[ISSUE]: OPL MMCE Beta 2 - Themes and Cover Art causes crashes and slowdown

[NathanNeurotic]

Checks

• I have checked existing OPL issues for duplicates and found none
• I am using one of the OPL MMCE beta version

Describe the issue

I believe it gets overloaded.
Go ahead and fill up your MMCE device with more than 2 pages worth of games with cover art on, and flip through them.
You'll notice it will start to lag and eventually freeze or crash.
This also applies to most themes - and is easily triggered with themes.

I believe it is something like it is keeping the images in memory when it doesn't need to?
I'm no developer but this issue is exclusive to this OPL and not found in Official.

Console model

SCPH-39001

OPL version / revision

OPL MMCE Beta 2

In which device(s) have you experienced this issue?

PSxMemCard Gen2 (Bitfunx)

Context and extra information

I believe it gets overloaded.
Go ahead and fill up your MMCE device with more than 2 pages worth of games with cover art on, and flip through them.
You'll notice it will start to lag and eventually freeze or crash.
This also applies to most themes - and is easily triggered with themes.

I believe it is something like it is keeping the images in memory when it doesn't need to?
I'm no developer but this issue is exclusive to this OPL and not found in Official.

[RamsesUTL]

I have the same issue on a MemCard Pro 2 with the standard OPL theme and cover art activated.
It does not crash if I only scroll through the games on the internal hdd/ssd (BDM).

[the8thsign]

This issue seems to be isolated to MMCE. When browsing over SMB, it is stable.

[harpality]

Same issue for me. Tried the latest OPL beta but still experiencing it.

[Chandler-Kluser]

same thing here, I thought it was only with me

[jedcooper]

I have the exact same issue. I'm on a Fat SCPH-50004. I've set MMCE to manual start. Doesn't matter what settings I set on timeout and ack, it's always crashing the PS2/OPL when I want to start the device.

[NathanNeurotic]

Can you guys try this one, to see if it made any difference?
Could PR it as a solution maybe if it worked.

[harpality]

Can you guys try this one, to see if it made any difference? Could PR it as a solution maybe if it worked.

tried it and same result :(

[NathanNeurotic]

https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader-MMCE/releases/tag/incebtion-2

I spent a week with Copilot. Its stopped crashing for me/stalling -
https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader-MMCE/releases/tag/incebtion-2

[harpality]

https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader-MMCE/releases/tag/incebtion-2

I spent a week with Copilot. Its stopped crashing for me/stalling - https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader-MMCE/releases/tag/incebtion-2

i appreciate your work. the issue is still persisting for me. i loaded this version of OPL directly from uLaunchELF, turned on cover art and saved my settings. browsed through my MMCE games and it started blanking out shortly then no games would load. maybe it's only with a longer list of games - how many do you have? i've got at least 50 or so on my sd card.

[NathanNeurotic]

I had two pages worth with no issue. Hmmmm.
I'll keep at it. Thank you for testing!

[NathanNeurotic]

I have done some changes, its improved for me but I don't have the largest collection to test with.
If anyone wants to try and provide some feedback, maybe we're on the path. For me its much stabler but not perfect.
https://github.com/NathanNeurotic/Open-PS2-Loader/actions/runs/25198602786