Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix consistent crash on specific cutscene

[fryboy_]

Hi y'all

I'm pretty new to this emulation stuff and my basic troubleshooting steps from looking for others with the same issue haven't been productive.

Something about my game refuses to load a specific cutscene, particularly the one that is supposed to play after you unlock Class C cars. The game shows the transition animation before it tries to load it, but then hangs on a black screen until I close the game. I've tried starting up with a new save profile and working toward that same cutscene to see if it's an issue with that particular save file but the same issue occurred in the new profile too.

https://pastebin.com/xSY02QV4 here's the emuLog for when the game hangs trying to load the cutscene on opening the game

https://pastebin.com/A83dqycU here's the emuLog for when the game hangs trying to load the cutscene during gameplay

I'm including both just in case there's some difference that matters. Loading the save through different ISOs of the game from different sources results in the same outcome.

If anyone can give me any sort of advice, that would be awesome, this game is my childhood.

Thanks!

[jesalvein]

CDVD READ ERROR, sector = 0x003e351f
Read Time Out 15000(msec)
CDVD READ ERROR, sector = 0x003e34ef

pop your original PS2 DVD in your pc's DVD reader, then use imgburn to dump it into iso.
if you have any error when doing so, report back

[goody_fyre11]

Interesting, the Xbox version also hangs on a pre-rendered cutscene too. Maybe it's an extremely obscure bug with the game's engine?