Freezing in Yu-Gi-Oh Falsebound Kingdom

[Hibiro]

I really can't find out why it's doing this anywhere, I've searched everywhere and nothing comes up. Maybe my settings are just wrong, though I've changed them multiple times.

Anyway, playing through Falsebound Kingdom, the sound bugged up and stopped working in Yugi's Chapter 2, I keep playing until Chapter 3 - Strategy, and the game freezes up after a battle with the dude with Robotic Knight. I figured it was because of the sound, so I changed the settings to the ones recommended on the wiki.

Play through again, same thing happens, no matter how my team set up is. I battle the guy with Robotic Knight, and the game freezes up, every time. If I run with the first character, it freezes before an attack starts with the next one. I thought it was a bad dump, so I tried again, but it still froze, I changed the settings around, still freezes, I even tried different versions of the emulator, nothing.

The main one I'm using right now is 3.5-269, though I've tried 3.5-117 and 3.0 with no luck, just continuing to get the same result. This is with the Direct3D11 and XAudio2 settings as recommended on the wiki.

I'm really not sure what to do now to get it to work, especially when everywhere claims it works fine.

[skid]

Have you tried Single Core mode? Maybe try using DSP LLE or Speed Up Disc Transfer options.

[Hibiro]

Yeah, I tried all those, still nothing.

Turns out though, Robotic Knight just doesn't like being the only one left in battle. I redid the chapter and killed him first and the game didn't freeze at all.

[Hibiro]

Sorry for posting again.

This seems to be more than a one-time issue. I get into a battle a chapter later and as it enters into the result screen of the battle, it freezes up once more! I really don't know why it would be doing this and I don't see anyone having this issue anywhere else, in fact, people claim it runs just fine save for some basic sound or graphical issues, but it's supposed to be able to play through just fine.

[skid]

Have you checked whether the hash of the iso matches the one on redump.org?

[Hibiro]

EDIT: I did do a check on the isos and they don't match at all, they're way off actually.

[DefenderX]

So then it's clear: Your ISO is broken. Try to redump your game.

[Hibiro]

Well, now I'm just confused, since every time the hash check seems to give different results, nothing matching what's on the site.

[Hibiro]

Yeah, so it finally matches up to the hash check, dead on, but it still freezes up in the same battle!

EDIT: I restarted the chapter entirely rather than loading states, I got past the battle just fine. Hopefully it'll work properly now.

[skid]

Let us know if you have any more problems.