Game freezes

[nierewa]

Hi,

I play Castlevania Aria of Sorrow (E) (Eurasia).
The game freezes suddenly if I kill an enemy.
Now it freezes if I go through a room.
So I can't end the game.

The log:

Warning: Illegal opcode: 0000e8bd

Game-Errors:

[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x0000000C
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x00000010
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000000
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000002
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000004
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000006
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000008
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x0000000A
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x0000000C
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x0000000E
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000010
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad BIOS Load16: 0x00000012
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store16: 0x00000002
[GAME ERROR] GBA Video: Invalid video register: 0x04E
[GAME ERROR] GBA Video: Invalid video register: 0x056
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store8: 0x00000000
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store8: 0x00000001
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store16: 0x00000002
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x00000004
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x00000008
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x0000000C
[GAME ERROR] GBA Memory: Bad memory Store32: 0x00000010

What can I do?

Thanks
Fehlerbericht + save.zip

[endrift]

It looks like you have a bad dump or some other modified ROM. Those often are glitchy and unsupported. The save game should load fine in a good dump, but the state (the .ss1 file) is probably a lost cause.

[nierewa]

Can I do something?

[Squall-Leonhart]

This game gets relatively unstable on actual hardware the longer it is run, if you've been relying on save states excessively, this error could just be an accumulation of that factor,

The experience seems to be worse on official emulated copies, with the Advance Collection on switch needing the system fully reset to get out of it, getting busted using a scene release aside, its likely not the rom itself but the game overall.

BTW endrift, the extracted advance collection roms have no sound when run in GBA emulators.

GBA Memory: Jumped to invalid address: E15200A0
GBA: Illegal opcode: e710b710

another newer arm spec?

[endrift]

No, the Castlevania Advance Edition use a custom hook to render the audio in the frontend so it's higher quality. mGBA doesn't emulate that.

[endrift]

Can I do something?

You can reload the save file in a good dump. You'll lose whatever progress you've made since last saving, but that's more or less a guarantee either way unless you can get back to a save room in that.