Bug in Panzer Dragoon Orta - like a broken record

[Babataga]

Title
https://xemu.app/titles/4947002b/#Panzer-Dragoon-Orta

Hello,

Playing on Panzer Dragoon Orta just fine yesterday on Xemu v0.8.47, i went until episode 6 then no more time so i saved and quit, this morning i try to load my saved game and it freezes at "loading" step. Fine, some bug i think, so i restart at the beginning, and now new problem : at the end of episode 2's first part, systematically from now on, the white screen at the end of that phase remains white, and the last part of music sounds in a loop, like a broken record... i tried several times, with saved game or restarting again and again from the beginning, but it keeps doing that, which is sooo annoying and frustrating, given that it worked perfectly before... i don't get it 🥹

Could you please help me with this issue ?

Best regards,

Baba.

Expected Behavior

I expect to get past episode 2 but it does just freezes on the white transition screen while music is in a short loop like a broken record...

xemu Version

v0.8.47

System Information

Mac mini M1 with MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2

Additional Context

No response

[abaire]

Can you edit this issue to add

Title
https://xemu.app/titles/4947002b/#Panzer-Dragoon-Orta

at the top so that it's properly linked on the compatibility website? In the future you should use the "Title issue" template when reporting bugs in specific games.

Have you tried using a new, clean Xbox HDD image like the one from the website to see if this problem goes away? I suggest a new image rather than deleting the cache because if this fixes the problem, there may be something interesting to investigate in the cache.

[Babataga]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer, unfortunately i don't know how to use that HDD image, do i have to paste it somewhere ?
Sorry for being such a noob 😅 >>> Ok I figured it out and tried pasting it in the Downloads folder, where Xemu automatically looks for it. Seems to work so far. Thank you sooo much :D

And also, it used to work with recent roms, but after being annoyed from this bug, is suppressed it all (emulator + game), then dowloaded again but only the beta version of the game works now... Any idea for that too ?

[abaire]

It would probably be interesting to look at the cache files in your original HDD image to see if the problem can be reproduced and fixed. It's possible that you've hit a bug in the original game but it's equally possible that some bug in xemu put things in a bad state. There are tools to extract files from the HDD image, likely somebody on the xemu Discord can help. In this case I think we'd be interested in looking at the 4947002b directory within the cache partition.

Regarding issues with other games, please ask on the Discord channel; ideally GitHub issues should be focused on one specific problem so that contributors can investigate and close them out when fixed.