Resistance: Retribution

[LunaMoo]

@sinonia there are probably at least 3 workarounds to pass the end level crashes in this game:
1) probably mentioned somewhere in this thread - using 100% save as apparently game threads missions which were passed differently from new ones, it's kind of stupid so I didn't tested this one,
2) changing emulated cpu clock to some very small value like 46(equal or less, higher will not work) - not recommended as it will glitch graphics, remove at least one boss graphics out of the screen and can also bug out completely and drop fps to a single digit,
3) creating custom game settings for it with whatever options you need to run it at full speed, then make sure you also have "Prevent FPS from exceeding 60" selected and close ppsspp, go to the memstick\PSP\SYSTEM and open the custom config you just created for example UCUS98668_ppsspp.ini in US version, find there "ForceMaxEmulatedFPS = 60" and change it to lower value for me 50 worked fine, but I didn't really finished whole game with it and it might differ between systems so you might use lower value like 40 or 30 just to be sure;p, once you have it set like that "ForceMaxEmulatedFPS = 50", save changes and set this file properties to "read only"(google a guide for your system if you don't know how to do that) to avoid ppsspp changing it in the future, it's technically not required if you directly go in game without looking at settings next time you launch the game, but if you do open settings the code for this option is weird and will set any non 60 value to 0, probably to stop people from breaking their games:].


I would recommend that 3rd solution to play the game from 0. Just make sure you load the game normally from in-game save after using any of the workarounds. Savestates will not work, meaning even if you have a savestate right before the freeze, you will still have to re-play through whole level again.

We have an open issue for this game here where those workarounds and more info about problem can be found. I doubt it will be properly fixed anytime soon, since it appears to be timing issue and even through many japanese games(read as "badly coded games") would run better with accurate timings, those are really hard to fix.

Almost forget, you might want to disable "fast memory" and if you used it also "multithreading" in system settings. Both of those could more than likely give you additional crashes/issues.