Phantasy Star Portable

[HolyOrderGideon]

I'm having an issue on this Mediatek 8389 quadcore. When I select Machine Frenzy 1 only the ingame overlay images display superimposed by the control overlay, the background is completely black. I can even select my weapons but it's like the mission stopped loading and just dropped me in limbo. I'm using PPSSPP 0.9.9.1 for Android on the mtk8389's PowerVR SGX544 GPU. The issue seems worse in non-buffered mode as the control overlay disappears leaving me guessing where to press or relying on my bt controller.
For all I know it's an issue with the copy of the game I'm using.

edit: I thought I had the instructions right but the rip I've got doesn't seems to work no matter what. I got another from another region and it works. :/ So I have no idea what I did wrong.