Sorry man. I was just trying to point out that it is not the cables causing the issue. There is obviously a software change that has happened to cause this issue for you. I was just trying to help you rule out one of those options that could cause the failure for you.
No worries, I'm not upset at anyone, I'm just annoyed at the whole not being able to play the game I want to play the most. The settings in CFG USB loader at at default (no disc set to "off" but I also tried "on". NMN is also set to "off"), and I tired all video modes except the PAL ones.
I'm sure it's buried in the code somewhere but knowing what settings are used when it runs a game from the disk channel should help [member='the_randomizer'] replicate the same working settings from a loader and get the trouble game to work from SD. Anyone care to dig that info out?
Also, if the game works from the disk channel but not from a loader, would it work when the loader's the one trying to run the retail disk? That might give us some idea what's wrong here.
That's where it fails to make any sense to me, how the same game can load from the actual disc and not from an SD card using the same TV/system is beyond me, especially if no drastic changes have been made. Aside from a few changes to the cIOS that was done in order to install DML via a wad manager, I fail to see how that can seriously screw something up this bad.
Is it possible to use some random ordinary retail disc, but still load the game of choice via the disc channel?