Games that won't reach the versus/ad-hoc menu in-game

What happens?

Found 2 games that won't reach the "Network Initialized" part and either throw you back into a previous menu or stay frozen when you try any networking related options.
For EA Replay it gets stuck before you could see the menu.
For Samurai Warriors - State Of War it will return to the previous menu.
Possibly other games got that issue but I dont remember which now.
It won't matter if you got WLAN off or on the result will be the same for all games.
Screenshot for EA Replay:

What should happen?

You should proceed to the next menu and be able to play.

What are you using?

What hardware / device and operating system?

OS: Windows 10
CPU:Intel 8550U

What graphics card (GPU) or mobile phone model?

GPU:Radeon 530

What PPSSPP version (standalone/official), and did it work before?

Even before the latest 1.11.3 stable release they didn't work.

Which game or games?

Games that won't work :

• Samurai Warriors - State Of War (ULUS10089)
• EA Replay (ULUS10140)

Checklist

• Test in the latest git build in case it's already fixed.
• Search for other reports of the same issue.
• Try resetting settings or older versions and include if the issue is related.
• Include logs or screenshots of issue.

Because I dont want too many issues cluttered about this you could reply here if you got that issue in other games.

[anr2me]

I think you should make the list into checklist, so games that have been fixed can be marked.
You can copy the code from the checklist at the bottom.

Btw, are you testing this on sushicat?

I said it happens without wlan being on even lol (but I tried with localhost).
I dont think its entirely Networking related... not sure.

[anr2me]

What will happen on real PSP with wlan off? will an error message appeared?
If it's, can you show me the photo of the error message on PSP?

With Samurai Warriors - State Of War it will let you progress until you try to host a game.
There is no error message the game will give you an in-game message that you need to turn the WLAN on (no PSP dialog etc).
Important note here is that the menu that opens after you press versus wont turn the wlan on the PSP so yeah it might not be networking related here at all (but it still gonna get that label lol).
EA Replay is the same it will show an internal in-game notification about turning wlan on but at least with this game it will do it right away (no another menu you can go throught here).
I wonder if this is a similar case to what happened with Resistance Retribution here I know that @shenweip fixed that last time.

[anr2me]

Hmm that is strange, on EA Replay if WLAN is off it will show "Not available" under "AdHoc", and it can't be selected, thus not showing any in-game message (which i think it's normal).
How did you get that in-game message that tells you to turn on wlan to shows up?

You need to choose a supported game like road rash or something (there are only 2 games i think).

Weird thing about EA Replay it uses a middleware called EA Nation that does work with other EA games... (it looks different here though).

[anr2me]

You're right, it's probably non-adhoc, i tested Road Rash II with WLAN disabled and have SCENET Logging to Verbose (tested with my infra test build which have verbose log), but the logs didn't show SCENET when it stuck at this screen:

Found out this is a regression.
On 1.10.3 at least Samurai Warriors did work.
I think the issue stems from the fix to Resistance but I am not sure (someone will need to test).
@hrydgard maybe you will be interested in that (this is a non-adhoc issue).
EA Replay seems unaffected so it might be something else here.

[hrydgard]

Which fix to Resistance, can you link the issue?

For Resistance:
#13607
Also could be the Ratchet & Clank fix because it also involved a non-adhoc/wlan issue:
#13104

That's for Samurai Warriors.
Dunno about EA Replay but it can stay here because it also got a similar issue I guess.