Some Foundation 9 Entertainment games suffer from crashing

[Triticum0]

Quick summary

When testing some Foundation 9 Entertainment games (Digital Eclipse Software, Inc + Backbone Entertainment)

I came across an issue where It tends to crash when trying to make it to the menu.

Details

Games affected(All use the same engine):

• Championship Sprint
• Gauntlet II
• Joust
• Mortal Kombat II
• Rampage World Tour
• Rampart

Attach a log file

Gauntlet II Demo.gz

Attach capture files for visual issues

No response

System configuration

SYS: RPCS3 v0.0.29-15780-c245637c Alpha | master
SYS: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor | 12 Threads | 15.93 GiB RAM | TSC: 3.400GHz | AVX+ | FMA3
SYS: Operating system: Windows, Major: 10, Minor: 0, Build: 19044, Service Pack: none, Compatibility mode: 0
SYS: Current Time: 2023-12-01T15:22:59
RSX: Found Vulkan-compatible GPU: 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti' running on driver 536.23.0.0
SYS: Firmware version: 4.89

Other details

This date back to 2017 but was never fixed https://forums.rpcs3.net/showthread.php?tid=163792&pid=289977#pid289977

[Asinin3]

How did you even get ingame in MK2? It just crashes for me.

[ChwaraeTeg]

If you've got a cache.dat and cache.idx file in the \dev_hdd0\ folder, try deleting those and relaunching MK2. These files don't get created on real hardware, and seem to be the cause of the crashing/instability in these games.