PS TV Adrenaline not launching or crashing shortly after launching

[alebustelo]

Hello, I have a modded PS Vita and also a modded PS TV running Adrenaline. I swapped the sce_module contents with the ones from the latest Adrenaline release from this repo and this worked great on the Vita handheld. I was then able to run the Ark-4 cfw on top of that. However, when I tried to do the same thing on the PS TV, Adrenaline would 90% of the time get stuck on the Adrenaline logo and I'd either be able to kill the application by holding down the PS button or it would freeze the console and I'd have to force shut it down, or if it did launch, when I tried opening the Game folder to launch a game, it would immediately crash before displaying my games and I'd have to kill Adrenaline.

This is all very strange, and when I replaced the sce_module files back from The Flow's Adrenaline release it suddenly worked again just fine. So I don't know if there's some sort of incompatibility with this version of Adrenaline and the PS TV. I could be doing something wrong, but I followed the same steps on my handheld Vita and that worked fine. I also tried copying the sce_module files over a couple of times in case the transfer didn't work right but that didn't change anything.

[isage]

Do you have any psp plugins installed? (ux0:/pspemu/seplugins)

[alebustelo]

No, none. The GAME.TXT, POPS.TXT, and VSH.TXT files are all empty.

[GrayJack]

Do you have any VITA plugin under *ALL? Maybe it's some bad patches interaction?

[Borotes]

I did a fresh Adrenaline install on both of my PS Vita 1000s and also have a weird starting bug. Is it the same one you have? I was using the old 6.61 version before and did not have this. The console was formatted, with a fresh jailbreak and Adrenaline installation. I had this issue even before installing ARK into Adrenaline. Here is how it looks like.

[GrayJack]

I did a fresh Adrenaline install on both of my PS Vita 1000s and also have a weird starting bug. Is it the same one you have? I was using the old 6.61 version before and did not have this. The console was formatted, with a fresh jailbreak and Adrenaline installation. I had this issue even before installing ARK into Adrenaline. Here is how it looks like.

Since you mentioned it was a fresh install, and showed the video, that is the double launch bug, the link should how to fix it, but you can also launch it twice every reboot.

I believe that is not the same issue as the one @alebustelo described.

[Borotes]

I did a fresh Adrenaline install on both of my PS Vita 1000s and also have a weird starting bug. Is it the same one you have? I was using the old 6.61 version before and did not have this. The console was formatted, with a fresh jailbreak and Adrenaline installation. I had this issue even before installing ARK into Adrenaline. Here is how it looks like.

Since you mentioned it was a fresh install, and showed the video, that is the double launch bug, the link should how to fix it, but you can also launch it twice every reboot.

I believe that is not the same issue as the one @alebustelo described.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply!
I double-checked the behavior on both consoles. On the console where the kernel line was missing, the issue was reliably reproducible: after every reboot, Adrenalin would crash on the first launch and work on the second one, exactly as you described. I added the line there.
On the other console, where the kernel line was already present, the issue happens much more rarely, but it still occurs from time to time. However, I know that I did not update it the proper way initially. It still had the old Adrenalin version, and I updated it as described on the main page, which worked without any problems.
What bothered me was that the main screen still showed version 6.61, so I flashed the new VPK. After that, Adrenalin was broken and had to be installed again. I cleaned up all files, started fresh with the new VPK, and re-added the kernel line. After a restart, I encountered the issue again, but only once or twice since then. I will keep an eye on it.
In addition to that, I noticed another issue that I am not sure is related to this ticket. Sometimes when launching Adrenalin, the screen stays completely black and then the application crashes, or the console freezes entirely. In some cases, you can briefly see ARK starting to load before it crashes, and in other cases it just freezes with a black screen. My current assumption is that this behavior is more likely related to ARK rather than Adrenalin itself (new ARK activation method). I have already reported this to the ARK team, but I wanted to mention it here as well in case it is relevant or there are known interactions.

I've attached the photos of that. Most of the time there's an error, and sometimes it just crashes the console (I didn't take a photo of that).

[GrayJack]

In addition to that, I noticed another issue that I am not sure is related to this ticket. Sometimes when launching Adrenalin, the screen stays completely black and then the application crashes, or the console freezes entirely. In some cases, you can briefly see ARK starting to load before it crashes, and in other cases it just freezes with a black screen. My current assumption is that this behavior is more likely related to ARK rather than Adrenalin itself (new ARK activation method). I have already reported this to the ARK team, but I wanted to mention it here as well in case it is relevant or there are known interactions.

Yes, that seems related to ARK_Loader, and not related this ticket issue.

Long story short: You seem to have Adrenaline autoboot feature enabled with ARK_Loader as the autoboot software, and ARK_Loader is not 100%, it sometimes fails and/or crash PSPemu, that is a know issue of ARK_Loader