European version of Artic Adventures: Polars Puzzles doesnt work, but American one does

[Jack54guythecoder]

Game or games this happens in

UCES001503 MEGA MINIS VOL 2

What area of the game / PPSSPP

Upon selecting it in MINIS 2, it just hangs on a black screen at like 1.4% speed, while the USA one Arctic Adventures - Polar's Puzzles [NPUZ00114] works flawlessly

What should happen

It should reach the title screen.

Logs

No response

Platform

Android

Mobile device model or graphics card (GPU)

Release CPU: GenuineIntel ABI: x86-64 OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (x64) 10.0.19041 Page Size: 4096 bytes RW/RX exclusive: No 3D API: Vulkan API version: 1.3.0 Device API version: 1.3.275 Vendor: Intel VendorString: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics Driver: 0.405.1237 (001954d5) Depth buffer format: D24_S8 Refresh rate: 60.00 Hz

PPSSPP version affected

v1.18.1-1834-g6cd9252ca9

Last working version

No response

Graphics backend (3D API)

Vulkan

Checklist

• Test in the latest git build in case it's already fixed.
• Search for other reports of the same issue.
• Try resetting settings or older versions and include if the issue is related.
• Try without any cheats and without loading any save states.
• Include logs or screenshots of issue.

[Panderner]

For some reason Arctic Adventures: Polar's Puzzles only works if the I/O timing method is set to simulate UMD delays or the CPU core is set to interpreter, otherwise PPSSPP crashes at boot.

This is why we added [ForceUMDDelay] for that game.

[anr2me]

With Fast I/O Timing method, the logs are flooded with Bad memory access and eventually crashed ppsspp

The other I/O timing method works fine (at least on Windows)

[Panderner]

Changing to Host I/O Timing method also crashes PPSSPP.