Blasphemous 2 (PPSA13579)

[eliyarson]

Blasphemous 2 (PPSA13579, Unity il2cpp) on Linux x86-64 reaches the title screen ("Press X to continue") at about 59.9 frames a second and stays there for 240 s with the two pull requests below. Gameplay has not been tested; no input was sent.

What stopped it on main, in order:

1. "PSNCore is an old version", then a NULL dereference. The title stats /app0/Media/Plugins/PSNCore.prx before loading it, and a relinked app0 only contains PSNCore.prx.guest.prx, so the stat fails and il2cpp falls back to sceKernelLoadStartModule(path, 0, NULL). Issue Linux: a Unity title's il2cpp code starts PSNCore.prx with sceKernelLoadStartModule(path, 0, NULL), so its start fails with "PSNCore is an old version" and the title faults (PPSA13579) #4225; fixed by fix(libkernel): resolve original .prx names to relinked .guest.prx in stat, open and reachability #4688.
2. SIGSEGV in core::string::reserve while loading Addressables bundles: the guest closes descriptor 0 and the host reuses it. Fixed by fix(libkernel): keep host standard streams open on guest close #3295.

Open pull requests:

• fix(libkernel): resolve original .prx names to relinked .guest.prx in stat, open and reachability #4688 (PSNCore stat)
• fix(libkernel): keep host standard streams open on guest close #3295

Still needed on main: nothing known before the title screen; gameplay, input and audio are unchecked.

Local changes: none beyond the two pull requests above.

Written with AI assistance.

[zaryabzip]

Title

Blasphemous 2 (PPSA13580), US release

Content version tested

01.001.000

AnyPS5 commit

main 34454bd, no pull requests on top. #4688 and #3295, which the first report needed, are both merged.

System tested

Windows 11 (26200), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, driver 617.42, i7-11800H, 16 GB; built from source with MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0 (WinLibs x86_64-ucrt-posix-seh, r7).

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

The game is playable through the opening area at 59.9 to 60.0 frames a second (window title), on three runs with no crash.

• Run 1, cold shader cache:
  • "Press X to continue" was on screen by 48 s.
  • Pilgrimage starts a new game and creates save slot slot0, and the intro video (cutscenesvideos_assets_cts01.mp4.bundle) plays.
  • The in-engine opening scene leads into play with the HUD, enemies and the Bile Flasks tutorial.
• Runs 2 and 3, warm cache:
  • The title screen was on screen by 24 s.
  • Continuing the save loads at the Prie Dieu.
• Gameplay in run 3:
  • Room transitions, ladders, jumping, attacking, and the Faceless One boss arena.
  • Dying to the boss and respawning at the Prie Dieu.
  • The inventory and settings tabs of the pause menu.
  • All 230 shaders came from the disk cache, and no new pipelines were compiled in the new rooms.
• Input: a physical PS4 controller worked for movement and every button that was tried, and so did presses scripted through APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE.
• Audio: FMOD audio plays correctly.

Not tested: progress past the first boss.

Current blocker

None found. No fatal, exception or error lines in any of the logs.

Continuing a save stalls briefly. Sampling the window title every 250 ms, one 0.26 s interval presented no frames and the intervals beside it 19 to 35 frames a second. It was back to 60 within about 2 s. There were no shader cache misses during the load.

How it was run

• tools/unwrap_self.py on eboot.bin and 17 modules: 6 in sce_module/, 2 in Media/Modules/ and 9 in Media/Plugins/.
• relinker --windows --registry --module-dir Media/Modules --module-dir Media/Plugins eboot.elf app.exe (17 guest modules).
• tools/import_audit.py with all three module directories: 0 absent imports, 56 stubs. Without Media/Modules and Media/Plugins it reports 4 absent imports in Il2CppUserAssemblies.prx that the plugins provide.
• app0/ holds eboot.bin, sce_sys/ and a real Media/ directory:
  • The relinker writes *.guest.prx into Media/Modules/ and Media/Plugins/, so Media/ itself is not a link to the dump.
  • Its top-level files are copied, and Metadata/, Resources/, SourcePlugins/ and StreamingAssets/ are directory junctions.
• libs/ comes from the libs target plus the three MinGW runtime DLLs.
• ANYPS5_GPU=3060, plus APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE for scripted presses; no other environment variables.
• Saves are written to _sd/ beside app.exe.

AI-assisted: yes (Claude Code)