For whatever reason, when booting up Persona 3 FES, the game goes through the company logos, then when it tries to load the FMV intro sequence, it freezes on a black screen. This was tested on OPL 1.0.0 on real hardware, both with GSM on and off, and with the alternate mastercode of 90506658 0c14193e.
I have pinpointed the problem to be this section of code in the cheat file:
//FMV Fix by Alexankitty
2010afc8 081a63af //Jump for additional instruction space
2010afcc 00000000
2010afd0 14620006 // branch depending on FMV type
2010afd4 00000000
2010afd8 3c023e00 // Size Top
2010afdc 3c1443e0 // Size Bottom
2010afe0 3c1542a0 // Size Left
2010afe4 3c160bb0 // Size Right
2010afe8 10000005 // Jump to next section
2010afec 00000000
2010aff0 3c023e00 // Size Top
2010aff4 3c1443e1 // Size Bottom
2010aff8 3c1541f8 // Size Left
2010affc 3c161850 // Size Right
2010b000 ae6200e4 // Store Y Top Left
2010b004 ae620164 // Store Y Bottom Left
2010b008 ae740124 // Store Y Top Right
2010b00c ae7401a4 // Store Y Bottom Right
2010b010 ae7500e0 // Store X Top Left
2010b014 ae750120 // Store X Bottom Left
2010b018 ae76015f // Store X Top Right
2010b01c ae76019f // Store X Bottom Left
2010b020 0000a02d // Clear out S registers
2010b024 0000a82d
2010b028 0000b02d
//FMV Jump
20698ebc 3c024400 // FMV Mirroring Fix
20698ec0 ae620160 // Store Left
20698ec4 ae6201a0 // Store Right
20698ec8 3c02005d // Process FMV Type Check
20698ecc 24424b70
20698ed0 00431021
20698ed4 84430000
20698ed8 24020005
20698edc 08042bf3 //Jump back
20698ee0 00000000
//1px tiling fix
2010b0e4 2463ffff
2010b0e8 44830000
When removing this piece from the file, and replacing it with the old FMV hack from the original widescreen patch, the game boots fine and the intro sequence plays.
For whatever reason, when booting up Persona 3 FES, the game goes through the company logos, then when it tries to load the FMV intro sequence, it freezes on a black screen. This was tested on OPL 1.0.0 on real hardware, both with GSM on and off, and with the alternate mastercode of
90506658 0c14193e.I have pinpointed the problem to be this section of code in the cheat file:
When removing this piece from the file, and replacing it with the old FMV hack from the original widescreen patch, the game boots fine and the intro sequence plays.
This is the old hack for reference: