BloodRayne 2: ReVamped (PPSA05975)

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Tested BloodRayne 2: ReVamped (PPSA05975) 01.001.000 natively on Linux 7.2.9 / Ryzen 9 7950X / Radeon RX 6650 XT, RADV Mesa 26.2.4. A Unity (IL2CPP) shell around the original engine in Media/Plugins/Rayne2.prx. Short bring-up check.

Result

On plain main 61d0fa5b3c the title boots without a driver stop and presents at a steady 59.94 FPS for 240 s, but every frame is black and it never progresses. The same happens with Cross, Options, touchpad, Square, Triangle, Circle and R2 presses.

What it does:

• Unity loads boot.config, global-metadata.dat, globalgamemanagers, sharedassets0 and level0 (all 22 APR reads complete, APS5_TRACE_APR=1).
• It loads SaveData.prx, PSNCore.prx, PSNCommon.prx and Rayne2.prx with sceKernelLoadStartModule.
• It then reads Media/Resources/mscorlib.dll-resources.dat (IL2CPP looks up a managed exception message there) and opens nothing else.
• strace (-e trace=%file) shows no access at all to Media/data/*.POD (6.8 GB of game data) in 80 s. The engine plugin, which imports only libc, stat and two sceRtc calls, is never asked for data.
• --trace-imports with APS5_TRACE_CALLS: the loop polls scePadRead, sceMouseRead, sceUserServiceGetEvent, sceImeUpdate and sceSystemServiceGetStatus, and submits about 3 draws per frame.
• All 9 sceKernelDlsym lookups that fail are Unity's optional native-plugin hooks (UnityPluginLoad, UnityRenderEvent and so on).

PPSA05916 (BloodRayne: ReVamped) behaves the same way, so the cause is likely common to both.

Setup

relinker --registry --rpath <build>/core/libs/libs --module-dir Media/Modules --module-dir Media/Plugins eboot.elf app.elf

Not found yet: which managed exception is raised, or what the shell waits for. Guest frames could not be unwound under gdb.

AI-assisted testing and report: yes, Claude Code.