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I still can't reproduce the issue but it looks like a race condition. Adding an artificial pause in the flycast code did trigger it. I pushed a workaround (0a526d7c94f53087a90d084003f92007e3991865) and...

The missing breakpoints at startup are due to the elf binary being loaded concurrently to the breakpoints being written to memory, some of which may be overwritten. Not ideal... but...

I can't reproduce this issue using the same game. Are you loading a savestate?

The reason is that the Dreamcast controllers configuration is included in save states, but the UI doesn't show the current configuration after loading it. If you manually change the configuration...

I can't reproduce this issue. I tried all battle modes and selected random stage when possible, and I got Colosseum just once, which seems normal. Do you have a precise...

I did exactly this on all editions I have and I didn't get Colosseum even once. I tested 2 US/NTSC dumps, the EU/PAL and JP/NTSC editions and even a CDI...

I was able to reproduce the issue by pressing start immediately at boot. However it looks like a game issue. I decompiled the game code and the random number generator...

Interestingly, when selecting Museum > Art Gallery > Recollections: Slideshow, the RNG is initialized with a different value each time.

> Is it possible some quirk on real hardware saves it? I can't think of anything but it could be the case. Ideally if someone could test this on real...

CDI disks should be avoided because many of them are incomplete or buggy. The Echelon ones use hacks all over the place and are particularly hard to emulate. I'd rather...