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Golden Sun Dark Dawn: Game won't progress past cut-scene

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:26 pm
by Sinstar
Hey there,

Just to start, I have the paid version of the app (thought I should get that out of the way).

I'm having an issue with getting past a certain part of the game Golden Sun Dark Dawn.

I've not had a single problem with crashing or glitches or anything like that once in my entire save (I suspect I'm about half way through the game) but I've reached a certain point in the story where I simply cannot progress past the cut-scene.

I'm assuming most of you won't know much about the game, so the very general explanation of what's happening is this: In the game I start a generator by placing a mask on a wall; this prompts a cut-scene where 6 or 7 characters begin talking (you advance past each chat bubble by pressing A or B). There comes a point where an old man begins to walk down the stairs, but stops near the top and just starts walking in place - the characters are blinking and you can tell the screen isn't frozen, but there is simply nothing I can do to progress the scene past this point. I can't move, can't pause, can't press start...nothing.

Does anybody have any idea if there's a way around things like this? Golden Sun doesn't allow you to skip cutscenes, but is there a trick (changing resolution, etc) that may prompt the scene to progress? I've tried reloading from my in-game save and from the quick save, but neither seems to help. I've also tried putting it into fast forward.

I appreciate any help, I was really enjoying this game and don't want my save to be killed half way through.

Let me know if there's any other details I can provide.

Re: Golden Sun Dark Dawn: Game won't progress past cut-scene

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:57 pm
by Exophase
Do you have cheats enabled? If so, does disabling them (and loading from an in-game save from a fresh game load) help?

Could you upload the in-game save file (.dsv file in sdcard/drastic/backup) to see if someone can reproduce it? The game has been tested to completion so it's probably not a general bug, unless it was triggered by something specific to your game run. But it's also possible that it's failing due to a bad/corrupt ROM or some device-specific issue like flaky storage.

Re: Golden Sun Dark Dawn: Game won't progress past cut-scene

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:01 pm
by Jay Haru
so, yes, I was one of those who completed the game without issue (on a 3 year old tablet too). I think I remember the scenario but yeah, can you upload a state or better, a in game save and see if i can replicate it.