Dark Chronicle (PAL) - The Make Menu Crash And How To Avoid It
The make menu crash is a glitch that affects PAL copies of Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2). I have seen quite a few topics about this glitch stating that one would open the make menu while in a dungeon, and the game would freeze shortly after, but I also saw that others never had this occur. So I went looking for this glitch to see if I could figure out what causes it, and I eventually figured out that the combined file size of certain equipped outfit combinations was causing a memory overflow.
After testing all combinations, I found that every combination that resulted in a crash had either the Dragon Shoes or Explorer's Shoes equipped, but it wouldn't overflow if Max was also wearing either the Clown Suit or Red Vest before opening the make menu. In other words, if you never have the Dragon Shoes or Explorer's Shoes, the crash should never happen. Hopefully this video helps everyone affected by this glitch.