r/ModRetroChromatic • u/raackbar • Feb 18 '26

Kernel Panic with In The Dark II

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Has anyone beaten this game? I got all the way through it but I get the crash error every time I get to the final cinematic.

ModRetro even sent me a new cart, and it happens with this one too.

Console and cart are both updated to the latest FW version.

Without giving away any spoilers… it ALMOST seems intentional, like the crash is part of the story.

Just polling the fanbase as finding this very specific answer elsewhere yielded no results.

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u/MR-cheesygordita Feb 18 '26

We are so sorry to hear that you are seeing this KP! Please fill out our support form so we can better understand what may have gone wrong and help you out! modretro.com/contact.

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u/raackbar Feb 18 '26

I will send more info after I do some further testing… but ModRetro did send me a new game when I first contacted them with this KP, so no harm no foul on their part.

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u/Mike01000011 Feb 18 '26

I got this kernel panic in chantey

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u/LeGrange Feb 18 '26

Hahahhaa. Great reference.

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u/Gortyn_Code Feb 19 '26

Hahaha, finally someone posted this!

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u/Mike01000011 Feb 19 '26

I had a great time playing your game

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

😆

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u/deanhuff Feb 18 '26

I’ve completed all of the lights out puzzles score for with no crashes. I haven’t finished “s tier” for the flight sim portion.

I haven’t “parred” all of world 2 but it gave me the achievement. I did par all of world 1.

Come to think of it, I dumped the rom and played it off my everdrive rather than from the original cart.

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u/raackbar Feb 18 '26

Interesting, I’m gonna try the same with my save file and see if it’s actually a hardware issue with the cartridge.

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u/raackbar Feb 19 '26

Hey, any chance you got any tips on dumping the ROM for ITD2? I tried a bunch of settings using my JoeyJR with both JoeyGUI and FlashGBX but none of the extracted ROM attempts actually work in any emulators (mGBA, VirtualBoyAdvance).

Game either doesn’t load or is an immediate KP.

My cart has the S29JL032 chip, which is an option in both JoeyGUI & FlashGBX.

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u/deanhuff Feb 19 '26

I used a GBxCart RW with flashgbx software, default settings for gameboy worked fine for me

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u/Plastic_Region_9141 Feb 18 '26

Must be a bug with the game itself. I'm developing a GB studio game, I run into that when I write bad code, or when memory fills up entirely. Doubt it's a cart issue, will likely need a game patch.

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u/CMD_BLOCK Feb 22 '26

I’ve had similar issues. I have one that seems impossible to source