Final Fantasy IX (U) crash at Cards menu.

[Kiiro-Yakumo]

Describe the bug

The game hangs, crashes and takes whole emulator with it whenever the Cards menu is being called (Triangle -> Cards). The other menu entries seems to work just fine.

Expected behavior

After checking with two different emulators to be sure, there should appear a grid of sort, 10x10 with icons of collected cards so far, their amount and some information on each of them.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Arrive in the city early in the game.
2. Press Triangle Button to open main menu.
3. Go down to Cards entry and press X to open it.

Operating System

Fedora 42 (RPI5) | Fedora 41 (PC)

PCSX-Redux version

Compiled on 22nd May 2025 from source up to date for 18th May 2025, both for RPI5 and PC, thus double information filled.

CPU model

Broadcom BCM2712 (RPI5) | AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (PC)

GPU model & Drivers

Broadcom V3D 7.1.10.2 Mesa 25.0.4 (RPI5) | AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Mesa 25.0.4 (PC)

BIOS version

SCPH5502

Options

• [x] Dynarec CPU
• [ ] 8MB
• [ ] OpenGL GPU
• [ ] Fastboot
• [ ] Debugger

Iso checks

Disc 1 bin file CRC32 is 49521342 which fits with the data on the website.

Logs

No response

Additional information

Initially the crash happened on RPI5 so I have compiled the same version / state of the code on PC to make sure it's not something on my side. After it crashed as well on PC I have checked two other emulators to make sure the disc image is not somehow damaged and these emulators managed to get into the Cards menu just fine.

I have also tried to do some debugging on Linux side but I'm not well versed in this so it's a bit of "guessing" here but maybe the emulator crashes somewhere in "GPU" and/or "DMA" area.

The crash itself is the ugly generic error which I think translated as: Memory access violation (memory dumped) or something among those lines.

[rubin55]

FWIW, I was able to reproduce this on Arch Linux (amd64) also. I've attached a coredump:

Core was generated by `/opt/pcsx-redux/pcsx-redux'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00005575c340e7ec in PCSX::GPU::directDMARead (this=0x5575f113f060,
    dest=0x7fa7979ae004, transferSize=<optimized out>, transferSize@entry=432,
    hwAddr=hwAddr@entry=2061676) at src/core/gpu.cc:702
702             *dest++ = m_dataRet;
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fa7daf940c0 (LWP 340122))]
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00005575c340e7ec in PCSX::GPU::directDMARead
    (this=0x5575f113f060, dest=0x7fa7979ae004, transferSize=<optimized out>,
    transferSize@entry=432, hwAddr=hwAddr@entry=2061676) at src/core/gpu.cc:702
#1  0x00005575c341338e in PCSX::GPU::dma
    (this=<optimized out>, madr=madr@entry=2061676, bcr=bcr@entry=1769488, chcr=chcr@entry=16777728) at src/core/gpu.cc:515
#2  0x00005575c34d9300 in PCSX::HW::dma2
    (this=<optimized out>, madr=<optimized out>, bcr=1769488, chcr=16777728)
    at /usr/include/c++/15.1.1/bits/unique_ptr.h:193
#3  PCSX::HW::dmaExec<2u> (this=<optimized out>, chcr=16777728)
    at src/core/psxhw.h:65
#4  PCSX::HW::write32
    (this=<optimized out>, add=<optimized out>, value=16777728)
    at src/core/psxhw.cc:700
#5  0x00005575c68a2cb0 in s_codeCache ()
#6  0x00007ffcadc2eba0 in ??? ()
#7  0x0000000000000000 in ??? ()

core.gz (note: the core.gz file is compressed with xz but GitHub didn't allow me to upload with an xz extension, so I renamed the file to gz)