Emulator

Please excuse, of course the savestate was made with version 5.0-5698 as well!

Update: I've made another log, not loading from the save state but playing normally. Before the cutscene starts to play, there's a line added to the log file:

05:26:148 HW\EXI\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:343 N[OSREPORT]: Warning - Attempting to initialize an audio sync when one is already playing

which is followed by the already mentioned:

05:34:995 HW\EXI\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:343 N[OSREPORT]: DVDPrepareStreamAsync(): Specified start address (filestart(0x21c40000) + offset(0x564380)) is not 32KB aligned in "dvdfs.c" on line 1186.

Confirmed it on my own.

If you want to avoid the crash but have the quest completed, you can save immediately if you do not skip the cutscene and you do not attempt to skate.

I forgot to say, NTSC version, which is why I couldn't use the savestate.

JMC4789 wrote:

Confirmed it on my own.

If you want to avoid the crash but have the quest completed, you can save immediately if you do not skip the cutscene and you do not attempt to skate.

Thank you for this hint!

The workaround to just save directly after the cutscene to complete the mission worked smoothly in the European version as well. Now the challenge could be completed.

I'm glad the source of this issues could be narrowed. Thanks for the fast answers, guys, and keep up the great work!

Update: Same behaviour and the very same information in the log is shown after finishing the "Grind Cliff Edge" mission and the corresponding cut scene.

The "Save before freeze"-workaround makes the challenge at least completable in this case as well!

Hopefully someone will be able to look into why it's crashing.

One last Update after playing some more:

This issue occurs whenever a cutscene is played from within the gameplay (and there's unfortunately a lot of them).

So for those who experience the same and want to play it anyway without downgrading to 4.0-2291:

1. Create a savestate when the cutscene begins
2. Press "Pause" and chose "Level select" after the cutscene has finished and re-enter the stage
3. Reload state and try to pause again, if you fail to press Start before freezing.
4. Possibly decrease Emulation speed in Dolphin settings before loading the savestate.

At one point (Grinding on the balconies in stage 2) Step 3 & 4 became necessary, because the time frame was extremely short. Even at 50% emulation speed it was difficult to hit at the right point.

If you need to hit a button at a specific point in time, you can pause emulation and then use the Frame Advance hotkey to step forward.

Anyway, I'm going to order this game soon so I can analyze the issue and hopefully fix it.