PCSX2 versions tried: r3878, r4980, 1.0 Stable, r5393, r5411
Settings tried: I haven't tested all possible config settings, but I have tried it on all 'Preset' levels. I have also tested using a variety of different versions of GSdx plugins both DX9 and DX11 hardware and software, as well as various versions of SPU2-X and ZeroSPU2.
Description: A few days ago I was on my issueless second playthrough of the game, in Phase 5, and had left the town of Rakshek to go back to the 'overworld' screen when the game froze during the loading screen. This had happened once before on my first playthrough, and the only solution was to reboot the game, so I did so. However, this time the game didn't boot, it just stayed at a black screen before anything happened. So I shut it down, tried a Full Boot, and after the Playstation logo the game just froze at black again. I wondered if something had happened to the emulator so I tried Ar Tonelico 1 and it worked without issue, and thus I went and tried all the things mentioned previously with the same result: black screen. I also made a new ISO and created new memory cards, and they didn't seem to fix it either.
When I run it in the latest (well, sort of, I saw r5412 is on the SVN now
) version I see the following in the console when I run it:
I don't know if it means anything though. Aaand also, attached is an image of what I see, basically.
Settings tried: I haven't tested all possible config settings, but I have tried it on all 'Preset' levels. I have also tested using a variety of different versions of GSdx plugins both DX9 and DX11 hardware and software, as well as various versions of SPU2-X and ZeroSPU2.
Description: A few days ago I was on my issueless second playthrough of the game, in Phase 5, and had left the town of Rakshek to go back to the 'overworld' screen when the game froze during the loading screen. This had happened once before on my first playthrough, and the only solution was to reboot the game, so I did so. However, this time the game didn't boot, it just stayed at a black screen before anything happened. So I shut it down, tried a Full Boot, and after the Playstation logo the game just froze at black again. I wondered if something had happened to the emulator so I tried Ar Tonelico 1 and it worked without issue, and thus I went and tried all the things mentioned previously with the same result: black screen. I also made a new ISO and created new memory cards, and they didn't seem to fix it either.
When I run it in the latest (well, sort of, I saw r5412 is on the SVN now

Code:
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(266304) ret=0x00109100
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(2256) ret=0x0014a200
PS2RNA: sceSifAllocIopHeap(16448) ret=0x0014ab00
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥SOUND¥STREAM¥STREAM.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥SOUND¥SSE¥SSE.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V00000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V01000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V02000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V03000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V04000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V05000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V09000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V10000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V11000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V12000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V13000.AFS;1"
DVCI: File cache was not hit. "¥VPACK¥V14000.AFS;1"