Kirby Return To Dreamland: not playable with v7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch "Kirby Return To Dremland"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: Game starts
Instead: Black screen, remote loses sync

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
German PAL version, d2x v7 base 56

Please provide any additional information below.
Works fine with d2x v6 base 56, issue tested twice

Original issue reported on code.google.com by norb...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2011 at 7:14

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Well, Kirby's Return to Dream Land PAL is actually Kirby's Adventure. They are 
the same game but the title is different between PAL and NTSC.
Anyways, I suspect you have a bad installation of d2x v7.
This game works both for me and a tester of mine.

Original comment by dav...@yahoo.it on 9 Dec 2011 at 2:30

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This is still not working. :(

I tried to install d2x with cios-installer 3.1 the first time and downloaded 
d2x-v7-final.zip from here. There were no problems with installation.

Today I tried with ModMii v4.8.1. I' ve downloaded cIOS[56]-d2x-v7-final.wad 
and cIOS[57]-d2x-v7-final.wad without problems. Installation was done with wad 
manager 1.7. Both installations succeeded. (used IOS236)

But still the same errors. My wii does not have any stub or patched IOS (<200) 
installed. It runs on 4.1E and has all IOS on latest version (using DopMii).

Original comment by norb...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 4:51

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Ok, I found out, this is a loader issue:
 - cfg loader v70    + real nand: works
 - USB Loader GX 2.3 + real nand: works
 - USB Loader GX 2.3 + partial nand: does not work

I shrinked my partial nand this way:
 - import, meta, shared1, shared2 folders are empty
 - ticket and title folders ware untouched
 - sys folder contains uid.sys only
 - tmp folder contains uid.sys only

This works fine with d2x v6 but seems to be broken with v7. Why?

Original comment by norb...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 4:57

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i dont know why it aint wotking for you, but for sure its working real good for 
me
with partial and full (tried real hard to make it crash, but no)

Original comment by tonny4...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 8:17

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@norbyte
Prolly your emu nand is corrupted somehow.
Try gx 2.3 in partial emulation with an empty nand folder, for eample sd:/nand 
without any file inside. An empty nand folder is allowed for partial emulation 
only.

Original comment by dav...@yahoo.it on 9 Dec 2011 at 8:35

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Thanks dave! :)

My partial nand was on usb1, I created an empty folder "partial_nand" on SD 
card and switched nand emu path to sd. The game loaded fine. Then I compared 
the nand folder with my corrupted one (ignoring title and ticket folder). I 
found out that the nand folder on sd does not contain any uid.sys in sys or tmp 
folder. I deleted uid.sys on USB nand, switched back to USB and it works! :)

I also wondered, why there was no "uid.sys" in tmp folder like yesterday. I 
suppose d2x v6 found a corrupted "uid.sys", re-dumped the original from real 
nand to tmp folder and worked with that, where d2x v7 doesn't check this file 
anymore.

Thanks also for testing it for me! You made my weekend!

Original comment by norb...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2011 at 1:11

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/sys/uid.sys is emulated by v6 partial emu, while it's not emulateted by v7.

Original comment by dav...@yahoo.it on 11 Dec 2011 at 9:26