As far as I've been able to see, there doesn't seem to be any random crashes anymore on the latest nightly (15/09/05). The only time the emulator did crash was not in-game, but rather when attempting to load a ROM, in my case Fire Emblem. Although, from what I've been reading in this thread, that is to be somewhat expected when loading multiple ROMs in a single session, as I was able to load that game fine after restarting my 3DS.
Aside from that, audio in Golden Sun seems to be a bit more stable, yet slower. Pretty much, as slow as the game is currently running. I did notice, however, that when going into main plaza where a bunch of sprites are, the game got even slower. Still playable, but noticeably slow. After the time skip where there is no rain anymore, the game seems to have started playing much better. Battles were still slow, but I was able to make uninterrupted progress for about 30 minutes before I stopped and moved on to something else.
Minish Cap runs at a steady, smooth framerate. Audio crackles here and there, but it becomes very noticeable and persistent once you reach the festival. However, if you pause the game and resume after a few seconds, the crackling is reduced back to normal. I didn't play for long, but I'm gonna start over and check out the game's general performance up to the first temple, since I do remember there was a barrel sequence there that spins around that I want to test for speed.
On a side note, I'm not sure if this was present on original hardware, but I did notice that at the beginning of the game, when everything is focused on Zelda, everything displayed on screen has this weird vibrating effect to it, which is no longer there once you get control of Link. Just thought it was worth a mention.
Fire Emblem ran surprisingly smooth. I would've imagined the animations stuttering or frame skipping, but they actually ran exactly as they did on original hardware.
Aside from that, I don't have much to report. I finally found my HDD with my ROMs, but I only have a limited time available to transfer the ROMs via FTP to my N3DS and it's dreadfully slow (since I don't feel like disassembling the damn thing to fetch my microSD card). I'll try to add a few games everyday to continue testing. Regardless, keep up the good work, man. Really appreciate it.
Aside from that, audio in Golden Sun seems to be a bit more stable, yet slower. Pretty much, as slow as the game is currently running. I did notice, however, that when going into main plaza where a bunch of sprites are, the game got even slower. Still playable, but noticeably slow. After the time skip where there is no rain anymore, the game seems to have started playing much better. Battles were still slow, but I was able to make uninterrupted progress for about 30 minutes before I stopped and moved on to something else.
Minish Cap runs at a steady, smooth framerate. Audio crackles here and there, but it becomes very noticeable and persistent once you reach the festival. However, if you pause the game and resume after a few seconds, the crackling is reduced back to normal. I didn't play for long, but I'm gonna start over and check out the game's general performance up to the first temple, since I do remember there was a barrel sequence there that spins around that I want to test for speed.
On a side note, I'm not sure if this was present on original hardware, but I did notice that at the beginning of the game, when everything is focused on Zelda, everything displayed on screen has this weird vibrating effect to it, which is no longer there once you get control of Link. Just thought it was worth a mention.
Fire Emblem ran surprisingly smooth. I would've imagined the animations stuttering or frame skipping, but they actually ran exactly as they did on original hardware.
Aside from that, I don't have much to report. I finally found my HDD with my ROMs, but I only have a limited time available to transfer the ROMs via FTP to my N3DS and it's dreadfully slow (since I don't feel like disassembling the damn thing to fetch my microSD card). I'll try to add a few games everyday to continue testing. Regardless, keep up the good work, man. Really appreciate it.
