Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (PPSA01748)

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Title

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (PPSA01748)

Content version tested

01.006.000

AnyPS5 commit

main d6eafa54d with #9694 (793e51a91).

System tested

Linux 7.2.9 (CachyOS), Intel Core i9-14900K, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (driver 615.78.08), GCC 16.2.1, Release.
Also run on a Radeon Pro V620 (RADV, Mesa 25.2.8, Ubuntu 24.04, kernel 7.0); see AMD below.

Furthest point

In-game: the playable prologue, then the load into the next chapter.

What is shown

• The opening menus render: language, brightness, adjustments, the photosensitivity warning, the autosave notice, then the title screen and main menu.
• New Game loads into the prologue. You can pick up and inspect objects, and button prompts show. It finishes the prologue and starts loading the next chapter (the Milano).
• First visits are slow on a cold cache: about 0.3–1 FPS while shaders and pipelines build, including one 1.7M-word compute shader. There are also long waits while level data streams in. The menus run at about 13–30 FPS once compiled.
• Fixed so far:
  • The compute shader 0x3b91c3e00 stop at pc=0x4380 (Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (PPSA01748): compute shader 0x3b91c3e00 indexes an SRT pointer table with ReadFirstLane of a bit index taken from an ImageRead mask (GetImageResource dword 0 is not a valid runtime value) #7362), fixed by fix(recompiler): match image-table T# halves offset before and after readfirstlane #8991 (merged).
  • The first-level stop CB metadata pass over part of a color target: fast-clear eliminates over targets without CMASK or DCC under a leftover viewport scissor. fix(agc): require full coverage only for metadata pass targets with CMASK or DCC keys #9694 fixes it (open).
• AMD: on the V620 with RADV's default ACO compiler, the title crashes about 10 minutes after START GAME. The SIGSEGV is inside libvulkan_radeon.so, in aco::live_var_analysis, while it compiles a 731k-word fragment shader. It reproduces in a standalone pipeline-creation program, and the SPIR-V passes spirv-val. With RADV_DEBUG=llvm the same pipeline compiles, slowly, and the title reaches the warning screen. A reduced test case for a Mesa report is in progress. This is not an AnyPS5 defect.

Current blocker

None known on NVIDIA with #9694, up to the start of the second chapter's load (not finished in the first session). On AMD (RADV/ACO, Mesa 25.2.8): the ACO crash above, worked around with RADV_DEBUG=llvm.

How it was run

relinker --to-intel --registry eboot.elf app.elf

Modules in sce_module are converted with the title. Route: Languages → NEXT, brightness → confirm, Adjustments → START GAME, title screen → New Game.

Open PRs for this title: #9694.

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

Tested and written by Claude (AI assistant) on a contributor's machine.