Dot Hack - Crash on entering "The World"

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1) Did the game ever work correctly (i.e. not have this problem) on the 
Official PCSX2 build or an earlier version of PCSX2 playground? 
(If so, please specify the latest pcsx2-playground or Official revision 
that last worked.)

Nope never has worked in pcsx2. But I`m reporting this, just so that the 
crash is known of and hopefully be fixed someday.

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run the game
2. Once ingame, attempt to login to "The World"
3. Wait a few seconds and the emulator crashes

3) What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected result: Getting into the World. But instead the emulator crashes.
Sadly theres not much information to go by in log window.

4) What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

PCSX2 PPr393
GSDX 0.10.11
SSSPSX Plugin 1.6.0
Linuzappz iso plugin 0.7.0
USBnull Driver 0.5.0
ZeroSPU2 0.4.6

5) Please provide any additional information below.

The game has done this since my first ever test run of pcsx2 long before 
playground existed. I apologise if theres not much to go by from the 
information I have given, but I would love to see this game working in 
pcsx2. And its one of the very few games I have that crashes. And I`ve 
tested a hell of alot of games in this emulator.

If you test any of the other three Dot Hack (not to be confused with the 
Dot Hack GU games) games the same thing occurs in all of them.  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jfre1...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2008 at 5:19

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Running the emulator on Windows XP I forgot to mention.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2008 at 5:21

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You may want to try them again, with a version of playground from 449 on. This 
crash
appears to be gone, with the first one, at least.

Original comment by arcum42@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 7:10

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If your referring to that post on the forums, that was inrelation to the GU 
games. To
clarify there is 2 separate serieses of dot hack games, one is the dot hack 
games
which includes infection, mutation, outbreak and quarantine and then you have 
the GU
series which includes Rebirth, Reminise and Redemption. I`ll have a quick test 
in
either case and report back in a minute or so to let you know if that fixes the 
crash
or not.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 7:41

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I checked with .hack:infection around 454. That was before some major changes, 
but I
was able to get into the world at that point. That's the only .hack game I own,
though, so I don't know about the others...

Original comment by arcum42@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 7:45

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Holy crap :)

Its fixed. *dances*. Tested in playground r463. Game now doesn`t crash. 
Thankyou for
suggesting I fix the game :). Very happy. I`ll spend some time to further test 
the
game to see how it looks now that that crash has been overcome.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 7:49

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No problem. I noticed it when I was getting ready to commit 454, blinked a few 
times,
and meant to comment on it here, but quickly got involved with other things. 
And I
was pretty sure it wasn't 454 that did it.

The comment on GS reminded me of it... :)

I'll leave this issue open till you've had an opportunity to test out the 
series a
bit, though... ^_-

Original comment by arcum42@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 8:03

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I`ve updated the thread I created on the forums to make note of this. Also note 
that
I`ve not see any sps at all during the game so far during my tests (been 
playing it
for 10 mins now). Game runs fine other than that it only runs at 35-40 fps. But 
I`m
just happy it runs :).

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 8:04

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Meant to say on suggesting I play the game, not fix it.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 8:07

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In either case I`ll have a good play through and report back if I encounter any 
other
issues related to the game.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 8:08

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Only issue I`ve come across was of all the characters faces being black in one 
bit of
the game (part where Orca gets attacked by a fragment of the virus). Other than 
that
running flawlessly besides speed drops.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 9:16

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Just tested this on xp myself, runs fine like everyone else has mentioned using
latest pp. Went to try it on Vista, and crashes soon after you select language 
on the
language selection screen. Am using same plugins as the author of this issue

Original comment by hol...@hotmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 9:21

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Rechecked on vista, works ok if you run gdsx on dx9, but crash occurs after 
language
screen if you select dx10. So seems like a plugin issue and not a pcsx problem, 
sorry
if I have done wrong by adding this onto this current issue on the site.

Original comment by hol...@hotmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 9:53

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That's all right. It does sound like a plugin issue, though, and the issues 
here are
primarily for pcsx2-playground issues.

I thought I'd leave this open for a few days, though, just to make sure this has
resolved the original issue with all the hack games...

Original comment by arcum42@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 10:05

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On a different issue with the same game, if you load a save state you lose the
ability to move your character with the left analogue stick.

I`ll test the other games alittle later to see if the original crash bug is 
present
in them. I`m assuming its fixed but you never know.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 10:29

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Ok testing time. Heres the results of testing on the other 3 games:

Mutation: No crash works fine.
Outbreak: No crash works fine.
Qurantine: No crash works fine.

Thats a success on all games. Happy times.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2008 at 1:57

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Recent revisions r476 and above have a new cdvd system.  Please test .hack once 
more
and make sure I haven't caused any regressions.  Thanks. :)

Original comment by Jake.Stine on 22 Dec 2008 at 6:24

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Ok did a quick test on revision r479 and no problems logging in.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2008 at 1:20

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Good news.  Although apparently the change did break .hack GU series, according 
to
Issue 87.  In any case, this issue looks like it's done and closed for now. :)

Original comment by Jake.Stine on 23 Dec 2008 at 2:56

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New crashes report in recent revisons from r547 and up:

Somewhere between 547 and this one some random crashes have crept in with the 
dot
hack games. Every so often the game will now crash in random locations. This 
never
happened at all prior to 547.

Currently playing the game in r553 and the crashes have been occuring both in 
the
town sections and during dungeons. Had 2 crashes occur on me in the last 30 
mins.

Original comment by jfre1...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2009 at 5:33