I can tell, and I'm not quite sure what this means but I can see if turning the read-only back on will fix that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 The force recheck finished but the game still will not move past this loading screen. Though, there is something new I noticed after I unchecked the read-only. The gear will occasionally... pulse, for lack of a better description; in a matter of not even a second, the gear get a little smaller then returns to its original size. There's not much more to it besides simply this. The "pulsing" does not slow the spinning of the gear from what I can tell, and I'm not quite sure what this means but I can see if turning the read-only back on will fix that. I've had a look, apparently there is issues with the game at "chapter 6", people suggest trying older or newer versions of PPSSPP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 I've had a look, apparently there is issues with the game at "chapter 6", people suggest trying older or newer versions of PPSSPP. Ahh! Thank you very much, to both of you for all your help! I'll look into grabbing a newer/older PPSSPP version right away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 One more question, would getting a newer version mean having to start the game over or is there a way that I can use the file from the old version's saves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 One more question, would getting a newer version mean having to start the game over or is there a way that I can use the file from the old version's saves? Saves should be fine, don't delete the one you are using, just extract a different folder and run it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 Saves should be fine, don't delete the one you are using, just extract a different folder and run it from there. Thanks much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyitsjiwon Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 That problem with chapter six was often resolved by turning off hardware transform, but yea. Try a different version of the emulator. The big problem I see is that you said it was chapter 5, which isn't a very common spot where most people have problems. I'm not familiar with the problem you're having to be quite honest. Still, let us know if using another version of the emulator works. Good luck. Edit: Also, try using a recent build from here: http://buildbot.orphis.net/ppsspp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 Ahh it's working great now that I've gotten everything figured out!! Thanks a bunch for all the help. <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 Finding a new emulator did the trick for me, just using the newest version for windows- v0.8.1-677-ge978b08 that is. From there I just moved over all my save data and everything's running smoothly now~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 Ugh, spoke too soon! ;-; This new version won't allow me to investigate anything- what I mean is usually when you can interact with something a little square comes up and you can hit the X button and interact with it, however in this version it won't bring up the square and I can not interact with anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyitsjiwon Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Hmm, did you delete the version you used before? If not, then maybe you can switch back by saving once you pass that specific loading scene in the most recent version you used and then see if it loads on the version you used before. Edit: Oh, and are all the settings in the most recent version set to the correct ones? Like is hardware transform off and etc.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satoshi Mochida Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 A possible solution for the investigating problem is the following: 1) Look up FramebuffersToMem = False & FramebuffersCPUConvert = False in your ppsspp.ini file 2) Change the above mentioned things into FramebuffersToMem = True & FramebuffersCPUConvert = True and save the changes 3) Restart PPSSPP and try investigating again I had the same problem and this fixed it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyitsjiwon Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 ^This and turn off Hardware Transform. These things usually fix everything in regards to playing Dangan Ronpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brip1296 Posted July 21, 2013 Author Share Posted July 21, 2013 A possible solution for the investigating problem is the following: 1) Look up FramebuffersToMem = False & FramebuffersCPUConvert = False in your ppsspp.ini file 2) Change the above mentioned things into FramebuffersToMem = True & FramebuffersCPUConvert = True and save the changes 3) Restart PPSSPP and try investigating again I had the same problem and this fixed it for me. Ahh I tried this and everything's all good now!! Thanks all of you for helping me out with this<33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendjin Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Gonna call this fixed. PM a mod if anything else comes up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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