play! progress report (03/09/2026)

Here we go with some bad news... but also some good news, which one you want to know about first? Let's flip a coin, heads I mention the bad... ok ok, let's cut to the chase (I can't find my coin anyway...). This month I was only able to confirm a single new playable game, most of the titles I've been testing are way too long and those will take some extra time/love to confirm and even if they're "playable", they're not exactly enjoyable due to performance and visual issues.

Hidden Invasion: the only game I was able to finish this month, it's running fine and you're able to finish it. It's another case of "I've touched this game 5 years ago and suddenly I remembered I didn't finished it to report".

Those were the bads news, but good news being: a previous contributor came back to the project and have found a bug that may be affecting many games. At first he was working on getting FlatOut PAL region to not hang when it reached in-game, this is where he noticed an issue with different timings between the US and PAL versions of the game. TLDR: a scheduling bug causing IOP to not do something, which in return blocked the PS2 CPU from doing anything else, hanging. The same contributor (btw, hi Kernle ;) ) also just made a fix for both Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 trial versions with this fix https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/pull/1613 .

That's all for now, I hope to have some more good news next month and thx for all the support so far ;)

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