Since I purchased my 3DS I've noticed that all the games seem to crash or freeze frequently. This first game I purchased/noticed this with was Animal Crossing: New Leaf. For that game it seem somewhat related to the internet connectivity - the WiFi would cut out (even though I wasn't using it in the game) or I would accidentally switch the connectivity switch and the game would freeze and then crash. The next games I started playing were Pokemon Black and Pokemon Black 2. I've never had problems with these games, presumably because they are DS games and not 3DS games. It happened once or twice with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds but I never noticed any pattern that would seem to cause it. In Super Smash Bros. it happens more frequently, most often occuring in Smash run or in Classic/All-Star but surprisingly (and fortunately) only so far once online (which didn't count as a disconnect for me, for what it's worth). Pokemon Art Academy has never had the problem.
The worst, though, has been Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. I started playing last Monday and I love it. Unfortunately, it crashes all the time and it's made me paranoid to the point where I obsessively save. To this point it has only once ever occurred in battle (the post-credits battle with May, which I am now redoing so I don't know if it will happen again or not [edit: It did not. That means I have never had a game freeze at the same part twice, if that helps diagnose any]), and never in a cinematic scene. I have not noticed any pattern to it. It's been quite frustrating, really.
The crashes/freezes come in one of three types:
- The game just freezes and is non-responsive until I force the system to restart
- The game quits and displays an error message over the home screen
- The game quits and the system shows and error message (not over the home screen, by itself) and I have to force the system to restart before I can do anything
No error codes are ever displayed, just something like "the game encountered an error and had to quit."
None of them seem to have an obvious cause. Is this a common problem with 3DS systems? Is mine just buggy? Is there a way to prevent or minimize the occurence of these errors?
Message was edited by: ME75